Well it’s only like 12 parsecs away.
LOL, yeah…in one run legendary enough for Han to brag about it to potential customers.
I’d wave away the “notch” escape pod, as a “luxury” escape pod or “life boat” (they really should have called it it a shuttle complement). Something you could stay in for a while or split up the crew when needed.
After this movie, I’m just going to assume they installed a few compact “lay down” pods like Rey used in TLJ, that go out of a torpedo tube or something.
What were the Woody Harrelson character’s last words before he died?
I enjoyed it, but I think I might have liked it more if it wasn’t about Han Solo, and instead it was about some other guy who was trying to survive and make his way in the galaxy. If they did that then Alden Ehrenreich could have given a more natural performance and not have been constrained by doing a pseduo Harrison Ford impression. And they also wouldn’t have had to have the callouts that felt unnatural.
I groaned at some of the too blatant references, and Han was the least interesting character in his own movie (thought I think Ehrenreich did as well as he could with the difficulty of the role), but just as a movie I had fun. I loved L3, I loved the character design with a lot of the weird aliens, the train heist and Kessel Run were tense and exciting.
I do wish it had ended earlier, and not had the stuff about Han helping the rebels and specifically saying something like “you’re really a good guy”, it was a little much. I think I would have liked it more if Han and Kira had betrayed Dryden Vos because he’s a bad guy and so they could have the money, they still could have had Kira betray Han and fly away.
“You made the smart move, kid. For once, I would have killed you…”
Then we get a very muddled line that is something like this.
“All I wanted to do was [muffled] and buy that Valacore(?).”
I couldn’t quite catch it either. I took it to mean that he was doing honest robbery, so to speak. He would have done the deal, given Han his share, and been straight with him. The job changed.
Solo nods and kind of says, “I know, I know,” to him as he dies.
But I think the final line was very hard too hear. We’ll need subtitles on the DVD.
Reddit tells me his final line was, “I was never gonna learn to play that Valachord”.
I guess he joked about it earlier.
Good point.
I wasn’t saying those movies did badly. I’m saying that they disappointed. The core Star Wars films have the inertia and even though all the prequels kinda sucked and the 2 sequel (??) movies so far have been weak, they still draw crowds. Episode 9 will certainly do great. They are cultural touchstones and no one wants to miss out.
These anthology movies however don’t have that benefit, they need to convince people that they are going to be worth their time on their own merits and the audience really needs to trust that the studio knows how to give them their money’s worth. Marvel has succeeded in that, Star Wars hasn’t so far.
They never explained what happened to his head/face. That kind of bugged me. Also my biggest gripe with Infinity War was that Vision was a total pussy. So weird. For some reason I don’t really buy Bettany as a big bad, not sure why. It worked in Da Vinci Code, though I’m not sure he’s the big bad there.
I haven’t heard many say he’s terrible. My issue was that he was the least interesting character in the movie. Ford’s Han was probably the most interesting in those movies. I didn’t want a Ford impersonation, that would have been pure cringe, but they needed someone that sucked you in one way or another.
I think the best part of the movie was the buddy cop vibe that Han and Chewie had going. Really nice chemistry there and really good writing, that was the heart of the movie in my mind. If they had somehow focused more on Han and Chewie, maybe going deeper on how their bond really developed, and cut back on the love interest and the mentor angles I think it would have been a much stronger movie.
I think Reddit has it’s head up it’s ass on this one.
If you’re into this stuff this podcast does an interesting take down of Solo and talks about a lot of inside baseball stuff.
Why? I think they are right. It might have been, however, “All I wanted to do was learn to play the Valachord.” I’m not sure yet.
More poignant and less a dying joke.
OK, I gave in and downloaded a bootleg copy of the movie real quick. Note: I’m buying the Blu-ray when it comes out and already paid the bucks to see it in the theater. I just had to hear this line again and it’s obviously spoilerific and impossible to find a clip online.
It’s definitely,** “All I wanted to do…was learn to play that valachord.”**
Yep. He just delivered the linen really oddly and in a weird rhythm.
Never trust a smuggler with your laundry.
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I think Thandie told him to learn to play the valachord before she died. So that’s why he repeated it again.
Thanks, you guys. Strange that they wouldn’t make sure a major character’s dying declaration, of all things, was audible.
That’s interesting to see people (you’re not the only one) saying they wish it had ended earlier. I do get your point about Han being the good guy and aiding the rebels years before he finally became one at the end of “Star Wars” (I refuse to call it ANH), but I think that might be like a commandment for the sake of the younger moviegoing crowd (the same reason Lucas changed who shot first).
Personally, I thought this was a terrible movie for the first hour or so. I was already planning to go report to people how it was every bit the disaster some were predicting, and then some. But then I thought starting with the Kessel Run and continuing to the end of the movie, it improved a great deal. I would say the best part of the film was the twisty double/triple (quadruple?) crossing going on in the climax. Anybody else see it this way?
I didn’t think the beginning was bad, per se, but the film definitely got better as it went along.
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Am I invisible, or do my posts really just not make any sense?
Clarke looks much better with her normal dark hair than as a blonde on Game of Thrones.
Saw the movie this past weekend and was pleasantly surprised at how good I thought it was. I am not really a Han Solo fan. I was always more of a Luke guy but I saw this movie mostly out of obligation to Star Wars and attrition moreso than because I actually wanted to see this story. What really lead me to enjoy this movie wasn’t me thinking “I’m watching a Han Solo prequel” but me thinking “This is a cool movie starring Starmaster Pete and his Wookie friend.”
Alden did a GREAT job acting, he really did, he just wasn’t the character of Han Solo. He was Han Solo if he were created as an original character in today’s day and age for this movie. In the Original Trilogy, Han was a bit of an offshoot of the audience. He saw the ridiculousness of the situation and his sarcasm and too-cool-for-school attitude reflected that. “This ain’t my fight and it’s kinda crazy…but whatever” is who he was. He was never the always-with-a-quip guy and was never really that “funny” like he is in this movie. But do you know who IS that character? Most modern stars (see most of the Marvel leads).
Once I basically pretended this was an original story set in the SW universe I appreciated it much more.