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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 12, 2018, 9:15 pm
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[center]Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
2 Stars out of 5
Trailer
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPeqNTqZNN0
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets had me for 10
minutes at the start of the movie. I was watching the "Pale
version of Avatar" and was kind of digging it for that very
reason. In my head, in spite of wide swath of bad reviews, was
in this. And then........the two main characters of Valérian and
Laureline came in and took me completely out of the movie to the
point that I kept starting and stopping the movie all day long.
I have no idea about the comics that this was spawned from, but
from a movie and story point of view....these two characters are
completely irrelevant, even if they have to be the ones to save
the inhabitants of Mül. If you want cardboard cutouts, they are
the ones for you. The story itself was bland and at times
extremely convoluted given how it jumps from one new character
to the next without really giving much backstory of what's
happening in the moment. Honestly, the entire movie....or at
least the first movie should have been centered entirely around
Mül and maybe in the sequel pick up with this two characters. I
found the CGI characters to have more emotion then the two Human
actors. Great eye candy. Looks and sounds amazing. But that's
all this is. Beyond boring. I will never watch this one again.
Skip. I'm not disappointed in the movie, because I knew exactly
what this would be when I first saw the trailer.
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Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
By: Neumatic Date: September 13, 2018, 12:21 am
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I think I posted about this movie, I had mixed thoughts about
it... there were sequences I liked (the "Avatar" sequence, the
Enterprise-esque opening sequence which works better when there
aren't names all over the place, the Big Market, etc) but the
issue I had with it wasn't the cast, it's that they were playing
characters.
There's a moment early on where Laureline does this little
greeting hand wave (which I have since taught myself), and I
love that. And watching the bonus features of that moment where
they're playing around and the goofiness they had on set, I'd
rather have seen THAT movie. I don't want to see Valerian and
Laureline, I want to see Dane DeHaan and Cara Delivigne. I want
to see two Eurotrash club kids save the universe, THAT'S fun,
that's more in the vein of The Fifth Element which is what we
were all hoping this movie would be. They were waayyyy too
serious in the flick.
I think having them just be them would have fixed a lot of
problems. Don't get why Valerian is into Laureline... but if
she was Cara D, yeah I could see that. Presuming that the long
list of women he had been with before were officers and so on, a
funky stoner would be different for him, AND push him out of his
comfort zone.
Alex (the ship, remember the ship had a name) felt more like a
third person on the team but not quite enough, there wasn't
enough personality in the ship or what it did. Obviously it's
close to the Millennium Falcon because the Falcon ripped it off,
but where was the funky French weirdness?
You know what movie could have been a good model for this?
Ghostbusters. Have these two (three?) be the funny ones but
it's a serious world and everything is serious and has weight,
but they're kinda just going through it having fun.
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