I agree, there definitely is some politicking in this movie, but its relatively minor, and it wasn’t needed... but its nowhere near as bad as the last main line movie where an entire subplot existed just for political nonsense and it didn’t work and was a kludge etc...
Basically the L3 character in this film was a PC pander character, but the screen time is brief and not nearly as bad as the last movies stuff, but it still would have been a better movie without it.
That said, the biggest critique I can offer for the movie was it just doesn’t gel/click. The timing and delivery of the comic relief doesn’t work... Lines that are clearly meant to be the comedy did not elicit laughter from the audience.. the timing and delivery were just off... and honestly... perhaps because of this, Solo just isn’t Solo... He’s the lovable scamp, and it just doesn’t come off like it should.. I think they attempted to write it that way, but the execution is missing something crucial.
It wasn’t a BAD movie, it really isn’t performing poorly due to anything itself. The critiques I have for it, believe me have sat through far far worse.
I do believe Kennedy needs removed from the head of Lucasfilms and that Disney needs to purge the SJW from Star Wars just like they did from Marvel Comics... they nearly ruined the print brand entirely... and they are risking the same with SW. The same sort of PURGE needs to happen at Lucasfilms....
Disney did it at Marvel and I expect them to do it at Lucasfilms soon, if they haven’t already put it into motion.
If they don’t they risk the same outcome with SW as they got with Marvel Comics when they let the SJW crowd run the show.
Good rundown. Thanks.
I’ve always found “message movies”, even ones I agree with, to be of poor quality because they are trying to shoehorn the message in even when it may not work. Sounds like that is what happened with the last mainline movie, and poisoned the well for this one.
And as you pointed out, it may also be just poorly written and/or executed in this case. The 20 something Anakin Skywalker character was so terrible he was an embarrassment.
Thing is, when they build these characters, they really need to think about who the person is they are building, and who the audience is that they are presenting the character to.
Maybe they just need better writers.