All Things Star Wars Thread (Spoilers)

[IrishLion]

Synopsis is out for "Solo":

Official Synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story Revealed | StarWars.com

Basically, the movie is about young Han meeting Chewbacca and encountering Lando Calrissian.

Han has gotten himself into a pickle!
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Dramatic Predicament Solved by Chewbacca's Intro!
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Enter Infamous Scoundrel Counterpart, Lando Calrissian
Filler Material.
Dramatic Gambling Scene.
Dramatic Imagery of the Millennium Falcon.
Filler Material.
"Hey Chewie, how do you think this hunk of junk would hold up during the Kessel Run?"
Roll Credits.

 

[connor_in]

Synopsis is out for "Solo":

Official Synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story Revealed | StarWars.com

Basically, the movie is about young Han meeting Chewbacca and encountering Lando Calrissian.

Han has gotten himself into a pickle!
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Dramatic Predicament Solved by Chewbacca's Intro!
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Enter Infamous Scoundrel Counterpart, Lando Calrissian
Filler Material.
Dramatic Gambling Scene.
Dramatic Imagery of the Millennium Falcon.
Filler Material.
"Hey Chewie, how do you think this hunk of junk would hold up during the Kessel Run?"
Chewie: "I don't know but I sure hope they use speed measurements instead of distance measurements this year! growl-gargle-roar"
Roll Credits.

fify

 

[Domina Nostra]

An issue I had with that scene, if such a thing can be done, why wasn't that the plan to begin with? At least three ships before hers just allowed themselves to run out of fuel and get blown up. Why not turn them around and take the dreadnought out if you're going to get blown up anyway? Further, it didn't seem like that was the plan with the big ship anyway. It was presented as a spur of the moment decision only after the transports started getting picked off. If you know that your going to die regardless, why not plan the kamakazi run to begin with?

Right. It makes literally no sense.

The more I've thought about it, the whole movie is shit. It might even be worse than Phantom Menace.

It really might be.

Kamikaze spaceships break the Star Wars universe and basically invalidate all decisions in the OT. Stupid, shitty movie.

Exactly. You would take one of those cigar-shaped troop transports, empty it out, plug a kamikazee robot into the central computer, and shoot it at any big, capital-sized ship, including the Death Star.

It would make Star Destroyers instantly obsolete.

Another is space cell phones, like the one they used to call Maz. "Holla back at me Ben Kenobi, you're our only hope. 555-222-7776."

The difference is the "movie sin" count. No movie is perfect, and Star Wars is fantasy after all.

It took me out of the universe immersion as many times as any of the prequels did.

This is exactly it.

I’m with you. I will take any prequel over this mess. For all their warts, they always felt like Star Wars. Yeah the dialogue sucked ass. Yes, jar jar is an awful charachter. But this garbage just feels like bad fan fic from another universe with star wars charachters slapped on, and done shoddily at every turn.

That's what I thought when I came out too. The prequels were so terribly executed, but the stories were generally fine, and could have been 1000x more interesting just with any one other than GL given a chance to clean up the dialogue, direction, and editing. There were tons of cringe-worthy moments, but the only truly regrettable part from the story was the midichlorian debacle (and that could have easily been written out as the theory of one school of Jedi, which included most on the Jedi Coucil at that time).

What they needed was George Lucas in the background, and a guy like RJ actually executing the vision. That's what made SW so good. GL has veto authority and loomed over the whole production, but the more serious movie guys increased the quality dramatically.

 

[Cackalacky]

I hope for three things:

Han makes the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs,
they address how Han and Chewie hook up (life debt)
and
how Han wins the Falcon from Lando (beating him at Sabbacc).

Synopsis is out for "Solo":

Official Synopsis for Solo: A Star Wars Story Revealed | StarWars.com

Basically, the movie is about young Han meeting Chewbacca and encountering Lando Calrissian.

Han has gotten himself into a pickle!
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Dramatic Predicament Solved by Chewbacca's Intro!
Filler Material.
Filler Material.
Enter Infamous Scoundrel Counterpart, Lando Calrissian
Filler Material.
Dramatic Gambling Scene.
Dramatic Imagery of the Millennium Falcon.
Filler Material.
"Hey Chewie, how do you think this hunk of junk would hold up during the Kessel Run?"
Roll Credits.

LOL

 

[IrishLion]

Sound is 100% necessary:

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[IrishLion]

fify

I always imagined the Kessel run being referenced in parsecs truly WAS a measurement of distance...

Like, an amateur pilot has to navigate a complicated route that has several avenues, and the safest way requires more turns and diversions around space obstacles, whereas the most skilled pilots can take much shorter, but much more dangerous routes on the run.

The shorter the distance through the run and its obstacles, the more obvious it is that you're a badass.

 

[wizards8507]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/starwars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StarWars</a> fans. STAND BY FOR NEWS. A classic villain is coming back to a galaxy far, far away. Story goes live in about 15 minutes (1PM ET). <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abc</a></p>— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) <a href="https://twitter.com/Clayton_Sandell/status/954408896822521856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I'm guessing they confirm that Boba Fett will be in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

I'm guessing they confirm that Boba Fett will be in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

This guy?

 

[Domina Nostra]

I always imagined the Kessel run being referenced in parsecs truly WAS a measurement of distance...

Like, an amateur pilot has to navigate a complicated route that has several avenues, and the safest way requires more turns and diversions around space obstacles, whereas the most skilled pilots can take much shorter, but much more dangerous routes on the run.

The shorter the distance through the run and its obstacles, the more obvious it is that you're a badass.

I always thought it inadvertently worked as Han Solo blowing smoke, but not really understanding the technical details.

 

[zelezo vlk]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/starwars?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StarWars</a> fans. STAND BY FOR NEWS. A classic villain is coming back to a galaxy far, far away. Story goes live in about 15 minutes (1PM ET). <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abc</a></p>— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) <a href="https://twitter.com/Clayton_Sandell/status/954408896822521856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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I'm guessing they confirm that Boba Fett will be in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

I want Greedo

 

[wizards8507]

I always imagined the Kessel run being referenced in parsecs truly WAS a measurement of distance...

Like, an amateur pilot has to navigate a complicated route that has several avenues, and the safest way requires more turns and diversions around space obstacles, whereas the most skilled pilots can take much shorter, but much more dangerous routes on the run.

The shorter the distance through the run and its obstacles, the more obvious it is that you're a badass.

Yes, but it's more about your ship's capabilities than your manual piloting skills. The Falcon's navicomputer is second-to-none.

 

[wizards8507]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">WATCH: New trailer drops for "Star Wars: Rebels" featuring the return of classic villain Emperor Palpatine. Ezra, Hera, Kanan, Zeb, Rex and Chopper (and maybe Ahsoka?) return for their final six episodes on <a href="https://twitter.com/DisneyXD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DisneyXD</a> Feb. 19. <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abc</a> <a href="https://t.co/GTIVhF2xYG">https://t.co/GTIVhF2xYG</a> <a href="https://t.co/rBiH3DIqGe">pic.twitter.com/rBiH3DIqGe</a></p>— Clayton Sandell (@Clayton_Sandell) <a href="https://twitter.com/Clayton_Sandell/status/954413417015603200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Lame.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

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[zelezo vlk]

So this Star Wars thing.

 

[IrishLion]

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[zelezo vlk]

I mean, I guess I'm gonna see it

 

[IrishLax]

Uggggggh it looks like it’s going to be bad.

 

[IrishLion]

I wish he could do a voice closer to Harrison Ford's, but I'm nitpicking. I got pretty jacked when the SuperBowl spot came on.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I wish he could do a voice closer to Harrison Ford's, but I'm nitpicking. I got pretty jacked when the SuperBowl spot came on.

Would that it were so simple

 

[IrishLion]

Would that it were so simple

We haven't invented vocal-cord customization yet? What are we even doing as a species?

 

[wizards8507]

I love everything about this except for the actor. The aliens, costumes, props, set design, etc. are fire.

 

[zelezo vlk]

We haven't invented vocal-cord customization yet? What are we even doing as a species?

Now I'm not sure that you got the reference...

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[ACamp1900]

Uggggggh it looks like it’s going to be bad.

Yeah, didn't inspire confidence in me either... though if I remember Rogue One trailer looked bad too and I really liked that movie... so we'll see.

 

[Domina Nostra]

Uggggggh it looks like it’s going to be bad.

I wish he could do a voice closer to Harrison Ford's, but I'm nitpicking. I got pretty jacked when the SuperBowl spot came on.

Would that it were so simple

I love everything about this except for the actor. The aliens, costumes, props, set design, etc. are fire.

Yeah, didn't inspire confidence in me either... though if I remember Rogue One trailer looked bad too and I really liked that movie... so we'll see.

I agree that the look everything is kind of cool, but I also agree that it did not inspire confidence. I like the actor, but I don't see him as Han Solo. He doesn't seem to have the physical presence.

I guess we'll see. This may be Disney's last chance for me.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Who did y'all want to be Han before the actor was announced?

 

[IrishLax]

I agree that the look everything is kind of cool, but I also agree that it did not inspire confidence. I like the actor, but I don't see him as Han Solo. He doesn't seem to have the physical presence.

I guess we'll see. This may be Disney's last chance for me.

They had a lot of good will with me after Rogue One. Amazing set pieces, convincing villains, etc.

The Last Jedi got me all slanty eyed, but in the back of my head I'm thinking "well, JJ Abrams can save it again... maybe."

The Han Solo movie should be impossible to screw up... but I do not like how the actor talks, much less looks. Seems too aloof.

 

[Domina Nostra]

That’s pretty much how I see it.

But I do have a problem with his height. Solo’s build was part of his character and the way he carried himself. They even played up the height difference with Luke. There are plenty of smaller action hero’s who are great—Luke Skywalker for one—but Han is not one of them.

Also, is the actor young enough for the role?

 

[zelezo vlk]

That’s pretty much how I see it.

But I do have a problem with his height. Solo’s build was part of his character and the way he carried himself. They even played up the height difference with Luke. There are plenty of smaller action hero’s who are great—Luke Skywalker for one—but Han is not one of them.

Also, is the actor young enough for the role?

Turns out Alden is 28. I would've thought he was older

 

[wizards8507]

Who did y'all want to be Han before the actor was announced?

I wouldn't have made a young Han Solo movie in the first place.

But I'm all in on Childish Landino.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I wouldn't have made a young Han Solo movie in the first place.

But I'm all in on Childish Landino.

Are you down with the Kenobi movie?