The NZA Posted February 12, 2018 Author Share Posted February 12, 2018 watch this be y'alls favorite movie this year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 It's a Ron Howard movie now, we should keep our expectations this low. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 the guy they got for the lead looks and sounds more like jack nicholson then harrison ford. i have no idea what to expect from this movie but the constant delays and changing directors from earlier in production do not fill me with confidence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Alden Ehrenreich was probably the best part of Hail Caeser, he's a weird choice for a young Harrison Ford but he's a good actor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) That's not much help nowadays, Hayden Christiansen is a decent-to-good actor, and he was certainly able to emote with just his pained and forlorn looks, but Lucas's shit dialogue and terrible directing (where he told his Jedi to act stiff, detached and withdrawn) made a bunch of great actors and their characters look like shit. Ford is quoted on record stating "George, you can type this shit but you can't say it!" And I don't see actors, especially those playing already established characters, being able to bring some actual authenticity to the screen. So I'm a little worried. Edited February 12, 2018 by Drifter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 A. No, Hayden Christensen is not a good actor. He is slightly better than his work in those two movies but he's got wooden delivery and the barest blip of charisma.  B. George Lucas is no longer involved with Star Wars and so far none of the Disney films have indicated an interest in Lucas' Shakespeare-for-dumb-people style of dialogue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 we'll see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Ok, I'm on board. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Yeah, that made it look fun as hell. Fingers crossed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Feels a little off on the guy they got for Solo, the rest have the look and feel down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 He seems to be basing his impression on A New Hope Han Solo, which is a bad call because that was Harrison Ford's worst acting of the series/maybe his career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 Make sense that he does that though, no? For consistency? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 I don't feel like aping an actor phoning it in cause he doesn't want to be there needs to be part of the canon but if that's the way they want to take it, sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Cap'n 2099 Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I mean, if he finds a way to capture that and it shows on screen then the dude is a better actor than we think, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Nemo McFly Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 The first trailer had me at 'maaaybe' it could work - but, I'll Redbox.  This new trailer has me now at a big-ass 'heeell no'. LOL - I'll still be 'Redbox'-ing - to see what they do w/ Star Wars' 'Underworld' - by far the most interesting thing this movie has going for it (design)...but, this is too much of a 'dumb-fun romp' for the Solo I love. (shrugs) This is totally Guardians.  This could've been a spin-off film /series called 'Rendar'. Cut off Chewie and the Falcon (maybe cameo) - this dude / character could've totally been Dash...and this flick launch his own clean-slate, no-strings-attached series. I'd be down w/ Star Wars Guardians starring Dash Rendar.  Outriiiideeeer...  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 5 hours ago, Da Cap'n 2099 said: I mean, if he finds a way to capture that and it shows on screen then the dude is a better actor than we think, right? Oh I'm on record as thinking he's a great actor, I just wish he didn't choose/wasn't directed to reproduce a bad performance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 The new trailer changes my expectations going into this now. No longer do I expect it to be a complete dumpster fire. I'm expecting more of an individual barrel fire, like a hobo would have under an overpass in a movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 Well I just spoiled a cameo in this movie for myself, and whether or not the whole thing is bad, I have to see it now. Just to see that part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 (edited) Yeah this was alot of fun. I dunno how purists are gonna react, but I had a blast(er) of a time. :shalit: Edited May 28, 2018 by Axels Where's our shalit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 There's a razor thin margin of people that are going to really enjoy this (I am among them), everyone else will fucking hate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 They even address the robot sentience in a meaningful way. It could've gone further/been executed better, but it's definitely a step in the right direction there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 Yeah they definitely had something gold with that bit and squandered it, I think that character/subplot were probably a Miller/Lord story point, it feels like their speed. Probably would've played out better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 (edited) I was one of the people who was against a film like this from the get-go. Give me a Yoda trilogy or a Boba Fett film, but just let Harrison Ford's Han Solo stand as the only Han we need. That coupled with the tumultuous production had me legitimately expecting a full on dumpster fire of a film. But then the trailers dropped and my expectations went from dumpster fire to possibly not horrible. And what I was pleasantly surprised to see in the theaters last week was a rather mediocre film.  Reactions all over have pretty much been "meh" for this film. You've got extremist fanboys on the left who say this was worse than TLJ (To quote Luke. "That's impossible!") and those SW Celebration lifetime pass having zombies on the right who love it because they love anything with a Star Wars logo on it. Technically it's done okay for an action film at the box office thus far, but in reality it's a bomb for a Star Wars film.  Quote Over Memorial Day weekend, they were jolted when Solo: A Star Wars Story battled hard to hit $103 million domestically and bombed overseas with $65 million. The film badly trailed the launch of fellow stand-alone pic Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which debuted to $155 million domestically in 2016 on its way to topping $1.056 billion globally. At its current rate, Solo may not gross much more than $400 million in all after costing at least $250 million to produce before marketing.  Solo's initial performance marks a rare loss for Disney. Moreover, it is forcing the studio to re-examine its strategy for the iconic Star Wars franchise, which Disney took over when it bought Lucasfilm for more than $4 billion in 2012...  Edited May 29, 2018 by Mr. Hakujin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drifter Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 I agree, there are star wars characters out there that are just begging to be expanded upon but they stupidly went for the most iconic and divisive one in the entire cast. Why do they think it's a good business strategy to constantly divide the fanbase against itself? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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