I agree but I do think there was fun stuff there lurking beneath the surface. Really, really wish we could see a Lord & Miller version
I dunno, they were playing up the improvisation and comedy werenāt they, Donald Glover aside that could have been absolutely horrible.
I think there are some line deliveries that clunk pretty hard in the final version as a result of the fact that they were supposed to sit in a much more knowing/comedic film. I think a frivolous and tongue-in-cheek version of this could have been a lot of fun without it negatively impacting the canonical episodic films.
At some point they are going to need to branch out and take risks within the Star Wars universe if they want to keep milking the cash cow and this could have been the start of that. An ironically funny space heist film with much lower stakes (this is a screenplay fault as opposed to a directorial one though tbf) feels like exactly what a Han Solo prequel should be to me really.
I agree they need to try something different, and a film fleshing out every tiny detail that weāve already heard doesnāt really add anything, but donāt really agree that comedy is the way to go, given that the forced comedic lines that are crowbarred into almost every blockbuster now (the Poe/Hux scene in Last Jedi, FFS) are often what is worst about them. For me.
I agree to an extent although I think theyāre the worst thing because theyāre crowbarred into films that arenāt broadly comedic. If theyād played this whole thing for laughs with itās tongue firmly in itās cheek I think that would have been interesting and worth watching.
I really would love to see a whole bunch of straight genre pieces set within the Star Wars universe though, I think the scope of ambition with the current spin-offs has been way too narrow. Give me a jump-scare horror on Dagobah or a Glengarry Glen Ross style business film in uptown Coruscant or something. Stuff that broadens the scope of the universe instead of narrowing it to just stuff we know about from the Episodic saga.
a star wars western / samurai type thing would be awesome
a lone jedi walks into a near deserted town ā¦
Exactly. Would be properly good fun innit.
why arenāt we in charge of Star Wars???
the worst thing for this was the empire recruitment video at the beginning that was playing a tinny version of the imperial march. it would have been funny in a funny film, but this wasnt that film
Yeah, I think that is the most egregious thing in the whole film and itās weird to me that more people arenāt mentioning it as irksome. It basically retcons the fact that the Imperial March is a diagetic theme tune or something.
Tbh it was probably more the āimprovisedā than the ācomedyā that put me off because Iām not really a fan of that stuff if itās not Christopher Guest. I find all the quipping in these films to be incredibly off-putting, because it feels like there is a standard number of humorous lines mandated by the studio and lot of them are not funny, out of character or spoil the tension. Like Tony Stark being a smart ass is fine, but Thor stopping to quip to the person standing next to him instead of fighting the person whoās trying to kill him just really slows the film down.
I agree about the genre stuff, but I think itās unlikely because itāll all have to be PG and family-friendly. Although giving a minor character their own film can be interesting, like you said if it just tells us what we already know then itās kind of a waste of time, itās almost as if they are afraid to use their imagination and are only willing to stick with what the audience have responded to already. While I think that the reaction to Solo has been massively exaggerated, if it causes Disney to have a re-think before giving every single character from the original trilogy their own film, Iām okay with that. The occasional one could be okay but we donāt need Solo and Lando and Boba Fett and Obi Wan Kenobi all having successive solo films. The fact that the response to the first of these has been lukewarm is probably a good thing. At least give us something we donāt know, take the most obscure character and do that. Give us Bossk!
Personally, Iād quite like to see what itās like for the regular, non-superpowered people to live under the Imperial rule, like living in occupied France, trying to survive while living in fear of reprisals every day. Small acts of insurrection, where the rebels act in small cells and thereās a blurred line between rebellion and terrorism, that could be interesting. Rogue One threatened to do that, and the advertising suggested it (it does basically call the cell on Jedda terrorists), but then sort of backed away. The Empire should be properly scary and not just faceless cannon fodder who canāt shoot straight.
Yes, yes, yes.
This is exactly the sort of film they should be making for sure.
Marvel Comics did that back in 1977 after they adapted the film in six issues. The next story ripped off The Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven with Han in the lead role.
One the seven was a giant green space rabbit.
Iād like to see an absurdist Greedo film, where all the characters speak entirely in alien languages and none of it is translated. Greedo is a total wet lettuce and a fuckup, itās all heavily slapstick based with a sort of fatalistic melancholy undertone to the whole thing. The film ends with him eagerly bounding into the Mos Eisley cantina, thinking that nabbing Han Solo will be the thing to finally turn his fortunes around.
Ha!
i wonder what they think of the decision to make it more boring now that it underperformed at the box office
Thereās nothing to say that an improvised screwball comedy would have done better
I think theyāll (correctly) attribute a lot of itās underperformance to itās release date tbh, itās a really weird time to have put it out, should clearly have been another Christmas release but they donāt want to cut into their Mary Poppins take