{"id":6276,"date":"2018-06-01T16:22:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2018-07-13T07:35:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:35:12","slug":"solo-a-star-wars-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=6276","title":{"rendered":"Solo: A Star Wars Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MV5BNTExODg4NzI5M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE2OTY0NTM@._V1_SY1000_CR006841000_AL_-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MV5BNTExODg4NzI5M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE2OTY0NTM@._V1_SY1000_CR006841000_AL_-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MV5BNTExODg4NzI5M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE2OTY0NTM@._V1_SY1000_CR006841000_AL_-624x912.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/MV5BNTExODg4NzI5M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDE2OTY0NTM@._V1_SY1000_CR006841000_AL_.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/>I came into <a title=\"Never tell him the odds.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3778644\/mediaviewer\/rm4038020352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solo<\/a> with pretty low hopes. I was afraid the actor would fail and the movie with it, and&#8230; okay, no, that&#8217;s the only thing I was afraid of. The plot looked fine from previews, and Donald Glover is a national treasure, so yeah.<\/p>\n<p>But, good news! The guy playing Solo was basically fine. Maybe a little too happy smiles instead of smug smiles, but I&#8217;m perfectly okay with saying that&#8217;s because the character is years younger. He played fine off Chewbacca and Lando alike. (And the other characters that were new to his backstory, but I wasn&#8217;t measuring that against pre-existing opinions.)<\/p>\n<p>Other than that? Fun Star Warsy action movie, with heists and counterheists, chases and escapes, criminal syndicates&#8230; you know, the kinds of things you&#8217;d expect out of Han Solo&#8217;s backstory. If I&#8217;m being honest, they found almost no way to surprise me; I knew a lot of this story before now anyway even if it has become canon via the screening and wasn&#8217;t before. But whatever. Like I said, it was Star Warsy and fun, and I&#8217;ve been happy watching those while knowing how the story would turn out for close to forty years.<\/p>\n<p>There <em>was<\/em> one thing that made me cringe, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I can just forget about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came into Solo with pretty low hopes. I was afraid the actor would fail and the movie with it, and&#8230; okay, no, that&#8217;s the only thing I was afraid of. The plot looked fine from previews, and Donald Glover is a national treasure, so yeah. But, good news! The guy playing Solo was basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[614,106,130],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-alamo-drafthouse","tag-fantasy","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}