I think the show is very good with only a couple stumbles here and there. But yea getting off topic. You’re welcome to make a thread or ill put a thread together later today and we can continue there.
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did someone mention neutral?
Hence why I am Evil
Wife caught the star wars bug out of nowhere so we’ve been going through the whole series.
Solo is actually a pretty fun movie when you watch it after sitting through the prequels. It was about 30 minutes too long, tho.
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Solo doesn’t get the credit it deserves. It’s basically a movie version of a really well prepared fast food entree.
That movie flopped because it was a lack of promotion and no one asked for it. These franchises really need to stop doing movies on dead characters.
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I’m shocked Disney didn’t go to them first.
I’m not. Favreau did everything he can to keep Baby Yoda existence under wraps. He wasn’t willing to risk having merchandise spoil the character.
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I still think Anthony Ingruber should have been Solo. Setting aside the fact that he is sounds like Harrison Ford. He looks like he could be his son. He looks so much like Harrison Ford they cast him as a young version of Harrison Ford in Age of Adaline.
Solo wasn’t a bad movie. I still think the combination of it been significantly over budget due to the incompetence of Lucasfilm leadership, they filmed the movie twice. I mean what kind of idiot hires a director, let them film virtually the whole movie, and then decide they aren’t right for the job. I also think it was hurt significantly by the schism in the fandom caused by TLJ.
I remember watching that movie and was impressed how he played that part. I will admit though, I do like how Alden Ehrenreich took liberties and it wasn’t a straight impression.
It was a factor, albeit small. Casuals just didn’t care.
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Solo also had Infinity War and Deadpool 2 to compete with in theaters at the time.
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Most hardcores didn’t care about Solo.
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Hardcores aren’t what’s driving that BO return. There are people that like Star Wars and there are those that are Star Wars. That’s pretty much every franchise though.
That being said, if the hardcore group doesn’t care, the exposure to the more casual fan will be less of a factor. It’s like the people that only see the MCU stuff when the core characters show up.
Solo was the perfect storm for an L to get handed to Disney/Lucasfilm.
I mean once they started doin merchandising. Their the last to get the toy
I actually really like Alden Ehrenreich as Han. Admittedly, he’s not a good Harris Ford stand in, but I gathered they were still trying to make this Han the bright eyed and bushy tail punk rookie. I got the impression they wanted to make a trilogy out of solo flicks, and by the end of it Alden’s Han would turn into the gruff rouge that Ford played.
@Optimus124 nailed it with the fast food analogy: it’s something you don’t want all the time, you can tell is sort of a mess, but is tasty and worthwhile if you don’t think about it.
Yeah that to me is what killed it. Disney was sort of hyping it as a blockbuster but between those two and I remember another big Disney drop literally a few weeks later, maybe Incredibles 2, Solo was washed out.
Which is a shame it was a fun movie and I think it is better then we would have got with the original directors who seemed more abstract in it’s direction.
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I doubt that. It was an anthology movie straight out the gate much like Rogue One.
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I can see that, but they must of had plans of having young Han in another movie at some point. The loose ends with Qi’ra and Darth Maul points to that.
That’s a Chekhov’s gun/cliff hanger if I’ve ever seen one
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