Solo: A Star Wars Story
Me to Brad: “You know, I guess Han Solo is one of the characters that I really don’t know much about except that he shot first, who his kid is, and that he dies.”
Brad to me: “Then this movie should answer some of your questions.”
So yeah, Solo is about Han Solo who acquired his name almost in the same stupid fashion that Darth Vader did. I had a lot of people comment to me about us watching this one. Someone said it gets a bad rap. Lots of people said it was their favorite. I’m gonna go ahead and say that I fell asleep when we tried to watch it on Saturday night. But I don’t think it was the movie’s fault, I was just really sleepy. So I watched this one over two days. And yes, I had the same drink both times I watched it.
I really liked the casting for this movie. The guy who plays Han Solo reminded me of a young Harrison Ford. His mannerisms were so spot on. And then the girl shows up and I am like “Man, she looks familiar!” and Brad says “Yeah I guess she is from GoT?” and I go “OMG IT’S THE MOTHER.” and he was like “Who?” and I pulled up a picture of her on my phone and say “THE MOTHER!” (And that is literally all the knowledge I have about GoT.)
There was a lot going on in this movie and I am pretty sure I missed a whole bunch of things and I didn’t really take very good notes. Here goes nothing.
Like I said before, the way he got his name was really stupid.
The way he met Chewy was pretty cute but like really what were the chances that he speaks Wookie? Honestly.
This whole movie makes Smuggler’s Run make a lot of sense. But I guess they made up the character that is in the ride? I don’t remember seeing him anywhere.
Why did they have to make Lando’s droid look and act so stereotypical? Did she really need to have such off set hips? Good grief.
I was pretty impressed with how well Disney did with the inside of the Millennium Falcon at the parks.
I now know what a Kessel Run is, and why they named a Challenge medal after it.
I feel like we meet a lot of characters in this movie and probably never see them again. It’s kind of weird. I asked Brad if Qi’ra was the baby mama, but he said no. It just seemed so fitting since she went to the dark side. *shrug*
But I guess what I got out of this movie was who Han Solo was, how he got his name, how he met Chewy, how he met Lando, and that he can fly. I didn’t hate this movie. It was pretty good. Entertaining. Had some plot twists. Scarface guy was creepy. Woody Harrelson’s character was a typical Woody Harrelson character.
Booze Pairing:
Jim Beam Black Extra Aged with 2 cubes of ice.
Brad chose this because it’s a straight bourbon (solo) and it’s probably what Hans and Chewy would drink.