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From horror master, Mike Flanagan, The Fall of the House of Usher is another fantasic addition to his continuing annual October offerings. Brilliantly weaving Poe works together, the series goes far beyond expectations and tells a moving, poignant story that invites deep introspection. All of Flanagan's shows do and it's why I've come to look forward to them so much. If you've enjoyed The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, or Midnight Mass, you will like this one as well.

The only reason I didn't give a 10 is because some of it was slightly predictable, but it's based on well known works so that's kind of par for the course.

Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood especially dazzle acting-wise with Gugino giving her best Flanagan performance to date, in my opinion. She deserves Emmy recognition for this.

Star Wars movies as of late, namely The Last Jedi, have had an uphill battle in the court of public opinion. This movie suffers the same fate. Before the movie came out, fans made up their minds that this new Han wasn't up to snuff, that the movie was unnecessary, and that it wouldn't be very good. I heard it countless times when I asked friends/fellow fans when they were going to see it - and I don't think that's fair. You should see it before judging it and I think this movie is pretty damn good.

To start, relative newcomer Alden Ehrenreich is the perfect young Han Solo. It shouldn't be compared to Harrison Ford because this outing in no way attempts to usurp him. Ehrenreich's aura as Han is awesome - and exactly how I always imagined a young Han to be.

As for whether the movie is unecessary, I don't think so. It's a fun way to see all the moments of Han's story never captured on film - meeting Chewbacca, first seeing the Millenium Falcon, meeting Lando, etc and I had a lot of fun seeing them.

The story itself is pretty good too - with a few ending surprises to boot. It continues an extra 10 minutes to set up future installments should they come to fruition, which I was a little 'eh' about, but the central narrative that they tell is engaging, entertaining, and cool.

I enjoyed Solo and I will be seeing it again. Definitely recommend.

I need to start by saying I see pretty much every Marvel movie and usually enjoy them all. This one is an exception. I enjoyed Deadpool's first outing fine - but this one takes it too far.

I think based on the success of the first film, the people behind Deadpool 2 thought they could amp everything up - the sillyness, the crudeness, and the ridiculousness. While I don't personally have a problem with the amped up crudeness, the silly, nonsensical nature of the film goes way too far. At times it's a laughable mess that's absolutely unwatchable.

The whole narrative that this film takes on is unnecessary and the lengths it goes to in order to be able to tell the story of the helpless kid mutant is absolute ludicrousness. The kid's story is fine, but Deadpool's narrative suffers for it because the movie isn't really about him, his life, or anything that made us like Deadpool's first film.

Bottom line: I wouldn't see this movie again if I was paid the ticket price just to go. It's that bad.