It was... okay? The 2 main actors sucked, they both looked like the heroin habit hit them hard.
The opening virtual reality/dimension thing was kind of shit. The idea of it is cool, but what they did wasn't. The rest of the movie was okay, but felt like a meh version of what it could have been.
Also, it really sucked as an adaptation of the source material.
yes, it only became good for a second when Bubbles was on screen, but even then they just killed her for no reason, so we were again stuck with 2 uncharismatic timber-like characters
>Valerian, the fate of the entire civilisation is at stake! Where are you? Wait...are you just sitting and watching some pole dancer alien in a club while drinking wienertails???
they were so real with this scene
I don't remember most of it, but the main actors are just too hard to look at or take seriously as action Stars. This is made by one of the Chris's and some random hot girl it would have been a lot better
Opening act is fantastic. The chemistry between the leads is bad if not horrible. Rianna or whatever that fish eyed black woman is called can not act and ruins whatever was good prior.
Swung for the fences and for that it gets my respect. But it's not good and Dane is miscast as Valerian, he's just not a leading man hero. He gives school shooter vibes all the time.
He can be a leading man if the role calls for an angsty, sickly loner type guy. Not here.
But I read the comic books and honestly.. they weren't that good compared to the other French sci fi stuff. They always had these confused sprawling storylines with lots of running around about nothing.
The casino part of the second star wars sequel reminded me the most of the comics.
Awful miscast, really. The story isn't specially good but could've been a "second Fifth Element" if the cast was good and they added some memorable scenes. A waste of potential.
They really did look alike, it was a bit weird. They romance part of the film could have been removed totally, and just have them be good work buddies would have been much better
Too much lore from the source material trying to pack into the movie.
...as well as the "John Carter" factor too. People don't really appreciate the sources of inspiration when relating to current thing's popularity; talking about "Star Wars" here. Lucas took much inspiration from various sources to make Star Wars. One being Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress, and Burroughs "John Carter", as well as "Valerian" which was a French Sci-Fi comic from the 60s....But since Star Wars achieved the fame that it did (before Disney), people use the OG trilogy as a primer for everything else, even the original sources. ...And the audience tends to become stupid plebs about it, thinking "oh it rips off Star Wars" never realizing Valerian was one of the many inspirations for Star Wars "doing it first"...
...still Valerian did turn out to be a silly movie anyways;...
>And the audience tends to become stupid plebs about it, thinking "oh it rips off Star Wars" never realizing Valerian was one of the many inspirations for Star Wars "doing it first"...
Just wait for that Warhammer 40k series, its going to be the plebapocalypse.
It's just gonna be a bunch big burly bald men in armor shooting things, so it might get a casual following from people who want to turn their brain off.
Good point. Just because a famous Hollywood movie stole somebody else's idea, a big screen adaptation of that original idea isn't "entitled" to success for simply existing. Star Wars also ripped off Dune, but the new adaptation isn't really using Star Wars as a crutch and it's trying to be different, so far it's getting positive reception
I honestly don't remember. A friend recently had to inform me when Rihanna is transforming and shit doing a weird show that it was a scene from this movie and not a music video of hers when I asked if he had remembered what song that was from the video for.
yeah it's pretty damn sweet when you're looking for a fun, colorful, visually impressive space odyssey adventure that doesn't take itself overly serious, has some cool concepts, and has Cara looking ridiculously hot the entire time.
I don't get why he looks like he's permanently on the verge of a heroin OD. Like, isn't there a makeup department and acting instructors to teach him how to look like he's not circling a k-hole?
>here's your new sex symbol bro
>tfw someone fricked a who from whoville and managed to reproduce with it
Every netflix movie feels like this one to me.
I can't explain it, i want to find the correct words to say it.
It's like they get a good idea and pass it through a sanitizing, smoothing filter, script and looks wise. It's like it's algorithm made and then they stick trooning into it for ESG score, but still try to smooth it out.
It's like the low fat, no sugar brownie next to the normal corn syrup sneed oil brownie at the supermaket.
Actual brownies made with butter and sugar are rare but the corn syrup ones are beloved by most.
Lead actors were awful. But even with good actors it was too sprawling and unfocused. Should have been spread out over 3-5 films to fully explore that universe instead of trying to cram it all rapid fire into one film.
Neither of the leads remotely sold their roles, and just looked like coked out Eurotrash going through the motions.
The plot also really undermined the charm of the setting by having leadership trying to destroy it and triggering the plot with a random space battle. Just separating the despotic planet killers from the wondrous embassy for all would have massively improved the plot over a twist that added nothing.
The opening sequence was genuinely awesome. Ethan Hawke going full moron while Rihanna bawdted it up was cool. There was something about a virtual mall in a desert? I dont really remember much more than that
Yeah it kind of sucked. Besson hasn't made a good flick since The Fifth Element and I don't know why he continues to get work
U know it's bad when rhiana is da best actress
MAHALO MOTHERFRICKERS
>Besson hasn't made a good flick since The Fifth Element
What about Arthur and the Minimoys?
Incomprehensible shite
Nah, but the actor sucked for that specific role, cara was ok
>cara was ok
she was literally the worst part, ya fricking simp
Simping is a disease
It was aimless.
No, not bad, but disapointing
Which can be worse then bad, depending on your books
It was... okay? The 2 main actors sucked, they both looked like the heroin habit hit them hard.
The opening virtual reality/dimension thing was kind of shit. The idea of it is cool, but what they did wasn't. The rest of the movie was okay, but felt like a meh version of what it could have been.
Also, it really sucked as an adaptation of the source material.
It's a fine movie, but the incest stuff was a bit weird. I think that's really what put a lot of people off.
yes, it only became good for a second when Bubbles was on screen, but even then they just killed her for no reason, so we were again stuck with 2 uncharismatic timber-like characters
>Valerian, the fate of the entire civilisation is at stake! Where are you? Wait...are you just sitting and watching some pole dancer alien in a club while drinking wienertails???
they were so real with this scene
It’s amazing how people give Scarlet Joblandson a pass
To me it was worse than bad: it was boring. After I watched it I had this feeling that I would have preferred doing something else with that time.
I loved the movie. It made the best use of 3D effects of any film not in the Avatar series.
I refused to watch because of the two leads and Rihanna.
Her presence in any film is a signal to investors that the movie is designed to bomb
>Her
>Her?
I wish, I would be her bottom.
I don't remember most of it, but the main actors are just too hard to look at or take seriously as action Stars. This is made by one of the Chris's and some random hot girl it would have been a lot better
Casting a man instead of Dane Dehaan would have saved it
Opening act is fantastic. The chemistry between the leads is bad if not horrible. Rianna or whatever that fish eyed black woman is called can not act and ruins whatever was good prior.
I asked a fat ugly girl with a burn wound to go see this with me.
She rejected me.
Swung for the fences and for that it gets my respect. But it's not good and Dane is miscast as Valerian, he's just not a leading man hero. He gives school shooter vibes all the time.
Nolan knew what was up when he cast him to play Not Smithers in Oppenheimer
He can be a leading man if the role calls for an angsty, sickly loner type guy. Not here.
But I read the comic books and honestly.. they weren't that good compared to the other French sci fi stuff. They always had these confused sprawling storylines with lots of running around about nothing.
The casino part of the second star wars sequel reminded me the most of the comics.
Awful miscast, really. The story isn't specially good but could've been a "second Fifth Element" if the cast was good and they added some memorable scenes. A waste of potential.
>it's bad because... the main character isn't chad
- same board that loves blade runner 2049
It's not just that. He kinda looks like a male version of Cara Delevigne so the whole romance feels incestuous.
They really did look alike, it was a bit weird. They romance part of the film could have been removed totally, and just have them be good work buddies would have been much better
Really? That's why you think people didn't like the movie?
You're fricking moronic.
Thankfully Hollywood seems to have gotten over the desire to cast Cara Delevingne in anything.
Valerian is 2 hours and 17 minutes long, and it feels every second of it and more.
It was okay. Worldbuilding was good, but the main story was boring and derivative.
The market scene is cool, the rest sucks.
>Was it really THAT bad?
It wasn't that bad, not great, just "meh"....
Zero chemistry with Dehann and Deleingne.
Too much green-screen
Too much lore from the source material trying to pack into the movie.
...as well as the "John Carter" factor too. People don't really appreciate the sources of inspiration when relating to current thing's popularity; talking about "Star Wars" here. Lucas took much inspiration from various sources to make Star Wars. One being Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress, and Burroughs "John Carter", as well as "Valerian" which was a French Sci-Fi comic from the 60s....But since Star Wars achieved the fame that it did (before Disney), people use the OG trilogy as a primer for everything else, even the original sources. ...And the audience tends to become stupid plebs about it, thinking "oh it rips off Star Wars" never realizing Valerian was one of the many inspirations for Star Wars "doing it first"...
...still Valerian did turn out to be a silly movie anyways;...
>And the audience tends to become stupid plebs about it, thinking "oh it rips off Star Wars" never realizing Valerian was one of the many inspirations for Star Wars "doing it first"...
Just wait for that Warhammer 40k series, its going to be the plebapocalypse.
It's just gonna be a bunch big burly bald men in armor shooting things, so it might get a casual following from people who want to turn their brain off.
It didn't help the movie has nothing to do with any of the original elements of the comic.
Good point. Just because a famous Hollywood movie stole somebody else's idea, a big screen adaptation of that original idea isn't "entitled" to success for simply existing. Star Wars also ripped off Dune, but the new adaptation isn't really using Star Wars as a crutch and it's trying to be different, so far it's getting positive reception
Compared to anything released this year, it's a masterpiece.
nope
even by currentday standards it's crap
I saw this in theaters on MUSHROOMS and it was still unbelievably boring.
Rihanna striping is the only saving grace this film has.
The leads were awful. Replace them and you have a cult classic.
Switch the singer for another alien type making some weird noises and it'd be bordering on mainstream classic.
Stupid name
I honestly don't remember. A friend recently had to inform me when Rihanna is transforming and shit doing a weird show that it was a scene from this movie and not a music video of hers when I asked if he had remembered what song that was from the video for.
The poster makes it look like this was made for 10 year olds.
They tried so hard to make this talentless nepobaby the next big thing and failed gloriously
Yes but enough about Dane DeHaan
literal FAS face
FTM and MTF leads. This is globohomosexual trash.
It looks like shit and this is the only thing that I've seen from the movie which is pretty good. What went wrong?
is it because the leads are charisma vacuums?
I saw it for the first time recently, it was quite comfy.
So ugly
no it ruled
yeah it's pretty damn sweet when you're looking for a fun, colorful, visually impressive space odyssey adventure that doesn't take itself overly serious, has some cool concepts, and has Cara looking ridiculously hot the entire time.
I don't get why he looks like he's permanently on the verge of a heroin OD. Like, isn't there a makeup department and acting instructors to teach him how to look like he's not circling a k-hole?
>tfw someone fricked a who from whoville and managed to reproduce with it
high-key kino scene and visuals
>here's your new sex symbol bro
I liked the movie, like cara, but it was kinda shit. The world building was 10/10
Embarassing
Every netflix movie feels like this one to me.
I can't explain it, i want to find the correct words to say it.
It's like they get a good idea and pass it through a sanitizing, smoothing filter, script and looks wise. It's like it's algorithm made and then they stick trooning into it for ESG score, but still try to smooth it out.
It's like the low fat, no sugar brownie next to the normal corn syrup sneed oil brownie at the supermaket.
Actual brownies made with butter and sugar are rare but the corn syrup ones are beloved by most.
Lead actors were awful. But even with good actors it was too sprawling and unfocused. Should have been spread out over 3-5 films to fully explore that universe instead of trying to cram it all rapid fire into one film.
It's awesome actually, I like it way more than Starwars ep1, it's on par with Fifth Element.
Neither of the leads remotely sold their roles, and just looked like coked out Eurotrash going through the motions.
The plot also really undermined the charm of the setting by having leadership trying to destroy it and triggering the plot with a random space battle. Just separating the despotic planet killers from the wondrous embassy for all would have massively improved the plot over a twist that added nothing.
Delevingne is one of my guilty pleasures, but yeah, the movie sucks pretty bad.
Yes. The guy’s surfer dude acting was awful.
>Was it really THAT bad?
no. i liked it. it has some flaws but the movie is fun.
Cara in a bikini was ok. It got to me, I need Kleenexes.
Even if it wasn't, having two charisma black holes for stars would've ensured it was.
The opening sequence was genuinely awesome. Ethan Hawke going full moron while Rihanna bawdted it up was cool. There was something about a virtual mall in a desert? I dont really remember much more than that