The moment he appeared in theaters there was a collective audible GASP followed by one old person who went "huh?!" Suffice to say depending on if you followed Rebels or not Darth Maul appearing to talk to his agent caught moviegoers off guard.
Forgot they played a bit of Duel of the Fates during this scene. Such a great piece of music.
Don't forget Clone Wars.
That too, but given the reception with Rebels and viewership many would assume he died in between or confused parents on where Solo took place in the "Before A New Hope" timeline.
I've kept up and was pretty surprised to see Maul.
Ian fucking McDiarmid says hello
Duel of the Fates is the best piece of music in any Star Wars movie and I WILL fight anyone who says otherwise.
Shame we probably aren't gonna get a Darth Maul movie. I was surprised by how fun Solo was. Then again I also enjoyed Rogue One as well. I think my least favorite thing about Star Wars is actually the Jedi and force religion stuff. I wanna see a cool alien cyborg with a big red laser sword slice people up. Not some hobo talking about space religion.
Emilia Clarke is such a shit actor, this scene really cements that she has absolutely no range.
Episode 3 is solid
Haven't seen the movie but it feels like he only takes out the dual lightsaber so the writers can be like "Remember Darth Maul???? from the first movie?? with the dual lightsaber???"
It felt obvious that Maul, Whatshername and maybe even Han and Chewie were going to show up again in either Boba Fett's or Obi Wan's movies. Too bad it seems like both got put on the backburner until further notice.
Came to post this exact thing. The scene was going 'alright' until the lightsaber was randomly turned on for seemingly no reason at all. Like, you have a classic prequel music track playing, you have this moment where he takes off his hood and the music swells slightly. Did you really need Maul to turn on his lightsaber on top of all that?
It really does make the whole scene seem more like its sole intention was to reveal that "hey guys we're doing something with DARTH MAUL, you remember him right??" rather than, yknow, have any bearing on the narrative.
I've been saying this ever since I first saw the movie.
I haven't seen the movie either (first Disney Star Wars movie I've skipped entirely) - but isn't the whole film just one giant pile of memberberries?
Outdated meme aside, no.
Yeah the Solo cameo was very unexpected.
Warwick Davis came out of nowhere.
I didn't see Solo. Is there any explanation to Jango/Boba Fett's armor being in that room?
Not really. There’s a couple callbacks, but they felt rather minor if I remember correctly. This scene was the only one that made me groan a bit.
No idea, but technically speaking, it could just be any random set of Mandalorian armour, not necessarily Boba or Jango's.
It's Old Republic Era Rally Master Armor. It's looks really similar to samurai armor but with the Mandalorian helmet. It's not Boba or Jangos because fucking Boba has Jango's armor.
Dood had his one interesrinf character trait spoiled in the trailers for the movie, which was the dual lightsaber. Other than that, he got kilt and that was it. He had no character dynamic and was a shitty villain.
No, he did it ao you'd go "oh thats darth maul for some reason". Same reason they had a full color hologram, despite not having full color holograms in the prequels or sequels.
They really had to cement that it was Darth Maul so your average star wars fan could clap like a retard in the theater because he remembered who darth maul is.
Neither did a single character in all of the prequels. Pretty much everyone was stale, emotionless, and vapid.
Which is a very cool design, the matching Vader and Grievous. They could have really built an extremely intimidating character that no one could have touched until the very end of 2 or maybe the start of 3.
I actually agree with this in a way. Maul was yet another "Cool thing with huge potential" that was massively ruined by being yep, another lost cause.
Maul should have replaced a major villain in the next films, him living would allow him to be an active threat and give people something to work towards. Instead they fucking kill him off immediately. In fact, it's the biggest reason I think the prequels are such a failure.
https://www.alternet.org/sites/default/files/styles/story_image/public/story_images/guns_2.png?itok=BtRlYdbx
"Are you feeling lucky punk"
I like that they're bringing him back but this half-way feels a little like a "Heeey remember this" moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEq1Z0bjdwc
I honestly think Duel of the Fates is the best piece of music amongst all the Star Wars films, and that's saying a lot because John Williams is up there with James Horner and Hans Zimmer . Even if the prequels generally are pretty badly written, the music, pod racing and other such things at least made them reasonably fun romps for me as a young kid.
It's neither. Just some Red Mandalorian Samurai.
https://heroichollywood.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/solo-star-wars-mando.jpg?x42694
I dunno, Obi-Wan was pretty great too.
*turns on double lightsabers for no reason, from thousands of miles away*
I CLAPPED WHEN I SAW IT
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