Movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

[Bomberboyokay]

An ambitious looking sci-fi film.



In cinemas August 10th.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Based on a true story

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Based on a true story

Ya think?

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

Geezus, are big bushy eyebrows in or something?

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Cara Delevigne? I'm out.

Tbf I want to like her, but Enchantress was just so...hammy.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

sound in space, another poor sci fi.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The main character is Jesse from In Treatment haha!

 

[Coolangatta]

Cara Delevigne? I'm out.

Tbf I want to like her, but Enchantress was just so...hammy.

Apparently Valerian is easily the best performance of her career. For her that's not saying much based on reputation, but she's supposed to be bearable in this which is not bad considering that the dialogue is unfortunately awful in this. Early reviews are saying it's okay, not Transformers bad.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I haven't seen her in anything before.

 

[Exe Gesis]

I haven't seen her in anything before.

I've seen her in a kimono

 

[Frank Bunn]

Loved this movie! Lots of fun, great CGI. Cameos from Ethan Hawke, Rhianna and Rutger. Worth a look.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Watched it tonight. Will give thoughts later.

 

[Mootsy]

Loved it!

Had to get it on Blu ray of course..

 

[Bomberboyokay]

The trailer is better than the movie. Opening montage of now to the far future was good. CGI tropical planet with aliens was good, them getting blown up was good. The movie peaks in these first 14 minutes. Then we meet our title character Valerian and his colleague/love interest Laureline and it's a bit disappointing. They have a comedic 'he's interested, she's not!' thing but it's not that funny. But then there's a long bit where they're doing an espionage mission fighting through dimensions which was pretty cool. It made me think there was a multiverse but I don't think they explicitly said that.

Anyway to say more would probably just recount the whole movie. But Cara Delevinge probably shouldn't have been in it. She's really only in it because she looks like a model. Is a model. The first thing we see of her is her bikini-clad ass walking. Someone who acts better would've helped. Dane DeHaan also is a bit of an odd choice for the hero but got the job done. This is technically an indie movie so I guess he fit the acting budget they had allocated. There's various aliens, a ship that's a better version of the Millennium Falcon, and other Star Wars similarities (monsters under the sea!). Clive Owen looks old. The CGI and the space city is quite nice.

Even though the movie kind of annoyed me I would watch a sequel so I guess it's an okay movie. Don't think we'll see sequel though. Apparently this didn't make much money.

 

[Pedantic]

I really enjoyed it. Not without flaws but at least it tried to do something interesting rather than the same old rehashes that seem to make up 99% of SFF films these days.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

GG.exe have you watched it?

 

[Exe Gesis]

GG.exe have you watched it?

I have
I was going to do a youtube video review, one day, and post it here. Or maybe I'll just write one here, one day, soon.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

YouTube!

 

[Bomberboyokay]

After rewatching Star Wars: The Force Awakens I feel I was a little harsh on this.

 

[Exe Gesis]

Are you kidding? Valerian *ingg sucked.

 

[Connoisseur]

I enjoyed Valerian more than I did Force Awakens. *shrugs* Let's be honest the vast majority of kiddy sci fi flicks are derivative generic safe formulaic popcorn fluff anyway and Star Wars is not above that. Star Wars just relies on nostalgia and being the first (blockbuster) sci fi opera to milk money from the masses.

 

[Mootsy]

Valerian was an awesome film.