Solo: A Star Wars Story
Aug. 10th, 2018 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOmaha and I went to see Solo: A Star Wars Story. It was okay. It had weaknesses that exposed many of the underlying problems with the Star Wars universe in general, but it was passable as an origin story. There was too much money thrown at it for what it was, although I was impressed with Woody Harrelson, who continues the "I'd love to be in a massive franchise, just make sure I'm dead by the time the film is over" thing lots of older, respected actors and actresses are doing these days (Laura Dern in The Last Jedi, Forrest Whittaker in Black Panther, and so forth).
There are several scenes where characters disassemble guns and reassemble the parts into other guns; at one point, a massive sniper rifle is broken down and the pieces recombined into a holstered sidearm. This brings to mind one of my pet theories about the Star Wars Universe: Most people in the Republic have no idea how anything works at all.
There are designs somewhere for building factories that make things, and there are things made in factories that are the essential components of the Star Wars universe, but the number of research scientists and engineers developing new things, or who know how to modify and fix the old things, is vanishingly small compared to Earth. But most of the Star Wars universe isn't made of makers and tinkerers, there are damned few programmers. There are only parts that can be rearranged in a ridiculously large number of ways, far more than typically found on Earth, and most "engineering" consists of rearranging those parts.
Emilia Clarke was lovely, Donald Glover was amazing, and Alden Ehrenreich did a good job of being Han Solo. His relationship with Chewbacca is interesting and well-managed, although as meet-cutes go this one was a little filthy. It wasn't worth $300million, though.
There are several scenes where characters disassemble guns and reassemble the parts into other guns; at one point, a massive sniper rifle is broken down and the pieces recombined into a holstered sidearm. This brings to mind one of my pet theories about the Star Wars Universe: Most people in the Republic have no idea how anything works at all.
There are designs somewhere for building factories that make things, and there are things made in factories that are the essential components of the Star Wars universe, but the number of research scientists and engineers developing new things, or who know how to modify and fix the old things, is vanishingly small compared to Earth. But most of the Star Wars universe isn't made of makers and tinkerers, there are damned few programmers. There are only parts that can be rearranged in a ridiculously large number of ways, far more than typically found on Earth, and most "engineering" consists of rearranging those parts.
Emilia Clarke was lovely, Donald Glover was amazing, and Alden Ehrenreich did a good job of being Han Solo. His relationship with Chewbacca is interesting and well-managed, although as meet-cutes go this one was a little filthy. It wasn't worth $300million, though.
