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 Posted:   Oct 1, 2018 - 12:42 PM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

With Solo coming out on streaming and home video we're starting to see a lot of cut scenes and extended scenes. I wonder if there's a lot music written for the film not on the OST? Or does the OST have a lot of music not heard in the film because of the re-shoots and cuts?

 
 Posted:   Oct 1, 2018 - 12:45 PM   
 By:   Shaun Rutherford   (Member)

With Solo coming out on streaming and home video we're starting to see a lot of cut scenes and extended scenes. I wonder if there's a lot music written for the film not on the OST? Or does the OST have a lot of music not heard in the film because of the re-shoots and cuts?

I don't know, but those deleted scenes are AWFUL.

 
 Posted:   Oct 1, 2018 - 1:13 PM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

Anyone else think that if Disney had released this in December 2018, it would have made a stack of money?

It would have made more than now.

I also believe that the all too public discussion about the original directors being replaced hurt the reception.

Not that general audiences care one bit about the production history of a film. But "Solo" simply had no chance of being discovered as the film it was, it was weighed down by being "in trouble", a "disaster waiting to happen".

In a way, it suffered the fate of "John Carter".


To be fair, the average person is a complete, medically-confirmed, dollar-store brand-name idiot and Hollywood knows this.

A favorite story of my friend's is when he went to see The Force Awakens and they opened the theater curtains and starting running the picture before dimming the lights. People talked among themselves, not realizing the movie was running - SFX and music and all - until the lights dimmed. Pavlov would've been rolling in laughter.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 11:02 AM   
 By:   Chris Avis   (Member)

https://variety.com/2018/music/awards/scores-ruled-ineligible-for-oscar-green-room-solo-1203085221/

Solo's been disqualified from Oscar consideration for best score as Disney missed the competition deadline. Pity as this has probably been my most listened to score of the year. Not that it would have won the Oscar, mind you.

Chris.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 11:05 AM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

That's a pretty dumb oversight. But I doubt the score had a shot at a nomination, anyway. (Though I do really enjoy it!)

I guess if it were in the running, though, there might have been FYC MP3s available. Oh well.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 12:49 PM   
 By:   kaseykockroach   (Member)

Probably would have lost in favor of Trent Reznor anyway.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 1:17 PM   
 By:   Yavar Moradi   (Member)

Shoot! I was really hoping for additional FYC cues like we’ve gotten for the other recent Star Wars scores by Williams and Giacchino! What the heck, Disney? How do you miss the deadline like that when the movie came out so long ago?

Yavar

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 1:27 PM   
 By:   Drawgoon   (Member)

The film itself wasn't a commercial success. Maybe that's why.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 1:37 PM   
 By:   The Mutant   (Member)

Damn fine music. Fun movie too!

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 1:52 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Shoot! I was really hoping for additional FYC cues like we’ve gotten for the other recent Star Wars scores by Williams and Giacchino! What the heck, Disney? How do you miss the deadline like that when the movie came out so long ago?

Yavar


They were busy ; buying up entertainment companies.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 2:00 PM   
 By:   John Webster   (Member)

FYC cues would have been nice, but aside from that, whatever. It’s not like I had any illusion of an actual nomination for Powell’s score.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 4:04 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

How do you miss the deadline like that when the movie came out so long ago?

Probably just out of sight, out of mind. It really would only be done as a courtesy to Powell (and Williams, I suppose). The reason for FYC campaigns is to drum up publicity for the film. "Solo: A Star Wars Story" is long out of the theatrical market and is past its prime home video window. A score nomination wasn't going to make any difference to their bottom line, and was very unlikely to happen anyway.

I rewatched the movie a month or so ago, and I thought all the highlights made the album. The brief snippet of [do I really have to worry about a spoiler at this point]'s theme at the end would have been fun to have, but since it was based on an old Williams theme, it likely wouldn't have made an FYC site anyway.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 4:30 PM   
 By:   EdG   (Member)

Disney has had a preliminary FYC page up for a while and Solo wasn’t part of it. They think Black Panther and Mary Poppins Returns have a better shot and I agree. A tactical decision.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 5:21 PM   
 By:   Mephariel   (Member)

FYC cues would have been nice, but aside from that, whatever. It’s not like I had any illusion of an actual nomination for Powell’s score.

How to Train Your Dragon was nominated back in 2010.

 
 Posted:   Dec 9, 2018 - 5:31 PM   
 By:   SchiffyM   (Member)

FYC cues would have been nice, but aside from that, whatever. It’s not like I had any illusion of an actual nomination for Powell’s score.

How to Train Your Dragon was nominated back in 2010.


True, of course. But what does that have to do with "Solo"?

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2018 - 3:48 AM   
 By:   AdoKrycha007   (Member)

https://variety.com/2018/music/awards/scores-ruled-ineligible-for-oscar-green-room-solo-1203085221/

Solo's been disqualified from Oscar consideration for best score as Disney missed the competition deadline.


So, Powell was robbed once again ! frown

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2018 - 5:37 AM   
 By:   Willgoldnewtonbarrygrusin   (Member)

Watched the film again (second viewing), and while I barely noticed the score the first time, on this second viewing I often thought that it was overbearing in the first 15 minutes and fun later on.

I still love the score as a listening experience.

But the film I was lukewarm to negative on first viewing could not, as I hoped, win me over on second viewing. Instead I really hated the colourgrading of the photography, resulting in a truly ugly film to look at (too much grey, brownish, darkness) thus never soaring as it should. And I also got the impression that casting really did not work at all in every role.

Ehrenreich just is not what I imagine a young Harrison Ford, and he was guided to be too jokey and unsure of himself. Emilia Clarke is no femme fatale and comes across as too girlish to convince in this role. Even Donald Glover is too snarky to be a young Lando and lacks the charm of Billy Dee Williams. And so on...

Really, the worst Star Wars film yet.

 
 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2018 - 5:47 AM   
 By:   jenkwombat   (Member)

Really, the worst Star Wars film yet.


Haven't had a chance to check out The Last Jedi yet, have you?

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2018 - 6:40 AM   
 By:   LeHah   (Member)

Really, the worst Star Wars film yet.

Haven't had a chance to check out The Last Jedi yet, have you?


Solo is a lot of fun - it just happens to have some cliche storytelling issues (everything we knew about Han Solo happens during this movie, etc)

The Last Jedi is awful - it happens to have some of the worst storytelling issues I've ever seen in a film (and I've seen Robot Monster)

 
 Posted:   Dec 11, 2018 - 7:42 AM   
 By:   Solium   (Member)

Watched the film again (second viewing), and while I barely noticed the score the first time, on this second viewing I often thought that it was overbearing in the first 15 minutes and fun later on.

I still love the score as a listening experience.

But the film I was lukewarm to negative on first viewing could not, as I hoped, win me over on second viewing. Instead I really hated the colourgrading of the photography, resulting in a truly ugly film to look at (too much grey, brownish, darkness) thus never soaring as it should. And I also got the impression that casting really did not work at all in every role.

Ehrenreich just is not what I imagine a young Harrison Ford, and he was guided to be too jokey and unsure of himself. Emilia Clarke is no femme fatale and comes across as too girlish to convince in this role. Even Donald Glover is too snarky to be a young Lando and lacks the charm of Billy Dee Williams. And so on...

Really, the worst Star Wars film yet.


Agreed for the most part but I thought Clarke was the one saving grace in the film. I really don't feel the cast had a lot of chemistry together. I couldn't care less about the fate of these characters. Lots of silliness too. Wookies are known to tear arms off their victims yet Chewie gets into a harmless wrestling match with Solo. No human would last two seconds with a Wookie.
I'm so tired of these dreary, colorless, dank looking films.

 
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