re: Just watched Solo

Just fricking watch it dude.

Like it. A lot.

Very much in the vein of the original Star War (New Hope).

That was my only criticism as well, but he wasn’t bad in the role. I was worried he would try too hard, but he seemed to do his own thing. I think Donald Glover tried to hard to be Billy Dee Williams, but it wasn’t too distracting.

It was cartoonish and unnecessary. I only enjoyed Chewbacca because he's my favorite character in all of star wars.

The rest was shite.

I thought it was just ok probably won’t watch again

Could have done without the tiresome sjw stuff

It was a fun space adventure, which is what Star Wars is supposed to be. It may have been a story that didn't need to be told, but at least it didn't ruin anything in the process.

I think I preferred it to Rogue One (which, to me, dragged on a little).

I watched Solo for the first time last night.

I enjoyed it. I'm not sure it dethrones Rogue One as my favorite of the non-original trilogy films, but it was good.

It's hard for anyone to match Harrison Ford, but Ehrenreich was decent as Han. The action sequences were all well done and it tied into the overall story without laboring to do so.

At the end, I was hoping for another film that we'll probably never get due to the poor box office of the first. It was what a Han origin story should be, an entertaining space adventure.

It's not a bad movie at all. Hell, if it didn't have "Star Wars" attached to it, a lot more people would have probably watched it without complaint and simply enjoyed a sci-fi heist movie.

If Firefly had gone on to have multiple movies, I could see them with a Solo-esque style movie. All the elements are there for their kind of movie.

Maul at the end was dumb though. As much as his ending in The Phantom Menace was ending a potentially cool character too soon, them bringing him back in The Clone Wars and Rebels was more than enough.

It’s okay. What I really dislike about it, though, is the fact that it’s a prequel. I know it seems silly, but I already know that Han was a smuggler, that he did the Kessel Run, that he won the falcon in a poker game against Lando, and that Chewie owes him a life debt in exchange for saving his life. I don’t need to watch a movie detailing all of that because it’s already known. The fact that he’s already an established character removes nearly all suspense. He has the ultimate plot armor, as does Chewie and Lando. They cannot die because I’ve already seen them in future movies.

If I had never seen another Star Wars movie, I’d have enjoyed it far more, but having seen the original trilogy, and having had the villain reveal spoiled for me beforehand, the whole movie felt...unnecessary.

So, in my opinion, it’s harmless, predictable, safe, and relatively entertaining for a prequel, but could be improved with a more charismatic lead actor.

In that way, I don’t think I would even rank it better than TFA.