I actually wanted to see Solo. I bet the movie was a lot of fun and people were just being a drag about it. Rogue One has a bit of that going on with it too.
“Why should I care about any of these characters?”
I don’t know, its just one movie. Most movies don’t have sequels. Why do you care about any of the characters in any mother movie?
Solo was basically a fanfic with a high production budget. I think Lucasfilm over-estimated the response. It’s definitely worth seeing.
Edit - Here’s the BB Steelbook. 
Rogue One has a really solid second half and awesome last 5 minutes.
The caring about characters thing, a story has to be crafted well enough for me to care. With Rogue One, I didn’t care about any of their motivations. The only person that I really liked was Director Krennic. That’s more-so Ben Mendelsohn’s portrayal than what he had to work with.
I liked Solo. It was awesome seeing the Kessel Run, and Woody Harrelson is always great. And Lando was perfect. I’ll admit I was a little nervous though- I didn’t think any of them were going to make it out of the spice mines at Kessel. I totally thought Han Solo and Chewie were goners.
This is the general problem with prequels. I only worry about the new characters. If they are in the future movies, they’ll be fine, or they are a Skrull. Take your pic.
Yeah, it kinda lowers the stakes a little. You know Han and Chewie will be fine, and, conversely, you know every one of the main characters will fucking die in Rogue One.
. . . . Or went to the Outer Rim of the galaxy.
they didn’t have to kill them, they chose to do so. Had they had some foresight, they could’ve kept a handful of them alive to fight other battles. Could’ve been a small trilogy of that cast just doing other rebellion stuff outside of the main group.
Fully agree. I am sure it was done to be the more “adult” movie. Then again, that honor of galactic shenanigans could be saved for the retired Delta Squad.
I guess… but having them die added to the gravity of the spies getting the plans in the plot of Episode IV. Their sacrifice seems like a more meaningful way to end Rogue One.
They didn’t all need to die.
Should’ve kept Chirrut and Baze alive though. Their friendship was really interesting; specially given what they were doing in the planet. Needs a prequel to the prequel about them.
I was more upset about K-2 getting murked than anyone.
Alright, one big problem with Rogue One is…just how fucking much the damn Empire defector looked like Chris G. Holy shit was that god damned distracting:
Look at this bullshit. Its just so god damned distracting. This whole time it looked like he was about to bail on the mission to go play marvel.
Holdo suicide run just happened. The implications are shitty but i’m glad I saw that scene in theaters. Its just so damn pretty.
Big question I had in theaters watching the aftermath though: It looks like the Empire’s fleet is completely cracked in half. At the very least they went out of their way to show that this destroyed a lot of it. Snoke’s ship is missing an entire half of it…how did they manage to get all of the stuff down to the planet? Just feels like we went form everything destroyed to stuff conveniently delivered.
It also feels like the Empire just conveniently has everything. We gotta blow up the base after the Death Star 3 blew up, hey we have this dreadnought here. Oh, people can escape via light speed? Don’t worry we also have a tracker for that. People are holed up through a giant metal door? Good thing Snoke kept this slow giant ass cannon that needs to be dragged by AT-ATs in case they ran into a fortress. Don’t ask us how we actually put in on the planet or pick it back up though.
The last part is silly nitpicking, but it did really bother me that they were able to mobilize everything with ease after its shown that the Empire’s fleet got peaced out. Just a weird sequence.
Edit: Rose running into Finn’s ship is still 10 levels of nonsense. Also holy yoda, why do they need to use the word hope so much in this movie? So hamfisted.
This part of the Auralnauts review of Rogue One always has me rolling (6:48)
Donald Glover in Solo was tight. I’d watch Lando.
Didn’t somebody ask Chris G to autograph their copy of Rogue One at Evo?
Given that Tag and Bink are wandering around, it would have been nice to have Chirrut and Baze alive. Much like the expanded universe stories of the bounty hunters. Or fucking Darth Maul coming back for no good reason. Open-ended story telling is pretty nice when the characters are interesting. And of course it sucks when the scary mystery character gets Snoked.
Watched it.
Will give some thoughtsl ater.
was gonna watch Solo on amazon vid, but then i saw it was 14.99 for just a rent and i was like “hard pass”
dat mickey greed i swear
15 bills to rent it?
C’mon fam. That’s just silly. 
I think you’re looking at the wrong thing. At least in the US it seems like you can only buy it for $15 (SD) or $19 (HD) and not rent it. IIRC Amazon rentals are going to run about $6.
And really since it is a great Netflix and Chill movie, you’ll be watching it at least three times…