I wasn't that excited about this film to begin with, but I couldn't NOT go see a new Star Wars movie.
My thoughts going into this were, does Han Solo really need (a possibly multi-film) backstory? As I watched the film I tried to keep in the mind set of would this be good if it was just a stand alone film and not connected to Star Wars. As a Star Wars film and as a stand alone film this was pretty mediocre in every regard. I thought almost all of the actors did a pretty good job and Donald Glover was fantastic, it was just that the story was very lackluster.
My biggest problems were the BS parts of the story. Number one is the revelations that Han Solo just randomly and very luckily knows how to speak Wooki and does so to save his life and Chewie is about to eat him. Strange that he never speaks it again at all, though it is implied he understands some of what Chewie says in subsequent films. Second was the appearance of Darth Maul at the end of the film. This seemed to be an obvious segway into making a Solo sequel. My issue with this is it is combining movie cannon with that of the animated series, and in Phantom Menace he is cut in half and presumed dead. He only survived and lives on in the animated series. So does this imply that now the films can pick and choose as to whatever they want to use from the animated series?
My thoughts going into this were, does Han Solo really need (a possibly multi-film) backstory? As I watched the film I tried to keep in the mind set of would this be good if it was just a stand alone film and not connected to Star Wars. As a Star Wars film and as a stand alone film this was pretty mediocre in every regard. I thought almost all of the actors did a pretty good job and Donald Glover was fantastic, it was just that the story was very lackluster.
My biggest problems were the BS parts of the story. Number one is the revelations that Han Solo just randomly and very luckily knows how to speak Wooki and does so to save his life and Chewie is about to eat him. Strange that he never speaks it again at all, though it is implied he understands some of what Chewie says in subsequent films. Second was the appearance of Darth Maul at the end of the film. This seemed to be an obvious segway into making a Solo sequel. My issue with this is it is combining movie cannon with that of the animated series, and in Phantom Menace he is cut in half and presumed dead. He only survived and lives on in the animated series. So does this imply that now the films can pick and choose as to whatever they want to use from the animated series?