Noah Carolan NUA Animation Year 2

This post is going to be looking at a film I think is underrated. For this, I chose Solo: A Star Wars Story , released in 2018 and directed by Ron Howard (who picked up the film after previous directors Phil Lord & Chris Miller left the project). ( The first trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story) The film was the second of Disney's Star Wars anthologies to be released, after Rogue One: A Star Wars Story , and followed up by The Mandalorian series on Disney+. It reveals the new canon origins of Han Solo, after Disney rebooted the Star Wars canon leaving his old origin story as the stuff of Legend in canon.  The film follows Solo, played by Alden Ehrenreich, pulling off the amazing feats of daring do he talked about in the original Star Wars trilogy; performing the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, initial rebellion against the Empire, and winning the Millenium Falcon in a game of sabaac against Lando Calrissian (played by Donald Glover).  Unfortunately, Solo did not perform a

For the film I like, I've chosen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure , released in 1989 by Orion Pictures and directed by Stephen Herek. (The original trailer for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure ) The film stars Keanu Reeves as Ted "Theodore" Logan, Alex Winter as Bill S. Preston Esq, and George Carlin as Rufus. It's a time-travel comedy, with a plot that revolves around Bill and Ted travelling through time to cherry pick historical figures for their final history report; failing this report prevents their dream of becoming a world famous band. I discovered the film in 2016, catching the second half of it on TV. Even without proper context of what was going on, the sheer insanity of what was going on and the style of comedy was really engaging, and appealed to my sense of humour in every way. One scene I especially enjoy is the encounter at the Circle-K. After struggling to study for their history report, Bill and Ted go to the Ci