Solo: A Star Wars Story

That's too bad, considering they released them in theaters in 1997 in the run-up to the prequel trilogy.

I didn’t become a fan until the special editions were released. I was always a bigger fan of Star Trek. My friend had a VHS copy of the OT and also the special editions, so I watched both around 97/98.

As I've mentioned before, I was 2, 5, and 8 when the originals came out.
I don't remember seeing the first Star Wars (it wasn't called A New Hope yet), but I remember remembering it, because I acted the whole damned film out with the figures.
By the time Jedi was in the theaters, Star Wars (again, not ANH) and Empire were rotating endlessly on HBO.
The first tapes to own at home didn't come out 'til '87 for some reason.
Lucasfilm allowed rental copies before that, but us plebes couldn't have 'em on our shelves.

I was 8 when Star Wars came out, 11 for ESB, and 15 for Jedi. I also remember the Apollo 17 moon landing.

I actually have the Star wars Super-8 version, sold in stores. It's two scenes only, on a 400-foot reel: Obi-Wan giving Luke the lightsaber, and the escape from the Deathstar/TIE Fighter Attack scene. Probably still in a box somewhere, but I don't have a projector any more.

Finally watched it tonight.

It was okay.

I definitely liked it more than The Last Jedi.

Also, I'd forgotten that Emilia Clarke was in it. I was reminded how much prettier she looks with her natural hair color.

So I'm rewatching SW:Rebels and just got through S1 E11... the one where Lando wins Chopper.

The last scene as the crew of the Ghost is departing... his last conversation with the Chop is REALLY awkward after the context of the Solo movie.

I remember a toy from when I was a kid...it was this View-Master like thing you"d look into and crank, and it would show, I dunno, a dozen or so short clips (no sound) from Star Wars on a continuous loop.

I never had one.

I thought it was so cool that it was possible to watch my favorite movie (bits of it, anyway) anytime I wanted. VHS had not yet arrived in many homes...

Oh! Yeah! I had the Fisher Price version of that, but theirs played Disney shorts.
I had the one where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy try to be ghost exterminators.
Their guns were blunderbusses that shoot corks on strings.
How those were supposed to kill ghosts, I dunno.

I read an article within the last week or so where Kathleen Kennedy admits "SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY" was a big mistake to have made. I remember her saying something about it being am error to cast new actors in the roles of Classic STAR WARS characters as was done in "SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY".

She is SO RIGHT about all that.

"SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY" SHOULD'VE been made into a book & released that way instead being made as a movie , & even doing THAT would probably have been a mistake too.

I liked the movie. I was leery about the actor cast to play Solo, but was pleasantly surprised.

There's already two whole novel trilogies of Han's origin.

I liked Solo. It wasn't great, but it was fun.

The biggest mistake the Star Wars franchise ever made was providing completely unnecessary backstories for major characters.

Anakin Skywalker - Whiny little bitch. Deserved to fucking die, not be transformed into one of the greatest villains in sci-fi history.

C3PO & R2D2 - Totally unnecessary backstories and adds nothing to the characters. And C3PO was built by Darth Vader? Lame.

Han Solo - Solo didn't really add anything to the character that we didn't already need to know, and it softened the whole rogue image from his first appearance.

Yoda - The less said about his fight scene in Episode II, the better.

Boba Fett - Should have scrapped this whole series and shifted the focus to The Mandalorian (which they kind of did anyway).

Obi-Wan Kenobi - The only character to survive relatively unscathed from the prequels. Let's hope the upcoming series doesn't fuck it all up.

They filmed this movie twice all for a story that nobody cared about and lost a bunch of money in the process. It was a completely unnecessary vein endeavor to somehow prove that Disney Wars is better. Spoiler alert, they’re not. It also doesn’t help the Pablo Hidalgo attacks fans on Twitter.

Agreed, perfectly enjoyable movie. Thought it was better than say, Attack of the Clones. Definitely better than Rise of Skywalker