Saw SOLO

Don't know what I just witnessed...

I want to just strangle the people involved with it to be honest...

Everything about it is derivative and trite. I could spend all day tearing it apart and destroying it, but I won't. It's not worth it... It's like tearing apart Steel or dungeons and dragons... movies that are what they are....

I'll try to focus on what it did very well... Alden saves the film. He's the backbone of the movie and does infuse Solo with some sense of humanity and soul in a film that has very little to say and means nothing.

It says nothing... that's the biggest crime imo.

It could have and should have added depth to Han, made him interesting and different than the BILLIONTH white dude in space with a laser gun. It doesn't.

If you've watched battlestar galactica, space balls, He-man, Tron, John Carter of mars, Valerian, Lost in Space, on and on...

Same exact stuff...

It does have its moments, but they only make you wish the whole movie was nothing but those moments instead of being a quick slap dash to get to the end and set up the Han we know...

So frustrating to watch this movie because there's an interesting world to explore and nope not gonna go into it much, bye, I'm dead cuz I don't show up in the originals.

Who the F is Qi'ra and what happens next between her and Han. This question will nag you if you take this film as cannon... Ultimately I doubt we'll find out and she'll remain a character lost in the same limbo as Yaddle.

Easy 6 out of 10 from me...

As for my thoughts on whether I'd have wanted to be Lando in this. Absolutely NOT... I'm glad I was skipped over for Glover. LITERALLY there's a whole scene of Glover lounging around waiting for his check to clear and the movie to be over. He couldn't care less about being in this movie and he's painfully uninvolved... So that's it, that's what it's all about. Making a buck... Tossing in a pointless really dumb cameo that makes no sense, and hoping nobody calls them out on it.

What a shame...

Alden is good though which is just sad that he got kinda screwed by a bad script and everything.... oh well....

What could have been, eh...