Confining a "Star Wars Movie" to something more narrow than a movie in the Star Wars universe does a disservice to the

Dec 12, 2019
10:38:41pm

shimmy All-American

whole franchise. Having a heist movie, or a chase movie, or a western, or anything else can be a good thing for Star Wars and can prevent things from going stale.

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Solo is the most non essential Star Wars movie.

eddog

12/12/19 10:13pm

It changed directors midway through. That's hard to overcome.

SandYFan

12/12/19 10:17pm

It helps explain how he completed the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs, which

BYUBandfan

12/12/19 10:18pm

It's a retcon. The original line makes no sense so they invented a way it does.

SandYFan

12/12/19 10:20pm

That's the whole reason Disney bought the franchise

A_blue_car

12/12/19 10:21pm

I was entertained and enjoyed it more than TLJ. Because it was a stand alone.

Turnpike Lane

12/12/19 10:22pm

I liked it. Speaking of it though, why isn’t Solo or The Last Jedi on Disney+?

Gerald-DeGroot

12/12/19 10:26pm

Too new. Still under contract with Netflix

squirrelyearl

12/12/19 10:30pm

Dumb.

Gerald-DeGroot

12/12/19 10:37pm

$$$$$

Cougar TD

12/12/19 10:46pm

I thought it was a great Star Wars movie. I loved that one.

dchandle15

12/12/19 10:27pm

Exactly. It was fun and felt like a Star Wars movie. Stayed pretty true to the

Gerald-DeGroot

12/12/19 10:37pm

Agreed. It was largely a victim of the lingering fart that

Sandstone Cougar

12/12/19 10:49pm

Yup. Never understood the hate. It was a fun movie.

Traveshamockery

12/12/19 11:33pm

I watched it. Not only did it not connect me to Star Wars but it never

777

12/12/19 10:34pm

Where did you come up with that?

Greg Kite's 'stache

12/12/19 10:46pm

Haha, I don't know, I thought the Empire guys had a dialogue to throw Han to the

777

12/12/19 10:49pm

There was apparently more back story on this in the written version

dchandle15

12/12/19 11:01pm

I think I'm right.

777

12/12/19 10:50pm

I mean Chewy was helping Yoda escape battles just a few years earlier, and then

777

12/12/19 10:58pm

Confining a "Star Wars Movie" to something more narrow than a movie in the Star Wars universe does a disservice to the

shimmy

12/12/19 10:38pm

No the whole Disney trilogy is non-essential

Coug Man in Florida

12/12/19 10:42pm

It poorly represented his backstory and didn't tie into any of the originals.

ToasterChive

12/12/19 10:46pm

although racially diverse, I felt it unfairly portrayed the Wookie People and

carcoug

12/13/19 12:36am

I feel like the hairy part was fair.

DirtyWater

12/13/19 1:34am

RE: I feel like the hairy part was fair.

carcoug

12/13/19 1:09pm

There were supposed to be two more Solo sequels

2FarGone

12/13/19 7:38am

Too bad they didn't do a better job with the first one then. I would love a good

BYUtka

12/13/19 7:43am

I loved it. It felt more Star Wars than FA orTLJ.

IrishBlue

12/12/19 11:09pm

Solo is the only one of the new SW movies that I liked

D.T. Survivor

12/13/19 7:23am

Forgettable in every way. It was a generic movie that they applied a default

BYUtka

12/13/19 7:33am

It was fine. You're taking Star Wars too seriously.

SJS

12/13/19 8:16am

Much better TFA or TLJ but not as good as it should have been. Still good though

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