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Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, and Emilia Clarke in Solo A Star Wars Story

Solo: A Star Wars Story – We Finally Have a Trailer, and It’s Not Looking Good

Solo: A Star Wars Story has been plagued by production problems for almost a year now. The original directors were fired over creative differences well into principal photography. Ron Howard was brought in to take over and reportedly reshot most of it. There has been rampant speculation that the lack of a trailer was a sign of impending disaster. Now, finally, less than four months before release, we have our first trailer. You can see it for yourself here. It is not at all encouraging.

It would be easy to confuse this with a fan-made effort. You would expect more polish from a studio giving the public their very first look at a film scheduled for release over Memorial Day weekend. Take “Star Wars” out of the title, and you have a generic, pedestrian sci-fi movie – possibly entertaining in a mindless way, but nothing special. Put “Star Wars” back in the title, and you have a crass Disney cash grab.

Alden Ehrenreich has none of the cool cockiness we expect from Han Solo, unless you envision young Solo as a smug, insufferable millennial. Emilia Clarke has just enough screen time to remind us that she can’t act to save herself. This thing has train wreck written all over it.

The Warcraft Movie Trailer: Sympathetic Orcs, Racist Bastard Humans, and Green Moses

The Warcraft trailer has been released, and it bodes poorly for the movie. See it for yourself below.

Who is the audience for this thing? Is this a general release movie or the most expensive piece of fan fiction ever created? Unless you are a Warcraft lore junkie or have been playing Blizzard games for the past two decades, you will not have the foggiest clue who any of the characters are. You’re expected to get excited about a bunch of humans and generic CGI orcs in a generic CGI fantasy setting.

Which is another big problem. There’s WAY too much CGI in this thing. And the juxtaposition of human actors and CGI orcs simply looks bizarre. You can get away with combining actors and animation in movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it only works if the animation is clearly animation. Warcraft immediately charges headlong into the Uncanny Valley and gleefully builds a homestead. Continue reading