I watched Solo tonight on Netflix so you don’t have to.
Haha, no. It wasn’t that bad. But it really wasn’t very good, either. Here are my thoughts in list form:
- I’m glad I didn’t pay full price to see this in a theater
- Aiden Ehrenreich was okay, but really didn’t have much to work with, and didn’t feel at all like the same character Harrison Ford played
- Not enough Lando
- Lando’s emotional attachment to L3 (a droid) was kind of weird
- Never have a character talk about how predictable everyone is in a movie that is predictable
- Competent special effects but few that had any real “wow” factor
- The fan service bits weren’t as overbearing as in the prequels, but they were still bad
- We get it, any band in a Star Wars movie needs to be really weird and alien
- The movie started out slow, almost dull
- Han is supposed to be a great pilot, but we are literally never shown this until he is suddenly forced to fly the Falcon
- The tone was way too dark for a character who is a lovable rogue
- We don’t need a backstory on the name Solo
- Bring back the opening title crawl
- If they still go ahead and make a Boba Fett movie, I will be very cross
- It ends hinting at a sequel. Ha, fat chance.
