| ▲ | grenoire 6 hours ago |
| I love this movie so much it's _unreal_. What an experience, every single time. And each time I see an article like this, I simply marvel at the immense love for art and life it has. What an incredibly talented crew, what product of mastery and care. |
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| ▲ | sixtyj 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| He continued with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. The Fifth Element has similar cinematic feeling as the first Blade Runner. And now it is clear. There is the same person behind it :) |
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Valerian missed the mark; I'm sure it's got great designs (although I also believe it's mostly CGI), but the story of the movie is disjointed (which is a risk when trying to merge multiple storylines into one) and the actors are lifeless. | | |
| ▲ | throwa356262 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I really liked Valerian. The story was fine and I expected Cara to be crap but she was actually fine. I did however very much hated
Dane DeHaan's annoying voice. | |
| ▲ | vidarh an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I've grown to like Valerian over rewatches, but unfortunately it suffers from Besson being a massive Valerian fanboy and trying to stuff everything he possibly could into it... I think he'd have done far better if he'd gotten a more limited budget, or had to produce three of them for the cost of the one he did... |
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| ▲ | nntwozz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The Fifth Element and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets are widely considered to share a thematic and stylistic universe, with similar aesthetic influences. There are shared elements (ha!) and aesthetics, with Valerian even featuring a shop called "Korbens" as an easter egg to The Fifth Element. Unfortunately the movie doesn't do it for me, the 90s were a better time. Once CGI became good storytelling and creativity took a backseat in Hollywood. | | | |
| ▲ | simonh 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Valerian was fun, but I really don't think it held together. Great set piece scenes though. | |
| ▲ | metalman 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | waterworld |
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| ▲ | Joel_Mckay 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Adam Savage covered the Mondoshawan props on his channel last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf5dPrmBvwE It was a fun film, but Chris Tucker broke the pacing too many times for a general audience. Even now on rottentomatoes his role still distracts focus from the character arcs. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fifth_element Was a cult classic for sure, but nowhere near Blade Runner as a film. =3 |
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| ▲ | cubefox 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I think the film would have been better (though perhaps less successful) if Besson had toned down the occasionally exaggerated tomfoolery, like Chris Tucker's character, or the spaceship Evil (the orb described in the article) which felt almost like a SciFi parody taken out of the movie Spaceballs. The pacing, the great costumes and set design by Moebius, the actors Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich, and the unusual ideas (like the alien opera singer) were all more than enough to carry the movie. |
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