May in Movies

"Deadpool 2"
The Merch with the Mouth is back in his second raunchy film,and he's fighting Cable this time, because he has traveled through time to kill the future Fire Fist before he can kill the Essex school master jerk guy. The X Men show up and try reasoning with him. Battles happen. Still really, we could have done without another tiny body parts during regeneration gag. The time travel as reset is used to kind of mess with the reality of the whole thing, but okay. It really is a nod to the 1990s X Force and X Men cartoons more than the comics. Not bad. Not great.

"Batman Ninja"
 The highly anticipated blu ray release of this odd high concept Batman steampunk story, where a time traveling Gorilla Grog takes all the main villains back into time and space to feudal Japan, and Batman and some of the Robins, to have them battle. The dubbing on the dubbed version is cool, but some of the voices get quiet. The Joker is delightfully insane, as is Harley. The guy playing Batman does a pretty good imitation of a Keaton era Batman, with a little Nolan era in the end. The film went direct to video and yet is one of the better DC animated batman concepts of late.

"Solo: A Star Wars Story" 
If Revenge of the Sith took place about 13 years ago in the original universe, then this is in that universe, or five years before Rogue One, and A New Hope, 18 years after Revenge of the Sith.  This is thus canon with Clone Wars the cartoon and Rebels. Seems it's a love letter to the EU. Young Han becomes Solo (by a cheeky name change) and goes into the 'service' but is a deserter when he meets some rebels, and they want him to go on a mission to steal some energy canisters off a train. Then the marauders take the booty, and kill the leader's wife, so Han finds another way, he goes gambling. It's not Canto Bight. It's some other place. Anyway, there he meets Lando the Calrissian. Later, they go on a heist on planet Kessel, (with spice mines like Dune)and go on the...Kessel Run!  A cheeky reference to that has been in every classic movie, and the 12 'parsecs' are explained away as 'normally it takes 20, but we rounded up', but still a parsec is a unit of time, not distance! Yep,  everything you might expect, playing it safe mostly, and ending with no real 'subversion'. The problem is this movie is weak on the 'new and different' and doesn't go anywhere you would not expect.

So the timelines kind of look like this.
The Phantom Menace, year 1
Attack of the Clones, year 11
Revenge of the Sith, year 15 (Luke and Leia born),
Han Solo, year 20
Rogue One, year 32
A New Hope, year 33, (Luke and Leia 18)
The Empire Strikes Back, year 35
Return of the Jedi, year 38 (Luke nearly finishes training, Vader defeated, Leia and Han going to have baby, future Kylo)
The Force Awakens, year 68, (Ben Solo/Kylo Ren is 30),
The Last Jedi, year 69
The First Order, ?? *My guess on the title.

So, I liked the movie just fine. It didn't bother me the actor was one head too short to play Han. The annoying femme bot did not really do much except be like Threepio in smugness.

And no, net fan boys, Lando never once pretends to be metro or pan sexual, not once, in the film. He's just flirty. He was a Casanova type flirt in the original. You are reading too much into that. It would have been cool if he was into anything, and he did diddle a robot, but he didn't explicitly claim he wanted Han. Now as for Chewie and Han...oh my.Just kidding. Or am I? Ha.