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I get that. As I said in my quasi-review, it's not a necessary movie in the slightest, it's just damn fun.
I don't have SW fatigue at all. I'm just uninterested in this story enough to want to fork out coin for it in the theatre. In addition, none of the actors even remotely interest me.
I'll be sure to check it out on 'home release' in the future.
That's a perfectly viable way to see it. It's more of a small screen adventure, honestly, as the movie has no real stakes thanks to the amount of characters that everybody knew would survive anyway.
I was honestly gonna wait for the Blu Ray, but my Son saw it and said I'd like it. He was right. Not a big fan of TFA or TLJ, but harmless & well made earlier stories are cool with me. And the backstory is pretty much what you already suspect or know... it's just fun and nothing more.
I'd say it's necessary to have fun. ;)
But... there is another. ;)
And another. I'll like some and not others.
The death of the franchise has been greatly exaggerated.
I could agree with most of this - Solo may be a bomb but Star Wars itself will do just fine. I may not be interested in what they're doing with the series anymore, but I doubt it's going anywhere for quite some time.
IT WAS A DARK TIME FOR FANDOM.
I agree. A very -- very good article indeed! Completely agreeing with it.
One thing I do agree with that you posted, I've highlighted above. You're right, nobody is forcing me to watch their movies and, like many others, I'll be voting with my feet. I realise that Star Wars has an emotional attachment with a lot of people due to it being so intrinsically part of their own growing up process, but that doesn't put it above criticism. I also note how it was fair game to drive George Lucas out of his own franchise by demeaning the prequels and declaring that "Lucas raped my childhood" but whenever anyone trashes Disney Wars the wagons circle in defence. Double standards springs to mind or just blind fanatic stupidity? Regardless, I'll be watching from the sidelines at their ever dwindling receipts as those that don't buy into the hype desert these movies in their droves and leave the petulant ones to their own train wreck to salivate over.
Chewie pulling the guys arms out of his sockets was the highlight for me and whilst I hate to criticise Phoebe Waller Bridge, who is close to being a national treasure, I thought her character was an enjoyable but eventually tiresome one note joke.
Ehrenrich was OK, certainly not the disaster he looked in the first trailer and Lando was decent despite his bizarre reaction to the death of L3 - were they in love?
But the thing I don’t get above all is what’s the deal with these fucking dice?
I must have seen the original trilogy about 30-40 times apiece over the years (including on the big screen) and maybe they are there hanging from the dash of the Falcon but I’ve never spotted them and, crucially, not one character has ever mentioned them. Then in TFA Han actually dies and once again they are never referenced.
But now in the last two films - sans Harrison Ford - they are suddenly trying to tell us that they are as much of an identifiable trademark of his most famous character as the whip and hat are of his second most famous character. Sorry but this is bollocks Disney. They got the fanboy callbacks about spot on in Solo but these dice aren’t a callback as no sod remembers them. Say what you like about Mendes and the DB5 but at least you’ve seen Bond in the car in previous films. Utter bollocks frankly.
They were in all of one scene of A New Hope and disappeared after that until The Force Awakens. According to background materials, they were Han's good luck charm, and he used thrm in that last Sabacc game that he won the Falcon in (a scene either deleted or simply implied).
I thought it was somewhat silly that they suddenly became important in The Last Jedi, because none of this information is in the films, but it is explained somewhere. Much like the surprise appearance of
at the end, the filmmakers are hoping their fans have the courage to branch out and find the answers rather than handing them to us.
I love what a mysterious character he seemed in the original films and there was some fascinating stuff in the Star Wars radio version about him.
I like the mystery and when i hear about the 'Kessell Run' in A New Hope', i imagine how it went down. I don't want to see it.
‘Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.’ - Thrawn
Thrawn would be an ex-cop, ex-CIA, ex-special forces with a black belt in everything who is also the world's greatest guitarist, cook, archaeologist and doctor. He would be of Asian descent but with Italian blood, and he grew up "on the streets". Thrawn would not be a Chiss because Steven has a message to spread.
His mere looks can deflect bullets and kill bad guys. Lightsabers are for pussies; Thrawn lifts a finger and an entire fleet of starships explodes.
But if evil Darth Van Damme shows up around the corner, Thrawn would run like a wimp.
Surely if Seagal plays any character in Star Wars it would be Jabba the Hut.
http://collider.com/star-wars-spinoffs-on-hold
That would almost be like Dalton not returning to Bond because they dicked around too long
The comics may get there, though. Not quite the same thing, of course, but comics and maybe even New Canon books might provide us with the proper sequel/prequel stuff.