10 points
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have you seen Star Wars which has Han Solo being sarcastic and too-cool-for-this for 3 whole films
like yeah, it can be poorly received if you don’t establish a character and earn the payoff of a half-joke like that, but that is not inherent to putting it in a movie.
4 points
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boring conversation anyway literally a phone call bit
and as i said, it works because he has characterization, they didn’t pull it in his introductory scene
