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I remember being sat in the cinema in 2018 actively squinting at the massive screen. The digital grading was completely obscuring things like clothing and facial detail, rather important for a space adventure! So, watching THIS version tonight, colour-corrected by DigModiFicaTion I can finally, genuinely say, hand on heart that I have now SEEN Solo.
The dozens of tiny little edits for pacing and brevity were all extremely welcome. Trimming back L3-37 was the right thing to do. The ideal would of course have been for the characters in the movie we got to actually CARE and think about her after the tragic loss, but as it is we get a grumpy droid who finds a new calling and then has her life cruelly snuffed out. It is actually MORE reassuring that they don't mess around feeding her mind into the navigation system of the Falcon, because again, that NEEDS to be followed up on for emotional resonance. Also with the new crop of digitally-masked body doubles standing in for beloved characters, this helped me warm to Ehrenreich's performance as Han (Ford being a virtually impossible act to follow). He's a human being and as uncertain as he needs to be. Excellent opening crawl, top notch ending edit. With what was available, this is about as good a film as it could ever be.