20 Things You Somehow Missed In Solo: A Star Wars Story
9. A Good Feeling
You want more callbacks to famous references? Han replying with "I know" to Lando telling him he hated him and why he felt he won the Millenium Falcon fair square weren't enough? Well, how about this time the movie takes one of the most famous Star Wars phrases and flips it on its head?
In the ten other Star Wars movies, made up of the Skywalker Saga and Rogue One, the phrase "I've got a bad feeling about this" or some variation has been spoken. K-2SO may have been interrupted in Rogue One, and BB-8's version of the dialogue was unintelligible to human ears in The Last Jedi, but it has always been there.
Then there is Solo. You'd be forgiven for thinking that the phrase would absolutely be uttered as Han himself said it way back in A New Hope, but instead, the iconic character took a different view of the situation. Perhaps this came before he grew to be such a grizzled old man?
In fairness, in Solo he was backing himself to navigate through a maelstrom that no other pilot possibly could. This kind of confidence is completely in character for Han, whereas when he had a bad feeling about the trash compactor closing in on them, that was something out of his control.