We saw Solo today and I enjoyed it. It’s a pretty good space western with good guys and bad guys and the proverbial dilemma. I’m not quite sure why it has been panned but it might be because the movie does not break any new “Star Wars ground.” In the Star Wars Saga this movie fits in somewhere between movies 3 and 4. It tells the begats of Han Solo and Chewbacca. Along the way there’s lots of action and even a story line. Unlike a prequel from a few years ago, when I said that movie was a group of actors looking for a plot. There’s a plot!
A number of the scenes remind me of scenes in other movies...such as the train robbery from “Firefly,” an engine boost from “Spaceballs,” a walk in a desert landscape from “Dune” or “Spaceballs” or previous “Star Wars” movies, and the character Lady Promixa looked like one of the monsters from “Buffy The Vampire Slayer.” There were several times when I felt like I had seen the scene somewhere else and my mind wandered trying to find where.
Of course, there is the “bar scene” filled with many otherworldly beings that we have come to expect in any Star Wars movie. The only thing wrong with the bar scene was it’s far too short...I wanted to see more.
Don’t expect any great addition to Star Wars lore with this movie. Do expect a lot of action, some interesting characters all filmed in an interesting corner of some galaxy where there’s not much sunshine but a lot of mud.
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