I'll admit, I walked into Solo: A Star Wars Story with pretty low expectations. After the disaster known as The Last Jedi, I didn't have high hopes for this film. There was also the whole ''Alden Ehrenreich Needed an Acting Coach'' fiasco to top off my concerns.
However, Solo was not nearly as terrible as I thought it would be, yet still slightly underwhelming. By no means is it a perfect movie - or even a memorable one at that - but it wasn't as much of a menace as the majority of Star Wars fans on Rotten Tomatoes said it was, even with all of the hardships it faced, such as the firing of the original director mid-production.
So, here's a few things I liked about Solo, and a few things I didn't like:
LIKES
- How Han and Chewie met
- Paul Bettany's performance
- Darth Maul's cameo
- Alden actually did a decent job on portraying Han
- Donald Glover's performance
- Rescuing the enslaved Wookies
- The Beckett Twist
DISLIKES
- L3
- L3 and Lando's ''relationship"
- The film didn't explore the reason behind Han's cynical attitude or Imperial training
- The action scenes were kind of boring and bland
- How Han got his last name
- Qi'ra's unexplored motives
- Lack of depth for the majority of the characters and not giving the audience a compelling reason to care about them
There's also one more thing I'd like to discuss before I conclude this post, and that is the Solo box office performance. Compared to other Star Wars films, Solo has so far failed miserably. Earning only about $275 million worldwide on its second weekend, a lot of people have been wondering what went wrong, and I believe I have three main reasons to explain this shocking event:
1) TLJ left a lot of Star Wars fans bitter and angry
2) The movie was released too early after TLJ and didn't have enough time to build up hype
3) It had to compete with other big movies such as Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 during the month of May
That's all I have to say about Solo, and if you haven't seen the movie yet - don't worry, you won't be missing out on much, but go see it in theaters anyways because popcorn.
LIKES
- How Han and Chewie met
- Paul Bettany's performance
- Darth Maul's cameo
- Alden actually did a decent job on portraying Han
- Donald Glover's performance
- Rescuing the enslaved Wookies
- The Beckett Twist
DISLIKES
- L3
- L3 and Lando's ''relationship"
- The film didn't explore the reason behind Han's cynical attitude or Imperial training
- The action scenes were kind of boring and bland
- How Han got his last name
- Qi'ra's unexplored motives
- Lack of depth for the majority of the characters and not giving the audience a compelling reason to care about them
There's also one more thing I'd like to discuss before I conclude this post, and that is the Solo box office performance. Compared to other Star Wars films, Solo has so far failed miserably. Earning only about $275 million worldwide on its second weekend, a lot of people have been wondering what went wrong, and I believe I have three main reasons to explain this shocking event:
1) TLJ left a lot of Star Wars fans bitter and angry
2) The movie was released too early after TLJ and didn't have enough time to build up hype
3) It had to compete with other big movies such as Avengers: Infinity War and Deadpool 2 during the month of May
That's all I have to say about Solo, and if you haven't seen the movie yet - don't worry, you won't be missing out on much, but go see it in theaters anyways because popcorn.
Was it terrible? No. But I thought that the movie was less dramatic in that - it's like,
ReplyDeleteOH NO HAN SOLO'S GOING TO DIE!!! NO NO NO Nooo... Wait, can't he like, not die? Huh. That's anti-climatic.
That's the thing with prequels - if there's a character about to die whom you know already survives the situation, if done incorrectly, it can be really anti-climatic.
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