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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 9:19 pm
by PerrySimm
I went to see
Dunkirk last week and apparently this was a popular choice, to the point where
YouTube insisted that Luc Besson's
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets had flopped hard.
To that sentiment I say, have a little patience. The right kind of nerds will find this movie in time. Sure, it's not going to be quite up there with
The Fifth Element, but it was a worthy effort.
I give it 7 Alphas out of 10.
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Valerian's buddy cop tourist approach to space opera reminded me more than a little of Dirty Pair.
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 11:46 pm
by Fixer
Heard great things about Dunkirk, however I am currently forbidden from seeing it unless I go with my RPG group.
As for Valerian, I saw Doug Walker's review and I tend to agree with him from the trailers I've seen. The visuals look amazing but what really has me excited is a future bad movie night. I feel this could be a new "so bad it's good" movie that'll give glorious drinking game entertainment
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 11:51 pm
by Redem
I wonder if Luc Besson going "Why didn't I release Valerian on the week the Emoji movie came out instead of the one for Dunkirk"
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:17 am
by raiken_
I opted to see Valerian instead and, unfortunately, it wasn't that good. Wouldn't go so far to say it's a bad movie; a lot of work went into the visuals and world building. It's worth seeing on a big screen. But the story was weak and the characters just weren't that interesting. Also it felt like there were a lot of things that should have had more weight or consequences, but the plot had a.d.d. and kept finding tangents to jump to and forget.
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:20 am
by TGLS
PerrySimm wrote:
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Valerian's buddy cop tourist approach to space opera reminded me more than a little of Dirty Pair.
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Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:53 am
by BunBun299
I rather enjoyed this movie. I have seen better acting, but then, I've seen Birdemic as well.
The visuals are stunning. I especially loved the opening. It was a perfect example of Show, Don't Tell, showing us how Alpha came to be.
I would have liked to have seen a bit more of the leads working together in the action scenes. The action tended to break them up for some reason. Let's see why these two are the ultimate team.
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 1:43 am
by raiken_
BunBun299 wrote:
I would have liked to have seen a bit more of the leads working together in the action scenes. The action tended to break them up for some reason. Let's see why these two are the ultimate team.
I think the only scene of the pair working together was when they were chewing out the commander. Otherwise a lot of the action was "person A needs saving by person b" and then they would switch.
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 3:06 am
by PerrySimm
BunBun299 wrote:It was a perfect example of Show, Don't Tell
The first scene was a lot of fun! It gives you the feeling that this place kind of explores space in reverse.
raiken_ wrote:Also it felt like there were a lot of things that should have had more weight or consequences, but the plot had a.d.d. and kept finding tangents to jump to and forget.
I think that's fair. There's a lot of stuff they encounter over the course of the adventure I keep wanting them to bring back, but they're always charging forward at full speed.
spoiler wrote:Something that really bugged me was the quoted distance Alpha had travelled from Earth, which wouldn't even take it beyond Saturn despite hundreds of years with exospace travel.
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 5:23 am
by Karha of Honor
Fixer wrote:Heard great things about Dunkirk, however I am currently forbidden from seeing it unless I go with my RPG group.
As for Valerian, I saw Doug Walker's review and I tend to agree with him from the trailers I've seen. The visuals look amazing but what really has me excited is a future bad movie night. I feel this could be a new "so bad it's good" movie that'll give glorious drinking game entertainment
I watched the Time Jam series recently so i decided against watching it.
Re: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:02 am
by GandALF
Are Dehaan and Delevingne any good in their roles? The whole thing seems pretty different from the source material.
