<i>Solo</i>: Finally a <i>Star Wars</i> Movie That's Not a Rehash of <i>Star Wars</i>
The Han Solo prequel isn’t groundbreaking, but it’s different and very well cast—and that’s enough.
I saw Star Wars on opening night in 1977 when I was 10 years old, one of a small number of occasions on which history’s timeline and my own have aligned perfectly. (And no, don’t even start with your “A New Hope” or “Episode IV”; the movie’s title was, and remains, “Star Wars,” no matter what retroactive nonsense George Lucas may have spent years peddling.)
My 10-year-old self had precisely one substantive complaint about the film,…—that a parsec was a unit of distance (3.26 light years to be precise), not time.
