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[Pak-Man]

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Feature film · 2018

Strap on a vest and your smirkiest smirk, it’s time for SOLO! The first Star Wars title that tells you exactly how high to set your expectations.

With Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett

See it on RiffTraxIncluded with Best Friends

Strap on a vest and your smirkiest smirk, it's time for Solo! The first Star Wars title that tells you exactly how high to set your expectations.

It's also the first Star Wars movie that's officially a Star Wars Story. It turns out those other Star Wars movies weren't stories at all, they were cinéma vérité documentaries. Which is really the only explanation for those long C-SPAN style Galactic Senate meetings.

But there's none of that dullness here! Well, okay, there is, lots of it. But it doesn't feel like dullness! It's an action-packed slog to the finish that dutifully checks off Star Wars trivia boxes like "the Kessel Run" and "meeting Lando" and "Han Solo's famous lucky dice, you know, the dice that he definitely always had and have always been really important to everyone involved."

It's got romance, a train chase, endless double-crossing, someone from Game of Thrones, and someone from Cheers. Also, fun new Star Wars facts like "Chewbacca has eaten people, like, a lot of people." Gotta love him!

Solo: A Star Wars Story proves once and for all that, before he became Harrison Ford, Han Solo was just a young guy doing his best Jack Nicholson impression. Join Mike, Kevin, and Bill and see how it all happened!

Written by:
Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, Conor Lastowka, Sean Thomason

Contributing Writers:
Jason Miller, Zachary Shatzer

Guest Riffs written by our Drip contest winners:
Nick Pranger and Kurt Storm

[CJones]

Hey, didn't Mike give Kevin $100 to "Never Rap Again" in Fast and Furious? Seems Kevin's reneged on that promise. 

[RVR II]

And I canceled my Netflix DVD membership a couple weeks back..
Guess I'll be hitting up a Red Box

[ihavemyreasons]

Netflix still had DVD subscriptions? Was a long time Netflix DVD subscriber and remember being skeptical when they started their streaming service, but after switching to streaming I never looked back and just kind of assumed that they stopped DVDs at some point.
Also never rented from a Redbox...and I'm amazed that we have something like 6 Family Video stores still in business here (can't remember the last time I went into one though- was well before Blurays became common).

[RVR II]

Netflix still had DVD subscriptions? Was a long time Netflix DVD subscriber and remember being skeptical when they started their streaming service, but after switching to streaming I never looked back and just kind of assumed that they stopped DVDs at some point.
Also never rented from a Redbox...and I'm amazed that we have something like 6 Family Video stores still in business here (can't remember the last time I went into one though- was well before Blurays became common).

Yep!
And for those old-skool reauthorers, the mp3 syncs Perfectly to the DVD

[dbsommer]

You know, I couldn't help thinking this would have been a pretty good movie if it hadn't been about Han. Mostly because this kid doesn't come across as a young Harrison Ford/Solo in any scene for me. I could have done without the preaching of the not evil masked guys being the good guys in this. I had no issue with it being a bunch of criminal factions warring against one another. It just felt so obligatory and tacked on it detracted from things.

Aside from that, it was an okay film. Not the dumpster fire I anticpated.

[CJones]

You know, I couldn't help thinking this would have been a pretty good movie if it hadn't been about Han. Mostly because this kid doesn't come across as a young Harrison Ford/Solo in any scene for me. I could have done without the preaching of the not evil masked guys being the good guys in this. I had no issue with it being a bunch of criminal factions warring against one another. It just felt so obligatory and tacked on it detracted from things.

Aside from that, it was an okay film. Not the dumpster fire I anticpated.

Pretty much exactly how I felt (almost). It wasn't even a bad movie, though I could have done with less pandering to the originals. And the Enfys Nest stuff towards the end was pretty stupid.

But I thought Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, and the rest of the cast did a pretty good job. I would take Solo over Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones any day.