Solo: A Star Wars Story (Ron Howard, May 25, 2018) Movie • Page 12

If the actor went to producers over the film the directors wanted to make, hopefully other directors hesitate before hiring him.

 

We must enjoy different movies. If that's the case then I can see you not giving it much weight. A lot of my all time faves on that list. Raiders, ET, Jurrasic Park, among others.

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The really shitty thing about this situation is that when Edgar Wright got fired from Antman I didn't see people calling for Kevin Fiege's job. Seems to wreak of some type of inequality that I can't quite put my finger on.

 

None of those are my favorite movies, but they are all very good films directed by the best mainstream big-budget director that ever lived. He is the one that made them like that.

 

It doesn't reek of anything. Everyone was pissed at Marvel for how they treated Edgar Wright, and yes that included saying Feige should be fired. Most of Edgar's fans still are pissed about it. I still am. And also I don't think Edgar got "fired" from Ant-Man, pretty sure he quit, and he quit before production began, not five months into filming. Situations are totally different.

 

The main thing I'm getting from this is that we are now being robbed of a new comedic Donald Glover performance

 

That's my fear as well. I don't want to point to any source yet, and agree/disagree yet.

 

Make Dong Lover funny again

 

These guys know how to make a movie. If the assembled footage truly wasn't working I have a really hard time believing they wouldn't recognize that. The whole thing sounds so fishy

 

In the end I trust Kasdan, who knows Han Solo more than anyone. Bringing back an old Harrison Ford in the TFA could have turned out terrible, but we got the Han Solo we all knew and loved.

 

Out of all the possible anthology films, I feel like people were pretty underwhelmed by this. I can't imagine what has been going on has helped that at least.

 

No credit where credit's not due, I get it. You keep having your perception, I'll have mine, and everyone will be happy. Except for I may be a little happier because I'm happy that Kennedy is doing what she's doing. But you get what I'm saying.



Also, it infuriates me that people won't give her credit. You don't get hand-picked by George Lucas to run LucasFilm if you don't know what you're doing. But of course it has nothing to do with her being a woman. This country sucks sometimes.

 

LOL. Sure. Ya. It has nothing to do with her being a woman. Everything is completely equal. There's no gender wage-gap either. Carry on. Sorry for misreading the entire state of the United States.

 

It is not really a perception issue; directors make movies, producers secure funding and various other business matters.

I would assume she has her position because she knows how to make a lot of money for people. That was evident in the first new Star Wars movie, and that is what studios care about, not quality. I don't know why you tried to make it a gender thing.

 

If that's what you took from what I said, then so be it bud.

 

Do some research on Kennedy is all I'm saying. She's very hands-on with her movies. If she wasn't instrumental in the making of the movie how would she have known that when she combined the dailies she'd been reviewing that it was a mess? Give credit where credit's due man. Stop trying to minimize her impact. I mean, believe what you want, but I think it's foolish to diminish her impact on modern popular cinema.

 

She saw a potential that the film would make less money because it would be different than the corporate filmmaking that they wanted. Producers interfering in films is a bad thing, not a good thing.

 

Maybe she saw from the daily's that the movie was looking more 21 Jump Street and looked more like a spoof than a real movie? We will never know.

 

I'm sure some dumbasses are spouting some misogynist bullshit about Kathleen Kennedy but she made a decision with really bad optics. The studio she leads has now twice meddled significantly in the work of the directors she hired. The movies she's put out so far with Star Wars are safe, high floor, low ceiling products. She deserves plenty of heat just like Feige has gotten in absolute boatloads over the last 7 years or whatever.

 

I still feel like this is the worst defense. I've read countless stories where Han has been depicted with more depth for longer than anything Kasdsn ever wrote.

 

Using George Lucas judgement as defense is new. Hahaha.

 

At the end of the day, for me, this is a pretty egregious unforced error.

From the outset, this movie was a bad idea. The biggest failure of the prequels was demystifying one of the all time great villains. Very few characters like that ever grow MORE interesting as information becomes available. The mystery is the whole reason they remain interesting! The sale to Disney was supposed to be about learning the lessons from that failure. Instead, they find the only other character who has that kind of cache and set about pulling back the curtain.

This movie was always going to be difficult. Sure, it would make money, but it was always going to be an uphill battle getting to the point where the audience left with goodwill. This move strikes me as the surest sign that this insecurity is setting in at Disney.

That, to me, is worthy of criticism.

 

I've always thought the one offs should be expanding the universe, not keeping it smaller by going back to the same characters.

The only one I'd be truly excited for is Obi Wan.

 

I'd be down for a Kenobi movie. Beyond that, give me Old Republic era.

 

I'm not even sure why I want an Obi-Wan film. Probably just because of McGregor. Outside of that, I'd love to see Old Republic, a Bounty Hunter film that's not specifically about Boba Fett, and maybe Dr. Aphra because her comics have all been awesome.

 

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