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Solo sets bar low
A DECENT FILM WITH POLARIZING RESULTS
BY JARED PREBLE
j&RTS & CULTURE EDITOR
-A nother day, another Star W ars film .
R eleasing fu st five m onth s after “ The The film is set as a prequel to the original
Last Jedi, ” “ Solo” aims to appeal to a wide junk (pictured below).
range of audiences whilst paying homage
the three directors that left their mark
to Harrison Ford’ s original Han Solo. It’ s
on this movie. “ Solo” moves at a rapid
d efinitely a tall order, and depending
pace, with not enough importance placed
on who you ask, you’ll get a wide range
on each o f the s'cenes that define Han
of responses on the quality of the film .
and com pany. The overall m essage o f
F allin g w ell in line w ith the previous
the film is at times hard to follow, and
next generation Star Wars movies that
without the help of simple
have been released in the past few years,
m ost movie goers would
Solo has left audiences across the nation
rather lost.-
polarized.
- It should be
Solo stands as one of the few movies
that the film does
to make its way around three different
stay very true to
^ d ir e c t o r s / C h ris M ille r , P h il Lord ,
* responsible for the h it com edies “ 21 th e ro o ts fro m
w hich its fan base
Jum p Street” and “ 22 Jum p Street” as
grew , artd m an y lo n g
well as “ The Lego M ovie,” were relieved
tim e Star W ars fa n s w ill b e
o f th eir duties and replaced by Ron
pleased to see Hah and Chewbacca meet
Howard halfw ay through shooting as a
for the first time as that is one o f the key
result o f the slow going production and
examples of good film m aking that keeps
insubordination to Disney executives.
this movie from falling into the
A ccording to num erous reports, the
o f a poor m o v ie ..
pair of. directors could flo u rish in an
Effects wise, this movie was up to
im provisational com edy environm ent;
sn uff as expected. W orking w ith a
such as the Jum p Street film s, though
budget o f $300 million, this movie
they apparently floundered in a workplace
where hundreds of cast and crew members , had all the firepower it needed to
are w aiting for exact direction; the Sheer
m ake it look exception al and it
shows. The environments we see'
size o f the production they had to work
throughout the film are perfect
w ith w as rep orted ly o verw h elm in g,
reflectio n s o f the w orlds th a t
too. This led to the excusal of Lord and
caught people’s eye in the original
^ M iller w ith Howard, an award w inning
trilogy, and Howard did a fine job of
director m ost prom inently know n for
not adding too m any drastic changes
h is narration o f Arrested Developm ent,
with the exception of a few nuances here
reshooting seventy percent of the movie.
W ith this knowledge that Howard was and there.
A s far as box office success, “ So lo ”
assigned to reshoot such a large chunk
returned from its opening weekend with
o lth e movie back in Jun e, it’ s very easy
a m easly $84.4 m illion compared to its
to?see the overlaying visions of each of
trilogy, and the Millennium Falcon looks entirely different than the classic hunk of
impressive $300 m illion budget. This is
one of the contributing factors to people’s
mixed reactions to thé film , and it brings
into question the validity of the vision
for this original Star W ats universe that
these next few film s are sure to follow.
As a fellow Star Wars proponent,
this film cettainly
falls short in many areas that cried for a
more thorough insight, but it was still an
entertaining film nonetheless. If you’re,
looking for a fast paced s c i-ii starring
your favorite space scoundrel, give “ Solo”
a shot.
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