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Solo doesn't get the love it deserves. It keeps inching up my all-time rankings of the movies. Since you didn't ask, here's my ranking:
- The Empire Strikes Back
- A New Hope
- Rogue One
- Return of the Jedi
- Revenge of the Sith
- Solo
- Attack of the Clones
- The Last Jedi
- Tie - The Phantom Menace / The Force Awakens
- The Rise of Skywalker
I saw the 6am showing of Rogue One on opening day at the BFI IMAX in London, before going in to the office for the day. That was the only time I ever walked out of a packed movie theater, and nobody was talking. One of my favorite Star Wars movies, for sure.
Solo got a bad rap, IMHO. It is a fun heist movie.
I really wish the directors of the final trilogy had actually talked with each other, instead of having us watch the results of a pissing match that diminished the storyline for no real reason. I still haven't forgiven Abrams for his overly lens-flarey Star Trek movies (and would it have killed him to spend 5 seconds explaining why the Romulan miners' face tattoos were such a big deal, or why he decided the alien race needed to look completely different), so I was salty going in to TFA... but I can't forgive him for the stupid kiss near the end of RoS. Sure, give the genocidal psychopathic incel last-minute redemption. *eyeroll*