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kidkissinger posted:Let's take a character whose primary appeal is being mysterious and enigmatic and make a movie filling in every detail of his life! Didn't AotC kinda already do that with Jango, what with Boba being a literal clone of him? "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe." What're the odds of Boba saying that as well at some point?
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:48 |
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LesterGroans posted:Yeah, I have absolutely zero interest in a Fett movie and was glad when Josh Trank got booted from it because then he could do something else. He'll wind up casting Jackman as Boba Fett and the Internet will lose its poo poo when he takes his helmet off because it's destroyed the intrigue of one of Star Wars' "most memorable and mysterious characters" or whatever the gently caress.
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:49 |
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If they do a Fett movie I hope they bring back Temuera to voice (straight up play?) him.
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:50 |
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A huge jacked man couldn't possibly be crammed into that armor. I'm just saying the facts
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:50 |
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I saw Solo and it was fine, whatever. But yeah I don’t get how the timeline works with Darth Maul. Is it just “yeah he got better deal with it”? Haven’t read any comic stuff or seen anything outside of movies so don’t know if any new canon fills it in
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:51 |
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Escobarbarian posted:I saw Solo and it was fine, whatever. But yeah I don’t get how the timeline works with Darth Maul. Is it just “yeah he got better deal with it”? Haven’t read any comic stuff or seen anything outside of movies so don’t know if any new canon fills it in It's Darth Maul's brother.
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:52 |
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sassassin posted:It's Darth Maul's brother. Darth Lawl.
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:53 |
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Escobarbarian posted:I saw Solo and it was fine, whatever. But yeah I don’t get how the timeline works with Darth Maul. Is it just “yeah he got better deal with it”? Haven’t read any comic stuff or seen anything outside of movies so don’t know if any new canon fills it in His survival post-The Phantom Menace was established in Clone Wars, and he ends up having several appearances in that show as well as Rebels, before ultimately dying in a rematch with Obi-Wan only a little bit before A New Hope. And yeah; he becomes a crime lord as part of a plan to get revenge on Palpatine for leaving him to die/treating him as disposable.
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:53 |
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sassassin posted:It's Darth Maul's brother. Darth Paul.
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:53 |
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sassassin posted:It's Darth Maul's brother. Wait; does Savage show up too somehow?
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# ? May 24, 2018 23:54 |
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jivjov posted:Wait; does Savage show up too somehow? no, official star wars canon character savage oppress does not appear in the film i don't even know if sassassin knew he existed, i think he was just making a joke
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:04 |
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No Mods No Masters posted:Put CGI count dooku in it for 30 seconds imo this is canon lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HeatfqGPNI
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:14 |
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ungulateman posted:no, official star wars canon character savage oppress does not appear in the film I did know he existed and would have used his name had I remembered it. The Darth Maul hologram looks off because it's Savage Oppress in disguise. Trust me my uncle's in the story group.
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:18 |
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Taintrunner posted:this is canon lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfIYEvH07Ns
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:21 |
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lol I love how Lucasfilm don’t care at all about confusing anyone who doesn’t keep up with a long-running CGI cartoon show
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:36 |
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nurabsal posted:Mangold is a perfect choice if the film is a reskinned 3:10 Yuma and Boba Fett is not the main character. Right now you have Infinity Wars and Solo released close to each other. Which one is the success and will be the blueprint for Disney's decision making from now on? If Solo bombs every Star Wars movie from now on will be joke filled movies about saving planets from planet killers. Solo is as close as you will get to a genre movie set in the Star Wars universe. It's not a perfect movie, or even a great movie, but I think it's the right direction. It blows my mind the budget for Solo was $250 million. Revenge of the Sith was $113 million. Christ, TLJ was less then Solo. RIP "low stakes" movies in the SW universe. EDIT: Oh gently caress! LOL, the Boba Fett movie is actually confirmed. loving idiot. Wank fucked around with this message at 01:27 on May 25, 2018 |
# ? May 25, 2018 00:47 |
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Escobarbarian posted:lol I love how Lucasfilm don’t care at all about confusing anyone who doesn’t keep up with a long-running CGI cartoon show If anything, maul's appearance in Solo might get some people to check out Clone Wars and Rebels
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:49 |
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Wank posted:It blows my mind the budget for Solo was $250 million. Revenge of the Sith was $113 million. Revenge of the Sith didn't have ~70 percent of the movie re-shot after being essentially completed.
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# ? May 25, 2018 00:49 |
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Can we all agree this script was really meh and Lord/Miller’s movie was almost certainly better? Like the best parts of this movie are when it stops trying to be badass space Western and starts loving around anyways.
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# ? May 25, 2018 01:11 |
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thrawn527 posted:To be fair, if the EU didn't exist, Maul coming back would be the standard, "Whaaaa? I thought he was dead!" twist that can happen in movies and shows and comic books all the time. It's that old rule of, "If you don't see a body, he's not dead." You saw him with his lower torso cut off and falling, but who cares? This is Star Wars where they seem to be able to heal anything. Point is he's alive. That the cartoon shows have already covered how he came back kinda doesn't matter. What matters is what they do with him now. In 1999 George Lucas posted:At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell in the pit. I looked at it and thought this isn't going to work because, if people like him enough, they're going to want him to come back and they're going to assume somehow he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say that this guy's gone, he's history, he ain't coming back. Also there's no reason to believe Maul died in Rebels. After all, he survived being cut in half and falling down a huge pit.
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# ? May 25, 2018 01:32 |
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Movie was kinda fun? I was expecting more western and less fan service but gently caress it if you’re going the fan service route then go all out and bring Darth loving Maul is definitely the way to go. I recognized the voice immediately (and the robo legs) so that was fun. Lando movie loving robots across the galaxy when???
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# ? May 25, 2018 02:54 |
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Wank posted:Right now you have Infinity Wars and Solo released close to each other. Which one is the success and will be the blueprint for Disney's decision making from now on? If Solo bombs every Star Wars movie from now on will be joke filled movies about saving planets from planet killers. Solo is as close as you will get to a genre movie set in the Star Wars universe. It's not a perfect movie, or even a great movie, but I think it's the right direction. Marvel's been trying to do variably scaled films for a while now. Maybe Rocket Raccoon is saving the universe, maybe Spider-Man is preventing a guy with a jetpack from stealing weapons tech to sell on the black market. I mean, every Marvel film so far can be reduced to "PG-13 family film with a blend of action and comedy", but there's at least an attempt to make them look and feel different. Meanwhile, Solo has the exact same color palette as Rogue 1.
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# ? May 25, 2018 03:00 |
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Vinylshadow posted:Didn't AotC kinda already do that with Jango, what with Boba being a literal clone of him? Muppet baby boba was terrible too
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# ? May 25, 2018 03:18 |
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pospysyl posted:Is it weird how the two spin-off movies go to great lengths to depict the war between the Rebellion and the Empire as all-encompassing, impacting every planet in the galaxy, when the main sequel trilogy doesn't depict their war that way at all? Nobody in Solo seems too invested or affected by it
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# ? May 25, 2018 03:41 |
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Was this movie necessary? Nah. I feel like I got my money's worth, though, so fine by me. Parts I liked: - Oh my god Don Glover does it again. His Lando is soooo good, you can tell he studied up a lot. Not only that, I thoroughly enjoyed him as a character, not just as an impersonation. - I try to reject blatant fan service, but I laughed at the joke about Lando mispronouncing "Han" - The comic relief droid was great again. Her scene with Dany was hilarious. - After over 35 years, Warwick Davis finally got a speaking role in a Star Wars film! Yaay! - The Kessel Run sequence was good overall. Parts I didn't like: - My overall expectations were low to begin with because I wasn't excited about learning more about Han Solo, and I feel like that hasn't changed. - Darth Maul? Really? I mean, it was a nice WTF surprise but eh Also, of all things in the world Teras Kasi (the fighting art from that weird PS1 fighting game) is now canon?!? Whaaaa?
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# ? May 25, 2018 04:48 |
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A goddamn Teräs Käsi reference out of nowhere. And a Bossk shoutout!
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# ? May 25, 2018 05:25 |
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Maybe it’s because my expectations were low as they could be but I actually thought that was pretty decent. Nothing special but I was entertained. I expected more groan worth “remember this” references. I feel like I definitely need to read up on why Darth Maul was in the movie though. I did not understand that part at all and I’m guessing it’s tied to The Clone Wars and Rebels shows? SeANMcBAY fucked around with this message at 05:55 on May 25, 2018 |
# ? May 25, 2018 05:53 |
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Hell yeah Bossk. Can't wait for Dengar: a Story Wars story. Get Dengar integrated, fools. SeANMcBAY posted:I feel like I definitely need to read up on why Darth Maul was in the movie though. I did not understand that part at all and I’m guessing it’s tied to The Clone Wars and Rebels shows? Him being alive is from The Clone Wars, but that's really it. The movie insinuates he's a crime lord now and as far as I can recall that's never mentioned in either show. His role in Rebels is as a dark mentor for the main character, and in Clone Wars he kept showing up to cause problems for Obi-Wan (and then he tries to gently caress with the Emperor and gets his rear end handed to him) TheBigBudgetSequel fucked around with this message at 06:00 on May 25, 2018 |
# ? May 25, 2018 05:57 |
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Maybe this is a bit pedantic, but it's a ridiculously lazy convenience that in an infinitely large galaxy Han just randomly happens to run into Qui'ra right before he's about to go look for her.
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# ? May 25, 2018 05:57 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:I feel like I definitely need to read up on why Darth Maul was in the movie though. I did not understand that part at all and I’m guessing it’s tied to The Clone Wars and Rebels shows? Yup. They made a decent plot out of it too, if you ignore things like the obvious retcon and the worst named character in the franchise.
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# ? May 25, 2018 05:59 |
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General Dog posted:Maybe this is a bit pedantic, but it's a ridiculously lazy convenience that in an infinitely large galaxy Han just randomly happens to run into Qui'ra right before he's about to go look for her. Yeah, that was easily the dumbest aspect of the movie. Doctor Spaceman posted:Yup. They made a decent plot out of it too, if you ignore things like the obvious retcon and the worst named character in the franchise. Are those shows good?
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:00 |
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General Dog posted:Maybe this is a bit pedantic, but it's a ridiculously lazy convenience that in an infinitely large galaxy Han just randomly happens to run into Qui'ra right before he's about to go look for her. Well, he's been "about to go look for her" for three years at that point. He just never has the money for a ship and there was no guarantee he would have had it at this point either. We're just seeing this particular moment because it is the time he happened to run into her. If they hadn't ran into each other there, Han and Becket were more likely to have gotten killed than end up with any money. Hansen85 fucked around with this message at 06:05 on May 25, 2018 |
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General Dog posted:Maybe this is a bit pedantic, but it's a ridiculously lazy convenience that in an infinitely large galaxy Han just randomly happens to run into Qui'ra right before he's about to go look for her. That's just Star Wars. Huge galaxy and everybody fuckin knows everybody.
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:04 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:Yeah, that was easily the dumbest aspect of the movie. I don't know if this is the mainstream take, but Clone Wars (past the first season and a half or so) is very good and Rebels is mostly garbage except when it's resolving leftover plot from Clone Wars.
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:05 |
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Hansen85 posted:Well, he's been "about to go look for her" for three years at that point. He just never has the money for a ship and there was no guarantee he would have had it at this point either. We're just seeing this particular moment because it is the time he happened to run into her. If they hadn't ran into each other there, Han and Becket were more likely to have gotten killed than end up with any money. The fact that he would run into her by chance at any point in his life is insane coincidence, even for the relatively close-knit Star Wars universe. I mean, take 90 seconds to establish some intentionality behind them both ending up in the same ship on the same planet at the same time. It can't be that hard. General Dog fucked around with this message at 06:18 on May 25, 2018 |
# ? May 25, 2018 06:08 |
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This movie was mediocre to high heaven and Darth Maul showing up made me groan out loud and might have been the worst bit of fan service in all the new films
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:10 |
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General Dog posted:The fact that he would run into her by chance at any point in his life is insane coincidence, even for the relatively close-knit Star Wars universe. Something something the Force something.
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:15 |
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Mike N Eich posted:This movie was mediocre to high heaven and Darth Maul showing up made me groan out loud and might have been the worst bit of fan service in all the new films It's so out of left field that it crosses into being good fan service. The worst fan service is poo poo like "I have a good feeling about this" and Lando's RotJ disguise and Han's dice and Han's blaster and everybody harping about parsecs
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:15 |
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General Dog posted:It's so out of left field that it crosses into being good fan service. The worst fan service is poo poo like "I have a good feeling about this" and Lando's RotJ disguise and Han's dice and Han's blaster and everybody harping about parsecs Oh yeah, Lando's ROTJ disguise being used by Woody Harrelson is actively embarrassing
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I really did enjoy the bit where they upload L-3 to the Falcon, because in all likelihood you would only realize that's meant to reference or explain C-3PO complaining about the Falcon's "most peculiar dialect" when you rewatch ESB and hear that line. I admit, I went "awwww " when I figured it out, and only because it was one of those weird unexplained eccentricities that stuck out to me from the OT that not only does the Falcon have a consciousness but she's also kind of a weirdo.
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# ? May 25, 2018 06:37 |