Walt Disney and LucasfilmTomorrow night brings us the debut of Walt Disney's Solo: A Star Wars Story. How well does a Star Wars movie perform when people aren't automatically psyched for a Star Wars movie? But, more than any of Walt Disney's recent Star Wars movies thus far, Solo: A Star Wars Story has little going for it outside of the mere fact that it's a Star Wars movie. To be fair, the first six major live-action Star Wars movies (not counting those Ewok flicks) were also "just" Star Wars movies, but they mostly (give or take the last two prequels) played in an environment where Star Wars movies were uncontested in terms of big-scale fantasy spectacle and blockbuster adventure. The first modern Star Wars movie not to feel like an event is also the first Star Wars movie that exists in a theatrical landscape where it doesn't have to be.

Source: Forbes May 23, 2018 17:01 UTC