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Post by audiosane on May 25, 2018 9:54:12 GMT
I haven't seen Solo yet. I'm either going to see it in a few weeks, or I'm going to boycott it in theaters altogether. Why? A combo of me being anti-Kennedy, I'm getting tired of Disney always playing it safe, and I have very little interest in seeing a movie that will probably bore and annoy me at times.
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Post by ryboto on May 25, 2018 11:42:28 GMT
I'll be waiting until the dvd is pirated...
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Post by sostie on May 25, 2018 15:45:24 GMT
7/10 - decent entertainment (for me) plus completely devoid of The Force and nearly 100% Jedi free which was welcome
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Post by darkpast on May 25, 2018 16:44:36 GMT
6.5/10
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Post by Tristan's Journal on May 26, 2018 8:31:46 GMT
6.5 for me. Not worth a Soykott! 1. First, praised be Ron Howard (and even KK) for not letting this become "Scoundrels of the Galaxy" with pop songs, penis, turd and nipples-humor or dance offs. 2. This film is not an embarrassment or abomination. It's competent filmmaking in line with the lore, it's major sin is being in the solid mediocrity tier. 3. The alleged SJW contents are only muted compared to the previous chapters (the pansexuality is more a deluded-romance joke than serious; the annoying droid-rights android is in there for like 20 minutes if you discount the droid-ghost afterlife aspect, Q'ira is rather femme fatal). 4. The fan service is strong with this one, but at times pleasantly surprising or original (only exception: just another anticlimactic, cringy mask-reveal, "Solo" name scene). 5. The acting is solid, but unremarkable. Han and Lando character performances are somehow off (too short, too high pitched etc), but not a deal breaker - rather a reinterpretation of characters a few years before we met them. Chewie is the secret rock-star in this. 6. Criticisms: - This is the most expensive SW yet but it does not look that way originality-, creativity-, execution- or art design- wise! - The script is not too original and involves too many plot points (and holes) without breathing-time and proper character development. Is there one quotable SW Bonmot like "Always a bigger fish" etc...? - The tone is slightly uneven. - The cinematography is too dark and murky at places. - The editing is very tight, mirroring the relentlessly rushed plot-point-to-plot-point pacing (hell, we do not have time to develop friendship anymore, fiends become best pals within a minute) - the score and new themes are ok (Han march, Nest choral theme), but rather generic; the reuse of old material is too blatant and sometimes wrong thematically, (eg using rebellion or Luke theme for Falcon/Han) - Worldbuilding is a bit claustrophobic at places, everything looks like a wasteland dump. - Creature effects can be extremely cheesy (female Jabba, monkey pilot) Ergo, could have been better, but also SO MUCH worse. The spin offs (like TV shows) are better and more interesting Star wars than the rehash-y, uninspired Saga movies so far.
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Post by Hauntedknight87 on May 26, 2018 23:39:31 GMT
5/10
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Post by merh on May 27, 2018 0:58:57 GMT
6.5 for me. Not worth a Soykott! 1. First, praised be Ron Howard (and even KK) for not letting this become "Scoundrels of the Galaxy" with pop songs, penis, turd and nipples-humor or dance offs. That is what the fired director team was going for. . I liked it I felt it was a bit overdone I mean, of course if we ever get functional robot slaves sex droids will be a thing. I thought the name reveal was good. It wasn't Han being cool. . It was a surprise Han actually can speak Wookie. Poor Chewie. They reshot 70% of the movie. That means 30% was the original vision.the Guardians of the Galaxy vision I saw it in some special dolby theater. There wasnt any murky outside of where necessary. Like, you know, the mud planet. I found the pacing a bit slow. Marvel has really tightened that up to where its noticable elsewhere. However as I was considering the slower pace, I remembered the original wasn't that tight. I appreciated the old music. Correlia looked like a slum. Then we got the mud world war. Then an ice planet. The gangster's barge The gambling den The mining world. The Kessel Run Then the refinery-sand against an ocean. She looked more like an aquatic caterpiller to me. More Alice in Wonderland I enjoyed it. We saw the Empire, but this is the underworld. This is what Last Jedi tried to pass off at the casino, but Vos worked better.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 2:17:39 GMT
Saw it today. Distinctly Meh. Are we spoiling? I'll hide my thoughts, they are fairly spoiler heavy. They spend SO much time shoving things in your face that relate to the original movies. Like how practically the first thing we see is a huge close up of his dice. Which we then see in close-up or with the movie making a point of them being there like four more times. But there's no context, no importance to the script. They're just there, and if you don't already know about the dice, you'd be left wondering what the deal is. Same with the shooting first. They do everything short of having Han look into the camera and say something like "In future, I will ALWAYS shoot first!" It's just so clunky and awkward about stuff like that... which is a common theme of these movies, which are after all designed from the ground up purely to fill in the gaps. I especially enjoyed the incredible Voodoo Shark explanation of the Kessel run. One little mistake - mixing up a unit of time and distance - and now we have an explanation of it which throws massive, bizarre scientific howlers at us. Good lord, are Star Wars fans SO insecure about the slightest flaw in their movies that they'll go to these lengths to "fix" the slightest flaw? (If you must, just say that Han misspoke. Or hell, say that he deliberately misspoke to make fun of the fact that Luke didn't know the difference. Job done.) All that would be tolerable if it was a fun movie, but it's just not. The whole train job sequence just seemed like it was ripped off from Firefly. Nothing much in the film stood out as interesting or engaging. None of the characters felt much like the original characters, except for Chewie. Oh, and Lando, who looked and sounded like the original, but with the smarmy vibe of the original replaced by a vaguely creepy vibe this time around. Worst of all, wannabe-Han actor felt absolutely nothing like the actual Han. And the pirates turn out to be a bunch of kids? Puh-leeze. Also, it falls into the one trap that I knew it would. The whole point of Han's character in the original movie is that he's a cynical jaded criminal who is not interested in doing good at all... and learns to change during the movie. For that to make sense, Han in this movie HAS to be that cynical jaded guy, at least by the end. But there's just no way the movie is going to do that. A protagonist who is a borderline bad guy? Nope, that's just unacceptable. So Han gives up his big heist money to found the very rebellion that he will later refuse to help at all, out of pure kind heartedness. This makes an utter mockery of the character. So the tldr version is : I really didn't hate it - I wasn't invested in it enough to hate it. I was mostly bored by it, to be honest. It's an unnecessary movie that explains things that were better left unexplained.
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Post by Nicko's Nose on May 27, 2018 2:22:01 GMT
Never seen it, but it’s a Disney movie, where is the 0/10 option?!1
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Post by merh on May 27, 2018 6:36:33 GMT
Never seen it, but it’s a Disney movie, where is the 0/10 option?!1 Nightmare Before Christmas is a Disney Film Is it a 0/10?
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Post by Nicko's Nose on May 27, 2018 6:42:34 GMT
Never seen it, but it’s a Disney movie, where is the 0/10 option?!1 Nightmare Before Christmas is a Disney Film Is it a 0/10? But that was before Disney became EVIL!1
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Post by merh on May 27, 2018 7:18:22 GMT
Nightmare Before Christmas is a Disney Film Is it a 0/10? But that was before Disney became EVIL!1 When was that? When they bought Pixar?
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Post by HorrorMetal on May 28, 2018 21:39:22 GMT
8/10
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Post by lenlenlen1 on May 29, 2018 23:05:26 GMT
I haven't seen Solo yet. I'm either going to see it in a few weeks, or I'm going to boycott it in theaters altogether. Why? A combo of me being anti-Kennedy, I'm getting tired of Disney always playing it safe, and I have very little interest in seeing a movie that will probably bore and annoy me at times. You will be missing out on a very good movie just to spite yourself.
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Post by audiosane on May 30, 2018 0:52:55 GMT
I haven't seen Solo yet. I'm either going to see it in a few weeks, or I'm going to boycott it in theaters altogether. Why? A combo of me being anti-Kennedy, I'm getting tired of Disney always playing it safe, and I have very little interest in seeing a movie that will probably bore and annoy me at times. You will be missing out on a very good movie just to spite yourself. No. I'll be avoiding it in theaters because I'm tired of supporting Disney's bullshit with my wallet. I already saw TFA 12 times in theaters, Rogue One once and TLJ twice. That's enough for me. I'm going to eventually rent Solo on DVD. If it's any good, I'll have no problem saying so. That said, people are saying there's a bit too much recycling of ideas from the OT. If so, I'll find that aspect very annoying.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Jun 5, 2018 1:52:48 GMT
You will be missing out on a very good movie just to spite yourself. No. I'll be avoiding it in theaters because I'm tired of supporting Disney's bullshit with my wallet. I already saw TFA 12 times in theaters, Rogue One once and TLJ twice. That's enough for me. I'm going to eventually rent Solo on DVD. If it's any good, I'll have no problem saying so. That said, people are saying there's a bit too much recycling of ideas from the OT. If so, I'll find that aspect very annoying. Well, lets say its true that there's a bit too much recycling of ideas from the OT... how could it be anything less? Its a prequel / origin story!!
I think the people who are poo pooing this movie have already decided not to like it no matter what. I know I cant change their minds. All I can say is I went to it with an open mind expecting a sub par experience and was pleasantly surprised that a movie with this much turmoil during production actually turned out so well. Lots of action, lots of humor, and just the right amount of recycling of ideas from the OT.
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Post by audiosane on Jun 5, 2018 5:39:07 GMT
No. I'll be avoiding it in theaters because I'm tired of supporting Disney's bullshit with my wallet. I already saw TFA 12 times in theaters, Rogue One once and TLJ twice. That's enough for me. I'm going to eventually rent Solo on DVD. If it's any good, I'll have no problem saying so. That said, people are saying there's a bit too much recycling of ideas from the OT. If so, I'll find that aspect very annoying. Well, lets say its true that there's a bit too much recycling of ideas from the OT... how could it be anything less? Its a prequel / origin story!!
I think the people who are poo pooing this movie have already decided not to like it no matter what. I know I cant change their minds. All I can say is I went to it with an open mind expecting a sub par experience and was pleasantly surprised that a movie with this much turmoil during production actually turned out so well. Lots of action, lots of humor, and just the right amount of recycling of ideas from the OT.
It could be anything less because it's up to Disney how much of the story tied in with Han's OT backstory vs. how much of it is brand new. Also, I'm not just talking about Han's backstory when it comes to recycling ideas. I'm including things like iconic character cameos, similar planet types, ship types, galactic conflict, etc. I'm not poo pooing this movie, so I don't see why you bothered to bring that up. I'll make up my mind on Solo when I see it. I'm refusing to support Disney Star Wars for now because I'm tired of the sort of movies they've been giving us. Kennedy and company are playing Star Wars way too safe. They lack vision. Lastly, this is Star Wars. We shouldn't be walking into the theater with low expectations.
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Post by MooseNugget on Jun 6, 2018 4:04:57 GMT
7/10
The movie is fun. I didn't learn anything I needed to and it didn't add anything to the Star Wars lore or universe. But I enjoyed it for what it was.
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