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Re: Solo: A Star Wars Story (May 25th, 2018)
For me, the low-stakes, personal ending of Solo trumps the badass warfare of RO simply because I am much, much more invested in Han than any of the ROers. I don't think of this as a negative towards RO, simply the inevitable result of living with Han and Chewie for as long as I can remember. Though for my personal taste, the character driven humor in Solo endeared the characters to me more than the dour desperation for most of RO. But even that I'm sure is colored by my preloaded affection.
Solo had an easier time gaining my trust but I still feel honestly RO went a little too hard and fast trying to get me to invest in Jyn. That hologram message from Dad is just too much of an emotional exposition download for my taste. Combined with the inexplicably pointless octopus lie detector, RO bucked a little too hard for this cowpoke.
But I brushed it off and got back in the saddle.
One thing that worked against Solo's first viewing for me was it's low-key finale especially after RO. Not that I would have expected another "Battle of Scarif" or anything but that last fight in Drydon's Study was *so* low-key that I felt it borderlined on anti-climactic. However watching it a second time I found myself really enjoying the ending. There was so much excitement in all the preceding scenes that it was fun to just see Han jumping around a room trying to evade a single combatant.
And I really liked that they didn't give Han any sweet martial arts moves or anything which would have been so wrong for the character and that he pretty much stayed alive by being "slippery" at the end and staying just out of reach when it mattered most.
But man, the music in this film, I found it to be off the charts fantastic. It really elevated every sequence tremendously, even sequences that were already incredibly exciting on their own (like the train heist and Kessel Run.) And when Chewie took over co-piloting duties for the first time and the main SW theme kicked in, has *any* SW film used that theme since Luke and Leia were blasting Stormies right before swinging across the bridge??
For me, the low-stakes, personal ending of Solo trumps the badass warfare of RO simply because I am much, much more invested in Han than any of the ROers. I don't think of this as a negative towards RO, simply the inevitable result of living with Han and Chewie for as long as I can remember. Though for my personal taste, the character driven humor in Solo endeared the characters to me more than the dour desperation for most of RO. But even that I'm sure is colored by my preloaded affection.
Solo had an easier time gaining my trust but I still feel honestly RO went a little too hard and fast trying to get me to invest in Jyn. That hologram message from Dad is just too much of an emotional exposition download for my taste. Combined with the inexplicably pointless octopus lie detector, RO bucked a little too hard for this cowpoke.
But I brushed it off and got back in the saddle.
