Are you sure it wasn't a cameo from the Insidious demon

I enjoyed it as well. The spinoff films are doing a great job of fleshing the universe out but not shitting on the legacy.

It was better than I was expecting, but somewhat too long given that they seemed to want to wrap up as many potential loose ends as possible... I would no doubt be criticising them for not having done so if they hadn't though. I found Darth Maul's appearance confusing due to not having watched Rebels. They probably want more people to see it.

So now there's a Boba Fett movie confirmed. I expect a Lobot miniseries soon.

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So now there's a Boba Fett movie confirmed. I expect a Lobot miniseries soon.

Boba Fett! Where?

I think you are allowed to be confused by his appearance. It was a surprise to me and I've seen the show.  Or bits of it, at least.

Surely that wasn’t Darth Maul? Thought he died in ep1. Ages and ages ago. 

Boba after movie sounds good. Just was wondering what would be next.

Anyway. I thought it was great.

It was the Maul. Apparently he was rescued from madness and death in the cartoon TV show that aired fairly recently.
I'm not sure I'm happy with them using stuff from some kids cartoon show as canon but hey ho it happened.

P.s. I know star wars is some kids movie shit.

They ballsed up a million things doesn’t mean they have to will go back on it.

This film sounds trash garbo.

Why does everyone in star wars know/meet errbody else? It's fucking dumb. Have some balls and write more new characters. The fuck is Darth Maul doing anywhere outside Ep. 1!? He got a shitty deal by dying pointlessly at the end but just let it be!!!

I am old and drunk, pls ignore.

Blowba Fud etc.

Nah man, I'm looking forward to it.

Nah. It just wasn't necessary. I had zero interest in it until it started to review well.
Unlike Fett, Han Solo isn't a cypher and didn't need fleshing out.
But saying that I really enjoyed it.

It's really only a question of time until a Jar Jar Binks film is announced.

After the prequels narrowly avoided fucking up Solo's backstory, I don't think they had the latitude to do anything particularly out there with this. So while it's a competent and uncontroversial elaboration of the character's background, it struggles to justify its existence as a movie. It feels like a more natural fit for a comic or novel or something - in fact they literally did the Leia equivalent of this story as a YA novel in the run-up to TLJ.

Also, I just don't think the script was that great. I laughed the same number of times I rolled my eyes (two) and there wasn't much audience reaction in my admittedly sparsely attended IMAX screening. As a drama, I don't think it was that great - towards the end of the film it started to get lost in fuel jargon and continuity nods. I didn't particularly care about the characters.

It doesn't climax very well. There isn't some big 'Han is OT Han now' moment. He doesn't get his big break because he gives up the fuel in an act of altruism that 'spoilers' his future character development. Finally getting the MF feels like an epilogue sequence. I thought it was a good film but I don't think it could have been a great film without a different script.

Rogue One was flawed but it was a mostly original story with a mostly original cast of characters and (for me anyway) it elicited some genuine emotion with a tragic story that had extra interest in the form of evil dudes vying for control of a planet destroying superweapon. Solo has mostly returning characters living out a backstory we all know while fannying about over fuel. It's just not the same.