Mike, Jay, and Mike's drug induced hallucination name Rick Evans talk about the most unanticipated anticipation of a movie called "Solo: A Solo Wars Star Wars Solo Story"
Disney bought star wars but misused the franchise, bad scripts with barely anything new, people wore tired, the sad part is that it could have been good
@@diogoduarte8008Lucas really did the con of the century, he sold a dried up franchise to a short-sighted multinational for billions, while turning himself into a martir and making people forget how bad of a filmmaker he actually is.
The fact that they felt the need to explain why Han calls Chewbacca Chewy is actually insane. Nobody would be confused if we just started calling him a nickname that is a shortened version of his full name
No I spent the whole duration of A New Hope thinking there were two Wookie characters that looked exactly the same, being careful to never be in the same room at the same time.
my favorite thing about these new movies is how they help recontextualize the old ones. Like how learning about the droid struggle taught me that a new hope was really the story of a young plantation master going on a fun little space adventure with his two slaves.
The fact that Rich sounds like he's speaking to them from a cave even though he's right beside them is pretty good evidence that he's a hallucination after all.
@@darkstar4494 Ok thanks. Before i knew which article to use, in the sentence, it was completely unintelligible, but since you pointed that out, people can decode it. Thank God for the people of youtube who play fantasy english professor every time they read comments and grade them so we can better understand them. Make sure you have your red marker ready when you read your Christmas card from Grandma too so you can leave notes about her spelling under her nice sentences about how you're important to her life. "Yea, Grandma, the sweater fits and all, but I think you meant 'they're' and not 'their'. And no, i haven't given Pride and Prejudice a proper read yet because i'm still proof reading it. Gotta make sure the characters know which articles to use in between their nouns or else its not even believable, you know."
Yeah it creates a huge continuity error in the original trilogy because we see Han with his boots on and it’s like how did he get those boots? It’s confusing for the audience
Least they showed us those iconic lucky dice that only showed up when Disney took over. Truly reflective how much a gamble they took for the merch department. And somehow lost.
I liked the scene where it shows how he got the snap for the strap that he unsnaps just before he defends himself against Greedo shooting first in ANH. That scene where Greedo shoots first was confusing to me when I first saw it, because I was wondering where he got that snap and strap for his holster. How did he know to unsnap that? Was it the Force? Now I know the shopkeeper told him to unsnap that strap that he sewed onto his holster every time he met a Rodian, because one day a Rodian would shoot at him. First.
Since it was decided that all Jedi dress exactly like Obi-Wan did, I was hoping that in Solo every single smuggler would wear an exact copy of Han’s outfit too.
Kulaks HATE this channel Click to find out why! But he's in hiding, why would he wear the recognisable uniform of the jedi. It's alright for the Jedi to have a uniform, but he shouldn't be wearing it on tatooine.
Well seeing as the Jedi where a monastic order, the robe was probably more a sign of giving up earthly things, then a uniform. So while it might be silly staying in uniform, at least it's a uniform also used by millions of other people across thousand of other worlds. (numbers where pulled straight out of my ass)
Analyzing Male Slavery This isn't a fucking forum you fraud, don't quote people like that. It's hard enough to see what's the name of someone and what's the actual message
But that assumes that it was a uniform at all. As an example Lukes onkel Owen was wearing pretty much the same style of clothing as Kenobi was when we see him. silly and contrived sure, but it does make sense within it's own universe.
"We'll get to see how he meets with his lost twin cousin, mr. Plinkett" -Harvey Weinstein "We're meeting rich right before he turns into the obese middle age kid we all know him for" -Natalie Portman "Evans a RLM story is the amazing journey of a decaying grown man towards accepting he kinda gets turned on by little star wars action figures, and that for me makes it a really powerful coming of age story" -Steven Spielberg "When Steven approached me to play rich i was blown away you know, we got to shoot the scene where he meets jay, and mike in a star trek convention, that was really powerful haha... i might have ended with a tear or two after that" -Jonah Hill
"What's your name?" -"Evans." "Evans, and? Do you have a first name?" "No, but my laughter can cure cancer. " "Well, that's rich. Ok from now one you are Rich Evans"
I always thought that the 12 Parsecs thing was just to establish Han as a bullshitter. That's why Obi Wan looks at Luke like "This guy is full of shit"
I thought the same thing. Like he talks about this thing that nobody has ever heard of and was like "oh yea all the pilots know about the Kessel run, trust me bro"
It's even referenced in the script. After the twelve parsecs line, there's a direction to the effect of "Obi Wan reacts to this obvious misinformation". In other words, George Lucas expected from the audience at least a basic understanding of how space works.
@@gladspooky9455 I hate to spoil the fun but George Lucas actually did know what a parsec was, shockingly. The original script makes it clear that Han is bullshitting because he thinks these idiots from Tatooine will be impressed by fancy-sounding words and give him money. Even in the final cut Obi-Wan gives Han a knowing look. Unfortunately, the emotional intent of the scene was too subtle for Star Wars fans and now we have decades of weird canon trying to explain why Han, known liar and swindler, was actually telling the truth while he was trying to swindle people in a bar. It's not a particularly well executed character moment, but it IS a character moment.
English isn’t their first language. For Rich, it’s Wookiee. For Mike, it’s Klingon. For Jay, it’s the French he picked up watching Truffaut’s movies as a toddler.
The Action Brick Hopefully Mike's statement is a prophetic one... b/c the idea that Rian Johnson has been given the reins by Kennedy/Disney to helm his very own new hack fraud SW trilogy. ***Alarm bells*** DNW.
mariokarter13 "Is it prequel bad or Rian Johnson bad?" The prequels were total shite, and Rian's TLJ was utter shite too--it's like poetry, sort of they rhyme. That takes the franchise to a whole new low, and I'm sure Rian Johnson's future non-Skywalker SW trilogy will take the franchise to the pits of SW fatigue hell.
12 Parsecs: All they have ever had to do was say Han was talking out his ass in the cantina because he was half drunk and trying to bamboozle what he thought was a couple of farmers. That's it. None of this 30 years of people making up stuff about the Maw and all that. Just "Han was lying to get money, and Obiwan could tell but didn't care because he needed a ride". This right here is the core problem with Star Wars: nerds need every single part to be real and important.
Yeah this is a problem I have with some modern sci-fi/fantasy films and tv shows. The stories should be character-driven. Instead they get bogged down by explanations of the how the tech and/or superpowers work. Throwaway lines are explained 30, 40 years later to give the geeks something to high-five about. Lol I still watch them, cuz I'm a nerd myself, but it takes me out of the movie when they start over-explaining things. Keep it simple. I can still feel and appreciate drama, conflict, and tension even if I don't know how a warp drive works.
mystermistery i was hoping in the Force Awakens Han would claim he did it in 10 parsecs... thus it was a fish tale. His exaggerating his exploits would have fit with his character.
Rich actually enjoyed the film. It wasn't just "This is gonna be awful, oh wait, it's not THAT bad". He ACTUALLY enjoyed the movie. Mike likes it except for the cinematography so he's on the fence. They're not using the "It could have been worse" as their main argument.
@@GeorgeMonet Most adults reacted that way when he came back in The Clone Wars cartoon. Kids didn't care. But then he was made into a completely new character in the show and people sort of forgave it.
30:30 - The reason they added a train to this movie is because there are trains in the new Star Wars Land theme park, and they needed to establish that trains exists in the Star Wars universe.
I remember reading somewhere Shmi was actually born with the name Skywalker. It was her father's last name. Shmi was traveling with her parents and siblings when they were abducted. That is how Shmi became a slave. So there are more Skywalkers in the galaxy who have yet to be featured.
@@Cdixonmma Han didn't work for Jaba. He just owed Jaba money. The fact that he didn't work for Jaba is evidenced by the fact that he owed Jaba money. Han wasn't some amazing character. He was a deadbeat that just couldn't make anything in his life work. Even the Millenium Falcon was falling apart when we first met him in A New Hope.
@@GeorgeMonet Okay Mr “I don’t remember the dialogue from the Originals” he owes Jabba money because he was smuggling for him and dumped the cargo when he was approaching a Star Destroyer. Google is your friend
Yeah I'm sure after making an acclaimed franchise film that grossed like 1.5 billion he'll never work in this town again, because it had an audience score of like 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.
@@LordZordid I think it's become such a trope that any debate is moot. I was 10 when A New Hope came out. I still own an original vhs tape. Greedo didn't shoot back. Han killed him.
That random mercenary was always my favourite in that whole scene. Then some hack frauds took the cool character that I'd loved for ages and made a terrible, unnecessary origin story for him and totally ruined him and Star Wars forever. Except for the chase scene - that's gold, Jared, gold.
Can we take a moment to say thank you to the RLM gang? I'm at a depressed point in my life right now and rewatching all these videos, along with Plinkett, is cheering me up. Great work guys
The worst thing about this is you assume Han had had been on plenty of adventures over his life to end up where he is when Luke meets him, but apparently he meets Chewie, meets Lando, gets me the Falcon and does the Kessler run all in one adventure. Also gets his name and dice in this adventure too (stuff no one ever gave a shit about. Didn’t everyone just assume his surname was Solo? Nah apparently that needed its own origin story too).
And the gun has a story to. But it never explained how he can talk to chewis. The only thing that would been interesting. And they movie makes it impossible for him to know that.
I think it would have been cool for both chewie and han to not be able to understand each other verbally the whole movie. so they would have to learn how to work together non-verbally, then at the end of the movie you would see them both with books in their hands, studying the other one's language.
It's because you only have one movie and you gotta get all of the dumb nerd references into that one movie, who cares if it makes the character sound hollow when you think about it for five seconds.
@@turtleanton6539 That was the most bizarre choice. The last name thing is insane, and something nobody expected to even have a story. A lot of the other stuff was unnecessary but harmless. But learning to understand Wookie? That could have been interesting. All sorts of things you could have done. But we don't even get a nod to something like "Han grew up where a lot of Wookies were employed for muscle, so he learned their language."
I think a Han Solo story could work better if it was framed as a bunch of people telling stories about when they met _the_ Han Solo. That way you could spread out the timeline and could have recurring characters without having to focus too much on one group.
When Mike is struggling to open the Millenium Falcon model, Jay goes through all the emotions: indifference, embrassement, to amazement and pure glee when he's realizing that he's the one editing the video and he can leave all of it in.
Every time one of the RLM guys gets the role of editing the video, they take revenge on the previous video’s editor for making them look dumb. It’s a positive feedback loop that will never end.
This was SOOOOO weird to notice and come to realization on. It's great though that from what I get from their current energy, is that a healthy and great feeling that they progressed through any hang ups in their relationship had been reached, as everyone was probably having their own private mental breakdowns with trying to go through Covid, and ALLLL that has transpired, and seem to have actually healed better through needed change. Odd to even notice Mike's odd complete incapability in that moment to not be able to even just give up on something that you are OCD'ng on.
In the Episode III Plinkett review he says one of the few things he liked about the movie is that they didn't have a young Han Solo. Afterward, Disney is like "Hold my beer."
@@frankmerker630 yeah solo was not that bad or a bad idea and fans would of gone to see it but with han and luke dead and ruined as characters especially after last jedi ruined the franchise by shaming people for liking it and the backlash it ruined the film's chance..
Wouldn't a much easier and more effective answer to the whole parsec thing just be "oh, Han's a conman kinda guy, he's just making some bullshit up to impress this naive desert kid"?
I know this is a year late, but I think the best answer would be for George to say, “I did it on purpose to make people who use words like ‘canon’ sputter uncontrollably.”
I find it bizarre that the movie explains how Solo got his last name (something that never even needed an explanation), but not where he learned to speak Wookie. I just always assumed he just learned it working with Chewie over time. But here, he can actually SPEAK it, not just understand it, and no explanation is given. Not even something suggesting there were a lot of Wookie slaves in his home city or something. At least, not that I caught.
26:31 I love how the RLM guys will do all that hard work to digitally add Space Cop in place of Boba Fett (and the replacement is flawless) and then leave it up for only 1 second. Blink and you miss it. And yet, it should be a desktop wallpaper. (I just made it mine!)
I just noticed the Rich Evans bounty hunter in the Empire screencap. I was like, "Who the hell is that?!" I event looked up "Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters" to find out who that character is. Wow. Well done. Really well done. Also, I both love and am ashamed that I didn't realize it was photoshopped.
It's been around before, but I'm fine if this is the official "nontroversy" coming out party and Rich Evans gets credit for it. That guy needs something to be remembered by after life screwed him over on the genes and all that.
This is how he got his name, of course. "J" is the loneliest letter of the alphabet. No one could understand what he was all about until that name caught on.
The conversation about the holograms reminded me of a funny part in the first Thrawn series- crazy Jedi Joorus C'baoth calls Thrawn and appears as a giant floating head, and Thrawn replies "I see you've discovered the Emperor's private hologram setting."
@@alexturlais8558 Skywalker actually refers to Watto. He gave Schmi the Sally Hemmings treatment, and Anakin’s real father is a hovering Jewish stereotype.
I know. As a fan who grew up reading all the books and the young Han Solo trilogy being a really good one, that line kinda felt like a dick punch in the theater watching it. I was like “Oh.”
@@treycarter6736 Yeah if I remember didn't the trilogy of novels that filled the same "Prequel for Han" set up actually just establish that "Solo" was a famous name on Corellia. So a lot of people got named it. Including orphans and wards of the state kind of like, well, happens in real life where infants without an identity will just get named after famous people.
Jay’s laugh at the _”not for nothing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)”_ right at the beginning was freaking hilarious Edit: it’s around 0:57 for the kind gentleman who replied to me
I've only just seen this film today, and to be fair... I'm with Rich. It's nice to have a Star Wars film that's not bogged down in whatever Rise of Skywalker is. The worst parts were the obvious references to previous films, but watching this film from the perspective of it being an action film that _happens_ to be set in the Star Wars universe actually provides an enjoyable experience.
Actually, Lucas *did* know what a parsec was, in the original script it's much clearer that Han is simply talking out his ass to sound good and that look Old Ben makes that you closed in on is very much on purpose.
I agree. It would be perfectly acceptable for Han Solo to not know what a parsec is. Like.. literally. Han is bragging about his ship, saying any old bullshit he doesn't even understand because he's just a so called scoundrel who is trying to bait an old guy and a kid who he assumes also knows nothing about space travel. Obi Wan's eyebrow raise is actually absolutely perfect in that regard. For all we know, Obi Wan knows Han is full of shit, but that kind of would guarantee them anonymity. Some low life smuggler to do a mind trick on later and have no issues with being betrayed to the empire or anything like that. I think this is also what the Solo movie got completely wrong. They wanted to show us heroic Han Solo, who we got to know through star wars. But Han's journey in SW was a story of redemption. He had lived a life as a low down rotten smuggler, caring only about himself, when infatuation with a princess he's reluctant to save and the friendship with Luke has him returning to help at the battle of Yavin despite being a scoundrel who even needs to pay off a price on his head. Han's return at Yavin is a great scene because he's not a cool guy. He's exactly what Leia describes him as. A selfish oafish brute of a man who doesn't care about anyone. In Solo he's the same Han we know from the whole damn series. A lovable "scoundrel" in name only. And like Ricardo says, it doesn't even matter if George knew. It still works just fine that way.
@@collectorduck9061 That's what I didn't like most about Solo: A Star Wars Story. Framing him as a hero with a heart of gold who is trying to become a low-down rotten self-serving smuggler recontextualizes his character in A New Hope. It made his surprise return at Yavin less of a redemption and more of an inevitability. He's basically been lying to himself this entire time, up until that moment when he decides to help the Rebellion. However, if they made a movie about Han just being the person Leia accused him of being from the start, it would still be a terrible movie because we would never sympathize with him and would never invest in him emotionally. You know, because he's a piece of shit human being. Ideally, what you would have to do is have the movie take place over a longer period of time and make it about Han's journey from youthful optimism to self-serving cynicism, which they kind of tried, but they focused too much on making Han the Han we all knew and loved from decades later, and killing that arc by having him still do a selfless act by the end.
That clip of Emelia Clarke talking about Qi'ra where she says "incredible whipsmart strong badass kind of girl" made me realize the American "gal" and the English "girl" are homophones. I'm on Rich's side with this one. Barring the horrible lighting design because I couldn't fucking see anything, I really enjoyed this movie. Everything I didn't like about it was because of whatever Ron Howard did to chop it up into Disney's re-edit. But enough of the original shone through. Shone through metaphorically. Not literally. Because I couldn't fucking see anything. "The movie was too dark!" "Well get out of your comfort zone maaaaaan, dark is the nature of huMANity!" "No, literally, I couldn't see anything. This movie felt like it was being made from the perspective of a person in late-stage glaucoma."
They could literally make any kind of new character with an interesting story, and set it in this universe. They could do anything at all. They're just lazy and keep using the same characters and story beats.
If they are too dumb to write good new star wars stories, they should take some brilliant stories from the video games (Jedi Knight, Old Republic). It would still be a copy, but atleast we would see something special.
Affenpeter the story for knights of the old republic is very similar to the story for a new hope, oh and return of the Jedi, oh and the force awakens. Sure it has a great twist but the story is good guys team up to stop a super weapon and to kill the evil ruler. Which illustrates just how limited it is when it comes to telling stories in the Star Wars universe.
Regarding the bad cinematography/lighting, I feel supremely vindicated. 2 years ago, due to a bunch of morons running the projection side of my local multiplex, I watched the first 2/3 of Rogue One at half/brightness because they didn't retract the 3-D polarising filter from a previous screening. About 35 minutes into Solo I had to leave the screen to ask the usher to check whether the same has happened again. Turns out the movie was just terribly lit/graded …
Peanut Turner same issues in Black Panther. Loved the movie but that first action scene rescuing the kidnapped Africans was so poorly lit you could barely make out what was happening.
I worked in post production for 16 years and watched the same thing happen repeatedly on the biggest movies: someone works hard in low paying jobs and eventually becomes a colourist. They do a decent job on a successful film and become megastars of our little world. A BIG Hollywood producer then requests them, which means they instantly become the most important person in the facility. Nobody disagrees with them. They work on the BIG Hollywood producer’s movie in their state of the art grading suite, an environment so perfectly dark that a single stray lumen sets off alarms. The movie then goes off to be reviewed by various moneymen and executives. If it’s screened in a regular theatre they get straight on the phone freaking out because they can’t see anything. What is bright enough in perfect darkness is not bright not enough in a modern theatre, what with all the ambient lighting. If they screen the movie in a controlled environment they may never notice the issue. Anyone who subsequently flags the problem is ignored because the BIG producer is happy. Not saying that’s what happened here, but it fits the profile perfectly. I worked on a movie that won multiple Oscars and was praised endlessly for its grade… a garde that a supposed genius was paid a fortune to create, and that was simply ‘turned up’ after he went on holiday. It’s a joke.
@Rob Hill What makes no sense to me is you don't have to grade it to look good on your screen or to your eyes, the brightness and levels are represented visually in all kinds of scopes and histograms so you can know a scene is underexposed without even looking at it. I don't know how a professional could possibly get it wrong in so many scenes unless maybe someone just forced them to not do any color grading...
They needed a scene where shmi gets boned by a dude named "There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth, I raised him. I can't explain what happened."
During the recruitment video witnessed by Han on the side of the lobby entrance, Darth Vader's theme can be heard playing. Does this mean his song is an actual thing that exists in the universe? I thought it was just a menacing way of introducing the character, not a literal ballad which was played through the death star's intercom.
Yusuf There was an episode of STAR WARS REBELS where there was a parade dedicated to the Empire and the music playing was a different version of the Imperial March.
It's Darth Vader's intro music that plays every time he enters a scene. There's an Imperial Marching Band that follows him everywhere he goes but they're always off-camera.
Well, sort of, and its not "Darth Vader's theme" more than its the Empire's theme. There is a more light hearted and upbeat version of the song that is now canonically a song in the Star Wars universe meant to be dedicated to the Empire. It is literally "The Imperial March". Solo wasn't the first time Disney established this though. The same thing happened in a parade scene for the Empire in the Star Wars Rebels Tv show. FYI: Anytime the Imperial March is playing in any of the films or shows aside from the two instances mentioned, obviously, is not meant to convey that there's a band in the background playing the theme.
Obi Wan: A Day In The Life: A Star Wars Story He creepily stalks Luke Skywalker He communes with Qui-Gon He milks a dewback Maul shows up and Kenobi tells him "Haven't you got anything better to do?"
Solo: a Disney summary: Fade in: An alien stands at gunpoint. *PEW* HAN: Don't everybody thank me at once. Never tell me the odds! Over my dead body. Great, kid! Don't get cocky. I've got a bad feeling about this. You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. Fade out.
The cinematographer was Bradford Young, who shot Selma, Arrival, and my personal favorite, A Most Violent Year. His big stylistic choice is to shoot emphasizing natural light, which explains why so many shots are murky and weird. He's a great cinematographer usually. This is just the wrong project for his style
To be fair, BCG, it's been a problem in films for a LONG time now. I've noticed a lot of horribly lit films over the last 30 years starting with Batman all the way back in 1989. Yes, I know the film takes place at night but half the time you couldn't make out much detail and it might as well have been shot in a closet, OR cheaper yet, they should have just NEVER exposed the film and run a soundtrack for all those minutes and seconds in otherwise pitch-black night! There was definitely better lighting in a lot of black and white films in the past. Film noir and monster films were lit better than many films have been in the post-technicolor era. I still wonder if the lighting in this last SW film wasn't intentional... Were they hiding details or what? Was Disney cheap on the production and they hoped to hide that fact? There is hope for a video release, though. They could technically adjust the contrast and lighten up the image and sharpen it at the same time. You can do that with your own TV set or Blu ray player but you really shouldn't have to. There were some bad artistic decisions taken with this film on top of the screenwriting and lapses in story logic. What I've noticed with digital projection is that films in general are darker, there's less light to them. There's something to be said for 35mm film projection. The light behind the 35mm film does help bring out the image more. The saturation/blob/image darkness issue is even worse with 3-D projection. The last 3-D films I bothered watching have always had murkiness to them and you know they're running at about half the resolution or less of the "flat" screen version of movies. I just don't bother to go to 3-D films or buy them. Not worth the extra money for an inferior image that is nothing like my depth perception anyway.
There do seem to be eras in film production where there are more technical errors than at other points in cinema history. There have been a lot of films in the past that had problems with the "floating boom mike" that mysteriously appeared in the movie. That problem got aggravated by the pre-widescreen TV releases of films that were shot on regular 35mm film WITHOUT anamorphic lens and later matted widescreen for theatrical release! Well, they went back to the unmatted format for those "fullscreen" VHS release and DVDs for the pre-widescreen/pre-HDTV era and released them that way on home video but the problem is that half the time crap appeared in the "fullscreen" footage that the directors NEVER wanted the audience to see -- including boom mikes! Ha ha ha ha. Now, with this "Solo" movie, I think LFL were expecting audiences to overlook technical and storytelling issues and just take it. They believed too much in the myth that if you "just label it Star Wars" people will buy it. The Star Wars toy sales for the last 3 years and complaints in the aftermath of both TFA and TLJ should have been a hint that they can't be complacent and take audiences for granted. You STILL have to produce a quality, entertaining film that fits within a universe's rules. they got too caught up in pushing agendas and didn't pay enough attention to formulating good ideas and getting a decent script finished before they went into production. The marketing was also awful in what they emphasized for this film. A lot of the preview clips and the original trailer left bad tastes in people's mouths. They pissed off too many people with the last SW movie which probably helped amplify the criticism for this new movie on top of the absolutely horrible way LucasFilm reps, Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kasdan, and Rian Johnson have interacted with disgruntled fans on social media in the aftermath of TLJ's critical bloodbath at the hands of core Star Wars fans.
I miss Disney producing Star wars garbage every year, not because I watched the movies, but because RLM would post those reviews.
Agreed, best thing to come out of Disney in years.
@@highhorseo7875 Hey, now we can watch them do reviews on the awful Star Wars TV shows!
You do realize they LIKED Kenobi lol
You're a fucking idiot
Disney bought star wars but misused the franchise, bad scripts with barely anything new, people wore tired, the sad part is that it could have been good
@@diogoduarte8008Lucas really did the con of the century, he sold a dried up franchise to a short-sighted multinational for billions, while turning himself into a martir and making people forget how bad of a filmmaker he actually is.
Rich Evans is proof that practical effects still hold up
Yeah, you can't even make out the strings that lift his fake jaw up and down. First-class job.
And always will, even with the convenience of CGI, good practical effects will always make a movie more authentic.
Geek Chorus if we can get him working
I like CGI Special Victims Unit.
Lol!!!
The fact that they felt the need to explain why Han calls Chewbacca Chewy is actually insane. Nobody would be confused if we just started calling him a nickname that is a shortened version of his full name
Its like having someone in a movie explain why people call someone named Andrew Andy or Robert Bob, or Michael Mike... or Richard Rich...
Yeah, right you are. Or how Han got his name Solo. It’s just silly.
You're right, GooGoo.
i think you understimate how stupid people are these days. 10 years of social media has delapidated the human mind
No I spent the whole duration of A New Hope thinking there were two Wookie characters that looked exactly the same, being careful to never be in the same room at the same time.
my favorite thing about these new movies is how they help recontextualize the old ones. Like how learning about the droid struggle taught me that a new hope was really the story of a young plantation master going on a fun little space adventure with his two slaves.
It was a different time.
What really matters is that these films are about family. Very cool.
@@FlymanMS Now we need a Star Wars and The Fast and The Furious crossover movie.
thanks for the laugh man
@@griechland Except the "it's about family" is already a meme in Star Wars since Carrie Fisher described The Last Jedi that way.
Hans first word to Chewbacca in case you don't know wookie was Martha.
W H Y D I D Y O U S A Y T H A T N A M E
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Eat up Martha
Just like that, we're supposed to be cool?
The fact that Rich sounds like he's speaking to them from a cave even though he's right beside them is pretty good evidence that he's a hallucination after all.
CleanFamilyVideos jack is really a cat too. Rlm is just one big acid trip
RLM is The Big Lebowski of youtube. Mike is The Dude. Jay Walter and Rich Donny.
CleanFamilyVideos an hallucination
They didn't isolate Rich and Jay's voices to their own separate lavaliere mics.
@@darkstar4494 Ok thanks. Before i knew which article to use, in the sentence, it was completely unintelligible, but since you pointed that out, people can decode it. Thank God for the people of youtube who play fantasy english professor every time they read comments and grade them so we can better understand them. Make sure you have your red marker ready when you read your Christmas card from Grandma too so you can leave notes about her spelling under her nice sentences about how you're important to her life. "Yea, Grandma, the sweater fits and all, but I think you meant 'they're' and not 'their'. And no, i haven't given Pride and Prejudice a proper read yet because i'm still proof reading it. Gotta make sure the characters know which articles to use in between their nouns or else its not even believable, you know."
I’m sad we did not get a scene with Han buying his space boots from the space store.
It would just be a copy and paste of the scene from Reno 911
“New boot goofin!”
Due to budgetary constraints, the boots were only available in a size that would fit a mechanical metal leg.
Yeah it creates a huge continuity error in the original trilogy because we see Han with his boots on and it’s like how did he get those boots? It’s confusing for the audience
Least they showed us those iconic lucky dice that only showed up when Disney took over.
Truly reflective how much a gamble they took for the merch department.
And somehow lost.
I liked the scene where it shows how he got the snap for the strap that he unsnaps just before he defends himself against Greedo shooting first in ANH. That scene where Greedo shoots first was confusing to me when I first saw it, because I was wondering where he got that snap and strap for his holster. How did he know to unsnap that? Was it the Force? Now I know the shopkeeper told him to unsnap that strap that he sewed onto his holster every time he met a Rodian, because one day a Rodian would shoot at him. First.
24:34 I imagine, in the Obi-Wan movie, he finds the X-rated holocron that reveals how Kitt Fisto got his name.
demonizer133 NOOOO
Oh. My. GOLLY.
@@tdegrddeehjgd omfg 😅
Wait that's his actual name? I thought that was just a Plinkett throwaway comedic line. Lmao. Oh god the prequels, man...
@@itsd0nk LOL. Sure is! The green Jedi with the tentacles on his head: Master Fisto 😅
Since it was decided that all Jedi dress exactly like Obi-Wan did, I was hoping that in Solo every single smuggler would wear an exact copy of Han’s outfit too.
Kulaks HATE this channel Click to find out why! But he's in hiding, why would he wear the recognisable uniform of the jedi. It's alright for the Jedi to have a uniform, but he shouldn't be wearing it on tatooine.
Well seeing as the Jedi where a monastic order, the robe was probably more a sign of giving up earthly things, then a uniform. So while it might be silly staying in uniform, at least it's a uniform also used by millions of other people across thousand of other worlds. (numbers where pulled straight out of my ass)
Analyzing Male Slavery This isn't a fucking forum you fraud, don't quote people like that. It's hard enough to see what's the name of someone and what's the actual message
But that assumes that it was a uniform at all. As an example Lukes onkel Owen was wearing pretty much the same style of clothing as Kenobi was when we see him. silly and contrived sure, but it does make sense within it's own universe.
You're not very wrong if you played the Old Republic.
Can't wait for a Rich Evans stand alone film.
Ryan space cop
Me too.
I really want to see 90 minutes of obese guy eating sugar and suck at any video game other than made by nintendo for kids.
"We'll get to see how he meets with his lost twin cousin, mr. Plinkett"
-Harvey Weinstein
"We're meeting rich right before he turns into the obese middle age kid we all know him for"
-Natalie Portman
"Evans a RLM story is the amazing journey of a decaying grown man towards accepting he kinda gets turned on by little star wars action figures, and that for me makes it a really powerful coming of age story"
-Steven Spielberg
"When Steven approached me to play rich i was blown away you know, we got to shoot the scene where he meets jay, and mike in a star trek convention, that was really powerful haha... i might have ended with a tear or two after that"
-Jonah Hill
"What's your name?"
-"Evans."
"Evans, and? Do you have a first name?"
"No, but my laughter can cure cancer. "
"Well, that's rich. Ok from now one you are Rich Evans"
@@inaliann Evans: A RedLetter Media Story
I always thought that the 12 Parsecs thing was just to establish Han as a bullshitter. That's why Obi Wan looks at Luke like "This guy is full of shit"
i once referenced parsecs as a space measurement... and was swiftly corrected that its only a star wars thing! lol
More like “what a showoff!”
I thought the same thing. Like he talks about this thing that nobody has ever heard of and was like "oh yea all the pilots know about the Kessel run, trust me bro"
It's even referenced in the script. After the twelve parsecs line, there's a direction to the effect of "Obi Wan reacts to this obvious misinformation". In other words, George Lucas expected from the audience at least a basic understanding of how space works.
@@gladspooky9455 I hate to spoil the fun but George Lucas actually did know what a parsec was, shockingly. The original script makes it clear that Han is bullshitting because he thinks these idiots from Tatooine will be impressed by fancy-sounding words and give him money. Even in the final cut Obi-Wan gives Han a knowing look.
Unfortunately, the emotional intent of the scene was too subtle for Star Wars fans and now we have decades of weird canon trying to explain why Han, known liar and swindler, was actually telling the truth while he was trying to swindle people in a bar. It's not a particularly well executed character moment, but it IS a character moment.
Mike Stoklasa: corrects Rich on his mispronunciation of "bravado"
Also Mike: immediately mispronounces "asterisks"
English isn’t their first language. For Rich, it’s Wookiee. For Mike, it’s Klingon. For Jay, it’s the French he picked up watching Truffaut’s movies as a toddler.
He says it that way every single time and I want to interrupt him every single time.
Thats how we pronounce it in the midwest
Just wait until you can't unhear the Midwest "else" as "eltz".
He's obviously talking about the French comic character
"The Last... Rian Johnson film."
Mike, I love you.
Tom Griffiths according to IMDb he’s getting his own Star Wars trilogy
We're grading on a curve at this point.
"Is it prequel bad or Rian Johnson bad?"
Damn it, now I want t shirts of that! lol
The Action Brick Hopefully Mike's statement is a prophetic one... b/c the idea that Rian Johnson has been given the reins by Kennedy/Disney to helm his very own new hack fraud SW trilogy. ***Alarm bells*** DNW.
mariokarter13 "Is it prequel bad or Rian Johnson bad?"
The prequels were total shite, and Rian's TLJ was utter shite too--it's like poetry, sort of they rhyme.
That takes the franchise to a whole new low, and I'm sure Rian Johnson's future non-Skywalker SW trilogy will take the franchise to the pits of SW fatigue hell.
12 Parsecs: All they have ever had to do was say Han was talking out his ass in the cantina because he was half drunk and trying to bamboozle what he thought was a couple of farmers. That's it. None of this 30 years of people making up stuff about the Maw and all that. Just "Han was lying to get money, and Obiwan could tell but didn't care because he needed a ride".
This right here is the core problem with Star Wars: nerds need every single part to be real and important.
Yeah this is a problem I have with some modern sci-fi/fantasy films and tv shows.
The stories should be character-driven. Instead they get bogged down by explanations of the how the tech and/or superpowers work. Throwaway lines are explained 30, 40 years later to give the geeks something to high-five about. Lol
I still watch them, cuz I'm a nerd myself, but it takes me out of the movie when they start over-explaining things. Keep it simple. I can still feel and appreciate drama, conflict, and tension even if I don't know how a warp drive works.
back in the day nerds would have complained that it was wrong.
Yeah but that's too simple for sci-fi! What, you think this is a Tarantino film or something?
The funny thing is that's exactly in the script for ANH; Han being a fast talking shyster trying to con some cash out of a couple desperate people.
mystermistery i was hoping in the Force Awakens Han would claim he did it in 10 parsecs... thus it was a fish tale. His exaggerating his exploits would have fit with his character.
What a beautiful moment when Rich Evans phases into existence in your room
I Really liked Jay's look of concern when he gently asks Rich to explain saying he loved the movie
Jay is defensive of his hatred of things like it's his creation
@@dripcaraybbx You sound like loser lol
@@dripcaraybbx More confused about his friend's sanity. But to be fair, they just have different sensibilities and that's okay.
@@diegocastaneda3829 Right, I could have chosen my words better
Times watched Solo: Once
Times watched this review: twice
Thrice
@@Castragroup i prefered Rogue one, even VIII was better imo...not sure why, weak story, cliche, under-used awesome actors. can't put my finger on it
0 - 3 for me. Love RLM, can't be bothered with star wars these days though
Just Twice? 😄
0 and 3 here. I tried watching Solo - for free on Netflix - and couldn't get through the dreary slog.
Rookie numbers I’m on my 16th viewing of this review
Mike and Rich - "It could have been worse!"
Jay - "That doesn't make it good!"
Rich actually enjoyed the film. It wasn't just "This is gonna be awful, oh wait, it's not THAT bad". He ACTUALLY enjoyed the movie. Mike likes it except for the cinematography so he's on the fence. They're not using the "It could have been worse" as their main argument.
Anonymous lmao!
My reaction to Darth Maul: "Lieutenant Dan, you got new legs"
My reaction is: "This is fking bullshit written by a garbage tier fanfiction writer."
@@GeorgeMonet Most adults reacted that way when he came back in The Clone Wars cartoon. Kids didn't care. But then he was made into a completely new character in the show and people sort of forgave it.
_"script gumbo, fried script, lemon script, coconut script, script soup, script stew, script salad, script burger, script sandwich..."_
"same thing the Death Stars made out of, obi wan".
As explained in the Clone Wars series.
30:30 - The reason they added a train to this movie is because there are trains in the new Star Wars Land theme park, and they needed to establish that trains exists in the Star Wars universe.
That is sickening tbh
Thanks, Jenny!
@@nsinghize well, it's Disney.....
They established that in Shadows of the Empire for Nintendo 64 back in 97 or 98 I think
Why wouldnt trains exist?
Rich Evans is a funnier character then we’ve ever had before
Hahahaha
than*
if we can get him working...
Ha! Both funny and original!
Who are the assholes that keep writing and liking this shit?
Now we need a pre-prequel about how Shmi got the name Skywalker. Must be an exciting story worth at least 120 minutes of runtime.
Alex sounds good to me
A real coming-of-age drama of feminism and female empowerment... IN SPACE. WITH AT-ST's AT-ST's.
"Shmi, I know you've never done it before, but all is lost if you don't WALK INTO THE SKY!"
I remember reading somewhere Shmi was actually born with the name Skywalker. It was her father's last name. Shmi was traveling with her parents and siblings when they were abducted. That is how Shmi became a slave. So there are more Skywalkers in the galaxy who have yet to be featured.
Mattchester MAX PAYNE!?
i love how darth maul had more lines in this movie than in phantom menace
"The Last Rian Johnson Film" is my all-time favorite RLM quote.
Mine too.
And I also love Jay's "I want Disney's sweet sweet money" and all quotes about marvel shills in Aquaman review.
Mike being confused by a child's toy is a perfect analogy for this movie.
Richards' laugh makes my cat meow every time!
See if nails on a chalkboard, crying babies, or explosions do the same thing...
Richard 😄
Pussy is attracted to Rich
It sounds like Rich's laugh is really the cat's meow!
[camera stare]
Isn't his full name Dickard?
I still think the funniest part of this movie is that everything cool in Han's life before he met Luke happened to him in like two weeks.
He hasn’t even started working for Jaba yet. Plenty of potential adventures
@@Cdixonmma Han didn't work for Jaba. He just owed Jaba money. The fact that he didn't work for Jaba is evidenced by the fact that he owed Jaba money. Han wasn't some amazing character. He was a deadbeat that just couldn't make anything in his life work. Even the Millenium Falcon was falling apart when we first met him in A New Hope.
@@GeorgeMonet Okay Mr “I don’t remember the dialogue from the Originals” he owes Jabba money because he was smuggling for him and dumped the cargo when he was approaching a Star Destroyer. Google is your friend
@@CdixonmmaYou're like all the stereotypes of a nerd and a mindless consumer rolled into one sad and pathetic excuse of a "person".
@@Cdixonmmacorrect. Typical gangster/smuggler issue. Solo smuggled for Jaba, dumped the cargo to avoid the empire, ended up owing Jaba.
“Characters are in this movie” - Ron Howard
“The Last Rian Johnson Film” had me dying!
JD 13 yeah dying along with the Star Wars franchise
I wonder if Rian Johnson hates Star Wars, and was trying to sabotage the franchise.
Ruby Milotic "let the past die...kill it"
Yeah I'm sure after making an acclaimed franchise film that grossed like 1.5 billion he'll never work in this town again, because it had an audience score of like 55% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Hallucination RIch Evans coming back for the hallucination chair got me. Hilarious.
NotoriousVC i had to pause it to stop laughing and take a breathe, then rewind before then.
Hes dead. Its his spirit
The cut to Mike sleeping after "Who gets a shot first?" at 15:12 is the greatest edit decision I've seen in my life
"I don't love star wars"
"I hate Star Wars"
*While wearing Star Wars T-Shirt*
"I kinda loved it"
Most relatable mood.
Star Wars in a nutshell 😂😂
No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans.
Rich hates aspects of Star Wars that encourage lazy story elements that the Sequel trilogy exploited to great lengths, and I’m all for it
Rich Evans works in mysterious ways
oh no, not the "mood" trend invading RLM
Han didn't shoot first. He shot Greedo, and Greedo died. Greedo couldn't shoot second because he was dead.
@@LordZordid I think it's become such a trope that any debate is moot. I was 10 when A New Hope came out. I still own an original vhs tape. Greedo didn't shoot back. Han killed him.
Lol
Maybe space blasters don't kill instantly and Greedo got a shot off. Second.
You ever heard the phrase “first and last?”
Greedo couldn't shoot second because Han shot him first.
I love that space cop is now part of Star Wars cannon.
That random mercenary was always my favourite in that whole scene. Then some hack frauds took the cool character that I'd loved for ages and made a terrible, unnecessary origin story for him and totally ruined him and Star Wars forever. Except for the chase scene - that's gold, Jared, gold.
"We outran the Space Cops... and made 'em eat BASS!"
who would have known that a fat loser would be intentionally built with a fatal weakness?!
Can we take a moment to say thank you to the RLM gang? I'm at a depressed point in my life right now and rewatching all these videos, along with Plinkett, is cheering me up. Great work guys
It's cheering me up because I like jerking off to Rich
How are you holding up right now, bro?
Hope you're doing better now mate
@@ZERO_O7X hope you’re doing better my friend
Stay well, king
i know this is three years old now but wookies live for hundreds of years so really it's a movie about chewbacca and HIS dog
Can we have a star wars film about Dexter Jetster's prospecting buddy who recognized Kamino poison darts?
Sheriff Bigby Wolf the origins of the phrase “OL BUDYY”
I would watch a stand alone movie about that diner. Dead serious.
@@mememachine7938 "scratches butt crack"
I want an origin story of Sebulba
We need a 4-hours biopic on the guy who tried to sell Obi-Wan death sticks
Rich Evans' laugh is known to prevent miscarriages
Jay Parikh it also cures cancer and helps to lose weight
It's actually the other way around, it's getting rid of all the unnecessary extra humans.
But it does cause abortions.
His laugh is like childhood Christmas cinnamon magic.
Well hello there
"Darth Maul is just a visual"
*awkwardly looks at Boba Fett, soon to have entire Disney+ series*
@@vincenthalfprice9930 what about the 10ish shows coming out to spin off mando?
I’m actually very much optimistic about The Book of Boba Fett. I think it has the potential to be fantastic... let’s just hope this comment ages well!
@@vincenthalfprice9930 what about the clone wars????
@@veespa_ this comment has not aged well.
@@slig4656 clone wars series didn’t start with Disney, they just continued it
Darth Maul is essentially the prequel's Boba fett.
Absolutely, but at least there were scenes where he looked cool fighting and doing the aerobatics.
The Doctor Professor. Looks cool and menacing. Has no personality.
Edit: That is preferable to Jar Jar, who is used too much and will not shut up.
The Doctor Professor yeah, but then turned into an actual cool character in clone wars
Except Maul was actually in the movie.
At least The Clone Wars series gives Maul and Boba more depth.
in a dark theater. movie starts.
and i start to see things i recognize
and that's a good thing
LiquidArmProduction Only if they aren’t his movies.
Poetry
During the entirety of watching this film, I thought to myself, _"Damn, I can't wait to see what Mike & Jay have to say about this."_
This movie was a brutal hate crime against Harrison Ford
Word
That's me for every movie now
That's weird
The worst thing about this is you assume Han had had been on plenty of adventures over his life to end up where he is when Luke meets him, but apparently he meets Chewie, meets Lando, gets me the Falcon and does the Kessler run all in one adventure. Also gets his name and dice in this adventure too (stuff no one ever gave a shit about. Didn’t everyone just assume his surname was Solo? Nah apparently that needed its own origin story too).
And the gun has a story to. But it never explained how he can talk to chewis. The only thing that would been interesting. And they movie makes it impossible for him to know that.
I think it would have been cool for both chewie and han to not be able to understand each other verbally the whole movie. so they would have to learn how to work together non-verbally, then at the end of the movie you would see them both with books in their hands, studying the other one's language.
It's because you only have one movie and you gotta get all of the dumb nerd references into that one movie, who cares if it makes the character sound hollow when you think about it for five seconds.
@@turtleanton6539 That was the most bizarre choice. The last name thing is insane, and something nobody expected to even have a story. A lot of the other stuff was unnecessary but harmless. But learning to understand Wookie? That could have been interesting. All sorts of things you could have done.
But we don't even get a nod to something like "Han grew up where a lot of Wookies were employed for muscle, so he learned their language."
@Turtle Anton Its like Spiderwick where chewy has to spit in your mouth to let you understand him
I think a Han Solo story could work better if it was framed as a bunch of people telling stories about when they met _the_ Han Solo. That way you could spread out the timeline and could have recurring characters without having to focus too much on one group.
I like that concept. Have them tell stories that conflict with one another, or don't add up quite right because everybody has it a little bit wrong
like the train episode of rick and morty?
There is no THE Han Solo. He is just another pilot in the Rebellion. His resume isn't any better or more impressive than anyone elses'.
Ra-solo-mon
@GeorgeMonet THE Han Solo showed up and saved Luke's ass at Yavin 4 thus securing his legend status.
"Oh I forgot to fade out with the chair." The ways he says it so causally just cracks me up.
I love when they disagree makes the conversation so much more interesting
Even as a kid I simply thought that Dr. McCoy was called "Bones" because he was a doctor.
Wait is that wrong?
@@alexbaker1305 No. It was a reference to calling a doctor "Old Saw Bones". The J.J. Trek explanation is WRONG.
When Mike is struggling to open the Millenium Falcon model, Jay goes through all the emotions: indifference, embrassement, to amazement and pure glee when he's realizing that he's the one editing the video and he can leave all of it in.
Every time one of the RLM guys gets the role of editing the video, they take revenge on the previous video’s editor for making them look dumb. It’s a positive feedback loop that will never end.
Credits: Edited by: Mike
This was SOOOOO weird to notice and come to realization on. It's great though that from what I get from their current energy, is that a healthy and great feeling that they progressed through any hang ups in their relationship had been reached, as everyone was probably having their own private mental breakdowns with trying to go through Covid, and ALLLL that has transpired, and seem to have actually healed better through needed change. Odd to even notice Mike's odd complete incapability in that moment to not be able to even just give up on something that you are OCD'ng on.
I was more excited about watching RLM's Solo review than I was for watching Solo
Brian Allen They didn’t even do one for TLJ :/ I was really excited for that.
rollingmaxipads what a half in the bag? Yes they did check their channel mane.
I was more excited about somebody commenting this than I was for RLM's Solo review
Rogue One was such a good film. Too many dick heads who are basically sheep and follow reviewers. Have a mind of your own.
I was too, but then I watched the movie...and then like Rich I kind of loved it.
Rich evans laughing is one of the most beautiful sounds ever recorded
It’s like ‘The Room’ of laughs
It's fleeting, like a rainbow or a baby's smile
Robert Odell It's a shame it can't cure his horrible crippling diabetes.
26:31 is a clean edit.
Props for the artistry.
I JUST noticed omg
The freeze frame on Jay's reaction to Rich is amazing, and proves how powerful editing truly is
In the Episode III Plinkett review he says one of the few things he liked about the movie is that they didn't have a young Han Solo. Afterward, Disney is like "Hold my beer."
Ryusuta Disney ? Beer ? Not bloody likely !
This needs more likes!
Hold my blue sea cow milk
"The last Ryan Johnson film" had me laughing out loud. :D
Andi Madsen a man can dream
Same xD
@Andi Madsen
I'm so glad I read this before that moment came, because had I not been ready for it, I might've choked on a Hershey's drop I was eating.
Mike is a treasure
I want a stormtrooper to put his drink mug on top of Vader’s hologram.
Robot Chicken did a skit like that once. Just look up "Robot Chicken: At-At race". It gets wild.
Solo managed to accomplish what everyone was trying to do since Force Awakens: convinced Disney to stop making Star Wars films.
I think Rian Johnson convinced them of that. Or at least he is the one who began them entertaining the idea
@@frankmerker630 yeah solo was not that bad or a bad idea and fans would of gone to see it but with han and luke dead and ruined as characters especially after last jedi ruined the franchise by shaming people for liking it and the backlash it ruined the film's chance..
Assembly line ooze
yep now instead of films, it's an endless stream of TV shows with no breathing room between them.
More people have watched this review than the actual movie.
Darth Maul v Darth Vader Dawn of a Star Wars Story
Swagkage Thats so awful and dumb that it has to happen
sounds like a screw attack death battle to me
There actually was already a story about Vader vs Maul, they should do that in the next Solo part.
Swagkage do Sasuke v Darth Vader
Star Wars Tales, Issue #9.
Wouldn't a much easier and more effective answer to the whole parsec thing just be "oh, Han's a conman kinda guy, he's just making some bullshit up to impress this naive desert kid"?
I know this is a year late, but I think the best answer would be for George to say, “I did it on purpose to make people who use words like ‘canon’ sputter uncontrollably.”
I find it bizarre that the movie explains how Solo got his last name (something that never even needed an explanation), but not where he learned to speak Wookie. I just always assumed he just learned it working with Chewie over time. But here, he can actually SPEAK it, not just understand it, and no explanation is given. Not even something suggesting there were a lot of Wookie slaves in his home city or something. At least, not that I caught.
"What Star Trek episode did Solo remind you of, Mike?"
I can't wait to see it... on Syfy, next November.
watch it get beat out in ratings by reruns of "My two Dads" on TBS
LOL.
Poisonedblade lmao, it airs after sharknado.
CAAANNNNTTTT...WAAAIIIIIITTTTT....
it will probably be on Netflix in about 4-6 months
26:31 I love how the RLM guys will do all that hard work to digitally add Space Cop in place of Boba Fett (and the replacement is flawless) and then leave it up for only 1 second. Blink and you miss it. And yet, it should be a desktop wallpaper. (I just made it mine!)
Even though Jay is the youngest, he has the oldest most cynical heart😂
I usually agree with his movie takes as well
Younger people tend to be more cynical than older people, at least superficially. Perfectly normal ;)
The look on Mike’s face when Rich says he didn’t notice how bad the cinematography was
lmao "he's right, let the adults talk"
I just noticed the Rich Evans bounty hunter in the Empire screencap. I was like, "Who the hell is that?!" I event looked up "Empire Strikes Back bounty hunters" to find out who that character is. Wow. Well done. Really well done. Also, I both love and am ashamed that I didn't realize it was photoshopped.
Yeah I raised an eyebrow when that picture popped up. Clearly we missed a Space Cop cameo in Star Wars at some point.
I mistakenly got the plain Indian bread instead of the garlic: a naantroversy.
The waiter better break fast or prepare for some naan-violence...
I feel your plain, garlic is much better.
Goddamnit.
A nontroversy. Absolutely love that term. You may not pronounce all your words correctly, but God bless you Rich for inventing new ones.
It's been around before, but I'm fine if this is the official "nontroversy" coming out party and Rich Evans gets credit for it. That guy needs something to be remembered by after life screwed him over on the genes and all that.
Jay is flying "SOLO" for most of this review.
The other 2 are on a different stage of grief
Brendan McCallion For once Jay sounds the most cynical out of the group
This is how he got his name, of course. "J" is the loneliest letter of the alphabet. No one could understand what he was all about until that name caught on.
It's beautiful
This was the first Half in the Bag i ever watched, I can't say how many times I've rewatched it
The conversation about the holograms reminded me of a funny part in the first Thrawn series- crazy Jedi Joorus C'baoth calls Thrawn and appears as a giant floating head, and Thrawn replies "I see you've discovered the Emperor's private hologram setting."
The logic behind how Han Solo got his last name is the saddest and laziest writing I’ve ever seen from a multi billion dollar company.
Maybe the next prequel movie will explain that Shmi was actually able to walk on the sky.
@@alexturlais8558 Skywalker actually refers to Watto. He gave Schmi the Sally Hemmings treatment, and Anakin’s real father is a hovering Jewish stereotype.
2 years later: Cruella was born with her hair like that
I know. As a fan who grew up reading all the books and the young Han Solo trilogy being a really good one, that line kinda felt like a dick punch in the theater watching it. I was like “Oh.”
@@treycarter6736 Yeah if I remember didn't the trilogy of novels that filled the same "Prequel for Han" set up actually just establish that "Solo" was a famous name on Corellia. So a lot of people got named it. Including orphans and wards of the state kind of like, well, happens in real life where infants without an identity will just get named after famous people.
Still waiting for SEBULBA: A Star Wars Story
At first I was like "Sebulba who?" and then I went like Plinkett and thought "ooh.... . Ooohh....... "
FINALLY we will know how he got his name
Only after they do Ben Quadinaros: A Star Wars Story.
It's called Star Wars Episode 1: Racer for Nintendo 64
Sebulba is available....
Jay’s laugh at the _”not for nothing ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)”_ right at the beginning was freaking hilarious
Edit: it’s around 0:57 for the kind gentleman who replied to me
Put a timestamp in, you lazy bitch
Benjamin von Sück there you go you impatient twat-lips
I've only just seen this film today, and to be fair... I'm with Rich. It's nice to have a Star Wars film that's not bogged down in whatever Rise of Skywalker is.
The worst parts were the obvious references to previous films, but watching this film from the perspective of it being an action film that _happens_ to be set in the Star Wars universe actually provides an enjoyable experience.
Actually, Lucas *did* know what a parsec was, in the original script it's much clearer that Han is simply talking out his ass to sound good and that look Old Ben makes that you closed in on is very much on purpose.
I agree. It would be perfectly acceptable for Han Solo to not know what a parsec is. Like.. literally. Han is bragging about his ship, saying any old bullshit he doesn't even understand because he's just a so called scoundrel who is trying to bait an old guy and a kid who he assumes also knows nothing about space travel. Obi Wan's eyebrow raise is actually absolutely perfect in that regard. For all we know, Obi Wan knows Han is full of shit, but that kind of would guarantee them anonymity. Some low life smuggler to do a mind trick on later and have no issues with being betrayed to the empire or anything like that.
I think this is also what the Solo movie got completely wrong. They wanted to show us heroic Han Solo, who we got to know through star wars. But Han's journey in SW was a story of redemption. He had lived a life as a low down rotten smuggler, caring only about himself, when infatuation with a princess he's reluctant to save and the friendship with Luke has him returning to help at the battle of Yavin despite being a scoundrel who even needs to pay off a price on his head. Han's return at Yavin is a great scene because he's not a cool guy. He's exactly what Leia describes him as. A selfish oafish brute of a man who doesn't care about anyone. In Solo he's the same Han we know from the whole damn series. A lovable "scoundrel" in name only.
And like Ricardo says, it doesn't even matter if George knew. It still works just fine that way.
@@collectorduck9061 That's what I didn't like most about Solo: A Star Wars Story. Framing him as a hero with a heart of gold who is trying to become a low-down rotten self-serving smuggler recontextualizes his character in A New Hope. It made his surprise return at Yavin less of a redemption and more of an inevitability. He's basically been lying to himself this entire time, up until that moment when he decides to help the Rebellion.
However, if they made a movie about Han just being the person Leia accused him of being from the start, it would still be a terrible movie because we would never sympathize with him and would never invest in him emotionally. You know, because he's a piece of shit human being. Ideally, what you would have to do is have the movie take place over a longer period of time and make it about Han's journey from youthful optimism to self-serving cynicism, which they kind of tried, but they focused too much on making Han the Han we all knew and loved from decades later, and killing that arc by having him still do a selfless act by the end.
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It's weird. I feel like a lot of us went and saw it, came out expecting to savage it, and then unexpectedly found we couldn't hate it _that_ much.
That clip of Emelia Clarke talking about Qi'ra where she says "incredible whipsmart strong badass kind of girl" made me realize the American "gal" and the English "girl" are homophones.
I'm on Rich's side with this one. Barring the horrible lighting design because I couldn't fucking see anything, I really enjoyed this movie. Everything I didn't like about it was because of whatever Ron Howard did to chop it up into Disney's re-edit. But enough of the original shone through.
Shone through metaphorically. Not literally. Because I couldn't fucking see anything.
"The movie was too dark!" "Well get out of your comfort zone maaaaaan, dark is the nature of huMANity!" "No, literally, I couldn't see anything. This movie felt like it was being made from the perspective of a person in late-stage glaucoma."
It really sounds like you guys liked it because you went in with low expectations, and it turned out to not be as bad as you imagined, lol.
FlesHBoX i think most ppl that liked it went in with really low expectations
That was my experience. All the production problems made me expect a pile of hot garbage and I was pleasantly surprised.
I feel like you just described everything 'good' in life...
FlesHBoX It's a mundane movie.
Would you say it... Subverted their expectations?
Darth Maul vs. Snoke spin off movie where they both have robot legs
"It will be easy to kill since you are already half dead!"
"Oh yeah, well, so are you!"
"Oh..."
ded
The sequel should be like Freaky Friday, but Snoke and Maul only exchange legs
The editing in this episode is superb.
Rich Evans, when I'm trying to fall asleep to these at 1am, your laughter is like the sweet sound of an angel. God bless you, you beautiful man.
I don't think Star Wars is creatively bankrupt, I think the people who make it are.
BiffaTW true
Except Last Jedi, that was some good shit
They could literally make any kind of new character with an interesting story, and set it in this universe. They could do anything at all. They're just lazy and keep using the same characters and story beats.
If they are too dumb to write good new star wars stories, they should take some brilliant stories from the video games (Jedi Knight, Old Republic). It would still be a copy, but atleast we would see something special.
Affenpeter the story for knights of the old republic is very similar to the story for a new hope, oh and return of the Jedi, oh and the force awakens. Sure it has a great twist but the story is good guys team up to stop a super weapon and to kill the evil ruler. Which illustrates just how limited it is when it comes to telling stories in the Star Wars universe.
"If only we knew someone who does a better Palpatine" lol
Looks at the camera dead inside
Rich enjoying this film is all the Star Wars content I'll ever need.
I much prefer RLM reviews of Star Wars movies to the movies themselves.
Pre sure that's the only reason anyone watches the new movies.
Regarding the bad cinematography/lighting, I feel supremely vindicated. 2 years ago, due to a bunch of morons running the projection side of my local multiplex, I watched the first 2/3 of Rogue One at half/brightness because they didn't retract the 3-D polarising filter from a previous screening. About 35 minutes into Solo I had to leave the screen to ask the usher to check whether the same has happened again. Turns out the movie was just terribly lit/graded …
Peanut Turner same issues in Black Panther. Loved the movie but that first action scene rescuing the kidnapped Africans was so poorly lit you could barely make out what was happening.
I worked in post production for 16 years and watched the same thing happen repeatedly on the biggest movies: someone works hard in low paying jobs and eventually becomes a colourist. They do a decent job on a successful film and become megastars of our little world. A BIG Hollywood producer then requests them, which means they instantly become the most important person in the facility. Nobody disagrees with them. They work on the BIG Hollywood producer’s movie in their state of the art grading suite, an environment so perfectly dark that a single stray lumen sets off alarms. The movie then goes off to be reviewed by various moneymen and executives. If it’s screened in a regular theatre they get straight on the phone freaking out because they can’t see anything. What is bright enough in perfect darkness is not bright not enough in a modern theatre, what with all the ambient lighting. If they screen the movie in a controlled environment they may never notice the issue. Anyone who subsequently flags the problem is ignored because the BIG producer is happy. Not saying that’s what happened here, but it fits the profile perfectly. I worked on a movie that won multiple Oscars and was praised endlessly for its grade… a garde that a supposed genius was paid a fortune to create, and that was simply ‘turned up’ after he went on holiday. It’s a joke.
i have a theory it was to hide the lackluster action. I liked the movie but it was clear there were parts where the CG was less finished
Or not graded at all. I feel like they just went for an old film/natural lighting look which makes no sense in 2018.
@Rob Hill What makes no sense to me is you don't have to grade it to look good on your screen or to your eyes, the brightness and levels are represented visually in all kinds of scopes and histograms so you can know a scene is underexposed without even looking at it. I don't know how a professional could possibly get it wrong in so many scenes unless maybe someone just forced them to not do any color grading...
The movie did give us anther great episode of Half in the Bag.
They needed a scene where shmi gets boned by a dude named "There was no father. I carried him, I gave birth, I raised him. I can't explain what happened."
The solution to the “12 parsecs” line is that Han is full of shit and trying to pull a fast one on a couple of rubes.
It's his standard test to figure out if he can con them out of even more money.
During the recruitment video witnessed by Han on the side of the lobby entrance, Darth Vader's theme can be heard playing. Does this mean his song is an actual thing that exists in the universe? I thought it was just a menacing way of introducing the character, not a literal ballad which was played through the death star's intercom.
Yusuf There was an episode of STAR WARS REBELS where there was a parade dedicated to the Empire and the music playing was a different version of the Imperial March.
"Different" being the key-word here.
It's Darth Vader's intro music that plays every time he enters a scene. There's an Imperial Marching Band that follows him everywhere he goes but they're always off-camera.
Well, sort of, and its not "Darth Vader's theme" more than its the Empire's theme. There is a more light hearted and upbeat version of the song that is now canonically a song in the Star Wars universe meant to be dedicated to the Empire. It is literally "The Imperial March". Solo wasn't the first time Disney established this though. The same thing happened in a parade scene for the Empire in the Star Wars Rebels Tv show.
FYI: Anytime the Imperial March is playing in any of the films or shows aside from the two instances mentioned, obviously, is not meant to convey that there's a band in the background playing the theme.
I thought that the whole purpose of the box in his chest was to pump out that song.
Obi Wan: A Day In The Life: A Star Wars Story
He creepily stalks Luke Skywalker
He communes with Qui-Gon
He milks a dewback
Maul shows up and Kenobi tells him "Haven't you got anything better to do?"
Eh I'd see it
Who doesn't?!
I’m with Rich on this one.
Same
Solo: a Disney summary:
Fade in:
An alien stands at gunpoint.
*PEW*
HAN: Don't everybody thank me at once. Never tell me the odds! Over my dead body. Great, kid! Don't get cocky. I've got a bad feeling about this. You know, sometimes I amaze even myself.
Fade out.
The cinematographer was Bradford Young, who shot Selma, Arrival, and my personal favorite, A Most Violent Year. His big stylistic choice is to shoot emphasizing natural light, which explains why so many shots are murky and weird. He's a great cinematographer usually. This is just the wrong project for his style
Nate Shu i think this movie gave the wrong settings to projectionists. I just saw it on a TV and it looked 100x better than in theaters.
Saw it in Standard and IMAX 3D and the IMAX showing was beautiful
At least solo looks better than arrival, which was impossibly dark.
Like Ryan Johnson making a fantasy adventure war movie?
I thought Arrival looked dreary and rainy, but not to the point of ruining anything.
I'm SO GLAD I wasn't the only person that noticed the lighting problem. Its horrid!
To be fair, BCG, it's been a problem in films for a LONG time now.
I've noticed a lot of horribly lit films over the last 30 years starting with Batman all the way back in 1989.
Yes, I know the film takes place at night but half the time you couldn't make out much detail and it might as well have been shot in a closet, OR cheaper yet, they should have just NEVER exposed the film and run a soundtrack for all those minutes and seconds in otherwise pitch-black night!
There was definitely better lighting in a lot of black and white films in the past. Film noir and monster films were lit better than many films have been in the post-technicolor era.
I still wonder if the lighting in this last SW film wasn't intentional... Were they hiding details or what? Was Disney cheap on the production and they hoped to hide that fact?
There is hope for a video release, though. They could technically adjust the contrast and lighten up the image and sharpen it at the same time. You can do that with your own TV set or Blu ray player but you really shouldn't have to. There were some bad artistic decisions taken with this film on top of the screenwriting and lapses in story logic.
What I've noticed with digital projection is that films in general are darker, there's less light to them. There's something to be said for 35mm film projection. The light behind the 35mm film does help bring out the image more.
The saturation/blob/image darkness issue is even worse with 3-D projection. The last 3-D films I bothered watching have always had murkiness to them and you know they're running at about half the resolution or less of the "flat" screen version of movies. I just don't bother to go to 3-D films or buy them. Not worth the extra money for an inferior image that is nothing like my depth perception anyway.
It reminds me of the audio problems in the dark knight except I've never heard anyone talk about that except me.
There do seem to be eras in film production where there are more technical errors than at other points in cinema history.
There have been a lot of films in the past that had problems with the "floating boom mike" that mysteriously appeared in the movie. That problem got aggravated by the pre-widescreen TV releases of films that were shot on regular 35mm film WITHOUT anamorphic lens and later matted widescreen for theatrical release! Well, they went back to the unmatted format for those "fullscreen" VHS release and DVDs for the pre-widescreen/pre-HDTV era and released them that way on home video but the problem is that half the time crap appeared in the "fullscreen" footage that the directors NEVER wanted the audience to see -- including boom mikes! Ha ha ha ha.
Now, with this "Solo" movie, I think LFL were expecting audiences to overlook technical and storytelling issues and just take it. They believed too much in the myth that if you "just label it Star Wars" people will buy it. The Star Wars toy sales for the last 3 years and complaints in the aftermath of both TFA and TLJ should have been a hint that they can't be complacent and take audiences for granted. You STILL have to produce a quality, entertaining film that fits within a universe's rules. they got too caught up in pushing agendas and didn't pay enough attention to formulating good ideas and getting a decent script finished before they went into production.
The marketing was also awful in what they emphasized for this film. A lot of the preview clips and the original trailer left bad tastes in people's mouths.
They pissed off too many people with the last SW movie which probably helped amplify the criticism for this new movie on top of the absolutely horrible way LucasFilm reps, Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kasdan, and Rian Johnson have interacted with disgruntled fans on social media in the aftermath of TLJ's critical bloodbath at the hands of core Star Wars fans.
Yeah, the film was way too damn dark for no reason. The super dark was fun in a few scenes but the whole film was like that for no reason.
It is like trying to watch this movie on a TV at the bottom of a well though.
One of the best half in the bags, because each have very different opinions on the movie.
Remix Rich:
Bounce around these times quickly
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Rich is all a asshole.
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