Solo, general thoughts
Jun. 4th, 2018 11:35 amOverall, it was quite fun, I enjoyed many parts of it, but I wanted a lot more of the parts I liked, even if I didn't dislike the other parts.
I enjoyed the first ten minutes or so, even if it was a bit all over the place, it felt like things were happening, and we were seeing Han's life in ways we didn't know in advance what was going to happen.
I enjoyed the lando cloaks, the gambling scenes, the droid rebellion bits, but I wanted lots more of all of that!
Rachel Manija helpfully summarises all the things that were bad about it, and I agree; I didn't dislike them as much as she did, but I agree, I wanted less of that. The dimness didn't bother me as much as some people, but it wasn't a positive either.
I was pleased to see Paul Bethany, Woody Harrelson, Warwick Davies and Donald Glover appearing in a major film. They all had roles I loved, and I'd hoped to see more of them even though I hadn't recently. And Mindy Kaling (from The Mindy Project) in Ocean's 8 trailer.
Funnily enough, my main observation was that I had almost no quibbles -- there were things which were mediocre, but almost nothing where I was like, "O M G how could they do that?" And apparently that didn't make a big difference to my enjoyment -- as I expected, my enjoyment seems to be "how many things I loved" a lot more often than "how many things I disliked" (the opposite being films which break a barrier of put-up-with-ness in me, when something is obnoxious enough, I stop loving it however many good things there are). And Solo was still, "fairly good, but not great". But the good bits were well worth seeing at least for me.
( Some spoilers )
I enjoyed the first ten minutes or so, even if it was a bit all over the place, it felt like things were happening, and we were seeing Han's life in ways we didn't know in advance what was going to happen.
I enjoyed the lando cloaks, the gambling scenes, the droid rebellion bits, but I wanted lots more of all of that!
Rachel Manija helpfully summarises all the things that were bad about it, and I agree; I didn't dislike them as much as she did, but I agree, I wanted less of that. The dimness didn't bother me as much as some people, but it wasn't a positive either.
I was pleased to see Paul Bethany, Woody Harrelson, Warwick Davies and Donald Glover appearing in a major film. They all had roles I loved, and I'd hoped to see more of them even though I hadn't recently. And Mindy Kaling (from The Mindy Project) in Ocean's 8 trailer.
Funnily enough, my main observation was that I had almost no quibbles -- there were things which were mediocre, but almost nothing where I was like, "O M G how could they do that?" And apparently that didn't make a big difference to my enjoyment -- as I expected, my enjoyment seems to be "how many things I loved" a lot more often than "how many things I disliked" (the opposite being films which break a barrier of put-up-with-ness in me, when something is obnoxious enough, I stop loving it however many good things there are). And Solo was still, "fairly good, but not great". But the good bits were well worth seeing at least for me.
( Some spoilers )