I liked Solo and I hope The Mouse makes a bunch more spin offs. Rogue One was a great movie.
The sins of the ST simply can't be forgiven. But there's a thread for that.
The worst part for me, and now this is all heresay but from some pretty reliable sources in terms of news broken in the past, is that the bombing of Solo at the box office robbed us of an Obi-Wan and Boba Fett spinoff movie.
Now Obi-Wan was translated into a Disney+ series so at least we still get some McGregor, who is always talking about how hyped he is to come back.
But the rumoured plot for the Boba Fett movie was to be a snap shot basically starting at the scene in ESB where Vader is talking to all of the Bounty Hunters. From there the movie was going to explore the interaction of all of those bounty hunters in the hunt for Solo. The double and triple crosses, team work, betrayal, all of it. It would have been pretty damn epic. Basically grabbing a chunk of OT timeline, taking it out and expanding on it, the same way they did with Rogue One.
And I would have LOVED for them to continue to expand the OT content. And Rogue One was absolute proof that they CAN take OT content and make it feel like it is the original. Right down to the smallest details, we can all agreed they totally nailed Rogue One's timeline feeling.
Now we can't blame this on Solo, we all know that, I blame TLJ obviously as we should. But I really thought Disney would have spaced them out better. If Solo was a Christmas release it does way better, gives fans time to heal the wound. And perhaps we still get that Fett movie.
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Solo was just bad enough for me, that I think it took away from Han Solo's character more than adding to it.
People are too optimistic about a Boba Fett movie, because of how good the Mandalorian is. It's, however, unlikely that a Mandalorian type production group would have been given the reigns to a Boba Fett movie, particularly if Solo had been successful. Boba Fett would have become another Solo, which basically devolved into a cheezy Pirates of the Caribbean in Space. Around the time Disney was making Solo they were really at a point where they were churning out a lot of crap for box office profits, which meant watering everything down and also bowing down to the standards of Chinese censors. It was an awful path for a great franchise to be on, and the poor audience reception reflected that.
I, however, don't think that Disney will miss out on the opportunity to make a profitable movie. If at the end of the day, we end waiting a couple more years for a good Boba Fett movie, after Disney has had the opportunity to pull their heads out of their *^%&%^&, then that's nothing but a positive for me. I'd rather wait for a good movie than have an bad movie screw up the story.
It's not like Disney is just going to forget about the Star Wars franchise, which they paid billions to attain. We'll see all the properties eventually. Based on the reaction from the last 3 feature films, Disney clearly needed the time to correct course. Hopefully, the Mandalorian gives them a clear idea of what to do/what not to do. I would like to see Disney build on the success of the Mandalorian with another great series or two, and then release another film, that's hopefully on the level of Rogue One.
Star Wars has enough background that you can make lots of good stories that don't have to cross paths with main characters from the movies all the time. If they can just avoid that urge, that would be ideal.
Bounty Hunters in general should be great to make stories around. Why not an entire show of what happens on Coruscant? It's basically built to be clean and regal on the topside and dirty on the underside. Lots of possibilities for interesting stories and people (and none of them from the movies).
Was feeling nostalgic and watched Revenge of the Sith last night.
I genuinely like the movie and I think the story arc is fantastic. Some terrific light sabre battles, and the score is sublime.
But there's just so many misses with the CGI and dialogue. Feels like the first two movies were just filler, and the entire storyline takes place in EP III so it's a little rushed. I wish they focused more on the Anakin's internal struggle that ultimately led to his downfall.
Was feeling nostalgic and watched Revenge of the Sith last night.
I genuinely like the movie and I think the story arc is fantastic. Some terrific light sabre battles, and the score is sublime.
But there's just so many misses with the CGI and dialogue. Feels like the first two movies were just filler, and the entire storyline takes place in EP III so it's a little rushed. I wish they focused more on the Anakin's internal struggle that ultimately led to his downfall.
Hayden with that smile tho.
I can't say it enough Read the book, and then read Dark Lord the Rise of Darth Vader. The pictures it draws into the fall of Anakin and the machinations of Palpatine are amazing. The in office reveal scene where Anakin learns that Palpatine is a Sith Lord, and Palpatine explains to him what it means is unreal.
The one thing that's really cool, is they have the chapters start with This is what it means.
So they have a
This is what it means to be Obi-Wan Kenobi, or Padme, or Yoda (Which is terrifying because that one takes place while he's fighting Sidious and knows that his life of training as a Jedi has been misplaced). Mace (As Anakin falls), and Anakin himself. They even have ones on Dooku and Grievous that starts with "He can't laugh or cry". But they never do one on Sidious because as the book points out, he's an event horizon in the Force, he's the embodiment of the Dark Side, like Anakin was supposed to be the embodiment of the light.
Dark Lord starts before Order 66, with several Jedi, but the chapter that takes place that introduces us to Vader who still speaks like Anakin is sad and depressing and shows that Anakin now realizes that he was used by Palpatine and became nothing more then a trophy, locked away in a case of armor.
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I would love to see this. I have re watched Solo for the third time now since it came on Disney+ and I've liked it more and more each time. I think the biggest hurtle has just been accepting the actor who played Solo. Such an iconic role and basically impossible for him to fill those shoes, so you need to take it as the best possible effort available so they can tell the story.
Glover on the other hand, was an awesome Lando.
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sure more young Lando would be cool, he doesn't have nearly as many established iconic traits as Han to over-explain (maybe how he hooked up with Lobot?)
on the other hand I don't expect to see any of the sequel trilogy principal characters to ever appear on film again, unless they are recast.
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I've liked the Lego's Star Wars series, the Freemakers was a big young, but they always portray Palpatine as this enormous jerk faced sarcasm machine. Speaking of that. I just re-read Plageuis the book for the first time in a long time, and I'd forgotten how great that book was in framing the events leading up to the Phantom Menace and the machinations of Plageuis and Palpatine in executing the Grand Plan.
When you read that book, it just makes Palpatine more brilliant later on in the PT time frame.
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I've liked the Lego's Star Wars series, the Freemakers was a big young, but they always portray Palpatine as this enormous jerk faced sarcasm machine. Speaking of that. I just re-read Plageuis the book for the first time in a long time, and I'd forgotten how great that book was in framing the events leading up to the Phantom Menace and the machinations of Plageuis and Palpatine in executing the Grand Plan.
When you read that book, it just makes Palpatine more brilliant later on in the PT time frame.
It’s a shame this book is no longer canon. I always thought it would have made for a great anthology film.
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