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Post by maxwellperfect on Aug 9, 2018 22:33:04 GMT
I found this one thoroughly disappointing, like another go-round of 'The Fifth Element' except lacking the interesting protagonists, instead substituting them for bland Young Adult ciphers, and lacking the sly humor and general outrageous qualities of that earlier Besson film.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 9, 2018 23:00:12 GMT
5/10. I didn't hate it but for all the wondrously imaginative effects, settings, and creature designs displayed on film, the movie's plot and characterization is a slipshod hodge-podge of Saturday matinee cliches. It felt like a bad fanboy penned crossover of Avatar with The Fifth Element. Plus Cara Delevingne and Dane DeHaan were both wildly miscast. If not for its high energy and fairly upbeat tone, I'd have relished tearing this to shreds. As it is, it's passable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2018 1:48:51 GMT
1/10
Fucking terrible.
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Post by Vits on Aug 11, 2018 17:28:33 GMT
4/10
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2018 19:50:16 GMT
I found this one thoroughly disappointing, like another go-round of 'The Fifth Element' except lacking the interesting protagonists, instead substituting them for bland Young Adult ciphers, and lacking the sly humor and general outrageous qualities of that earlier Besson film. I could still tell you what 5th element was about - there was an evil thingie from another dimension, and a supreme being and some stones who were a weapon to fight it. Only the supreme being could only fight it if Bruce Willis loved her. Which he did. Shenanigans were involved to get the stones and the weapon away from the evil thingies helpers and to the right place at the right time. Point being, it's a simple, comprehensible story that all the weirdness hangs around. You don't mind the weirdness, because you always have a clear idea of what everyone is trying to do, and why they're trying to do it. Plus, you care about the protagonists and want them to succeed. Valerian was not that. It was about a space station, and there was a general who had a battle and it hurt some natives... and so they... something to do with an animal that crapped pearls? And Valerian and his partner did... stuff... and he met a stripper... something. I dunno. And as you say, the biggest sin was that we really have no real reason to like the protagonists. He's a womaniser, we're told (not shown), but he's in love with his parter. Why? What prompted that change? And he's very duty bound, we're told (not shown), and she doesn't love him because of that? And that's pretty much all we know about him and her. We've no idea why they are supposedly in love, no idea what drives them, no idea why they do the things they do other than that it's their job. Lots of nice effects and ideas, but without a story to hang it on or characters to care about... none of it means anything at all.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 14, 2018 20:16:42 GMT
7/10. It has problems in the story telling but doesn't deserve all of the hate that it gets.
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Post by OrsonSwelles on Aug 14, 2018 20:37:15 GMT
7/10. It has problems in the story telling but doesn't deserve all of the hate that it gets. Whatever it gets, it deserves more.
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Post by amyghost on Aug 14, 2018 21:11:22 GMT
Left me with a desire to go back and re-read the original comics, which were a hell of a lot more imaginative and better written than the film even attempted to be.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 2:29:29 GMT
Oh, I should say, though... this : ...is one of the better openings to a movie I've seen, ever. I was really ready to see the rest of the movie after this. ...and then we get 15 minutes of elves on the beach.
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