Is anyone really desperate to see Solo: A Star Wars Story?

UK Guardian ^ | May 22, 2018 | Tom Beasley

[C19fan]

This week marks the release of a new Star Wars movie, focusing on arguably the most loved character in the history of the franchise – swashbuckling cosmic bad-boy Han Solo. Everything about Solo: A Star Wars Story suggests it should be steaming into cinemas on the back of a roaring hype train, but that’s not so. Compared with the rabid fan anticipation that preceded The Force Awakens in 2015 and last year’s divisive The Last Jedi, the publicity build-up to Solo is muted, like Chewbacca with a sore throat.

[Rebelbase]

It’s no longer Star Wars, it’s Disney.

[al_c]

The last good one was empire strikes back.

Still the best of them all. Always will be.

[olepap]

How do you know Lando is gay? What does he do that is gay? Why is he gay?

[ssaftler]

It lost its thread and I hope and pray Disney loses its shorts on its 4 billion

When Disney bought the franchise, they turned it from "In 'n Out" to "MacDonald's", IMHO. I had trouble with the "new" Storm Troopers in "Farce". That guy did NOT look like Bobba Fett, who I thought was the model for the cloned troops. Then the anti-male, SJW tripe in "Lost Jedi". No wonder Luke self-exiled to the mountains!

I did like "Rogue 1", it had more of the old Spielberg/Lucas feel than any of the other movies since "Return of the Jedi". Plus, it was a better run-up to "New Hope" than the POS passed off as "Revenge of the Sith".

Unfortunately, don't expect Disney to lose money on the series. With their endless stream of merchandising tie-ins and toys, games and other goodies for kids to hound their parents into buying, they'll make more than their money back in the long run.

[Crusher138]

I have been a Stars Wars fan since the beginning.

A New Hope was fantastic (to my 15 year old self).

The Empire Strikes back was great, but I was upset at the cliffhanger ending.

Return of the Jedi raised questions about George Lucas. Ewoks? Really?

Then came the prequel trilogy. Kinda fun, but not really up to the quality of the original three. Jar Jar was an embarrassment. The acting was poor. There was no chemistry.

I had great hopes for the final trilogy. I hoped for the quality of the story of the early movies combined with modern special effects. Instead I got liberal SJW crap wrapped in a blanket of really good special effects.

I won’t even comment on Rogue One.

Hollyweird has lost it’s way and can’t help but preach their gospel of perversion every chance they get.

I will watch Solo when it comes out on digital download. It is worth (maybe) the $5.95 rental. Maybe.

[dfwgator]

The only good thing from Star Wars is this:

Hardware Wars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYOSZwe8Ibk

“You’’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss three bucks goodbye”

[irishjuggler]

arguably the most loved character in the history of the franchise

Wrong. Even I, as a lukewarm observer of the franchise, know that's an untrue statement. Darth Vader is the most loved character of the franchise. He may be the villain (most of the time), but people love a great villain. Fans vote with their wallets and costumes... and DV has always been "it" in terms of merchandise sales.

[al_c]

Lando Calrissian is homosexual.

That's based on one of the writers' feelings about the character. Doubtful anything suggesting such a thing will even be in the movie.

[ClearBlueSky]

35 year Star Wars fan here. I have always loathed the Solo character. He was a one-dimensional space cowboy who was-IMO- totally extraneous to the storyline. Had Greedo killed him in the cantina, Chewie would have done all he did. Add to that the fact that I generally hate scowling,smirking, egotistical men and Harrison Ford( and I know he isn’t in this film) in particular I wouldn’t see the Solo( or any other Disney SW film) if I was paid.

[freedumb2003]

>>I did like “Rogue 1”<<

See YT Honest Trailers for Rogue 1 — HILARIOUS.

I agree Rogue 1 was a better film. It had a great old school look and feel and a story line consistent with canon. But even there they had to have the heroes be female and/or minorities. The white guys are the bad guys.

That is SW from now on, whenever possible. I expect solo to somehow make his background a perfect SJW storyline.

[leaning conservative]

I am desperate to see zero star wars movies

[Ted Grant]

I got off the Star Wars bus right after Revenge of the Sith.

Looking back, I should have gotten off the boss after the Tatooine sequence in Return of the Jedi.

No more Star Wars for me. It’s just boring.

[montag813]

‘Rogue One’ was great. ‘Solo’ and ‘Kenobi’ look great. But ‘Last Jedi’ was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. They should have just stuck with the prequels. By screwing up the sequels SO badly, they are seriously harming the financial prospects for these new prequels.

[EEGator]

I hope Billy D finds the Director & actor, and beats them with a Colt 45 bottle...

[pepsi_junkie]

They invalidated the entire sextology with “the farce awakens” (aka “New Hope 2.0”)

In "Star Wars" Luke Skywalker was the bestest and feircest jedi ever without even knowing what the force is, like Rey was in Force Awakens. So that's a big difference. In the "Empire Strikes Back" Luke gets trained by Yoda and still gets his ass handed to him by Darth Vader. I'm guessing in "Last Jedi" Rey is so powerful that she reverses time and reanimates the dead or something even more absurd. Woo hoo, You go girl!

[pepsi_junkie]

In "Star Wars" Luke Skywalker was the bestest and feircest jedi ever without even knowing what the force is, like Rey was in Force Awakens.

Luke Skwalker was NOT the bestest and fiecest jedi ever ... crucual omission of NOT in that sentence! Oops.

Rey would have never made a mistake like that. Or any mistake, actually.

[discostu]

Tracking for a $170 million opening weekend. So yes.

[freedumb2003]

I read the funniest article why Rey is NOT a Mary Sue.

Talk about apologetics.

OF COURSE she is a Mary Sue. One of the most obvious and annoying EVER!

[freedumb2003]

>>Do they really make Han Solo solo cups?<<

For solo specimen collection.

[pepsi_junkie]

I read the funniest article why Rey is NOT a Mary Sue.

Let's examine the evidence: She has never left her planet but somehow flies the Millennium Falcon as well as Han Solo and even shows him a few tricks. She's never seen or heard of the jedi mind trick but she successfully uses it anyway. She gets in a battle of force will power over a lightsaber with a guy who was trained for years and she beats him, with the weapon flying to her. Then she uses it to defeat him in a duel. Finally she flies off with Chewbacca but since she's such an awesome pilot he lets her have Han's chair because he knows that his decades of piloting experience don't measure up to her experience of a couple of minutes. She's better than everyone, she knows it, and she acts accordingly but everyone loves her anyway because she's just that awesome even when she's being snarky or bossy.

What's the issue, seems logical to me. If I were the main character it's how I would do it all. Oh wait, that's the definition of Mary Sue, isn't it. Well shoot.