Solo: A Star Wars Story

[Dedshott]

My wife is in Solo.

She had to film her bits twice - once with the original directors and once with Ron Howard. She had a lovely time - and now she's got a page in a Star Wars book!

[chris4652009]

Dedshott said:

My wife is in Solo.

She had to film her bits twice - once with the original directors and once with Ron Howard. She had a lovely time - and now she's got a page in a Star Wars book!

"she had to film her bits twice"
Her "bits" ???

Was it the Adult version?

[chris4652009]

Watched this again last night, wife and I both thought it was one of the best of the modern "star wars" films

[Dedshott]

chris4652009 said:

Dedshott said:

My wife is in Solo.

She had to film her bits twice - once with the original directors and once with Ron Howard. She had a lovely time - and now she's got a page in a Star Wars book!

"she had to film her bits twice"
Her "bits" ???

Was it the Adult version?

Perhaps this was why Disney wanted a different director. Bit too edgy.

[Halb]

Dedshott said:

My wife is in Solo.

She had to film her bits twice - once with the original directors and once with Ron Howard. She had a lovely time - and now she's got a page in a Star Wars book!

can't get me on her agents books can you?

[Dedshott]

Halb said:

can't get me on her agents books can you?

You know how to get to Carnegie Hall don't you?

[Halb]

Dedshott said:

You know how to get to Carnegie Hall don't you?

but mates are good too

[Bullett]

Finally got round to watching this.

I quite enjoyed it. The supporting characters were far more interesting than the main man. I liked the lady robot.
It was just a story that didn't really need to be told. Felt a bit box ticking for fans, win the Falcon - tick, do the kessel run - tick.
Oh look a cameo.

Pity it got such a poor reception, not on its own merits but on those of TLJ. I understand why, I missed it out until now as I disliked TLJ so much.

[SpeedBash]

Pretty decent video regarding the VFX for the Kessel Run sequence in Solo.

However, the eraly part of the video has some nice tidbits on blink and you'll miss them references and tie-ins between Solo and Star Wars: A New Hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z8DO-O_HVg&t=...

[youngsyr]

SpeedBash said:

Pretty decent video regarding the VFX for the Kessel Run sequence in Solo.

However, the eraly part of the video has some nice tidbits on blink and you'll miss them references and tie-ins between Solo and Star Wars: A New Hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z8DO-O_HVg&t=...

That's a great watch, thanks for the link!

[Lucas Ayde]

Bullett said:

Finally got round to watching this.

I quite enjoyed it. The supporting characters were far more interesting than the main man. I liked the lady robot.
It was just a story that didn't really need to be told. Felt a bit box ticking for fans, win the Falcon - tick, do the kessel run - tick.
Oh look a cameo.

Pity it got such a poor reception, not on its own merits but on those of TLJ. I understand why, I missed it out until now as I disliked TLJ so much.

Yeah, just saw it myself - pretty entertaining and definitely worth a watch but the fallout from TLJ really screwed it over.

I liked the scenes of the outdoors on Corellia at the start, really proper Scifi cinematography. Even the SJW droid wasn't as bad as was made out - quite a funny character as droids usually are supposed to be in Star Wars. A lot of good action scenes on planets and in space and it moved along at a good pace - what's not to like? Would have liked to see more of Paul Bettany's character though as he was under-utilised.

Too bad it had to suffer for the sins of the previously released SW film.

[Guvernator]

It wasn't a bad film and some of the scenes were very good but it was all a bit forgettable. I watched it a couple of months ago and can barely remember anything about it. For one of the most iconic characters in cinema history, they could have done a bit more with the story.

[SpeedBash]

Another pretty decent video from ILM regarding the Millennium Falcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Y5MjxXJsY

[SpeedBash]

This popped up in my YouTube feed so thought it was worth sharing.

Creating L3-37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkaQQISSMFA

[Nik da Greek]

This has recently popped up on Sky Movies (yep, that's how primitive and far behind I am) so I finally sat and watched it. Meh

It was OK. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great. And damming with faint praise speaks louder than criticism in my book. It's Star Wars, it should be fking awesome. Oh well. I even watched it with The Boy because he's enthusiastic about most things and not judgemental so I sorta vampirise his youthful enthusiasm to keep me going through the sketchy bits... and there were a lot of those. Massive plot holes, as far as I can see it holds together almost as badly as The Last Jedi or The Phantom Menace in terms of sheer numbers of "do what now? Why? Why would anyone behave that inexplicably?" moments. Most of these have been dealt with on YouTube commentaries in greater detail and more humour than I could


However, one thing I've really not seen made much of... and to me it's the most glaring weirdness of the entire film... is The Kessel Run. And I never really thought about it before because it just was never a thing. Han in A New Hope throws out that his ship's awesome because it's done something we know nothing about called the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs and despite knowing (nor caring) nothing about it, he says it in such a way that we know this is An Awesome Thing. And now *angelic paean* it's EXPLAINED

But wait... Disney's scriptwriters do know that a parsec is a measure of distance, right? Right? Not time? And in almost all fields of human endeavour, things that are really hard are measured in either distance or time... in the case of the latter, then the quicker you do something, the more awesome it is. In the former, the longer you go to do something, the more awesome it becomes. And yet here we have the whole linchpin of the whole character of Han Solo himself (previously the coolest guy in the known Galaxy) hanging on him...errrr, course cutting? And Disney chose to make it the crux of the movie, no-one asked them to. Han was proven incontrovertibly the best pilot ever if he could do what no-one else could do. But the reason they didn't do it was because there's no such thing as The Kessel Run. It's a mostly automated desert slave planet where people either mine spice (presumably a drug) or, rather inexplicably, fuel (which has only been something the Star Wars universe gave two sts about since made to in TLJ). Why would anyone go there? Why would anyone take pride in going there via a shorter distance? The (lethally electrified poison) clouds are full of giant "carbon-bergs" smashing everything to pulp, a bright red ....errrr... black hole and a simply fking humongous kraken thing that eats everything. WHY the unholy fk would anyone take a shortcut through there? To get to or from one of the least hospitable and unpleasant planets in the galaxy?

They made this the defining moment for the entire character of Solo. And it turns out his ship is the only one to make the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs because he's the only one who ever bothered to do it. And even then it's like saying "I finished first in the marathon last weekend, and what's more I managed it in only five miles"

Solo? wker

[JagLover]

Nik da Greek said:

This has recently popped up on Sky Movies (yep, that's how primitive and far behind I am) so I finally sat and watched it. Meh

It was OK. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great. And damming with faint praise speaks louder than criticism in my book. It's Star Wars, it should be fking awesome. Oh well. I even watched it with The Boy because he's enthusiastic about most things and not judgemental so I sorta vampirise his youthful enthusiasm to keep me going through the sketchy bits... and there were a lot of those. Massive plot holes, as far as I can see it holds together almost as badly as The Last Jedi or The Phantom Menace in terms of sheer numbers of "do what now? Why? Why would anyone behave that inexplicably?" moments. Most of these have been dealt with on YouTube commentaries in greater detail and more humour than I could


However, one thing I've really not seen made much of... and to me it's the most glaring weirdness of the entire film... is The Kessel Run. And I never really thought about it before because it just was never a thing. Han in A New Hope throws out that his ship's awesome because it's done something we know nothing about called the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs and despite knowing (nor caring) nothing about it, he says it in such a way that we know this is An Awesome Thing. And now *angelic paean* it's EXPLAINED

But wait... Disney's scriptwriters do know that a parsec is a measure of distance, right? Right? Not time? And in almost all fields of human endeavour, things that are really hard are measured in either distance or time... in the case of the latter, then the quicker you do something, the more awesome it is. In the former, the longer you go to do something, the more awesome it becomes. And yet here we have the whole linchpin of the whole character of Han Solo himself (previously the coolest guy in the known Galaxy) hanging on him...errrr, course cutting? And Disney chose to make it the crux of the movie, no-one asked them to. Han was proven incontrovertibly the best pilot ever if he could do what no-one else could do. But the reason they didn't do it was because there's no such thing as The Kessel Run. It's a mostly automated desert slave planet where people either mine spice (presumably a drug) or, rather inexplicably, fuel (which has only been something the Star Wars universe gave two sts about since made to in TLJ). Why would anyone go there? Why would anyone take pride in going there via a shorter distance? The (lethally electrified poison) clouds are full of giant "carbon-bergs" smashing everything to pulp, a bright red ....errrr... black hole and a simply fking humongous kraken thing that eats everything. WHY the unholy fk would anyone take a shortcut through there? To get to or from one of the least hospitable and unpleasant planets in the galaxy?

They made this the defining moment for the entire character of Solo. And it turns out his ship is the only one to make the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs because he's the only one who ever bothered to do it. And even then it's like saying "I finished first in the marathon last weekend, and what's more I managed it in only five miles"

Solo? wker

But that is all they had to work with

Redlettermedia's predictions of how a hack writer would write a Solo prequel. You've seen the movie, how many did they get right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEd3DpH_e0

[p1stonhead]

Nik da Greek said:

This has recently popped up on Sky Movies (yep, that's how primitive and far behind I am) so I finally sat and watched it. Meh

It was OK. It wasn't bad. It wasn't great. And damming with faint praise speaks louder than criticism in my book. It's Star Wars, it should be fking awesome. Oh well. I even watched it with The Boy because he's enthusiastic about most things and not judgemental so I sorta vampirise his youthful enthusiasm to keep me going through the sketchy bits... and there were a lot of those. Massive plot holes, as far as I can see it holds together almost as badly as The Last Jedi or The Phantom Menace in terms of sheer numbers of "do what now? Why? Why would anyone behave that inexplicably?" moments. Most of these have been dealt with on YouTube commentaries in greater detail and more humour than I could


However, one thing I've really not seen made much of... and to me it's the most glaring weirdness of the entire film... is The Kessel Run. And I never really thought about it before because it just was never a thing. Han in A New Hope throws out that his ship's awesome because it's done something we know nothing about called the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs and despite knowing (nor caring) nothing about it, he says it in such a way that we know this is An Awesome Thing. And now *angelic paean* it's EXPLAINED

But wait... Disney's scriptwriters do know that a parsec is a measure of distance, right? Right? Not time? And in almost all fields of human endeavour, things that are really hard are measured in either distance or time... in the case of the latter, then the quicker you do something, the more awesome it is. In the former, the longer you go to do something, the more awesome it becomes. And yet here we have the whole linchpin of the whole character of Han Solo himself (previously the coolest guy in the known Galaxy) hanging on him...errrr, course cutting? And Disney chose to make it the crux of the movie, no-one asked them to. Han was proven incontrovertibly the best pilot ever if he could do what no-one else could do. But the reason they didn't do it was because there's no such thing as The Kessel Run. It's a mostly automated desert slave planet where people either mine spice (presumably a drug) or, rather inexplicably, fuel (which has only been something the Star Wars universe gave two sts about since made to in TLJ). Why would anyone go there? Why would anyone take pride in going there via a shorter distance? The (lethally electrified poison) clouds are full of giant "carbon-bergs" smashing everything to pulp, a bright red ....errrr... black hole and a simply fking humongous kraken thing that eats everything. WHY the unholy fk would anyone take a shortcut through there? To get to or from one of the least hospitable and unpleasant planets in the galaxy?

They made this the defining moment for the entire character of Solo. And it turns out his ship is the only one to make the Kessel Run in under 12 parsecs because he's the only one who ever bothered to do it. And even then it's like saying "I finished first in the marathon last weekend, and what's more I managed it in only five miles"

Solo? wker

Unless I’m mistaken, he isn’t boasting about himself doing the run in less than 12 parsecs, he is boasting about the falcon being able to do it.

He was boasting about the speed of the ship, not himself. He claims it is so fast the ship could skirt the black hole thing at such speed and not get sucked in. Any other ship would be going too slow abd would get pulled off course.

Of course they still sorta opened a can of worms that wasn’t that important, but it was one of the big statements he makes in a new hope about the falcon, and this film was kinda about him getting the falcon, so what else did they have to make a film about?

[DMN]

Nik da Greek said:

But wait... Disney's scriptwriters do know that a parsec is a measure of distance, right?

Yes, and thats the point. Doing the run in 12 parsecs means flying closer to the blackhole. Which most craft can't do, so they take a longer route which puts them in less danger. Hence Hans boast.

[Halb]

The thing about enigmatic characters, they're enigmatic. Explaining away very single thing usually dissolves them. Writing 101.
It's not SW only, one can see how owners of IPs are unable to handle their property properly because they don't understand it/don't like it/ or want to change it, or all three. It seems quite common these days and those that can do, are the rare breed.

[JagLover]

Halb said:

The thing about enigmatic characters, they're enigmatic. Explaining away very single thing usually dissolves them. Writing 101.
It's not SW only, one can see how owners of IPs are unable to handle their property properly because they don't understand it/don't like it/ or want to change it, or all three. It seems quite common these days and those that can do, are the rare breed.

So what you are saying is you don't want a Boba Fett prequel