Lord & Miller's involvement was the only thing about this stupid idea that made it seem vaguely interesting tbh
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
lord and miller? bros? did i miss something?
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
21 jump street maybe?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
22 jump street?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
I hope that Kennedy and Kasdan leave in the scene where Han Solo tries his hand at slam poetry.
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
still IA that this film will "explain how he got his name" as if he is a Superhero and he will have a "real" name that isn't Han Solo which is great bc that is what you want from a movie about Han Solo, an actor who isn't Harrison Ford playing a character that isn't named Han Solo (yet!)
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
21 jump street goes out of its way to establish that the main characters are good-hearted but clueless doofuses and that the various textbook dorks and jerks they interact with at school are largely good people too - very little of that fits my conception of classic bro cinema but clearly ymmv
meanwhile cloudy with a chance of meatballs remains one of the most effortlessly inventive and genuinely trippy mainstream movies in recent memory
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:51 (six years ago) link
in fact bros are the villains in 21 jump street iirc
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
Yeah - the whole "21 Jump Street" dude humor vibe - while admittedly funny sometimes in the films - just seemed like the wrong approach for this film (assuming they were gonna go that way. I haven't watched the Lego thing.) To me it's "bro humor" hence "bros".
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
i think literally the first line of the 21 jump street trailer is "TITTY TWISTER!!!" but i am not watching it again
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link
the message of 21 jump street is literally that bros are bad and that studying maths and drama and being nice to people is good
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
admittedly someone does get shot in the dick during the climactic scene
it contains multitudes is what i'm saying
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:13 (six years ago) link
Few things more anti-bro than a devastating dickblast, imo
― I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:16 (six years ago) link
Kasdan favors a strict adherence to the written word — what is on the page is what must be shot.
they should get the Coens to finish it
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
If you really want to know the essence of Lord & Miller, just go watch Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs right now
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:46 (six years ago) link
like, watch it a couple times even
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
tombot otm
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
best line in 21JS is "AP CHEMISTRY BITCH" where he pronounces it "app"
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
to think that star wars has been denied sophisticated, non-bro-like humor of this caliber
did really enjoy 'cloudy' though! thought the thing with the dad and the dog-voice-box encoder was genuinely sweet, and revealing of exactly the problematics of bromasculinity.
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 13:57 (six years ago) link
So disappointed that the likelihood of seeing Han Solo whaling on his pecs and giving nerds atomic wedgies has precipitously fallen. Will continue to follow the beer-drenched career of Lord & Miller (or the Frat Brothers, as I call them).
― I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
still IA that this film will "explain how he got his name"
they already confirmed (or at least strongly walked back) the idea that Han Solo is an alias -- what they meant was "made his name" as in, why people all over have heard of Han Solo
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
which is what I assumed when I read the original statement, but people are really literal and look at everything a LucasFilm employee says as literal truth
Let me guess, he made his name by doing the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, which it turns out is actually a tall tale.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:49 (six years ago) link
Also people are dumb also the 'make a name' phrase isn't really in use anymore?
― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
that'd wrap the movie up all tidy
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
making a name for yourself is one of the main tropes for stories about criminals and businessmen!
a smuggler is uh.. well, you get the picture
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Han revealed to be short for Hanglebert.
― I Love It When They Call Me Big Pharma (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link
Hanglebert Solodnik
the way this film has been covered is confusing, notwithstanding your brilliant hypothesis that "also people are dumb"
Star Wars: What is Han Solo's Real Namehttp://time.com/4712810/han-solo-name-reactions/
Star Wars spin-off will reveal how Han Solo got his namehttps://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/mar/24/star-wars-han-solo-name-carrie-fisher
Han Solo movie will explain how the character got his namehttps://www.polygon.com/2017/3/23/15040696/han-solo-movie-name-disney-star-wars
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.google.com/search?q=kathleen+kennedy+"han+solo"+confusion&oq=kathleen+kennedy+"han+solo"+confusion
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
well, that sure didn't link properly
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
In an interview with MTV, Kennedy attributes Iger’s remark to a misunderstanding. She says:
“I’m not sure that that’s entirely what Bob meant. There’s more to Han Solo’s name, but it’s not that it’s not his name. It’s obviously his name. It will always be his name (laughs).”
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
That clarifies things.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
"how Han Solo made a name for himself" != "how Han Solo got his name"
if you mean the former but say the latter, you are pretty much guaranteed to confuse people
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
for sure
it was a vague statement by the ceo of disney that launched a zillion speculative blog posts
you'd think at least a few of them would have contacted the PR department to ask what it was about? maybe someone did, but rushing some very viral content is a little easier
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
take it to the Anagrams for Kenny Loggins thread, already
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
George once trolled some writers by telling them Han's full name was Hannibal Solinski.— Pablo Hidalgo (@pablohidalgo) January 9, 2017
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
this is canon now
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
as sung by duran duran
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
That quote from Kennedy just sounds like she's trying to assure people that they can still safely call him Han Solo. Like the name isn't being taken away from them. I don't think she's confirming that Han Solo was definitely his name at birth.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link
Found this old convo about Star Wars and I daresay it's the finest critical work of the 21st century pic.twitter.com/b1AiyDWjQM— Dok (@DrPuppykicker) June 15, 2017
ran across this when I was trying to find that tweet and now I want a prequel movie about teen Luke being a fucking weirdo. I think the implication was he was doofy one of his posse in the deleted scenes from the first film
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
imo trying to deep read into KK's walk-back is like trying to deep read Iger's statement. she's hands-on, he's just the ceo of disney. neither one is going to say much of substance
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
i'm getting flashbacks to the interminable ilx 'sleep: that's where i'm a viking!' debate here
― total eclipse of the beefheart (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:35 (six years ago) link
that was one of the best threads ever
― a butt groove but for feet (DJP), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
language is multivalent and we are all vikings
― mh, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:54 (six years ago) link
thanks for clearing it up fellas. so in reality they meant he "makes his name" in this movie, as in, a bullshit phrase that can be applied to any film ever where a protagonist does a thing
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:57 (six years ago) link
Han Solo, First Of His Name
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
It'll have something to do with him being an orphan and being given the name "Solo" as an infant because his parents are unknown.
― jmm, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:10 (six years ago) link
Started off as "Dawn Solo" but transitioned young.
― how's life, Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:11 (six years ago) link
Started off as "Roger Miller" iirc
https://img.discogs.com/tx4rXRs7g_riSKFah3ZDJxEPU1o=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3778638-1344098379-4438.jpeg.jpg
― ﴿→ ☺ (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link