Solo gets Kennedy'd

As noted before we saw Solo again this weekend* and we still like it.

For that matter we liked it a bit more than we did the first time. This movie is far from perfect. It's far from Rogue One**.

We think the war on Solo is a rebellion against Kathleen Kennedy, who is running the Star Wars franchise for Disney. Kennedy royally screwed up The Last Jedi, so much so that it makes one realize that The Force Awakens is not that good.***

Kathleen Kennedy is a Social Justice Warrior, just Google 'The force is female'. This is why we have those stupid female characters in The Last Jedi, that horrible 2nd act in same, and the annoying feminist droid, L-3**** in Solo. 

Solo is getting panned becuase Star Wars fandom is revolting against the schoolmarmish Kennedy who keeps scolding, 'Don't do that! Boys! You have to let the girls participate too!'

*Our nieces are visiting for a while and we had them while our own girls were at dance show rehearsal.
**Which is just friggin awesome.
***Say it with us, people: soft reboot
****We keep wanting to type L-7

Solo'd

Solo: A Star Wars Story is a well executed edition to the Star Wars universe.

At the beginning one sees Alden Ehrenreich's Han and says no way, that's not Han. But as the movie goes on Ehrenreich grows into the part until he's something close to Harrison Ford's Han. Donald Glover does a fine Lando with a couple of nice additions to the Billy Dee Williams version. Woody Harrelson plays a typical Woody Harrelson very well. This is a good thing. Emilia Clarke is fine as well. Paul Bettany is an excellent arch villain Dryden Vos.

This movie kept me guessing the entire time and I always guessed wrong. Also, I thought I'd be bored by the action scenes. But these were very well done, especially the Kessel Run.

Yes, this film spends a lot of time checking off names and retroactively laying the ground work for Han. Everything the reader(s) are now imagining-that and those.

There are a couple of WTF moments at the end. Either one is OK with them or one is not.*

I was prepared to hate this movie but do not. 4/5 Stars.

*At least it wasn't Jar-Jar.

Going Solo

As noted before, Star Wars isn't special anymore. Star Wars is just another universe to be franchised like Xmen or...I dunno I've never actually seen one of the Marvel/DC Comic Book Man movies so I really have no idea.

Lando🗸
Chewie🗸
Blaster🗸
Chess🗸

So they're twixting the nethers of all us Xers.*

So far Solo looks kind of like the next installment of the Oceans saga.

Reviews for Solo: A Star Wars Story are coming in, and their pretty meh.

But here's an idea. We're used to Star Wars movies being awesome or being awesomely bad. What if Solo is...OK? What if it's decent? What if Solo is pretty good, I guess? What if, to paraphrase Caesar  in History of the World Part I, Solo is, 'Nice...not thrilling...but nice.' 

*You know the drill, post in comments.