SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

Amazing movie, don’t understand the hate

I very much enjoyed this movie, though I'll admit I'm the only one in the family who gives it five stars – most hover around 4. But how can I not like a Ron Howard movie, not to mention: 1) an action movie, 2) how Solo got his last name, 3) why Solo wasn't sure Lando would greet him with friendliness, 4) how Solo and Chewie met, 5) what is a Kessel Run, 6) Lando's capes! Not to mention scenes that harken back to the original film trio, such as: "This is a thermal detonator." In Bonus Feature E, Ron Howard says, "One of the things that really interested me about this story is that it's about a person choosing an outlaw's life. And it's really important for this young guy to quickly understand that this life of thievery is not romantic." If you buy it on disc, you have many options for languages and subtitles: Languages – English, English Descriptive Audio, French Subtitles – English, French, Dutch, Danish, Suomi, Norwegian, Syenska I LOVE Bonus Features, especially if they give me insights into the director's plan for the movie and "making of" scenes. With BluRay, you get a whole 2nd disc of Bonus Features, which have even more subtitle options – English, CESKE, Nederlands, French, German, Magyar, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and two more (I cannot, unfortunately, read the characters). BONUS FEATURES: ....A... "Solo: The Director & Art Roundtable" (22 minutes) After filming, Ron Howard (director) asks 8 actors to join him at a roundtable (actually an octagon) to discuss the movie. Commentators include Alden Ehrenreich (plays Han), Donald Glover (plays Lando Calrissian), Joonas Suotamo (plays Chewbacca), Emilia Clarke (plays Qi'ra), Phoebe Waller-Bridge (plays L3-37), Thandie Newton (plays Val), Woody Harrelson (plays Tobias Beckett) and Paul Bettany (plays Dryden Vos). Everybody was over the moon, including Howard, when George Lucas visited the set, and challenged Ron to a game of dejarik = holo-chess. Howard asks, Who inspired you for your role? Thandie replies, "There was a woman who grew up in Zimbabwe in the Colonial Era, and, who, in the 70s ... was part of the independent struggle in Zimbabwe. She left because members of her friendship group had been assassinated because of the struggles. She found herself in England when she was in a really difficult, sometimes racist environment. She struggled through that, she raised a family. And that was my mom." ....B... "Kasdan on Kasdan" (8 minutes) New commentators include Lawrence Kasdan (producer/cowriter), Kathleen Kennedy (president Lucas Film), Jonathan Kasdan (cowriter). Larry Kasdan wrote three Star Wars franchise movies, and, as Kennedy says, "knows Han Solo better than anybody." He returned to work with his son, Jon, to write this movie. ....C... "Remaking the Millennium Falcon" (5 minutes) New commentators include Lee Sandales (set decorator), James Clyne (design supervisor), John Swartz (producer), Liam Georgensen (asst. art director), Neil Lamont (production designer) and Alistair Bullock (art director). As Donald Glover notes, "The Falcon in this movie is brand new." ....D... "Escape From Corella" (10 minutes) New commentators include Simon Emanuel (producer), Rob Bredow (special effects supervisor, producer), Gary Tomkins (art director), Ben Collins (stunt performer) and Matthew Samway (ILM). The Corella world was created new, because it is only mentioned in dialogue in Episode V. As much as possible of the car chase on Corella was done for real rather than special effects. Really enjoyed how they made and ran the stolen speeder. Tomkins says they used stuff like baguette warmers from a local supermarket and a refueling nose cone of a military jet. .....E... "The Train Heist" (14 minutes) New commentators include Paul Marsh (senior model maker), Nick Fulton (Italy production manager), Bradford Young (director photography) and Charles Jellis (action vehicles chargehand). The background snow scenes were filmed in the Italian mountains. Fulton, "We managed to get 250 people up here, and a Wookie. Getting that amount of people on top of a mountain brings its own challenges. So we built roads as far as we an, and then operating the four helicopters bringing people in and out." ....F... "Team Chewie" (7 minutes) New commentators include Tim Nielsen (sound editor and designer) and Maria Cork (supervising animatronic designer). Per Nielsen, Chewie "is introduced as a man-eating beast with this massive roar.... The main recording of Chewbacca is a bear that Ben Burtt, the original sound designer, recorded many many years ago." ....G... "Becoming a Droid: L3-37" (5 minutes) New commentators include T J Falls (visual effects producer) and Karin Cooper (digital artist supervisor). It is marvelous how they filmed Waller-Bridge and illustrates why the robot's movements are so human-like. ....H... "Scoundrels, Droids, Creatures and Cards: Welcome to Fort Ypso" (8 minutes) New commentator Neil Scanlon (creature effects). The Lodge is the "tough seedy bar" where Han meets Lando, and joins the card game of Sabaac. ....I... "Into the Maelstrom: The Kessel Run" (7 minutes) Jonathan Kasdan quotes Han in the first Star Wars movie, "This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs." He continues, "That is a nonsensical statement. A parsec is a unit of distance, not a unit of speed. So, what did he mean when he said that?" The movie explains. Tim Nielsen on his work on the Kessel Run: "Coaxium canisters are about to explode, so that was really fun trying to figure out what's the sound of these decaying metal canisters. I saw this video on youtube years ago of somebody dropping a Gummi Bear into potassium chlorate. It causes the Gummi Bear to spontaneously combust." Voila! ....J... "Delted Scenes" (6 minutes) Eight deleted scenes, including how Han got into the Imperial Infantry in the first place. I have such a good time watching this prequel! Happy Reader

It's far superior than The Last Jedi, and you are not ready for this conversation.

I love "Star Wars" and I love 3D movies. This is a perfect combination. Plays great on my American 3D Sony Blu-ray DVD player and my large Samsung 3D TV. I have never understood why 3D movies are not more popular. This 3D movie pulls you into the story.

fast shipping ... as described ... great quality... Great movie .

I'll admit that when this first came out a badmouthed this movie quite a bit. Like really? Did we need to know more about Han Solo? How could anyone come close to Harrison Ford? Why can't we get an original star wars story that has nothing to do with the old movies? However, now that it's been a while and my original outrage is over, I saw it again and actually--it's not bad. It's actually a pretty fun movie. The actors playing Han and Lando nail the performance, the cast overall is pretty top notch, and the story is pretty fun, suspenseful, and interesting. I hope they make a sequel or tv show out of it because I'd like to see these characters continue to grow. I'd like to see Han Solo transform into a more cynical, sarcastic, and jaded character. I'd like to see the the Hutt gang grow and rub shoulders with the other cartels. TLDR: It's funny, has great action, great acting, great casting, and a pretty good star wars feel to it. Highly recommend.

... But this was just not up to par as a movie. It feels thrown together, and with the young 'Han' actor trying to basically map out to Harrison Ford is just impossible. I debated between two and three stars, but I settled with three, as there is something of a plot, the actors clearly tried, and I think Ron Howard did try to spend some time directing it. To be totally honest, if this was not a Star Wars themed movie, I may have probably given it four stars. You just can't replicate Harrison Ford's Solo, at least Alden Ehrenreich did not live up to that task... I thought he did a great job with his character, it's just not Han Solo. It's like Han's brother or something. Emilia Clarke could make a movie about mud and do a fantastic job; that person is just an all-around great artist. To be honest; she was more the star of the show, and everything else seemed to not live up what she brought to the table. Woody Harrelson seemed to fall back on his standard 'rebel-charming-witty' characteristics a bit more than I expected; leaving me to believe either Ron did not give him enough time to really get the scenes right, or he was just doing what his character was supposed to be like. I liked him, but I think I was just expecting a little more something-ish. A big part of my problem is that I went into Rogue One going “ehhh… I don’t know….”, and then literally having myself a bit of a cry at the end. I watched it twice in a row. I was seriously impressed with that production. So, with this Solo movie I read a some of the reviews, and then decided that they did not really dig into the acting-directing-scripting of the movie enough for me, so I was thinking “yeah, this is going to be good…”, and it was just not. I mean really; trying to duplicate Harrison Ford for a whole movie? And then so much of the acting just came off just above mediocre, at best. Then the story-line seemed a bit too thrown together or really poorly edited, and/or simple. Like you could just figure out the whole thing in the first ten minutes. I think this would have been much better if they did not try to replicate Han Solo without Harrison Ford. That would be impossible at this point, so they should have centered more on Lando, maybe, as we did not get to know Billy Dee Williams as much? But then he also did a really great job, so… My two cents would have been to let either Emilia Clarke or Woody Harrelson be the focus, and have much more brief moments with Han and Lando’s characters. Then you take off the pressure of having to try and duplicate Harrison Ford, and have a really cool and fun story from the Star Wars Universe. Just up the directing, acting, scripting, and editing. I get why this movie was considered a financial ‘bomb’ now.

Perfect

Ho acquistato la versione 3D perchè appassionato di 3D (possiedo un proiettore con matrice nativa 4K d'alta qualità e luminosità, adoro i prodotti 3D). Catena Audio con pre e finali Krell. Purtroppo l'audio italiano non è disponibile. C'è la traccia inglese, polacca e tedesca. L'inglese in DTS ( fondamentalmente mediocre, purtroppo, piatto e ben poco dinamico) che è l'unica che ho usato per via del fatto che conosco bene questa sola lingua delle tre. Da quanto ne so non esiste una versione italiana in 3D (come sempre più spesso accade da anni) e questo è davvero triste, perchè se è vero che la lingua inglese per me non rappresenta un problema è anche vero che andrà a finire che godrò della visione di questo disco sempre da solo (...) il 3D non è molto evidente. Alcuni passaggi sono lievemente più riusciti della media in termini qualitativi (definitivamente piuttosto bassi). La maggior parte delle scene è scura. Il mio proiettore è di fascia top, con una profondità nelle ombre "proverbiale" (per essere un digitale, beninteso) per cui alla fine riesco a godere l'intero film, ma immagino che con proiettori meno "generosi" in apertura delle ombre questo film si possa godere ben poco. Per quanto riguarda la qualità video direi in definitiva che si tratti d'un bluray mediocre (naturalmente ho visionato anche la versione 2D, scarsa in termini di contrasto e dettaglio come la versione 3D). Il contenuto filmico invece è del tutto piacevole e pienamente godibile: uno spin-off riuscito sotto ogni punto di vista. Un minimo di spoiler (parziale): a parte gli elementi Han Solo, Chewbecca, Lando e Millenium Falcon si potrebbe considerare un film del tutto autonomo, pienamente godibile al di fuori del ciclo di Star Wars. La storia è consistente, gli effetti speciali spettacolari, i colpi di scena non mancano, la storia sentimentale del protagonista è sviluppata degnamente e gli attori sono all'altezza della situazione, sempre. Il film lo considero da otto pieno, uno dei migliori acquisti di quest'anno, indubbiamente.

I can't understand the negativity around this movie. I get a lot of people didn't like The Last Jedi. But this is not that movie. In fact it simply does what it says on the tin - tells the story of a younger Han Solo. It manages to pack in a lot of the fun of the original Star Wars: A New Hope. It is a romp. It's not full of too many serious issues and it should appeal to anyone who enjoyed the original trilogy. It is certainly a lot lighter in tone than Rogue One - which I also love - but it's good to have contrast. Also what humour is present is entirely justified. There are certainly lots of thrills too. And you see a lot of events which are referred to in the other movies. As a long time follower of Star Wars, one thing I noticed is how this movie seems to reference Han's adventures both in the early Marvel comics and the Brian Daley books. It underlines that the Empire isn't the only threat in the galaxy and we see more of the scoundrel and less of the rebel. That's what make this stand out for me. It harks back to the original repetition of Han as we first saw him. Han isn't an anodyne hero. In fact, he's trying hard not to be a hero. There is a sequence towards the end where we see the harder side of him which we only glimpse in A New Hope - think Greedo. It is obvious that the movie has been left in such a way that a follow up could be made. I hope we get at least one, but it could just as easy be left as it is. Overall a more accessible entry into the canon that say The Last Jedi - although I enjoyed that too, but for different reasons. Also there are shedloads of Easter eggs to keep fans happy. And a big surprise just tops that off. If you are wondering if this is worth getting, do yourself a favour and get it. You may even enjoy it.

Film bien

Si de verdad quieres saber más, esta película incluye (ademas del conocido final y la famosa y gran carrera de kessel) un sin número de referencias hacia galaxy’s edge en Disney! Un clásico para un fan de Star Wars que gusta ver más allá de lo que le han impuesto o si las historias no han cumplido sus expectativas.

Got The SteelBook And The 4K Editions ! SteelBook Came With 3D+2D+Bonus Disc And Was Beautiful With The Falcon In It's Cover ! The 4K Was Just A Steal ! Got It With 4K+2D+3D+Bonus Disc ! Came In An Excellent Packaging ! The Movie Is Good ! It Is Fun,But The Colour Tone Is A Bit Dark And It Is Not A Colourful Movie ! But,The Movie Has Excellent Detail And Resolution !