Jan 132019
So I wake up today intending to do some work on the computer. Looking for background noise I fired up Netflix and saw that “Solo: A Star Wars Story” is now available. So, what the hell, I turned it on.
It barely even qualified as background noise.
I remain mystified about how a quarter-billion-dollar budget lavished on one of the most interesting and charismatic characters from the last century of filmmaking can so utterly fail to make an decent movie. It wasn’t good in the theater; it was even less good on TV. It’s really quite astonishing, like watching a respected and venerated diamond cutter turn a raw blue diamond the size of a chicken egg into a handful of dust and ash.