Spoilers Star Wars: Solo - Grading and Discussion Thread
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Precisely so. Holdo knew they were being tracked and that was an issue. Poe demonstrated a tendency to disobey orders. Why would she trust him with vital information?
Decent enough heist movie. The characters were fun, even if, outside Han and Lando (and maybe Chewie) the characterisation was very thin - not unusual for Star Wars admittedly. I enjoyed lots of teases rather than, for example, Revenge of the Sith trying too hard to tie everything up in a bow. I'd recommend it.
I'll be honest, I found this disappointing. It has classic prequel problem, it decides there's one massive event that resulted in everything turning out the way it does in the original. In this case, the one adventure results in Hand and Chewie meeting for the first time, then meeting Lando, doing the Kessel Run, and ultimately obtaining the Millennium Falcon. Alden Ehrenreich has no real presence as Han Solo, the rest of the characters aren't too engaging either, though I did enjoy Donald Glover as Lando. Otherwise, this movie's basically a collection of references and callbacks to the other movies and very thin on story.
I really loved this film. I wasn't expecting anything deep, just a fun, heist film and that's what we got. An excellent cast all around, but Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller-Bridge stole the film for me. I hope we get a Lando film and it's either set before Solo or he manages to find a way to resurrect L3-37 (in a new body and removed from the Falcon) because they were a wonderful team.
As of now, I probably would rank this just below my favorites (A New Hope, Rogue One, Empire Strikes Back, The Last Jedi) but I'm sure that'll change after repeat viewings.
As of now, I probably would rank this just below my favorites (A New Hope, Rogue One, Empire Strikes Back, The Last Jedi) but I'm sure that'll change after repeat viewings.
I missed that but I did notice the crystal skull.
Looking at the box office numbers, I'm starting to really feel like I did with Star Trek Beyond. It's very reminiscent of STB.
I love this movie. It's everything I want from a SW movie. And a skeptical fanbase has been pleasantly surprised and overwhelmingly embraced it.
But the box office numbers are bad...
I love this movie. It's everything I want from a SW movie. And a skeptical fanbase has been pleasantly surprised and overwhelmingly embraced it.
But the box office numbers are bad...
I haven't yet gotten to see the film, but I saw an article where someone intimated that the character of L-3 living on in the Falcon's navi-computer is "Star Wars' most dark and disturbing twist", and couldn't disagree more.
I think giving the Falcon the "soul" of a droid who 'transcended' the typical functions of her kind adds to the uniqueness of the ship and likewise makes it an actual "character" within the Star Wars universe rather than just another piece of technology.
It also helps explain and enrich several things about The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Force Awakens, which is neat.
I think giving the Falcon the "soul" of a droid who 'transcended' the typical functions of her kind adds to the uniqueness of the ship and likewise makes it an actual "character" within the Star Wars universe rather than just another piece of technology.
It also helps explain and enrich several things about The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and The Force Awakens, which is neat.
Actually, she's all 3 of them based on everything I could find about her and the Falcon.
Lando uploading L3's consciousness into the Falcon's already-existing systems would, I believe, simply override those systems, especially over time as L3 melded with and got used to her new 'body'.
Including the unnecessary overly dark, murky look.
Well, we did at least get more Wookiees, a Rodian, and a Tognath ( might have been a Tognath we've seen before, though, both were affiliated with the Rebels and those guys all look alike to me ).
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So is L3 just the navigation computer, or does she have access to other ship systems? Only reason I ask, you would think she would be sending Han, and Chewie alert messages/lights telling them the hyperdrive is damaged in ESB.
..then again maybe the "check engine" light is always on in the Falcon.
..then again maybe the "check engine" light is always on in the Falcon.
To me, it gave new weight to Han's comment regarding 3PO "talking to the Falcon."
I would imagine so
And 3PO being scandalized by the Falcon's gruff and vulgar manner. The TLJ novelization had a fun tidbit mentioning that R2 got along better with the Falcon's computer because it got bored and enjoyed gossiping while working, and R2 was more into drama than 3PO, who's all business (and whining). It didn't go into it, but I realized that while R2 had slept through the past five years or so, the Falcon had been stolen long before that, so he'd still have updates even beyond whatever he caught up on before he and Rey left.
So, I glanced at the Han Solo Wookiepedia page and did some quick math, for context. Han was 10 when the Clone Wars broke out, and 13 when the Empire formed. You can probably spin out quite a bit on how the economy of Corellia was affected.
For instance, Corellian ships seem to generally be private-owned. Small freighters like the Falcon, still-fairly-small-by-Star-Wars-standards ships like the Corvettes the Organa family owned, and larger freighters like the one Han had in TFA. It seems like all the bit military ships were built by Kuat. So, war[!] breaks out, government demand for small transports and whatnot like the one from the beginning of TPM (also Corellian-built) craters, and one of their main economic competitors starts soaking up a ton of business. The planetary economy is hosed, shipyards are either closed down, bought out, or converted for military production, and guys like Han's father get the shaft. Things probably only got worse when the war ended, and the new Empire started ordering Star Destroyers like they were going out of style and didn't care under what conditions they were built so long as they were, and fast.
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