If you showed Solo to someone that's never seen or heard of a single piece of Star Wars media in their life (...somehow), they'd probably enjoy the film more than someone who does know the franchise intimately.
This isn't like TLJ, where the issue is complaints about continuity. Rather, it's how the film always seems to feel stronger when it's not trying to tie things into the other films. Star Wars' style of filmmaking, where the world is presented as it is and random galactic details don't need exposition about them, it's still here and it wouldn't leave people behind...
...but those moments when it does bring up something from the Franchise, like OMG HAN GOT HIS BLASTER or OMG KESSEL RUN IN UNDER 12 PARSECS, they land very flat and are clearly cloying... made worse with a lot of stuff in the finale that go out of their way to Remind You Of The Thing.
Also, enough with the damn dice. They worked in TLJ to symbolize Han's loss, but no one cares about the goddamn dice >_<.
What would be a really good movie, but dragged down by the franchise
If you showed Solo to someone that's never seen or heard of a single piece of Star Wars media in their life (...somehow), they'd probably enjoy the film more than someone who does know the franchise intimately.
This isn't like TLJ, where the issue is complaints about continuity. Rather, it's how the film always seems to feel stronger when it's not trying to tie things into the other films. Star Wars' style of filmmaking, where the world is presented as it is and random galactic details don't need exposition about them, it's still here and it wouldn't leave people behind...
...but those moments when it does bring up something from the Franchise, like OMG HAN GOT HIS BLASTER or OMG KESSEL RUN IN UNDER 12 PARSECS, they land very flat and are clearly cloying... made worse with a lot of stuff in the finale that go out of their way to Remind You Of The Thing.
Also, enough with the damn dice. They worked in TLJ to symbolize Han's loss, but no one cares about the goddamn dice >_<.