TLJ was stinking pile of poo, and I still believe that, but judging Solo on it's own merits I thought it was an enjoyable film.
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The Lando / L3 thing was weird, although that is neat how L3 is part of the Falcon now.
Linking the underworld to Maul is amazing. What an awesome way to give Clone Wars some love. It also sets us up for more of the story line, which I'm very interested to see.
The humor wasn't out of place like in TLJ. The theme, pace, and plot were all much better constructed than TLJ, over all a much better film in terms of objective cinema criteria.
Character wise it didn't seem right for Han to walk away with such a small cut of the action. He didn't seem jaded enough, especially since he was left by Qi'ra. I guess they are trying to play up the Han is really just a nice guy underneath it all. For me it didn't work.
I didn't feel like there was a SJW message being pushed. Maybe the comment from L3 about equal rights, but w/e, that wasn't a big deal to me.
Perhaps part of the reason I liked it was my expectations could not have possibly been lower, but I did like it.
Right, but as the article states.
You really don't pick up on it in the film. It's not heavy handed.
It is a shame they feel the need to push this outside of the movie.