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It looked..ok. Note I would be jazzed about a nice Solo prequel, especially if it ends with him sitting at the Mos Eisley bar.

Note: I did not see the last Star Wars movie.

 Frazzled wrote:
It looked..ok. Note I would be jazzed about a nice Solo prequel, especially if it ends with him sitting at the Mos Eisley bar.

I really hope this isn't the case. it worked for R1 to have isn't events lead right up to ANH, but I don't think it would work for this film. ESPECIALLY since the actor doesn't really look like Harrison Ford in 1977.
I could forgive the lack of resemblance better if there is a bit more time between Solo and ANH (at least a few years).

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 Alpharius wrote:

 Manchu wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
I'll probably go see it, but maybe not, if the reviews are saying it is awful.

Reviews won't say it's awful, we can pretty much count on that.

Surely there are reviewers we can trust somewhere?!?

I should clarify - there are a few people in this thread that I'd trust in terms of a review...

Trust? Well they can tell you what they think about a film but thats about it, unless they have similar taste to you it pretty worthless.

Do we know who the female character is?

 Mr Morden wrote:


Do we know who the female character is?

A young Ackmena, obviously...

Personally, I think it would really be nice if we could save the looney tunes critic conspiracy hogwash for the TLJ thread.

That would be nice.

Just because someone enjoys something you don’t, doesn’t mean they’ve been paid off....

The issue with critics and which elements of a movie are given priority have been discussed profusely in the TLJ thread, and in the BR2049 one to some extent.
And even the counterpoints given were way smarter than these two dismissing last posts I had the misfortune to read.

Said this, ok - is a whole new movie, let's try an open mind and a blank state.

so are these all new characters with Han or Eu people - I have never really read the latter.

I don't think there are "EU People" anymore.

You don't have to know anything beforehand about the old EU People in order to watch his movie.

I've certainly heard a lot about Han being really bad, but Lando being really good.


There's certainly something not normal about a major major film, having the teaser released yesterday, the trailer released today and the film in the cinemas in 3 months time.

I'm now convinced that if they really wanted to do a Star Wars Heist movie, and cram in the Millennium Falcon, what they really should have made (to avoid potentially ruining Han) was:

Lando - Hope & Glory: A Star Wars story.

 Compel wrote:
There's certainly something not normal about a major major film, having the teaser released yesterday, the trailer released today and the film in the cinemas in 3 months time.

Well, it's not normal to fire directors near the end of principal photography and hire another director to refilm much of it.

It's *possible* that Howard hits the inside straight on this thing, though. At least as far as general audiences are concerned.

I'm really curious to see when exactly in the Star Wars chronology this movie takes place.

Han Solo was 29 in Star Wars, making him 10 years older than Luke. Harrison Ford was almost 34 when he started filming in 1976 so he was effectively playing a character five years younger than himself. Alden Ehrenreich is 28 so it stands to reason that he'll be playing a Han Solo in his early-to-mid 20s so I'm assuming that that this is only 5 or 6 years before we first meet in Mos Eisley.

Which seems logical, and means that Han has been the absolute hell out of the inside of the Falcon, regardless of what's going on with the cargo prongs

One of the crew in the new trailer looks a lot like Maz Kanata.

 -Loki- wrote:
One of the crew in the new trailer looks a lot like Maz Kanata.

Somewhat, but if you pause at 0:36, the alien in question has 4 arms.


The actor seems fairly fine. The 'acting coach' thing seems to be an outgrowth of his role in Hail, Caesar where he was deliberately playing an inept actor (a singing stunt cowboy suddenly transferred over to the lead role in a set-piece high society romance)

After seeing the trailer, I'm cautiously optimistic. I don't appreciate the visual changes to the Falcon, but maybe this is how it looked when Han first won the ship from Lando, so I'll just wait and see. Given that Rogue One was the best of the Disney Star Wars movies (to me at least) I think that this one should be okay. Hopefully at least better than TLJ, which was very meh.

Second what Zerg said, il wait till I see it. Loved rogue one when leaving the cinema. Didn’t mind the last Jedi, if I enjoy it then it’s good enough for me, but yeah not sure what’s up with the Falcon yet.

 Graphite wrote:
Which seems logical, and means that Han has been the absolute hell out of the inside of the Falcon, regardless of what's going on with the cargo prongs

That part bothers me.

According to the official canon, the Falcon is at least or nearly 90 years old in the Original Trilogy. This movie probably takes place between five or seven years before the OT, so the ship has gone from an already old but pristine looking ship to a “piece of junk” in a couple of years.

That being said, I’m going to wager that something borderline catastrophic happens to the ship during the movie to explain why it looks the way we all remember it looking.

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Which seems logical, and means that Han has been the absolute hell out of the inside of the Falcon, regardless of what's going on with the cargo prongs

That part bothers me.

According to the official canon, the Falcon is at least or nearly 90 years old in the Original Trilogy. This movie probably takes place between five or seven years before the OT, so the ship has gone from an already old but pristine looking ship to a “piece of junk” in a couple of years.

That being said, I’m going to wager that something borderline catastrophic happens to the ship during the movie to explain why it looks the way we all remember looking.

1. Falcon gets damaged.
2. Han has to foot an expensive repair bill, can't afford pristine parts.
3. Has to smuggle stuff for Jabba to pay for new and shiny parts.
4 Enter A New Hope.

Yeah, MOST of the Falcon made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Which seems logical, and means that Han has been the absolute hell out of the inside of the Falcon, regardless of what's going on with the cargo prongs

That part bothers me.

According to the official canon, the Falcon is at least or nearly 90 years old in the Original Trilogy. This movie probably takes place between five or seven years before the OT, so the ship has gone from an already old but pristine looking ship to a “piece of junk” in a couple of years.

That being said, I’m going to wager that something borderline catastrophic happens to the ship during the movie to explain why it looks the way we all remember looking.

Looks fire damaged to me - and we're still assuming it's definitely The Falcon, and not A.N.Other YT-1300, called The Falcon for sneaky marketing reasons.

Could we also discover that Parsecs are indeed a measure of distance, and it's instead a testament to Han's skill as a pilot that he can fly routes no-one else can?

The name's Bond. Han Bond.

The Falcon flying between a narrow crevasse to avoid TIE fighters?

I've seen that before...somewhere...




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 Frazzled wrote:
It looked..ok. Note I would be jazzed about a nice Solo prequel, especially if it ends with him sitting at the Mos Eisley bar.

Note: I did not see the last Star Wars movie.

It's like Empire Strikes back, minus the good stuff, mixed in with Twilight, or some other teen film or something...

I was kind of OK with the full trailer, until the very end. I'm just so freaking tired of that "Hey it's ok OMG IT'S NOT" trope.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 ScootyPuffJunior wrote:

 Graphite wrote:
Which seems logical, and means that Han has been the absolute hell out of the inside of the Falcon, regardless of what's going on with the cargo prongs

That part bothers me.

According to the official canon, the Falcon is at least or nearly 90 years old in the Original Trilogy. This movie probably takes place between five or seven years before the OT, so the ship has gone from an already old but pristine looking ship to a “piece of junk” in a couple of years.

That being said, I’m going to wager that something borderline catastrophic happens to the ship during the movie to explain why it looks the way we all remember looking.

Looks fire damaged to me - and we're still assuming it's definitely The Falcon, and not A.N.Other YT-1300, called The Falcon for sneaky marketing reasons.

Could we also discover that Parsecs are indeed a measure of distance, and it's instead a testament to Han's skill as a pilot that he can fly routes no-one else can?

That's been the prevailing theory for some time now.

No points for you.

Or they'll stick with it being a unit of time!

Now I just want to know who Alpherius would trust with this review...


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Also what the hell is with the giant Lovecraftian tentacle monster?

I'm thinking the "love tunnel" tentacle battle sequence IS the Kessel Run, or part of it anyway - some kind of super-unstable hyperspace thingie or gravity storm wotsit that is how they're choosing to depict the "shortcut" that lets Han pull it off in less distance than everyone else.

If so, there will be some kind of "race against time" element to the story, probably based on one of the crew Old Grumpy Smuggler was putting together betraying the others and having a head start to the Macguffin.

 Graphite wrote:
Yeah, MOST of the Falcon made the Kessel run in 12 parsecs

There's some part of the Falcon that will always be making the Kessel Run. Perhaps it's just Kessel Running from itself.


A straight-up heist movie with colorful character set in the Star Wars movie looks way more exciting than what I had expected from the first teaser. I am cautiously optimistic.


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 djones520 wrote:
I was kind of OK with the full trailer, until the very end. I'm just so freaking tired of that "Hey it's ok OMG IT'S NOT" trope.

To be fair, that's pretty much Han's thing.

There's no canon description of the Kessel run now, so I suppose they can say what they like without fear of contradiction.

Likewise, the only "canon" depiction of the Falcon before ANH is in the background of a shot in TPM, where it looks completely different, so ignoring that is also easy.