Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Jait said:

The movie sucks. It’s just a repackaging of your youth and we all want to rationalize as It wasn’t that bad. Yes it was. It’s so fucking bad they needed acting coaches on set.

But fucking with the lore is the worst. I get you cartoon kids love seeing the crossover but it shits on everything Star Wars was about. There are TWO and only TWO fucking force users in the Galaxy. Even the Imperials doubt Vader’s magic. Han recounts the Jedi as nothing more than a myth. The entire premise of the original film is there is a secret new force user and some ancient fuck who was forced to hide in the tiniest corner of the Galaxy will train him.

But yeah let’s throw Darth Maul in and have him with his lightsaber and all right in plain sight. Just cause. But..bu..but the cartoons.. Fuck your cartoons.

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2?

If you're gonna bitch, at least know your material.

In the OT you have Obi-Wan, Luke, Vader, Palpatine, Yoda. 5 =/= 2

Maul is dead by the time OT roles around anyway, and he's avoided detection for the past 20 years in Solo. It's not unrealistic that there are still force users around. I mean, a galaxy is a rather large place.

Maul is dead by the time OT roles around anywa

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Hold the phone there Willis, never say never....If this Franchise taught me one thing, its that nothing is unfuckable.

Angerz said:

The tech in Star Wars is pretty much set in what Lucas imagined in the 70s. Nothing is backed up, everything seems to exist on giant disks or inside of droids.

Every other droid in peril seems to imply that if they die, it's over for them. Die is a loose term though, and to your point, if they had her nav computer, they probably could have put her back together in a new body, unless her nav computer and brain computer were 2 different things.

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Yes there has always been a weird level of techno anachronisms due to when the originals were created and them just maintaining that look and feel. And for whatever reason droids do not appear to be something you can backup. You can copy stuff from their memory but doing full backups seems to be either not possible or nobody ever seems to bother doing it so when they are destroyed they are gone.

Warrik said:

Hold the phone there Willis, never say never....If this Franchise taught me one thing, its that nothing is unfuckable.

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No, he's dead for real, Jim. Although there's clearly more than 5 force users during the OT era and obviously way more untrained force sensitives around the galaxy (both the canon cartoons and Legends novels supported this).

Next you guys going are to tell me Snokes was in his 20s.

Chris said:

I'm confused why so many of you paid to see it.

You could have seen Deadpool 2 or Avengers 3 again.

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Moviepass

It might seem like that, but I have never once heard a single person in my sphere of social interactions say, "You know what I could really go for? I need some more origin stories, reboots, and prequels in my life." They are the worst shit ever, yet Hollywood keeps cramming them down our throats.

You immediately know which characters are expendable and which actually mean something. You are only getting to visualize the things you already know. Let's take Solo as an example...

We already knew Han was from the mean streets of Corellia, a former Imperial, has been pulling jobs with Chewie for years, famous for doing the Kessell run in 12 parsecs, and won the Falcon off of Lando. So, what new elements did we get? A love interest that will turn on him and have zero lasting connection in the 2nd half of his life. A scoundrel that teaches him a couple lessons and dies. He may have scored the job that started the entire Rebellion, because he has a heart of gold.

Thanks for the origin story.

Masakari said:

They leave people/characters/stories/origins unexplained - people complain.

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Uhh, no one for the past 30 years has been complaining about origin stories for the OT characters.

Warrik said:

Uhh, no one for the past 30 years has been complaining about origin stories for the OT characters.

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Pretty sure people started complaining and doubting over a year ago when we heard what was happening during the filming of Solo. And then Last Jedi happened. And then we saw the trailers. The box office reflects that as fans didn't blindly go for the first viewing no matter what, plenty of us waited for audience reactions and then decided it wasn't a theater movie.

I assume the real Enfys Nest (I thought it was the name of the damn crew) was an actual criminal like Beckett and not a sanitized Good Guy Scum like Han.

The kid version was just using her mom's rep to play Robin Hood. I think that whole story was just there because Khaleesi turned out to be a cunt so they had to fill the princess quota.

I enjoyed it quite a lot. It was way more fun than I was expecting. Woody was enjoyable, the main guy did a serviceable job playing Han, the robot was hilariously over the top. Story was fine. Movie took a very different direction than TLJ.. Solo started from a place we were mostly familiar with and created all of these unanswered questions (like Maul and his new apprentice??, the new rebel cell, what happened to the khaleesi in the 3yr gap) as opposed to TLJ which had some open questions and it severed them all in extremely unsatisfying ways.

All in all worth a watch for sure.