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Parts of Solo I actually liked-Obviously spoilers
Forget that it is A $300M Star Wars movie-Can we talk about how cringeworthy the script is?
Leia was a Mary Sue in a New Hope
A Star Wars review
A Star Wars worthy of Altman and Eastwood
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Of course there will be a sequel. Disney wil not throw a $300M budget at it or probably any future Star Wars but there will be multiple sequels with more modest budgets and longer lapses between films.
Saw a new Hope in the theater multiple times on its original release and each part of the trilogy after that. I found Star Wars dopey. Fun but irrelevant fairy tales in space. I had no interest in learning the various alien background characters. There weren't Star Wars figures on my Christmas List. I never cherished their fairy tale ending, I never cherished their characters. Star Wars mattered as an amusement park ride. The acting and emotional story never registered.
My pain of watching Solo die in TFA was not that of a beloved character being denied a happy-ending promised long ago. He may have been playing a character named Han Solo in TFA but it was Harrison Ford playing a dad named Han Solo. No real relation to the Han from my childhood.
The same with Luke and Leia. Carrie Fisher moves me because she is Carrie Fisher not because she is Leia. Luke isn't the height of Jedi prowess, it's Mark Hamil who never had a career in spite of playing one of cinemas most iconic roles, getting to play his only success one more time.
I like the new Disney Star Wars. I like Rey, Poe, Finn. Not because they are connected to the has-beens but because they are their own thing breaking free from all that. Kylo Ren typifies this best with his Vader-wannabe dreams being crushed.
And now we get. a brand new Han Solo. Harrison Ford. The early years.
You spend much of your time measuring your genitals, don't you?
It's not even a disappointment financially.
There has never been any indicators (i.e. forecasting, advance ticket sales, polling) suggesting this episode would perform anywhere near TFA. It has and continues to perform where it was always expected.
If it had been a masterpiece, it might have "broke out" and been able to milk the awards season for a broader audience and for a longer period. but no one ever expected that and likely never will for a franchise film.
So you hype a three minute scene from the best movie in the franchise as "good direction". There was certainly no "useless menagerie" because they were all old white men. C3PO's quip is so subtle and intelligent that, the joke part went over my poor weak sense of humor. Nothing feels real about Darth Vader's helmet or Solos fur-lined hood. Kittens are scary when the Vader theme is blasting 50 decibels louder than needed for the scene.
It did look cool and if you are not going to show blood in your fairy tale wars, it was a very cinematic way for Johnson to suggest the carnage that would be there in reality.
Do you only know how to drive one make and model of car?
Sorry, if it's dead for you. I'm excited and intrigued where it's going. I haven't lost faith that Disney will keep producing spectacular productions and that Kennedy, Abrams, Johnson and Howard will entertain, surprise and challenge my preconceptions and expectations. I hope you find a new pacifier to gratify you.
I thought Snoke was a silly rehash of the emperor when I saw TFA. I was glad to see him go...I hope. But would have been happier if he was never introduced.
He is a producer so why would he abandon that franchise to take on someone else's. I'm not blaming him for the quality of the Justice League films. Not all observations are an attack unless you're a Lucas cultist or a Nolan cultist.
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