Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

2024-05-13

We’ve already FORCED down the prequel trilogy in our chronological discussion of the Star Wars films this month and somewhere between “Revenge of the Sith” and “Rogue One” is our first discussion of a Star Wars movie from the current Disney era. This Ron Howard edition of a Star Wars movie was meant to be the chosen one in terms nostalgia baiting in ticket sales but this movie only made around $100 million over budget. The suit mutants in charge of the billion dollar franchise departments expected much more than that so we didn’t get a Jar Jar Binks movie in 2021. Maybe it was the subject? Everyone loves Han Solo but we also all know what Han Solo looks like. Alden Ehrenreich is only a year younger than Harrison Ford was when he played Han Solo in 1977. In terms of nostalgia, perhaps “SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY” from 2018 didn’t quite hit in a certain way. I mean, you can strip this down to a nice little futuristic Neo-noir “Space Gilda-esque” tale but the Star Wars thing has to Star Wars. Is it a strange outlier in the franchise canon or a slightly underrated romp? So weird that this is our first Ron Howard movie for the show. Imagine how excited Forrest Gump would have been to find out that Darth Maul has new legs.

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