When I heard they were making a Solo-solo movie, I was pretty optimistic, but by the time the first trailer came out I expected I wouldn't much care for it as a Star Wars film, but still have a good time watching it. I ended up disappointed because I had considerably less fun than I expected. It was just so boring. It doesn't destroy the franchise or anything - it was carefully crafted to have no particular effects on the rest of the franchise, and it shows. Most of the questions they answered were questions nobody had ever asked or cared to know the answer to. They tried and failed to make me care about those dice, man. The closest to a ruinous moment for me was (and I'm getting into spoilers here for those who care) when L3's memory module was installed in the Falcon. Also the implication(??) that Chewbacca has had to eat humans for survival.
But it had some good sequences. They leaned hard into the space-western thing and we got a freaking awesome sci fi train robbery. I loved Donald Glover as Lando and can't wait to see more of that. Alden Ehrenreich did his damndest to emulate a young Harrison Ford, and you know what, it was kinda charming.
When I heard they were making a Solo-solo movie, I was pretty optimistic, but by the time the first trailer came out I expected I wouldn't much care for it as a Star Wars film, but still have a good time watching it. I ended up disappointed because I had considerably less fun than I expected. It was just so boring. It doesn't destroy the franchise or anything - it was carefully crafted to have no particular effects on the rest of the franchise, and it shows. Most of the questions they answered were questions nobody had ever asked or cared to know the answer to. They tried and failed to make me care about those dice, man. The closest to a ruinous moment for me was (and I'm getting into spoilers here for those who care) when L3's memory module was installed in the Falcon. Also the implication(??) that Chewbacca has had to eat humans for survival.
But it had some good sequences. They leaned hard into the space-western thing and we got a freaking awesome sci fi train robbery. I loved Donald Glover as Lando and can't wait to see more of that. Alden Ehrenreich did his damndest to emulate a young Harrison Ford, and you know what, it was kinda charming.