Star Wars: Solo

Walpknut said:
he looks like Dobby the Elf with a wig.
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I can't unsee this now. Darth Dobby confirmed.


Pretty much my main issues with VII and VIII is the complete lack of context. How is the Republic a resistance, even though they have been the dominant power for 30 years? How did the First Order came to be? How did the First Order had the funds to build a planet sized Death Star? These are not things you can't leave vague, you have to give context.
 
Norzan said:
I can't unsee this now. Darth Dobby confirmed.


Pretty much my main issues with VII and VIII is the complete lack of context. How is the Republic a resistance, even though they have been the dominant power for 30 years? How did the First Order came to be? How did the First Order had the funds to build a planet sized Death Star? These are not things you can't leave vague, you have to give context.
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They put all of that information in other media, like additional novels. Which is the worst for a movie.
Well, I'll see Solo tonight, I don't really have high expectations (especially since Phipps gave it a 9/10, which usually indicates that's it's supremely dumb and made for 4 year olds).
 
CT Phipps said:
Solo was a 9/10 movie.

I gave the Last Jedi a 4/10

I didn't like it.

What's confusing?
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This:
CT Phipps said:
The Last Jedi's divisive narrative (I'm one of the people who won't forgive it for Luke but otherwise think it was a good movie)
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How do you not like and rate 4/10 what you think is a good movie? I know you meant that 9/10 score for Solo, don't worry. So if TLJ is "good" at 4/10, what does that imply for Solo with 9/10 -- that it's crap, despite all your praise?

CT Phipps said:
Is there a reason not to do a Han Solo heist movie?
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What kinda stupid comeback is that? "Why?" - "Well, why not?"
1. Because you can't.
2. Because nobody asked for it.
3. Because you have no story to tell, especially one about the origins of Han Solo. And don't get me started on the name.
4. Because it will flop.

It's not a question of just "Can you make a movie?"; it's also "Should you?".
If this movie was "fun", wouldn't you have watched it if it was titled anything else, say "Disney is fucking shit and deserves to burn", instead of having "Star Wars" in the name? Why? Why not?

First Fallout 3. Now this. There just seems to be no end to the amount of stupid shit you won't uncritically embrace. So if you love almost everything (corporate), why post you love anything in particular? It'd be easier if you just said when you didn't like something, then we'd assume by default you like everything else. Can you give a few examples of AAA games and major Hollywood movies that you don't like, so we know what corporations are currently not paying you? I'm trying to work out if you are a freelance shill or a bugged AI (without the I) chatbot.
 
Just saw Solo. It was actually pretty good. Character interaction was done nicely, the settings were good, the story was classic and worked well, and there was very little dumb shit in it.
After TLJ I and many others feared that every SW movie will now be SJW with tons of politics, and when the press said that before the movie that Lando is now pansexual and all the crap around L3-37... Good thing this movie doesn't have any of that cringe. Well, L3-37 is cringey, but guess what, every character in the movie acknowledges the cringe as the cringe it is. Nice references in it, too.
I liked the short section where Han is a grunt in the Imperial Army, crawling through mud for the Empire.
It's what I liked about Rogue One as well, a slightly grittier feel than the mainline SW movies with less fancy space battles and more seedy boots on the ground.
So yeah. I liked Solo. About as good as Rogue One, I think, so better than TFA and miles better than TLJ and the prequels.
 
Same impression actually. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm a little peeved by some of the talking heads on YT that are panning the movie not because it has faults but because they're pandering to a fanbase that's desperate for Star Wars films to burn. MauLer comes to mind. If the next movie is an actual heist I'm fucking game.
 
There was no hype going into this.

I'm all for [Something]: A Star Wars story but Solo?
I wanna see Cantina or A Salacious Crumb feature film even the target demographic will probably be kids
 
I am always left confounded by the assertion that The Last jedi took the series in some "Bold new direction".

What new direction is this exactly? The only thing The Last jedi leaves the new trilogy with is with a simplified version of Rebels vs Space nazis but without any context to make their fight matter in the least. In the end it kinda felt like it was just some rich fucks playing Warship in space out of boredom. The Villain is just an angry kid with discernible goals to speak of, and the main hero similarly has no ideals to defend, she doesn't have a goal to pursue either other than just defeating the bad guy in black clothes and red light saber.
 
BigGuyCIA said:
I'm a little peeved by some of the talking heads on YT that are panning the movie not because it has faults but because they're pandering to a fanbase that's desperate for Star Wars films to burn. MauLer comes to mind.
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Holy shit. The new YouTubers rising to fame by hating Disney's "Star Wars" (reads "Not Star Wars at all") are voicing their genuine thoughts. Before TLJ if you said anything bad about Disney, it was sacrilege, and you were condemned for being "negative". So the fact they weren't as vocal until now don't mean they are suddenly pandering to "haters" -- who can't shut off our brains completely, to be able to tolerate this crap; they are just a vocal representation of a growing percentage of real Star Wars fans who tried to be civil until now, but will no longer stand for Disney's bullshit and will see through their pathetic attempt at propaganda. If any talking heads are pandering to us, it's ex-shills turned haters, such as this fat pig:


It ain't Star Wars films that will burn, it's Disney. And you know why there is a fanbase desperate for that to happen? Precisely because their overhyped shits (not "movies") are ridden with faults and no other content to speak of, worth neither money, nor time.

Specifically, MauLer kicks the shit out of that... shit.
 
Are we getting a movie where it turns out Lando's name comes from how he landed a ship once and some rappers from the Hood told him he should be called Lando, Samurai Jack style?
 
LoL NooBs said:
...percentage of real Star Wars fans
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This is a shit mentality though. Using this whole "Real fan" definition none of us here are really Star Wars unless you were born old enough to have seen New Hope in the theaters day 1 back in '79.
You just slide that bar of that a "real" fan is or not to include the prequels if you think those still classify as "real" Star Wars movies.

Using this definition,
-You can't be a fan of Hendrix if you weren't there before he died.
-You can't be a fan of Universal monster movies unless you were alive in the 30s. Doesn't matter how many times you've watched and rewatched all of them.
-You can't be a fan of NES unless you were born before '83 doesn't matter how many speedruns you have under your belt.
-You can't be a Trekker unless you were disappointed about the cancellation of OT back in '69
-You can't be a fan of comics unless you were drawing Hieroglyphs on a wall in Egypt in 3000+ BC

Like it or not, some kids' gateway into Star Wars was Force Awakens only because they had the misfortune of having been born in the 2010s but some of those kids will go back to the roots, the prequels and OT, buy every merch, read every Legends story... After that are they still not real enough fans because they aren't participating in the 24/7 Reddit circlejerking?
 
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