I saw this movie in theaters and then again on Disney +.
I was in a peculiar mind set when I first saw this film. It wasn't very long after The Last Jedi when this hit theaters. And AT THAT TIME, I had originally loved Last Jedi when I first watched it. However my opinion on that film has soured over time, especially after Rise of Skywalker came out and made it even worse in retrospect. But I largely had the Phantom Menace effect when I first saw Last Jedi and thought it was great. I saw Solo on the heels of that, only a few months later in theaters, and was hyped for it. I remember being very disappointed in the film at the time and thought it was meh, but still OK. Well in the last couple of years me and my dad have been doing a full chronological watch of all of Star Wars in order, starting from Phantom Menace and going through all the films and TV series including my first watch of Clone Wars and all that, so we also did this movie. Which was my second time watching it.
I had a much greater appreciation of the film this second time around and liked it a lot. It's still not great and doesn't hold a candle to the original films, but I really liked it this second viewing. And I feel Alden Ehrenreich does a really solid job playing a younger Han. Yeah the movie has it's problems, silly twists and turns and shoe horning in a few characters and situations and items that feel out of place or forced. But I still like the film a lot. I'd say it's one of the better Star Wars projects to come out of Disney, though they did set that bar pretty low.
With my first viewing of the movie in theaters, I'd have given it a 3 star, but after this second viewing... I'm in 4 out of 5 star territory for it now. I like it. ^^
Mistake Status: I'll probably get to it at some point.
I was really looking forward to this film. Unfortunately, it's pretty lackluster. The much anticipated first meeting between Han and Chewbacca and the story of how Chewie became indebted to Han was underwhelming. Even the much hyped Kessel Run, which we finally got to see after years of hearing about it, was bland and uninspired.
Other mistake: Towards the end, Chewbacca and Beckett have walked some distance from the landed yacht. They come up a small slope and are faced with Han, waiting for them. But an aerial shot shows that slope is very short and just runs down to a cliff. There's no way they could have got to the base of the slope to walk up it in the first place.
Trivia: In Dryden Vos' meeting room, the golden idol from the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" can be seen briefly on one of the tables. So too is Mandalorian body armour, similar to Boba Fett's.
Answer:I was wondering about this, too. C-3PO did not appear in Solo, and I cannot find any Internet reference pertaining to R2-D2 being in it. Curiously, Anthony Daniels, the actor who has played C-3PO in all the other Star Wars movies, makes a cameo appearance in Solo as another character (Chewbacca's friend).
Answer: I was wondering about this, too. C-3PO did not appear in Solo, and I cannot find any Internet reference pertaining to R2-D2 being in it. Curiously, Anthony Daniels, the actor who has played C-3PO in all the other Star Wars movies, makes a cameo appearance in Solo as another character (Chewbacca's friend).
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