by A Combustible Lemon » Sun May 27, 2018 5:20 pm
I got dragged to it by a friend visiting the city for the day, and it was fine. It wasn't as completely ass-random as TLJ, there's no stupid subversion of expectations bullshit. The film manages to make jokes without sounding like an SNL skit, because Ron Howard, Lord and Miller are all pretty good at comedy stuff.
It's also the first star wars since episode 3 to have aliens in it, which is a milestone no one was expecting to be an achievement (TFA was close to breaking through, but then the only alien that mattered was literally an old asian woman). Solo has Wookkies, Imperial Slavery being an issue, the obligatory cantina scene, a secondary character with a weird design who's still basically a person, several antagonists that talk gibberish like the Jabba's Palace people. It's decent.
Also the first star wars since episode 3 to have characters that have even a little bit of a relationship to each other. Rey and Kylo would count if they had any actual reason to be together instead of Palpatine Jr setting them up like a 90s blind date.
As I expected, Landino sounds like Troy doing a Lando impression. He's a terrible choice for the role.
And turns out all that was needed to make Emilia Clarke able to emote on any level is black hair.
Alden germanname isn't anything to write home about, nor is he anything to write an angry letter to the editor about.
Woody Harrelson has very obviously read the script, and his character's every action is ridiculous.
Also the script obviously got run through with a find and replace after everyone and their 90 year old mothers guessed it'd be a smuggling spice story replacing spice with coaxial cables.
The script is absolutely terrible and the plots make no sense and there's a ridiculous bit at the end where Han is established as the guy who funded the rebellion in its beginning years (apparently they're decanonizing the Padme deleted scenes where she started the Rebellion. So Jimmy Smits just sat around doing nothing for two decades.)
But we expected that bit already.
If this was ACTUALLY just a star wars "story" instead of a han solo prequel film, it'd be a great movie. It feels like old EU and its comic book level writing.
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