Reply To: Solo film discussion – SPOILERS ALERT

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I’ve seen it … and I thought it sucked. I had more fun watching Deadpool 2.
Rogue One still is the best of the spinoffs.

Plot was a by the numbers adventure that showed him getting his gear and a bit of his character.
It pretty much proved that his backstory should not have been revealed at all.

Did he really get his name like that ?

And you just knew the Kessel run had to be in there like that the moment it got mentioned.
There was a complete lack of tension as a result.

Glossing over his days in the army without showing how he got kicked out of flight school was a mistake IMHO.
Heck, it would have made for a better story too as him meeting a bunch of criminals in the middle of a war was many things, but believable it wasn’t.

His meeting with Lando was another missed opportunity. Why show that he cheated and only let Han get his ‘revenge’ after the plot is done ? It’s almost like they filmed the encounter and then discovered that they had forgotten to give the ship to Han so they fixed it. *blergh*

Lando himself had more character than the rest of the cast, with the exception of his droid.
L3-37 was hilarious. ( L337 … lol)

The reveal that the mercs were actually ‘good guys’ was kind of boring too.

And the end ? I kind of was expecting Qi’ra to die during the fight, so seeing her ‘turn evil’ was more like “ok, so yeah” moment and less of a surprise. Her entire character arc was wasted.

Worst aspect of the movie was that 3D is not suited to fast moving fight scenes.
I don’t even know why they bothered.