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"
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."
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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"
@@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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
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.
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.
Daniel Draghici thats not how grading is done - thankfully, because if filmmakers were just blindly following scopes, all films would look bland as fuck.
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."
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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.”
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.
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?"
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
Maybe if I keep saying it it will become true: They must make the Obi Wan movie a spaghetti western. It must be grim and depressing and Obi Wan must just kill people. And when he inevitably fights Darth Maul they must have a wordless staredown that lasts fifteen minutes, and then like bam two second lightsaber fight and obiwan cuts his fucking face off.
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
They have not yet stablished the Red letter media cinematic universe, until then, Jays movie Is probably going to have 10 re-shoots by Ron Howard until they confirm he's pansexual.
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.
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.
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.
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!)
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.
We're making a movie about the "seedy underbelly" of Star Wars. So we have to throw a shadow on every scene. The less you can see, the better. But then we'll add a really uncomfortable droid that counters the tone of the film.
Yeah I bursted out in Laughter when she died, the way she flopped on the ground after being shot was just so ridiculous and her scream didn't help it either lmao
WEll, L337 is getting her revenge on Bond. Daniel Craig recruited her (voice actress) to rewrite the script for Bond because A) he's clueless and B) he wants TO sink the franchise which it will be with L3's help.
@AvengerII There ISN'T much rhyme OR reason to WHICH words you capitalize. Your comment just MAKES you look like A crazy PERSON. Either that or YOUR caps lock key IS just really heavy AND falls down a lot while YOU'RE typing.
RLM has got to be the BEST RU-vid channel out there. I subscribe to roughly 200 channels, and I love these videos the most. Keep up the amazing work guys!!
Man, I have that Star Trek X-Men crossover book on my shelf at work. It's actually not that bad.... especially when they pretty much say Professor X IS Jean Luc Picard from another dimension basically...
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.
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."
Just watched the movie on Netflix and I definitely did not notice the lighting issues they mentioned. Maybe they brightened the movie for Netflix...who knows.
FloridatedH2O in theaters it looked horrible. Cinematography was trash, I remember saying that when the trailers dropped. The whole movie looked like a darkened reshoot. Maybe it looks better on Netflix or Disneyflix
