Let the games begin....

Gonna go see Solo tomorrow... I think if I didn't hate what happened and all the missed opportunity to play Lando that I have to live with, I'd love it to death.... I mean, I'm a star wars nut and if they truly just made a fan service movie, that's cool... it's just the reviews have made it look like it's truly a flawed film that's lazy, and... we'll see....

I'm ok with bad movies, it's kinda my thing. I've always been a sort of bad movie expert. I grew up basking in bad films that you had to give a lot of slack to when you watched them. So I'm no movie prude in any capacity...

I'll give you an example. I mean, batman forever I've already discussed at length. I know it's flawed but the movie has to be the most fun batman film of them all. Saw that movie back when it came out and it was just perfect 90s batman. Respectful enough of burton's version but so comic-bookish and reverent of Adam West's version at the same time, I loved it... failed at two face, but whatever....

He-man, Super mario bros. Heck even Street Fighter the movie I found ways to enjoy.... I'm seriously not kidding when I say I'm able to enjoy crappy films.

I think there's an honesty to crap movies... They have to rely more on stuff like humor or drama when they can't wow you with big budget spectacle...

But yeah I'm not all or nothing with them. I loathe the transformers films with a passion. They had no reason at all to be that shitty.

Same with Dragonball Evolution... no reason they couldn't have tried harder with that movie. Goku's origin story is the least complex part of his story to adapt. considering how goddamn awfuly they adapted that, I think we did dodge a bullet in the fact that they never got to the rest of his journey...

Also if you're a hong kong cinema kinda guy like me, you know all about bad movies... they're bad, but they're great at the same time most of that stuff... it's hard to explain.

So yeah I'm just like, I'm down with crappy movies, I can find ways to enjoy them and I'm sure if circumstances were different, I'd be alright with SOLO, but they aren't. I do have personal gripes with the movie. I do not understand how a director can be changed yet keep the original director's sets, costumes, casting choices, and we're expected to just not feel like something has been lost now that someone outside of the production has taken control of it... it's just weird....

This has even happened before. Super Mario Bros always felt like a movie at war with itself and indeed it was the first SOLO ever done... The original script was far darker and more mature. Disney didn't want them to not appeal to little toddlers so they forced constant changes and at some point even kicked the directors off the set and had the second unit guy finish the movie...

So what we got was the cult classic but obviously flawed and disjointed attempt at a mario movie....

Similar issue with superman 2. Richard Donner was fired, brought in Richard Lester and we got a movie that was half good, half wtf.

I don't know the whole story, but yeah the mess that is Alien 3 is the perfect example... David Fincher disowned the film, I don't think he even finished it.... don't know. But yeah I do enjoy it. It is something unique about it and interesting despite it not working and being seriously flawed. It's just it's an interesting train wreck of a movie.

So yeah the film might be good to me. We'll see.... I don't know how I'm going to feel. I'll kinda have to frame my thoughts of Solo within the thoughts I have on the prequels...

The prequels are an interesting disaster... that's what I think of them after having digested them after 13 years away from RotS...

Flawed, awkward performances, obviously needing further thought, more drafts, but they're just sooooo fascinating and full of ideas that are great despite the movies being sub par.

You got to appreciate ILM's fx work and John Williams brilliance, but in the end of the day, the superior movies to come out during that time period were LotR and Harry Potter... the prequels sadly I do not remember them as fondly and if I had a choice I'd rather watch LotR and Potter or the Matrix over the Star Wars prequels and isn't that sad?

So if Solo is just about on par with the prequels, eh... that's not good.... And it does indeed look so unneeded and pointless. Glover does not at all look like Billy dee. He may copy him or whatever he did, but anybody can mimmick him, that's nothing special. It would have been on the nose if they cast me and people were tricked into believing a young billy dee had built a time machine and shot his part in solo. At least that would have blown people off their seats and given you something authentic to feel like this was more than a fan film on steroids.

I guess I'll feel ambivalent after seeing the movie. Neither too overjoyed or too dissapointed. I feel the same way towards the prequels. The only ones I have a little actual nostalgic passion for are TPM and the emperor's moments in RotS. AotC is a total failure, an interesting one, but a failure. Basically a remix of TPM and Empire Strikes Back. I knew it back when I saw it and it remains as derivative and uninspired today. At least RotS TRIED. RotS failed, but it was trying so hard to be good...

Yep, ambivalent. I'm gonna get going on the flying stuff right the f now. Try to knock that all out, get it done, then do the sound and whatever else tomorrow.... See SOLO review it,

release the final finished Static Film on the deadline on the 25'th and hopefully maybe 1 person watches it, that's fine...