“You might wanna buckle up, baby.” — Lando Calrissian, “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
From the opening guitar strains on the music accompanying the new trailer for “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” you know this isn’t the same old cinematic territory for the franchise.
I don’t care what any of the prognosticators think. I don’t care that they had to bring in Opie Cunningham to reshoot most of the movie.
“Solo: A Star Wars Story” looks legit.
I was there in 1977 when the first movie came out. I’m not some second-gen SW fan. I know how this has all gone down.
If you were a kid who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s, you knew that Han Solo was the best thing about the “Star Wars” saga. You didn’t worry about “frozen flying jedis” and “canon purity.”
You were lured into that universe by the roguish smuggler who could charm the pants off a gundark...
I have no idea if “Solo: A Star Wars Story” will be any good.
Donald Glover (who portrays Lando Calrissian in the film) looks like he just stepped out of an episode of “Troy and Abed in the Morning” — from the genius sitcom “Community.”
That's exactly why I’m stoked to see Glover in the movie.
While big blockbusters these days are super-obsessed with big, overly sincere, and grave plots about saving all life in the universe, this movie looks like it will be a mindless sci-fi ride.
That’s what I loved about science fiction movies in the 1980s. The movies back then didn't take themselves so seriously.
It is curious that Ron Howard plans to premiere “Solo: A Star Wars Story” at the Cannes Film Festival next month. That doesn’t mean it is high art (both “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones” and “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith” screened at Cannes), but it is a sign that the movie is better than all the “mouth breathers” are suggesting.
Plus, for the first time since 1978’s “Star Wars Holiday Special” (which I watched on our family's 17-inch Quasar TV set), we’ll get to see Chewbacca with a lady Wookiee. One can only hope that means we’ll also get to see Boba Fett in the film.
May 25th...be there.
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