Solo: A Star Wars Story

[ArtDamage]

I do though, that's the sad part. I actually really enjoyed RO when so many don't. I think Ep8 just threw me for a loop and Solo just doesn't look appealing in any way at all.

I really enjoyed Rogue one. For what its worth Solo has some cool sequences and i think captures the sw vibe far better than anything sequel trilogy. Ford Is Han Solo, but i dont think this kid does a bad job. The robot in this is annoying is ****, but honestly i thought the rest was decent.

 

[MegaPrime33]

I really enjoyed Rogue one. For what its worth Solo has some cool sequences and i think captures the sw vibe far better than anything sequel trilogy. Ford Is Han Solo, but i dont think this kid does a bad job. The robot in this is annoying is ****, but honestly i thought the rest was decent.

I mean, I'm going to watch it eventually. It's just disappointing that there was an actual SW movie that I just completely passed on watching in the theaters. I hope there aren't more like that.

 

[FlyAndFight]

I really enjoyed Rogue one. For what its worth Solo has some cool sequences and i think captures the sw vibe far better than anything sequel trilogy. Ford Is Han Solo, but i dont think this kid does a bad job. The robot in this is annoying is ****, but honestly i thought the rest was decent.

My feelings, exactly.

MegaPrime33, its a fun popcorn flick and worthy of viewing. It took me about 5 minutes to get past the fact that it wasn't Ford as Solo but the kid grows on you and the role. The film has its issues, here and there, but over-all, it was fun. I plan on picking up the Blu-Ray when released.

 

[Prime Clone]

Solo is still my least favourite SW film, but I'm curious about Han's Imperial past so will be picking up the Han Solo, Imperial Cadet comic.

There's also a movie adaptation coming:

 

[Seph Stampede]

 

[jye4ever]

The PT Jedi Order couldn’t do anything right could they lol

 

[Khev]

Yes not only did Maul survive but he lived a long, well fed life, lol.

 

[a-dev]

He was/is surely being set up to be a villain, perhaps the villain in the Obi-wan standalone movie.

 

[SwedishHeat]

So, he has the Inquisitor's lightsaber, which means the Empire is still hunting him down, yes?

 

[jye4ever]

Who’s lightsaber lol

 

[punisher1974]

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With the Robocop legs he could be in a new movie "Maul Cop"

 

[Khev]

lol...

 

[jye4ever]

Jesus he IS HAN SOLO here!

What a great scene should’ve been left in dammit.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Yeah, that's a great scene! Can't wait to see the movie again!

And where are those shots of Maul from? That makeup is rough!

 

[Khev]

I get why it was cut because the pacing seems like it would have been off from the rest of the film but yeah on it's own that was freaking awesome.

In anticipation of the blu-ray I decided to dust off my 1979 Han Solo at Stars End and give it a read again and what I'm really enjoying is picturing both Ford and Alden speaking his dialogue from the book because it works either way!

I also find it interesting how well the pre-ESB book gels with both TFA and Solo. Early in the book he entertains the thought of one day "going native" and just settling on a remote planet somewhere and quickly dismisses the thought since he feels that his place is traveling the stars. It kind of suggests that him settling down with any woman who wouldn't do likewise would be a doomed endeavor. Sacrilegious as it might sound that does feel more "Han" than him being some general or administrator helping to run the New Republic with Leia. She can now be looked at as a replacement Qi'ra who was never a truly perfect fit with him. I don't fault Abrams for finding an excuse to get him adventuring again.

Also for those who believe that "Solo" made him too much of an idealist and a good guy well again that's pretty much as vintage an idea as they get. His first smuggler run in the book is him delivering cases of rifles to primitives oppressed by a cool version of the Trade Federation. After giving them the goods the primitive leader gives him a sob story about how they've been oppressed and Han gets mad and tells him he doesn't want to hear it because the less he knows the better. He starts to walk off but then sighs and turns around and tells the leader how best to use the weapons, what settings to have them on to maximize their ambushes, etc.

So his character in Solo really does gel with his pre-ANH EU days.

 

[jye4ever]

But I liked the “flying” transition.

He takes the hard lesson and moves on.

 

[punisher1974]

I love those books by Brian Daley. Very descriptive of Han's early days. I like when the explained the stripe on his pants as being the Corellian Bloodstripe. All 3 books are great and fun reads.

 

[Khev]

I love those books by Brian Daley. Very descriptive of Han's early days. I like when the explained the stripe on his pants as being the Corellian Bloodstripe. All 3 books are great and fun reads.

Yeah they're surprisingly cinematic. Like the one cruiser catching the Falcon in the tractor beam and Han turning the ship around and gunning the engines to use the tractor beam as a slingshot to aim for the bridge. The cruiser captain freaks out and orders the tractor beam shut off so they can perform evasive maneuvers as Han barely veers the Falcon off at the last second and jumps to lightspeed. That would have been hella badass to see on screen and Daley wrote that before we ever saw the "fast moving" Falcon in ESB!

I haven't gotten to the part about the Corellian Bloodstripe. So his trousers aren't from his Imperial uniform? That's the vibe I've gotten so far but I'm still pretty early in the book and it's been so long it's like reading it for the first time all over again.

 

[Khev]

But I liked the “flying” transition.

Yep perfect segue, lol.

EDIT: And I love all the Imperials having to stand there with a straight face while the schematics show Han's utterly erratic flight trajectory compared to the other Fighters, lol.

 

[punisher1974]

I don't remember which book its in. I might be the lost legacy that makes the reference. Its cool at the imagery that Daley writes when Han has a showdown with a rival in a shoot out. He explains why Hans holster hangs so low. You could tell he watched a lot of westerns. In the new Canon if Hans pants are remnants of his Imperial days that sucks. The tractor beam bit with the Falcon is awesome in that it shows how fast of a thinker Solo is and how crazy he can be. I will have to reread the trilogy soon.