There are slim chances of titling a Star Wars movie in a manner that will please all or even most of its many, many fans, but just calling the Han Solo movie Solo is still pretty gobsmacking. That Han Solo’s last name directly implied his raffish, go-it-alone nature was always the type of thing you didn’t want to look too directly at, and so the film calling attention to it, as though it were some sort of clever pun and not literally baked into the decades-old concept of the character, shows a dispiriting lack of invention. It’s like a character in the movies marveling over the fact that “Skywalker” implies someone, like, flying, rather than just letting the Skywalkers have a radical fucking last name.
Well... What else would you call the Han Solo movie? Han Solo? Han Solo: Origins? Han? The logo doesn’t really work there, I’ll give you that. But Solo is pretty acceptable title for a movie that’s about a character named Han Solo.
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I swear you fan boys bitch for the sake of bitching.
