tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post4385143338667827975..comments2024-03-28T10:18:00.370-05:00Comments on Gentlemen of Leisure: Force in Focus: Solo Teaser Trailer Austin Gortonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14281239771248780430noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-27207948535878342302018-02-21T11:39:58.849-06:002018-02-21T11:39:58.849-06:00I'll note my main complaint with this movie: I...I'll note my main complaint with this movie: I know hiring a Harrison Ford doppelganger would've been difficult, if not impossible, but couldn't they have found someone who looked at least a <b>tiny bit</b> like the guy? Or even <b>sounded</b> a bit like him? I'm sure Alden Ehrenreich will do a fine job, but this thing is set just a few years prior to Episode IV, right? And he looks and sounds <b>nothing</b> like the character we'll meet in that movie! I suspect that's going to take me straight out of this thing as I watch it.<br /><br />Maybe I'm insane, but I almost wish they'd done a Tarkin with him. Imperfect as that process was, I think I'd rather watch a weird-looking CGI Han for two hours than Alden Ehrenreich pretending to be someone he's not.<br /><br />As I think about it, it's kind of weird -- if a character is recast between movies, like Don Cheadle replacing Terence Howard in the Marvel films, or the classic example of James Bond, it doesn't bug me since we're moving forward. And if an actor is cast to portray a character decades in the past, like Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan, it doesn't bother me at all there, either. But when we're talking about a movie set only a short time before another movie, recasting makes it really hard for me to get invested. Does that make any sense??Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-36636288074065784942018-02-21T11:32:15.875-06:002018-02-21T11:32:15.875-06:00Michael, I never thought about this before, but yo...Michael, I never thought about this before, but you're totally right -- Lando would've fit Maz's role perfectly in FORCE AWAKENS. Bizarre that they didn't go that route!<br /><br />And, like others, I'm really looking forward to Lando in this one. I run hot and cold on Donald Glover, but based on the few seconds he's in the teaser, it looks like he had a ball with this role and I can't wait to see him chew it up on screen.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-7478981147923465102018-02-17T08:17:02.519-06:002018-02-17T08:17:02.519-06:00I liked "The Force Awakens," but one of ...I liked "The Force Awakens," but one of the two things about that movie that drove me nuts was Lando's absence. It seems so obvious (and would have provided a much more elegant introduction to the lightsaber subplot) to use Lando in place of Maz.<br /><br />It feels right to me that Lando would retire from mining and rebelling to run a cantina after the collapse of the Empire. That his cantina would sit outside of both First Order and Republic territory (as it appears Maz's did) and trying to stay below the radar of both also rings true to me, calling back to his Cloud City days and giving Lando a "went back to the only thing I was ever good at" beat.<br /><br />Having Han retreat to Lando instead of Maz also raises the stakes for the heroes. Instead of a pointless side conversation with a cartoon character, we get the first reunion of OT characters on screen. It's a huge moment in and of itself, and suddenly the First Order cantina attack becomes much scarier because, having multiple OT characters around, we recognize that one of them may not survive. Give Lando some line like "I haven't seen you in 10 years. Are things really so bad you'd come looking for me?" when Han first meets him and the movie's stakes get ratcheted up even further.<br /><br />Finally -- and this is just what kills me so much about introducing Maz in this movie -- Lando is the ONLY character that would have access to Luke's lightsaber. Luke lost it on Cloud City! How did anyone think to reintroduce the lightsaber and not Lando?! A single sentence ("Lobot found it in a ventilation shaft when we decommissioned the mines after the war") is all it'd take.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665503542091489778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7266470995513648978.post-12870942288852999932018-02-17T00:12:14.724-06:002018-02-17T00:12:14.724-06:00"the thing I am most excited about this film ..."the thing I am most excited about this film is seeing a young Lando Calrissan (to the point where, like many others have suggested online, I kinda wish this was a solo Lando movie)"<br /><br />I wish they were using Lando in the current movies. wwk5dnoreply@blogger.com