Star Wars Episode IX

[TordelBack]

Disney book-canon has the Empire struggling on as a sometimes-squabbling sometimes-united military force for several (?) years up to the battle of Jakku. After that areas of imperial control still exist within the bounds of treaty, and of course it turns out that this is all basically a front for squirelling away the bulk of their resources in unexplored regions of the galaxy.

[Apestrife]

New teaser. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDuis7ichwg

Idk. Will watch it. Hope I'll get richly surprised.

[Hawkmumbler]

That's just not doing it for me at all sadly.

[Professor Bear]

We've killed off those characters you liked and for good measure marketed our movies by painting you as a racist, but you'll come see this, won't you?  Ah go on, it's the last one.  How bad can it be?  If you don't, we'll tell everyone you hate women.

[auxlen]

I boycotted Solo (which I fully intended to see at the cinema and ultimately enjoyed when i leeched of friends DVD) because I loathed TLJ (I mean properly Loathed)...not only was I Bored in the cinema but the whole casino thing I felt was an insult to me as a fan.

so I can not pay money for 9...call me a man-boy or an entitled child but there it is.

but the Mandalorian looks good but I will buy on DVD because there are tooooooooo many subscription services as there is and I'm skint as fook because I invest all my spare dosh in buying tables at conventions to promote my books.

[Hawkmumbler]

Now see, I adore The Last Jedi. It was fresh, it was weird, it's was strangely blunt yet optimistic. It was FUN. Something I'm not getting from this, at all.

[dweezil2]

TLJ was far from perfect, Leila Poppins, Oliver Twist Force sensitive kids and crackhead Yoda, but it was light years better than Solo.
I found Solo a pretty depressingly redundant affair, Han Solo didn't even behave like Solo, he was a rogue and a scoundrel when we met him in Star Wars, it was only later as his character arc developed that he softened and learnt the importance of lurve and the rebellion.

In Solo there's no way he would of donated all that loot to that nomadic group, he would have just seduced the sexy girl and made off with the money!

A terrible betrayal of the character! 

[Frank]

... he was a rogue and a scoundrel when we met him in Star Wars, it was only later as his character arc developed that he softened and learnt the importance of lurve and the rebellion

The film that ends with Han's idealistic young friend guilting him into saving the beautiful princess's rebellion?

I actually thought that mirroring of Han at the end of Star Wars and his helping mini-Maya Rudolph was the only clever bit of writing in Solo. *

Like you, I thought Solo was perfunctory, even if it's much closer to what I'd have said I wanted from a new Star Wars film if you'd asked me that question any time in the last 37 years.


* I genuinely thought I'd never watch Solo. I was basically tricked into giving it a go by this podcast, which does a pretty good job of arguing its case as a fun, uncomplicated adventure movie, which is exactly what I want from Star Wars: http://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2019/07/special-report-solo-star-wars-story-2018.html

[Greg M.]

I found Solo a pretty depressingly redundant affair

Everything past Return of the Jedi is redundant. But if we have to have new Star Wars films, and apparently we do, then Solo was mostly great fun and had a couple of charismatic leads. Emilia Clarke had more charm in her little finger than the entire casts of Rogue One and TLJ combined. (And I really liked John Boyega in TFA, but by TLJ, he seemed to have had his joie de vivre drained out of him.)

[Hawkmumbler]

(And I really liked John Boyega in TFA, but by TLJ, he seemed to have had his joie de vivre drained out of him.)

Just gonna drop these here...

...as possible reasons why.

Being critiqued for your acting and such is livable, but being set up as part of creepy alt-right conspiracy theories? That's gotta take a tole on your optimism should you be made aware of it (and by all account on Twitter, they all are).

[Greg M.]

I can't say I'd considered any reasons outside of the film, though you may well be right. I just felt Finn - who was by far the best thing in TFA - seemed to have lost a lot of his charm and likeability as a character by TLJ.

Actually, I realise I'm being unfair on Adam Driver when I suggest there was a lack of charisma in TLJ - I think he does an excellent job with a character whose basic concept I fundamentally disapprove of. He actually manages to transcend what a godawful idea Kylo Ren is and make him compelling and watchable. No mean feat.

[JOE SOAP]

the Mandalorian looks good but I will buy on DVD because there are tooooooooo many subscription services as there is ...

The whole idea behind Disney+ is to get you to subscribe so content made for the service is likely exclusive to it and only available on it. It's not intended for a physical release as they want to eventually abandon the format, as they all ready have done in some regions.

[DrJomster]

This is the first trailer that has left me a bit worried I'm not going to like the film. I'm a bit surprised actually. The trailers are usually quite good, even for the films that don't turn out that well. That bit at the end just didn't look right. To me at least.

Right, having externalised that angst nicely, I'm going to park it and wait for the next trailer.

I might just rewatch this trailer a few more times first though. Just to be sure.

[Colin YNWA]

You lot claim to be Star Wars fans yet here we are 4 hoursa after this new trailer was first posted and we're still talking about The Last Jedi (brilliant) and Solo (muh) and not the fact that they cut a shot of Boba from RotJ into the Empire sequence in the montage bit at the beginning there.

What is wrong with you folks!?!

[Colin YNWA]

Oh and can I just check is that Rey looking all dark sidey at the end there? I assume it is but I'm not 100% sure I'm missing the point?