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ghostwritingduck posted:One interesting part of his character that was completely ignored in this film was his disbelief in the force or Jedi during ANH. Well yeah, they also ignore that Chewie was a huge robo-racist. But that’s assuming this film is ‘in continuity’ with the others. Unlike Rogue One, which functions as both a commentary on the Lucas films and a ‘lost episode’, Solo is the first full spin-off since the Ewok movies. It’s not really a Star Wars movie. The big tip-off is that there is no actual Star War in the film. Instead, Solo’s unambiguously the first in a Lucasfilm-branded fantasy series about Star Crime. Red Dawn fully replaces the Empire as the antagonists.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It’s not really a Star Wars movie. 
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May 30, 2018 05:42
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woah woah woah, do people know about this?
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YOLOsubmarine posted:My favorite part of the movie was when the four armed alien gets shot and Han starts flying the ship and he’s literally just sort of hovering there, not really doing anything special and the alien dude goes “You’re a hell of a pilot kid!” based on his ability fly a ship in a straight line. as a pilot myself i would just like to point out keeping a fixed wing aircraft steady over a speeding train within meters of a cliff face is in fact actually something someone who is a hell of a pilot is capable of
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May 30, 2018 05:47
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not that it matters or anything
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May 30, 2018 05:48
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Still doing great at not seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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May 30, 2018 05:54
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Jeb! Repetition posted:Still doing great at not seeing Solo: A Star Wars Story Keep it up! We're all behind you!
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May 30, 2018 06:02
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I saw solo and it was real good for a flop Thanks for reading
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May 30, 2018 06:09
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“Solo is a Star Wars story!” Narrator: It isn’t.
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May 30, 2018 06:16
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That says it’s a Star Wars story, not a Star Wars movie. The title of the story is Solo. And it’s obviously not about a Star War. Solo has effectively zero narrative, aesthetic, or thematic connection to the movies that are actually called Star Wars. Also there’s no R2-D2 or C3PO, the implicit narrators of the other films. The best explanation for the discrepancy is that Solo is a story told to us by a ‘Star Wars’ character (probably Chewbacca). That story is about Space Crime.
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May 30, 2018 06:25
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thats not the movie its a poster about the movie
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May 30, 2018 06:29
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cuntman.net posted:thats not the movie its a poster about the movie Solo: A Star Wars Poster
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May 30, 2018 06:36
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Note that Rogue One is explicitly not ‘A Star Wars Story’, despite what the ads claimed. That means that, unlike Solo, it actually happened.
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May 30, 2018 06:39
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Note that Rogue One is explicitly not ‘A Star Wars Story’, despite what the ads claimed. I hope you remembered to think about them on Monday.
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May 30, 2018 06:40
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Additional evidence: M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady In The Water: A Bedtime Story By M. Night Shyamalan does not take place in the same universe as the titular bedtime. The story is told to a child during bedtime. Furthermore, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale is unreliably narrated by a racist dog - bolstering the theory that the Solo story was manufactured by Chewbacca.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Additional evidence: Bedtime Stories with Chewie sounds like a fun read May be a little hard to fall asleep after listening to Wookiee noises for twenty minutes though Is he telling this to Ben Solo or Lumpy?
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May 30, 2018 08:15
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Gleaming the Cube: A Star Wars Story
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Vinylshadow posted:Bedtime Stories with Chewie sounds like a fun read Ben, obviously. No wonder he hated his father. "MY NAME COMES FROM A CLERICAL OVERSIGHT!?"
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May 30, 2018 09:25
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This film was really bad. It's annoying because I felt like there was a solid comedy film in there somewhere, but the jokes were usually ruined by the delivery or editing, and the tone was all over the place. Ehrenreich's performance did feel particularly bad but that might have been a direction issue. His jokes lacked comic timing and he couldn't really pull off the coolguy quips convincingly.
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May 30, 2018 10:32
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It's cool how much of the movie is dull conversations shot on featureless landscapes.
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May 30, 2018 12:29
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Goddam how has smg managed to be a first year film student for a loving decade
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May 30, 2018 14:07
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Additional evidence: 
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:as a pilot myself i would just like to point out keeping a fixed wing aircraft steady over a speeding train within meters of a cliff face is in fact actually something someone who is a hell of a pilot is capable of The hauler was also tethered to the train too. So he was juggling quite a few things there.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:My favorite part of the movie was when the four armed alien gets shot and Han starts flying the ship and he’s literally just sort of hovering there, not really doing anything special and the alien dude goes “You’re a hell of a pilot kid!” based on his ability fly a ship in a straight line. 
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YOLOsubmarine posted:My favorite part of the movie was when the four armed alien gets shot and Han starts flying the ship and he’s literally just sort of hovering there, not really doing anything special and the alien dude goes “You’re a hell of a pilot kid!” based on his ability fly a ship in a straight line. Similarly there was a joke about Lando being a pushover that got a bit confused and just comes across as weird now (eg the fact he never seems to care that he won a ship off Han that he didn't actually have and the negotiations over his share).
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May 30, 2018 16:51
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Teek posted:The hauler was also tethered to the train too. So he was juggling quite a few things there. yeah he definitely was doing way more than just sitting there keeping the stick steady lmao
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May 30, 2018 17:25
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i'd say the biggest piloting gripe should be the fact that every single time it cut to han flying the falcon he was just twisting the falcon's nonsensical controls back and forth with no apparent rhyme or reason (which you can see in the trailer) but i don't blame him because literally nothing about the millenium falcon makes sense
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May 30, 2018 17:28
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Yeah, Han successfully taking control of a flying cargo transport tethered to a train that it's sliding along the top of is reasonably impressive. That said, having a character exist with no interior, built only to pump up the protagonist he just met at his dying moment, is hack writing. I think that's what people are responding to, how clunky the praise is.
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May 30, 2018 17:31
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Why are things being transported via train cars in a galaxy with FTL spaceships?
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May 30, 2018 17:41
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Don't knock that character, have all your lovely opinions and criticisms you want but you leave that four armed duder alone. He was awesome and cool and he was my friend.
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May 30, 2018 17:42
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Gonz posted:Why are things being transported via train cars in a galaxy with FTL spaceships? why do we transport things via train and truck irl when we have airplanes
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May 30, 2018 17:43
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:why do we transport things via train and truck irl when we have airplanes Spaceships can take off and land pretty much anywhere. Airplanes cannot.
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AndyElusive posted:Don't knock that character, have all your lovely opinions and criticisms you want but you leave that four armed duder alone. He was awesome and cool and he was my friend. He's lively and fun and then his death is entirely about selling the protagonist. It's the latter I'm taking issue with.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:This film was really bad. It's annoying because I felt like there was a solid comedy film in there somewhere, but the jokes were usually ruined by the delivery or editing, and the tone was all over the place. Han Solo is not a coolguy. He's a loser trying to appear cool. He's constantly on the edge of ruin and disaster because of his big mouth getting him into things he has no idea how to get out of. This is consistent in all of the movies.
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Not to make a multi-page thing of this, but the "you're a great pilot" comment was still a little much because he'd only just started doing it. Saying "you're doing good" would've made sense. This was like me succesfully flipping a pancake on my first go and someone telling me I'm a master flapjack king.
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Gonz posted:Spaceships can take off and land pretty much anywhere. Airplanes cannot. So... VTOL
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you can land airplanes in a ton of places too (my friends and i frequently do here in arizona) but a lot of them aren't ideal for loading and unloading a ton of cargo
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May 30, 2018 18:36
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It makes sense because it's a volatile substance which we transport stuff today that's volatile by train. Like putting it in a plane is just to dangerous
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:yeah he definitely was doing way more than just sitting there keeping the stick steady lmao The issue is that, as with many things in the film, we don’t have any frame of reference for what bad piloting looks like. Keep in mind that A New Hope opens with a space battle that establishes what ‘going too slow’ looks like.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The issue is that, as with many things in the film, we don’t have any frame of reference for what bad piloting looks like. okay well it's the same as irl if you don't crash when you are doing a complicated maneuver you're better than most at piloting
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