Seen it was boring so no thanks dont need a boring movie shoving memberberries at me. (South Park reference)

@mcse2000ca said:

Seen it was boring so no thanks dont need a boring movie shoving memberberries at me.

Can someone translate this gobbledygook?

@Gus Gorman said:

@mcse2000ca said:

Seen it was boring so no thanks dont need a boring movie shoving memberberries at me.

Can someone translate this gobbledygook?

This movie is banking 100% on our nostalgia for Star Wars, not because they had a good story to tell. It exists to sell toys and merchandise (which it probably won't do).

I'm not paying to see this. I've lost my faith in this franchise. The Last Jedi made sure of that.

Ummm lets not forget most of the reviewers are allowed to early screenings for positive reviews. They are known as shills and cant be trusted. Wait for the audience scores if you really want to see what people think of it. I personally wont be seeing this since I dont support the SJW agenda that Kennedy has been pushing with SW. And I think alot of fans are also not seeing it for the same reason. Lets see if fans speaking with their money might help the Disney see the error of their ways.

Also, lets not forget that they predicted that it will open at 170 million on its 3 day opening weekend, and now its down to 120 million. That dosent read 'Don't Buy The Negativity. Solo Delivers.' to me.

The Last Jedi was the last Disney Star Wars I payed for. Solo looks so bad I won't even download it via torrent. Fuck you Kathleen Kennedy.

I'm really not a Star Wars fan at all, but I am interested in seeing this movie. I think the trailers and promos have looked good. I really like the cast, especially Emilia Clarke. Hopefully it ends up being a good film.

@TheBayHarborButcher said:

I'm really not a Star Wars fan at all, but I am interested in seeing this movie. I think the trailers and promos have looked good. I really like the cast, especially Emilia Clarke. Hopefully it ends up being a good film.

I heard that the vibe from the trailer and actual footage from the trailer isnt in the final film. Just a heads up. And I love me some Clarke as well but not enough for this.

Nah, I'm done with seeing Star Wars films in the theater. As a first-generation fan (been watching these movies since the 1970s), The Last Jedi wrapped things up for me. All major original characters either killed on-screen or the actors who played them dead in real life (I will not pay to see a movie in the theater just for Chewbacca and the droids). Lando I guess is still alive out there somewhere but Billy Dee Williams will not be returning.

So I am done. They did get my butt in the seats for nine films though-- sometimes for multiple viewings --so they got my money. Mayyybe I'll watch Solo when it comes out on disk, as a rental.

But I don't even see the need for this film; enough has already been referenced in the books, the comics, and the movies that we already pretty much know Solo's backstory, and what wasn't told, the fans have already filled in for themselves. So, creatively, I don't see a need for this movie to be made.

But, that's just me, and if others want to see this film and enjoy it, good for them:)

What I find interesting--and of course ironic--is that there have been many quotes over the years about how the Star Wars movies need to move away from the OT's characters so that they can explore Lucas's universe in new ways. Yet every SINGLE new movie is either about what happened to the characters from the OT after Endor or, now, in the decades before the first Death Star. We have a Han Solo movie, a Ben Kenobi movie in the works, possibly Yoda, and with the popularity of Donald Glover it seems a Lando movie is all but inevitable. When the Sy Snoodles movie is finally announced, my eyeballs will be rolling so fast they'll liberate themsleves from their sockets and enter orbit.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. In 20 years nobody will give a damn about Rey, Poe, Finn, Ren, or any of the other nobodies that J J Abrams and Kasdan pooped out for this new series. We'll still be sitting around telling the tales of the characters that started it all. (Reminds me a little of how World War 2, despite tens if not hundreds of thousands of books and other media, remains the most popular history category for new releases every year.)

PS I hate posting in these little self-promo threads, but the topic interested me. I can't stand it when people trying to get their little blog going put hyperlinks in online forums. That's like leaving leaflets on my car window. Ugh.

@garethmb said:

Slow to start but at no time did I find myself saying he is not Ford etc. I was able to just watch the show and enjoy it. Review is below.

Review

read your review you sir are what is commonly known as a schill

@AlienFanatic said:

What I find interesting--and of course ironic--is that there have been many quotes over the years about how the Star Wars movies need to move away from the OT's characters so that they can explore Lucas's universe in new ways. Yet every SINGLE new movie is either about what happened to the characters from the OT after Endor or, now, in the decades before the first Death Star. We have a Han Solo movie, a Ben Kenobi movie in the works, possibly Yoda, and with the popularity of Donald Glover it seems a Lando movie is all but inevitable. When the Sy Snoodles movie is finally announced, my eyeballs will be rolling so fast they'll liberate themsleves from their sockets and enter orbit.

Because money. This is all about money and selling merch, not telling a good story that fits in with existing canon. This is a constant trend you see with nearly every sequel or franchise with perhaps the exception of the MCU that manages to tell stories that are either good or great that please fans AS WELL AS sell merch.

If Disney really wanted to wow us and tell a Star Wars that explores George's universe they'd tell a story that has absolutely no connection with Episode 4 or the Empire. Like, make a Knights of the Old Republic movie or just something set 100 years before or after A New Hope with all new heroes and villains and give us a totally clean slate so we don't know what to expect, but it's much easier and lazier to make a Solo, Obi Wan, Lando, Rogue One etc movie because we already know those characters and plots, and nearly every single new character they have created feels like it was approved of by a committee.

I truly hope Solo and and Episode 9 bomb so Disney rethinks what they are doing, fire Kathleen Kennedy, and hire someone who actually loves Star Wars and knows what they're doing.

I truly hope Solo and and Episode 9 bomb so Disney rethinks what they are doing, fire Kathleen Kennedy, and hire someone who actually loves Star Wars and knows what they're doing.

You sir are 100% correct. Disney wont listen until the sales for all this crap starts to drop. Maybe than they will start to actually care about the fans and stop pandering to SJWs. Cause let me tell you, the SJWs wont be going to see this 3 or 4 times in cinemas. Nor will they be buying all the collectables.

@cswood said: plots, and nearly every single new character they have created feels like it was approved of by a committee.

I truly hope Solo and and Episode 9 bomb so Disney rethinks what they are doing, fire Kathleen Kennedy, and hire someone who actually loves Star Wars and knows what they're doing.

I understand the vitriol directed at Disney, who is the pinnacle of corporate intellectual and creative bankruptcy, but it's not going to happen. Solo won't do TFA or TLJ numbers, and probably won't even match Rogue, but I fully expect it to hit at least $700M worldwide by the end of its run. Abrams will sculpt Episode 9 to wipe off some the shit-stains that Rian Johnson left all over the franchise so that E:9 can give fans the warm fuzzies, hopefully make Rey figures sell a little better, and keep the wheelbarrows of money rolling into the Mouse House.

I hate to burst your bubble, but for as many angry OG Star Wars fans as there are, Disney has an endless legion of kids in the wings with handfulls of Mom & Dad's money to spend on it. And when you're dead and buried, the Disney execs will still be driving by your cemetery in Ferraris fueled by $100 bills from the latest Star Wars assembly line movie. It sucks, but that's life.

@AlienFanatic said:

What I find interesting--and of course ironic--is that there have been many quotes over the years about how the Star Wars movies need to move away from the OT's characters so that they can explore Lucas's universe in new ways. Yet every SINGLE new movie is either about what happened to the characters from the OT after Endor or, now, in the decades before the first Death Star.

Ha ha, funny you wrote that - 24 hrs later and a stand alone Boba Fett movie is announced!

I won't be going to see Solo and I won't be going to see that either...

I just got back from it, the movie was pretty boring. I think it’s better than the last Jedi though. Also I didn’t like how they handled that appearance of certain character.