Solo would’ve been better if the following things happened
Anthony Ingruber played Han Solo
Make it a mix between Ocean’s 11 and The Good The Bad And The Ugly.
No Darth Maul and no Qi’Ra
Han is mentored by Beckett and it makes him the callous and cold smuggler we know him to be in A New Hope. Their relationship is similar to Fast Eddie and Vincent in Color Of Money
Make the focus be about Han as a character and Han’s relationship to Chewie and Lando
Han and Beckett sell everyone out and when Lando offers Han more money, Han shoots Beckett and helps Lando and Enfys Nest and when Enfys insists that he did it because he’s a good man, just have Han say “I did it for the money”
Han wins the Falcon from Lando at the end and ends with Han and Chewie flying to meet Jabba
Solo wasn’t really a bad movie, I think it is a fun movie with great potential. The problem is they focused more on the future and not in the now, a movie about Han Solo does not focus on Han Solo and it’s not necessary at all and the story is very forgettable, and it really is just a cash grab. Alden is completely forgettable, they did not want an actor to emulate Harrison Ford and that’s the problem. Donald Glover was emulating Billy Dee Williams, while also doing his own thing. I really think hiring Anthony Ingruber would’ve been the best possible thing they could’ve done. He looks and sounds like a young Harrison Ford, plus he worked with Ford in The Age Of Adaline. He could’ve easily channeled the charm and swagger of a young Han Solo. With Alden, I just don’t see it.
There is nothing remarkable about the movie and the only two characters who stand out as 100% only enjoyable to me are Enfys Nest and Chewie. The rest of the characters just feel like unnecessary adds or barley passable imitations.
They made the movie about everything BUT Han Solo and their attempts to make Han a good man just betrays the character we knew in A New Hope. The reason why I chose to cut out Qi'Ra is because Han Solo having a love interest in my opinion was a pretty poor choice. Han Solo was always implied to be a loner before Leia came into his life. His name is SOLO. Han is a criminal smuggler, if anything he would’ve been sleeping around like Captain Kirk, especially Han in his 20’s. Hell, in a deleted scene for ANH, Han basically has a small fling in the Cantina. As a matter of fact, showing that he was this intimate with someone before Leia takes a little bit of the mystique away from their relationship in later movies. I also felt like Han and Leia worked because they were the only ones who would get under each other’s skins, but with here, Han and Qi'ra are just kind of in a relationship at the beginning and it’s like “oh we don’t even know these people” seeing him so deeply affected over another woman makes Han Solo comes across as a little bit more vulnerable than the Han we met in A New Hope.
This whole movie shows a far more human Han, he’s shown to be somewhat empathetic and sympathetic of thers. He gives too much of a damn, there’s a time or two in Solo where Han chooses to do what’s right as opposed to what’s right for him, he does jobs without looking for a real reward and that’s just not Han Solo. In this movie it’s clear that Han has a moral compass, whereas in the original trilogy, he was a lot more morally ambiguous and it was through Luke and Leia’s influence and place in life that he beag to become good. In A New Hope he had to constantly be reassured that he was going to be preciously rewarded. This completely destroys Han’s arc in the original trilogy as this movie implies that Han was always a good guy. And the reason why I added Han working with Beckett to selling everyone out is because it works for his character. Han has been for himself no matter what until he meets Luke and Leia. I cannot see Han pre-ANH ever willingly doing the right thing while it’s Lando who stops Han and convinces him, “you’ll get your share” and Han just shoots Beckett, cause that’s the trash Han used to be before the disaster Skywalker Twins came along I really feel like no one on board understood Han Solo as a character and their inability to make a Han Solo movie about Han or any aspect of Han’s character is what ultimately failed the movie.
I love this take. Spot on with how I felt!! Who was that Han? I thought the Kasdans really got him? Ugh.
