Saw this last night... I hadn't seen the trailers, or indulged in any preview material or fan discussion about it so was completely clean to make my own mind up about it...
Firstly thanks so much Samsung and Renault or whatever car company it was that both screened adverts before the movie that featured several clips from
the movie I was about to watch that spoiled a few of the fun lines/references
As for the movie, I loved it... like really enjoyed it, and I'm generally fairly cynical and quick to pick things apart so even I was surprised by that! The casting was top notch, the references were done just the right amount and not at all as blatant and cheesy as they could have been. It felt like Star Wars though, it really did... I didn't
hate TLJ but I definitely came away from it thinking "Did I like that? There were bits I liked... I need to think on it"... whereas "Solo" I left thinking "Wow! That was awesome!"
To be honest the only thing I wasn't too keen on (as some above have mentioned) was Lando's droid... something about the weird Feminist (droid-ist?) SJW personality just felt too "current" and topical to go into a movie like this (a little bit like the weird "animal rights" slant in that particular section of TLJ)... and I'm increasingly feeling like trying to shoehorn in a "wacky droid" character into
every goddamn movie is starting to wear a bit thin. See I had always felt that R2-D2 was a sort of unique droid in a sense, his playful quirks and stuff weren't a common thing and most droids didn't really have a "personality" to speak of. But now every movie has to have one, I dunno... it feels like it diminishes R2 as a character and makes him less special... I liked the idea that Lando traveled with a co-pilot and they maybe had a relationship there still, but maybe she would have been better as an alien of some sort (Lando likes to get freaky
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You can't please everyone of course, but I'm struggling a bit to see how anyone who considers themselves a true Star Wars fan wouldn't enjoy this movie - is it just becoming in-vogue to hate on this franchise?