Reviews are in for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and they're not good!

[Mr Allen]

Link,

And apparently it's received the lowest score on Rottentomatoes.com since Attack of the Clones, a still respectable 72%, I'd link to their review but I just tried to read the review on their site and the link doesn't work hence I found the BBC review on Google.

 

[Judge]

It's a 41 year-old franchise. With the original films distanced by at least three years apart.

Now they're cranking them out around six month apart. Small wonder sentiment may be waning no matter how good the acting and special effects might be.

A series of films that so many for so long revered as "special". Now they increasingly appear all too common. I suppose sometimes it's a matter of "killing off the golden goose". Other times the goose simply dies of old age. Take your pick.

Sadly though if the films meet their anticipated box office return, there's no reason to believe Hollywood will take the a hint and move on to more recent and original themes.

Still it should be interesting to see what the percentage of moviegoers is apart from the critics in how they fee about this latest effort.

 

[Mr Allen]

It's a 41 year-old franchise. With the original films distanced by at least three years apart.

Now they're cranking them out around six month apart. Small wonder sentiment may be waning no matter how good the acting and special effects might be.

A series of films that so many for so long revered as "special". Now they increasingly appear all too common. I suppose sometimes it's a matter of "killing off the golden goose". Other times the goose simply dies of old age. Take your pick.

Sadly though if the films meet their anticipated box office return, there's no reason to believe Hollywood will take the a hint and move on to more recent and original themes.

Indeed, and there's literally 1001 trailers on YouTube for other "upcoming" entries to the franchise such as Obi Wan, which apparently tells the tale of what happens to Obi Wan Kenobi between the end of Revenge of the Sith and beginning of A New Hope, even though Rogue One is considered "canon" as kind of Episode 3.5", the halfway point between ROTS and ANH.

 

[Nervous Rex]

Now they're cranking them out around six month apart. Small wonder sentiment may be waning no matter how good the acting and special effects might be.

A series of films that so many for so long revered as "special". Now they increasingly appear all too common. I suppose sometimes it's a matter of "killing off the golden goose". Other times the goose simply dies of old age. Take your pick.

Relevant: Studio C: Star Wars Movies in the Future

 

[Judge]

I suppose we can always look forward to seeing "Rocky Meets Han Solo on Planet of the Apes".

 

[kay]

I grew up envious of the boys I knew who had Star Wars toys. My mom wouldn't let me see the movies because she thought they might give me nightmares. Doubt it, when I saw the three original films sometime in high-school I was simply bored, I couldn't see what the fuss was all about.

Ok, now that I have that part out of the way I will say something that might sound odd. For some reason it is nearly sacrilegious to me that more films were made. There are three real Star Wars films and that's it. I am very orthodox about it and it's strange I should even care. What business is it of mine? Same with Indiana Jones, just the first three, though it could have stopped with the first one that being the best, however it had been planned as a trilogy from the start. Same with Star Wars I think. I barely watch movies for several reasons but one reason is there is so much of more of the same, sequels and remakes.

I still want the little action figure of that gold toned robot. It's arms and legs popped off and on. Oh, that was such a great little action figure. And the Darth Vader head that was an action figure carrying case. I also really like the Thomas Kincaid paintings with attacking Storm Troopers painted over the top. Guess that is a bit off topic, but it's the only thing I like about Star Wars.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

I refuse to watch this movie and I dont even want to click on things related to this movie.
The last jedi triggered me so much , it was my worst experience with a movie and realy a bad moment overall.
They think that buying star war would give them a huge income and they take that as granted, but before they get the cash they need to do a good movie. And not this destruction of a franchise with a political agenda.

Look at The MCU, it's like the complete opposite of what they did with star wars.

You can even have fun comparing each problem of TLJ and looking at how they deal with the issues in avengers, this is litteraly a lesson.

So no star wars for me anymore , until spidey brings back another joke about it and how its old now


I grew up with the prequel and outside of jar jar i liked everything in it.
I looked at the original before, even if the movies looked outdated they had characters with strong archetypes you can like and I think they had a great impact on the movie industry.
But the most exciting to me was vador( I spent so many time trying to copy his breathing when iw as younger.) and the ship that i had as toys, and the prequel showing the origins of vador was realy part of my childhood , i am not a die hard fan but SW definitly means something to me.

 

[Tom]

The only point to any of the Star Wars movies to me was cool visuals and sometimes cool ideas. I really have no investment in the stories, backstories, etc. With that perspective I have enjoyed all the films. Haven't seen the last one yet though.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Well just don't see it, it realy shouldnt be canon , it's like a very questionnable fan fiction made by an adolescent in crisis that suddenly become a vegan SJW because he doesnt like his elders ( who gave him everything)

TFA was not perfect but at least decent and promising to some extent , but then...

I mean eventually you will see it but it doesnt even worth a dollar, even the time you invest in seeing it is a waste !

This trilogie is like VII (VIII but forget about it oopsie)-IX

 

[pjcnet]

Star Wars started going down hill even after the original trilogy which are still by far the best, but Walt Disney are now killing it as I knew they would. Disney are an extremely powerful and greedy company, all they're really interested in is money so they've flooded it with as many releases as fast as possible, Star Wars is no longer something special and in fact it's getting rather boring. Even this movie is distributed by Disney and they'll have had a lot of say in it. Of course there will always be some die hard fans that will watch new Star Wars movies even if they are very inferior and Disney will continue to make money, they obviously think quantity is better than quality as far as making money is concerned.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Yes this is true they just milk the fastest they can.
The 2nd trilogie is seen as bad for older fan but i think you can easely understand that the first trilogie is realy hard to watch for a younger audience its like a n64 game.

I will agree that the second may be not this good but it expended the canon and the unniverse of the franchise, i mean most of the content outside of the movies is prequel related ( and i love the athmosphere of the prequel but this is personnal taste) , plus it was one of the first movies heavely using CGI, just like the 1rst trilogie the 2nd is a landmark for the industry, its innovative, and just like the first prequel they used a science fiction unniverse to make a movie related to the oldest gendra and themes, here it was antiquity and tragedy, no one can refuse to say that on an artistic level the 2nd trilogy is realy good.

What is the 3rd trilogy about?

7 was cool and to me rogue one was even better ( the final space battle gave me one of my favorite SW moments, i felt i was 10 again, and then i heard they actually used the old models of ships that they scanned instead of creating new one )but unlike the previous films they mostly get an audience because they try to bring back old things that can be improved by the new cgi. And thats it, nothing in the stories.

And to be fair I think they should have done that, rogue one is great for that reason, this is a simple movie based on the SW unniverse, no need to create a long term story that they dont have the creativity to imagine.

I am a bit curious about how they will handle Solo, they dont understand SW so I dont know how they will manage to create an origin story of a character they dont understand, and to some extent i think the people involved in the new films dont like character like Han solo, so I dont know how they will manage to not butcher him...making him force sensitive or some crap like that.

 

[Mr Allen]

IMO everybody that complains about TLJ needs to shut up, for some unknown reason it's somehow "cool" to mardy arse about the latest edition of the franchise, they all fail IMO.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Well actually there is no need to argue this fact, the fact that TLJ is a bad movie and probably the worst SW movie made for now( regarding the technologie of its own time ofc) is a fact just like the earth being round.

Good for you if you enjoyed the movie when you saw it, I didn't and it was realy my worst moment in theatre in my entiere life ( black panther follow next).

Yo know, i loved movie that I know are not good , the fact that you enjoy a movie or not doesnt mean it is good ^^, I dont insult people that liked it, I just think that people who didnt like it shouldnt go and see solo.

When i started complaining about this movie , I saw it D1, and everybody was praising this movie , the press and the early reviewers on youtube.
It's only a week after the movie was released that a growing part of the audience started to hate this movie.
We got bashed online for that, they even tried to explain that people hating the movie were basically bad people(alt right) , so no it wasnt "cool" .

Now you have hundreds of videos on YT about this movie , from big youtuber to casual person who just like SW and couldnt stay quiet after what they did to the franchise, seeing this movie is like witnessing a crime on an artistic level . Most of the videos explain realy clearly how it is terrible on so many level.

And I didnt even know a single thing about the movie when I went there , didnt know who was in charge at all.

But I was so disturbed by all the efforts they put in this movie to make it bad , so I started some research online and I found out that the people in charge clearly wanted to put their political opinion in the movie , and that even Mark Hamill disagree with what they did to his character, what else do you need^^'.

One of the Key point of understanding that the movie is bad in term of story and writting is realising that even with their political message they tried to force feed the audience ( female power anti capitalism vegetarian etc.) They fail to create a strong female character they wanted, Rey is one of the dumbest character and they wanted to do the exact opposite, showing that they cant even write something able to follow their own vision. WTF.

And this is only one example only, you got tons of non sens ( not just in term of science i am talking about story telling/pacing etc, suspension of diesbelief depends as much on the audience as it depends on the writers.)

I hope the next movie will be better, but it will be without me ( unless one of my relative insist on seeing it but id rather watch something else) , this is the only way we can be heard.
Iv been supporting Marvel and seen most of the movies , and clearly they were'nt all good, but when you see the result with the latest film they did you are even proud of being supportive since day1.

But for SW people shouldnt be blindly supportive, if this movie fail you will see it 6 months later anyhow.

 

[Judge]

Critics of such films can subjectively argue back and forth until hell freezes over. As long as the industry perceives this purely in terms of supply and demand, as long as box office receipts meet anticipated levels to generate solid profits we may see this franchise continue for some time.

I can only say personally that this remains a genre I rather enjoy in terms of science fiction and special effects. If it meets my perception of "mind candy" I'll probably continue to buy the DVDs for my personal collection.

Yet with each successive film I'm beginning to wonder when that point may come when I'm simply no longer interested. Much like a television series that has "gone its course" and is just no longer worth watching.

 

[Iamnotarabot]

Well this is the best way to stop being fan of something, you just get tired of it eventually , and I think this is normal, big movies target the same audience but you as an individual grows up and get older so slowly but surely you move out of the crosshair of the industry.


That's what I felt when I saw spiderman Home coming for instance. Cool movie but not for my age anymore, but even this movie played with the references of the previous spiderman movies that only an older audience could get.

It happens rarely for me thought , most of the time it feels like the quality of any franchise lower with time , well at least I experienced it a lot of TV show /anime and manga/movies etc...sometimes you have great surprises ( logan that conclude his own serie with the best movie out of the 3)

Sometimes you feel even betrayed...

This is weird because seeing TLJ litteraly triggered me and put me in trouble, for weeks i couldnt get this out of my head , the way I reacted to this movie was one of the latest events in my life that made me think i was a bit weird and after that I started to look for help. I mean i just didnt like it, its like it provoked me a shutdown or something like that, i am not used to the terms but after this movie I felt even more depressed that i already was and i got so obsessive about this topic i couldnt think of something else.

Even now you can see how I am still obsessive about it, this was a simple post about solo and I digress to this big rant, sorry !


Now that I know How I reacted to Star wars being destroyed, I realy fear what they wll do with Final fantasy 7 , because this is litteraly my childhood and i am not saying that just to sound cool or what,this game is part of who i am and I know it sounds weird.

So i'm realy scared of what they will do with this, but i hope that when it comes out i will be more mature and able to get over it.

 

[Judge]

There's still that dynamic of replacing a HUGE box office attraction that has lasted four decades- Harrison Ford. And whether his replacement will pass muster particularly with those hardcore fans.

I can only point out that from my own perspective, that the casting of the latest replacement of those beloved Star Trek personalities was accomplished quite well IMO. Whether this can work for Star Wars, I guess we'll know pretty soon given reviews and box office numbers.

I still chuckle a bit at how well kiwi Karl Urban stepped in for DeForest Kelley in his role as "Dr. McCoy". Nor can I criticize Zachary Quinto's role as Mr. Spock. So anything is possible.

 

[LucyPurrs]

I grew up envious of the boys I knew who had Star Wars toys. My mom wouldn't let me see the movies because she thought they might give me nightmares. Doubt it, when I saw the three original films sometime in high-school I was simply bored, I couldn't see what the fuss was all about.

Ok, now that I have that part out of the way I will say something that might sound odd. For some reason it is nearly sacrilegious to me that more films were made. There are three real Star Wars films and that's it. I am very orthodox about it and it's strange I should even care. What business is it of mine? Same with Indiana Jones, just the first three, though it could have stopped with the first one that being the best, however it had been planned as a trilogy from the start. Same with Star Wars I think. I barely watch movies for several reasons but one reason is there is so much of more of the same, sequels and remakes.

I still want the little action figure of that gold toned robot. It's arms and legs popped off and on. Oh, that was such a great little action figure. And the Darth Vader head that was an action figure carrying case. I also really like the Thomas Kincaid paintings with attacking Storm Troopers painted over the top. Guess that is a bit off topic, but it's the only thing I like about Star Wars.

Kay, look what I found :
Star Wars Hero Mashers C-3PO Action Figure C3PO Gold Robot Boys 4+ Toy NEW | eBay
and:
Star Wars Darth Vader Action Figure Carrying Case | eBay

There's only one of each so make haste if you really want them

 

[Mr Allen]

Kay, look what I found :
Star Wars Hero Mashers C-3PO Action Figure C3PO Gold Robot Boys 4+ Toy NEW | eBay
and:
Star Wars Darth Vader Action Figure Carrying Case | eBay

There's only one of each so make haste if you really want them

Sorry, but I stopped playing with Star Wars figures about 30 years ago

 

[Iamnotarabot]

I still play video games but I wouldnt play with toys neither, but i think at our age this is more for a collection purpose

 

[Mr Allen]

It's a 41 year-old franchise. With the original films distanced by at least three years apart.

Now they're cranking them out around six month apart. Small wonder sentiment may be waning no matter how good the acting and special effects might be.

A series of films that so many for so long revered as "special". Now they increasingly appear all too common. I suppose sometimes it's a matter of "killing off the golden goose". Other times the goose simply dies of old age. Take your pick.

Sadly though if the films meet their anticipated box office return, there's no reason to believe Hollywood will take the a hint and move on to more recent and original themes.

Still it should be interesting to see what the percentage of moviegoers is apart from the critics in how they fee about this latest effort.

Actually, ANH came out in '77 and Empire Strikes Back in '79, only a 2 year gap apart from when Jedi came out in ''83.