Honest Trailers Commentary - Solo: A Star Wars Story

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[@brendangordon1248]

Solo proves Disney still really isn't done learning the Pirates of the Caribbean lesson. Jack Sparrow is only cool when the main character of your movie is actually Will Turner.

[@benzaiten933]

to be fair a lot of movies and TV series share the same problem; eccentric side characters are only so cool and mysterious because we don't see them much, know not much about them and can speculate what made them the way the are. but once they're promoted to MC, or get the same amount of screen time, they swiftly become boring because they took away what made them special in the first place.

[@dennishena1399]

LOLOL @ "HMMMM...Look at you, walking on air....like some sort of...'Skywalker'..." I lost it!

[@JackDManheim]

"Hmmm... Nicolas... you seem like you belong in a... CAGE"

[@FD2003Abc]

"Johnny -- what do you put on your hair to me it look greasy all the time?" (Googles Walgreens hair gels).... "Ah, Depp!!!!"

[@chrisprescher5201]

"whats your first name?" "Jabba" "who are your people?" "i have no people i'm a slug. I live alone in a hut." "HHHHMMMMMMMMMMM. Jabba. The Hutt".

[@Lo66Li96]

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[@chrisprescott2273]

Cool name Chris Prescher

[@myndlink]

What's your name? Kit Who are your people? I don't really have any. I'm really into fisting. Hhhmmmm... Kit Fisto.

[@jbearclowater]

What is your name? Boba Who are your people? I don't have any people. All I have is this block of feta cheese. Hmmmmmm... Boba... Fett.

[@redswasted8624]

“What’s your first name?” “Darth” “Who are your people?” “I have no people. When I was a baby, I was found in a dumpster behind the local shopping mall” “MMMMMMMMMM. Darth. Mall!”

[@jbearclowater]

"He drove a car, I can't pilot a 747 because I can park my chevy." Not sure why, but I lost it when Joe said that.

[@davidgannon5388]

30:30 - the only movie I can think of that took a story where you *knew* they live, and yet still got everyone on the edge of their seats was "Apollo 13."

[@grutarg2938]

Now there’s a good movie!

[@DSzaks]

LOL, that Skywalker naming bit literally brought tears to my eyes. Great show fellas.

[@trevormccarron4451]

next week is gotti? 😮

[@pegasusdrive12]

Anchorman?

[@flynnnolen1067]

Trevor McCarron what’s gotti?

[@willeeuhm]

well they liked your comment!

[@MyssBlewm]

I would love it if it's Gotti next week.

[@steventuthill1907]

I want Dan to interrupt, kick out Jon Bailey, and just go on a MoviePass rant.

[@Milosh111]

Now I want to see a spin-off about that imperial guy naming people...

[@paulmaloney4387]

Dan's Harrison Ford impression is fantastic

[@katejohnson5039]

Is no one else dying because of how spot on Dan’s Harrison Ford impersonation is??? 😂

[@transsexual_computer_faery]

i'm typing this from the afterlife. i never thought they had youtube here, but they do. it's pretty chill out here

[@TimothyMReynolds]

Everyone knows Chewbacca’s full name is “Chewing Tobacco”

[@johnlong8952]

When you show the clip of him getting his name I expected that to be...."So. Your name is....ALAN!"

[@danh9790]

Spencer and Dan’s “Harrison Ford” makes me laugh every time! 😂😂❤

[@MrThierryFournier]

4:01 that's one great R2D2 impression

[@devonhickey3302]

Never in my life did I notice the dice. Solo goes out of his way to make a big deal out of things that just should have happened without shining a big spotlight on them.

[@acturek]

"i'd watch a murder on the orient express, but on a space train...." something tells me spencer will see such a thing very soon

[@cjwrench07]

A Turek there’s a Dr.Who episode that’s like that, but it isn’t like the original story, just takes place on the “space orient express”

[@osujedi]

Hilarious idea that that one Imperial guy gives everyone in Star Wars their last names! The other guy he definitely named -- Lt. Porkins. How else would that guy happen to have that last name?

[@falkorn9866]

You guys had me laughing in tears when you were making fun of the naming of Solo. Smee...look at you walking on air...Sky...walker, lol

[@kevin7904]

You forgot to talk about the recruiting video in the background playing the Imperial March music during the Solo name scene. Is the Imperial March being played by the Storm Trooper band? You never see Storm Troopers playing instruments. When Darth Vader is walking around is he aware that the music is being played? This recruiting video in the background changed my thoughts on this predicament so much.

[@Johnny0lovely69]

I think the mouse droid plays it whenever he walks in the hallways

[@ET_Bermuda]

The Solo writers glaze over the fact that Han trained in the Imperial Academy as a pilot (which is from the OT lore that you'd see on the back of '80s action figure packages, if anyone remembers). I also wish I'd seen Han actually training as a pilot. But the movie also makes it clear that Chewie is 190 yrs old. These instances explain the moment of them suddenly piloting the MF for me & why it's nothing like the Mary Sue Rey moment in TFA.

[@falkorn9866]

Love the comment about the monorail salesman. The emperor is going to love me

[@allisonkrein5499]

"Hovercraft pilots sound off in the comments" LOL

[@nateds7326]

What’s your last name? I don’t have one. Who are you people? I don’t have any. I just got arrested for driving in the left lane. Hmmmmmmm. John Mclane.

[@chrisprescher5201]

Great point about the double standard reactions to Han having instaflying abilities vs Rey having instaflying abilities.

[@trauko1388]

Han was an actual pilot, Mary Sue wasnt

[@cjwrench07]

trauko1388 Han was never a pilot previously thats the problem with his origin story. Han was a *foot soldier* while serving in the empire, and at most stole hover-cars when he was young. That’s not really confusing to learning how to fly a interstellar spacecraft. Rey at least is implied worked on the local ships as a mechanic(“that ship hasn’t flown in years”), and has knowledge of how spaceships work from her time growing up an economic slave in that recycle&repair depot. I literally learned how to properly operare multiple types and years of firetrucks, because I’m a fire equipment mechanic. Being the local mechanic solves all the problems with Rey’s knowledge of how to pilot. There is no story reason though why Han is a great pilot from day 1, except for midiclorians make him a great pilot.

[@_RT___]

I really think all the scenes are so dark to save on budget. Allows for minimal practical background/environment needed and also little to no cgi background needed. For a movie that went way wayyy over budget and was 85% reshot, I think it's a probable explanation

[@cjwrench07]

That makes a ton of sense. It’s also the trick a ton of B-movies use to hide their cheapness.

[@michaels4917]

I think the dice were only a reference to American Graffiti in A New Hope. It wasn't until the new movies the dice were so "important".

[@MPedich]

27:40 I guess his arc is that he starts out wanting to be the good guy and becomes more jaded. He's kinda trying to do the right thing in this movie, but ends up shooting his mentor in cold blood. From than on he shoots first, until he regains his mortal compass under Luke's influence

[@gingernovato4623]

Spencer, I agree. ‘’It was a fun space romp.’’ And, Joe, I have to say, I would rather watch Solo a thousand times than The Hobbit movies again even once. Regardless of whether you liked it or not, it is always fun to hear you talk about it! Love you guys!

[@mightygnome]

Nobody complained about Han Solo being a Gary Stue because nobody saw the movie

[@patriciak826]

I hope you guys never stop these Commentaries. I skip the Honest Trailers and go straight for these videos. 💚

[@callumjohnston858]

I would kill for Star Wars Top Gun. One question though: What would Star Wars half-naked beach volleyball be?

[@HushIAmTalking]

Now that I have finally seen this on Disney+ I can come back and watch this 😅

[@ehshejhskugsksyge6945]

Droid-jango unchained is what I need

[@GodsSon987]

"Look at you... walking on air.." 😂

[@nealeworthington4557]

Tolkien nerd here. Both Kili and Fill die in both the movie and the book.

[@PeverellTheThird]

Google is just a click away

[@KriscoBubber]

Did anyone else want his name to come from the numbers 5010. Like have it be a stormtrooper number or something.

[@JazzyNym]

Small request: Can you guys put a link to the honest trailer in the description of the commentary?

[@KeithFraser82]

If the guy who named Han "Solo" wanders the galaxy giving people Mad Lib names at random, that would explain Elan Sleazebaggano (yes, that is the official name of the guy who tries to sell Obi-Wan death sticks in Episode 2).

[@PrincessSkullcrusher]

I had no expectations of this movie. And it met those. It certainly was a movie. I enjoy the Star Wars franchise, but I am far from emotionally invested in it, so no part of it really makes or ruins my day.

[@ieatgremlins]

Herpus Derperson "It certainly was a movie" lol I love it.

[@cjwrench07]

Herpus Derperson that’s basically the majority of people’s opinion on Star Wars. It’s just that very small minority that live or die with it, or profit off of making up controversies.

[@nickbode5211]

The “Space Top Gun” made me laugh, but it also would’ve been a much better and cooler Han Solo movie!

[@007Kiristo]

Regarding people not complaining about Han being able to fly: I think there are two reasons, 1 Who even watched this in theaters to complain? 2. My thoughts when watching the film - wasn't he in the naval academy for the Empire for awhile before he got kicked out for attitude? I assumed he learned to fly there as he tells the recruiter he wants to join the navy and become a pilot, though I admit I may not have paid enough attention to how quickly he got kicked out of the navy and made a trooper.

[@shaunbatty]

Spencer's expectations were SO..LO apparently

[@Joesphfffffff]

OMG! It's Grease 2! It's finally Grease 2! I have been waiting so long for this.

[@Shinjiku]

People didn't question how Han Solo could pilot instantly because the people who would have questioned didn't show up to watch it.

[@neverlistentome]

Lando Calrissian is the Thomas Jefferson of droid slave owners.

[@joshuaschaller4400]

I had some problems with this movie, sure, but ended up really enjoying it

[@bluedragonninja]

Damn it, does no one else think that the SOLO logo should say ROLO! It makes me thing of the Rolo candies!

[@redswasted8624]

Had to keep rewinding Spencer doing that noise @4:04 🤣🤣

[@bashful_michael]

I would love if you guys could get Jon Kasdan to react to your Honest Trailer. It would be so interesting to hear his thoughts on it and why they made certain decisions in the film.

[@tropic1979]

Dan does a good Harrison Ford! Maybe he should have been in Solo. Love screen junkies commentary!

[@askxperia]

Dan's fart analogy is perfect. Some cared, most didn't.

[@3DHT]

It's actually a Citadel of Ricks!

[@brentage5000]

I'm with Spencer as far as expectations go in that I went in hoping to be entertained and left satisfied.

[@marikotrue3488]

I am Team LowExpectations/SoloEntertainedMe regarding this movie. This was not the movie that I was looking for, but with a bucket of popcorn it entertained me. However, I am curious as to whether or not L3-37 was a remnant of the Lord and Miller cut which Ron Howard tried to make more sincere? Maybe that is why L3-37 scenes were simultaneously oddly funny and oddly serious.

[@Wills-Corner]

ScreenJunkies News The reason Han's dice are so important and why Lucasfilm made a big deal about them in The Last Jedi and Solo is because in the Expanded Universe, Han uses those same dice to win the Falcon from Lando. So Han keeps them in the cockpit as a sort of trophy. Supposedly he used them in Solo as well, but I didn't see them in the final scene.

[@cjwrench07]

They had nothing to do with that final Card Game. At most he had them in his pocket.

[@goldenlightpictures6223]

I’m imagining space top gun now!!!

[@TheTsbak]

I personally don’t mind Ray flying great right away but Han did have pilot training from the empire academy for a few year before he got kick down to infantry so That’s were he sharpened his pilot skills.

[@chrissonofpear3657]

It's available as a deleted scene, but was cut for pacing issues. It jumps to 'three years later'.

[@jlokison]

There is a deleted scene that involves Solo flying a mission for the Empire disobeys orders and then gets reassigned to the army.

[@Shabtisinger]

Dan, you sound like a grandpa complaining about having to squint your eyes to see what was going on... and I'm here for it!

[@BornYesterday0126]

Great commentary as always! Glad Dan mentioned the pantyhose, this movie was too freakin dark I couldn't make out half the crap on the screen! And your Harrison Ford impressions are killing me!

[@Evelyn_Okay]

SOLO: A Dicy Story, Where Things Get Dicy, And He Must Gamble Everything He Knows

[@jimmybambles]

Next week is Gotti, 100 percent, which is the exact opposite of what it got on RT

[@michellecrocker2485]

I liked it. It was a good set up story for the Han Solo we got in the OT

[@ayubsalim1303]

Lyle Lanley: a Star Wars Story.

[@grutarg2938]

The reason I gave these filmmakers my money is because Young Han Solo is driving the hover version of Harrison Ford’s car from American Graffiti. I thought they were going to make a retro 50s teen space movie.

[@Fawkes2574]

The movie may have been dark, but at least it wasn't constantly raining through it as well. Remember Alien vs Predator Requiem?

[@willowpackerthestoryteller135]

Can I throw out there that because the Expanded Universe (and also clone wars) canonized that Jabba IS a Hutt. That's what species he is. Like Finn the Human. Jabba the Hutt. It's not a title, not a fun idea, not a nickname. It's what god damn species he is. And they're all space gangsters for some reason.

[@Towkeeyoh]

This movie was soooo worthy of a Honest Trailer.

[@CAPFlyer]

You guys missed his first flight on screen wasn't the Falcon, it was the transport after the pilot got killed during the train heist. That was also where the Life Debt came in because he saved Chewie twice during it. Also, on the train - trains haul more for less power/fuel use. That's the sole reason, just like how trains still transport far more containers of goods across the United States than trucks. Flying things is actually the least efficient way to move things between two points, so why use it when there are other options?

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΡΑΦΑΗΛΙΑ]

14:17 and then came the end of Rise of Skywalker...

[@robinburt5735]

Actual Star wars canon says that is not where the escape pod/s are. The notch in the front of the ship is for picking up cargo containers like the ones you see on backs of lorries and stacked on container ships these days.

[@robinburt5735]

In regards to Joe saying "There must be a planet where everyone has the same name.." there is kind of. On the planet Khomm, the Khommites are all clones and the only two names you see are either Dorsk or Khael with a number after it

[@plkrtn]

Lando says in the film that he had it installed there. Actual canon? Do you mean Legends, which isn't canon?

[@chrissonofpear3657]

It's a 'new', bigger, long range pod.

[@AllTheArtsy]

If John Wick can be colorful and neon, this movie had no excuse

[@Hardbody217]

My issue with L3-37 is that, for years, Han was presented as the best pilot and "true" owner of the Millennium Falcon. Despite having previous owners, the Falcon was best with Han. Now, we find out the Falcon's "soul" is actually bonded to Lando and Han is a dick for keeping it from him. It's like revealing Sexy would rather be with her previous owner over the Doctor.

[@JimmiPynk]

Sith Me Up Fam! is officially in my vocabulary!

[@danieloneal7137]

I’m glad I’m not the only one. I watched the original trilogy sooooo many times as a kid (and once in a while as an adult), and I never paid any attention whatsoever to the damn dice. It was just a random bit of set dressing. It’d be like giving Yoda’s walking stick a back story.

[@fenixmeaney6170]

I'd watch a Gigli honest trailer

[@edsbigsister]

My biggest problem with Solo was that there was this whole droid rights fight. This movie takes place in the past. Why wasn't this a bigger issue in the other films? It's played for a joke? What are they even trying to say? Do we want rights for C3PO and R2? Are we supposed to? Plus there was that thing where the girl rips off her helmet and we're supposed to be surprised - I guess because she's a girl? Is that still being played for reveals? That the masked action character is a woman? I assumed she had to be someone's daughter or something, that her being a woman was not enough. Turns out we still don't think women can fight, fly, or space?

[@karkatvantas9557]

I think the point of the Robin Hood girl reveal isn't that she's female, but that she's a kid.

[@edsbigsister]

If that's true, they probably should have hired someone younger. It read to me like it was that she was female, but I hope you're right. That would make me feel better. Though not much, because most characters in these films seem young to me. Young people doing space stuff and being hardcore is not really a new thing for the Star Wars films.

[@cjwrench07]

It think the point was that she was a redhead. Like how could a person with no soul be the good guy.

[@cjwrench07]

Maybe the droid thing is an Easter egg for the next Story Movie. How the Droids were first made. Their propagation throughout the galaxy. Then their massive uprising, costing millions of lives, almost killing off of the old republic, and their eventual defeat. We then go though the thousands of years of bad blood and enslavement in the current story. All leading up to the new uprising lead by General C-3PO, and President R2-D2, in which they kill off all The Force bugs, and finally ending the Jedi-Sith War. Which FINALLY brings peace to the galaxy.

[@theonewhoeatslemons1931]

edsbigsister It's kinda a surprise that it was a human at all

[@the_quadracorn]

The operating numbers are for Storm Troopers. Han was just a disposable infantry guy

[@charliedawson4877]

This film is the living embodiment of Indifference.

[@CHRNESFWE]

Please say “The Hobbit films were actually very good considering Peter Jackson wad only given a year to clean up guillermo del toro’s mess.”

[@thechosenones4375]

I think the reason no one commented about Han's skills is because there are 3 other movies with him displaying them, and so they just didn't care enough to take the time to consider that he's younger here and perhaps should need training. In most movies, when a character goes around saying "i'm gonna be a ...." there's usually a scene showing them being pretty good at it.

[@thechosenones4375]

@@dreamshakejunya yeah i'm very surprised Dan didn't pick up on that. He's by far the best and most level headed, in my opinion, on the show

[@k9commander]

I could be wrong, but here's how I saw the life debt. Chewie is with Han not because Han saved his life, but rather because Han saved Chewie's family. Thanks to the droid's antics, the crew freed many wookies on Kessel. Han specifically was responsible for freeing Chewies's family. He may not have done it on purpose, but he did it anyway. After the wookies were freed, Chewie decided to stay with Han as payment for freeing them.

[@joeljthompson]

Spencer hasn't gotten to the ghost train episode of Dr. Who yet

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

The Darkness, an awesome band!😁😂

[@davidcruz3756]

Giving how much of Han Solo's various ephemera was given to him in this movie. I think maybe that was Lord and Miller's joke. Like that was the meta context of the whole movie, and it was going to be this joke about how nothing Han was until the events of this movie. Then Disney didn't want him to be a joke or didn't get it, so they had Ron Howard take a joke and try and make it serious.

[@diansimeonov1749]

Dan, you’re absolutely right! But nobody made that point because nobody saw this movie.. I didn’t see it in cinemas because after The Last Jedi I promised myself I wouldn’t support a franchise that gave me the finger multiple times. I saw it a few days ago on a friends computer and I’m with Spencer. It was unoffensive. Not clever but not as dumb as TLJ. It didn’t ruin a favorite character of mine. And obviously that’s the new bar for Dinsey’s Star Wars.

[@drus1917]

Han Unaccompanied would make a great follow up to Girl Interrupted

[@86lanzo]

Dan there were so much problems in this movie.. nobody had time to care that Han could just fly the Falcon

[@natereim]

Han flew the ship for the bandits pretty well too. They established that he was trained by the Empire as a pilot until he was kicked out for having a mind of his own.

[@natereim]

p.s. Lando was not f ing his droid you people are sick.

[@BrianMKE]

space top gun would have been a great movie

[@meloD30]

31:47 In another reality Dan is a comedian, known for his shows full of funny anecdotes and celebrity impressions.

[@AndrewLaSane]

Do they address the naming thing in the Blu-ray commentary? That dude is definitely the Sorting Hat of the Star Wars universe

[@PeverellTheThird]

How many other Solos are out there coz of that guy?

[@nate1511]

The falcon wasn’t the first thing he flew in the movie, When the dude with 4 arms died, Han took control of the ship during the train heist

[@martinsharrett1872]

Can someone explain to me how escape pods work in this movie? The falcon has 3 escape pods. These pods are attached one on top of another in a way that you would have to crawl through the engines to get to the people go here part of the pod. Which is semi ok-ish except they clearly have no way to get in them that way...? BUT!! To get to escape pod 1 you have to crawl through escape pods 2 and 3!!! How does that work? The crew just rock paper scissors it to figure out who keeps climbing to the next pod before the ship explodes? Why?? Just why???

[@benabramowitz18]

I find it odd that people are cheering for this movie’s box failure and hating on Disney like this is the worst movie ever, but there are far worse movies out there that still make billions of dollars. *cough* Jurassic World 2 *cough*

[@CrimsonBlasphemy]

It's less cheering and more schadenfreude over them dropping the pre-Disney EU, doing their own writing on material that already exists, and then failing at it.

[@joezagorski1507]

i wonder if it would have been better if they cut away to the next scene just before he says ‘solo’, kind of like the last scene in ultron with ‘avengers...’

[@albertnormal6834]

23:34 That's why everyone can fly the falcon. They have help from the Falcon herself.

[@yggdrasil3]

"What are we some kind of...Suicide Squad?" haha 😄... Oh wait :-S

[@davomar11]

While watching the honest trailer I had to check my phone’s brightness! That’s how dark the movie was.

[@oylatip]

Hey Screen Junkies! Could you do House MD honest trailer sometime after Doctor Who series?)