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That'll be fun to watch.


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Not overly impressed but Il watch it at some point I suppose. Grew tirred of the comic a long time ago but always intresting to see what Luke Benson cooks up
   
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I'm excited for it! Loved 5th, expect to enjoy this immensely!

   
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Would it derail the thread to point out that she's wearing armor on her boo...

...yeah, I guess it would.

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I believe there is/was a separate thread for that particular discussion. She looks great, and the her costuming looks great!

   
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 gorgon wrote:
Would it derail the thread to point out that she's wearing armor on her boo...

...yeah, I guess it would.


Honestly the boob armor was the first thing I noticed in the video's thumbnail. The guy has matching pec armor though...

 
   
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Well, at least we had 5 posts before The Inevitable...

Anyway, I also enjoyed The Fifth Element - but Jupiter Ascending much less so.

Still, this one looks good - I'm...cautiously optimistic!

   
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Yes, Jupiter Ascending was awful; however, JA was by the ex-guys who did the Matrix.

The guy behind Valerian is the guy who did Lucy, which was also terrible.

But as we're non-sequitur, neither JA nor Lucy were as laughably bad and unbelievable as Equilibrium.

   
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Jupiter Ascending might have had plot holes a mile wide and a host of other faults, but it was a very pretty movie.

Big fan of 5th Element. This looks like it could be a fun movie. If the reviews are good, I might try to catch it in the theater, as it seems the type of movie to benefit from the big screen. If not, it will get dropped into the netflix queue and accompanied by an appropriate amount of beer.

   
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It looks like 5th Element without the charm. Very sterilized. As much as I love Delevigne's eyebrows I don't know if she can carry a film.

At least the "evil" guy from Chronicle is finally getting some big roles. He'll be starring in A Cure for Wellness next year as well.


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So would people yell at me if I said it looks like a poor mans Mass Effect?
   
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Probably not?

Either way, I'll go see this in the theater - loved The Fifth Element, always hoping he can recapture some of that magic!

   
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I can't deny that the fifth elephant was a very pretty movie - and like Jupiter Ascending, just as 'wtf?' in terms of story.

So it's based on a comic?
At least it's not another superhero retread, then.

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I thought the story in Fifth Element was pretty OK, actually.

Even Jupiter Ascending was...ok, in a crazy out there sorta way.

   
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I can sit through bad sci fi. I was kind of getting into Jupiter Ascending until they did a 'humans are batteries' retread. I mean, come on guys. You did that already.
   
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Humans weren't batteries in JA, they're the (Dune) spice.


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Actually, when I saw the reveal for what humans were used for in Jupiter Ascending, the words "Soylent Green is people!" came to mind...

On topic, I liked what I saw in the trailer for this new movie, so I'll probably go see it when it comes out. I really enjoyed The Fifth Element, so I should enjoy this too.

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 gorgon wrote:
Would it derail the thread to point out that she's wearing armor on her boo...

...yeah, I guess it would.


Read the comic, she often wears nothing at all, those strange French

I kind of like Jupiter Ascending, But like Lucas, The Warcowski brothers/sisters seem to have forgotten that CGI is just a tool to tell the story and get the characters across.

But Luc Besson also had some hits and misses, but i like most of his work.

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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
 gorgon wrote:
Would it derail the thread to point out that she's wearing armor on her boo...

...yeah, I guess it would.


Read the comic, she often wears nothing at all, those strange French


nothing at all, nothing at all...

Stupid, sexy French!

   
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Every time I see Cara Delevigne in a movie, I think the movie would probably be better with Emma Watson starring instead. Am I alone in this?

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I dunno. Can Emma fight?

   
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New trailer is out. I gotta say, even though I had some misgivings early on, this looks pretty damned awesome.





 
   
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 Trondheim wrote:
Not overly impressed but Il watch it at some point I suppose. Grew tirred of the comic a long time ago but always intresting to see what Luke Benson cooks up


Er, I think you mean "Luc Besson", not "Luke Benson", there.

I didn't think much of 5th element (Sure, it was pretty, but costumes looked like something out of a Madonna "Vogue" period video) and I've never read the comic (Valerian). It's pretty, but so was Jupiter Ascending (and it was pretty bad, too).

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Fifth Element is easily better than Jupiter Ascending. While JA has somewhat better action sequences, 5E has a charm that JA completely lacks.

Jean-Paul Gaultier costumed Madonna *and* he costumed 5E - I think he did quite a nice job of it, with a distinctive visual look that is clearly Euro-inspired over the default generic American grunge.

I wasn't aware that 5E started as a comic.

   
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Clarified that I've never read the valerian comic.

You might like Gaultier's fashion stylings, but I don't. Just because it's distinctive doesn't make it a good thing.

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 JohnHwangDD wrote:
I wasn't aware that 5E started as a comic.


It didn't, but the films New York was heavily inspired by The Circles of Power, volume 15 of Valerian and Laureline.

This films looking really good. Glad to see some good space sci fi again.

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Ahh... before the edit, I read it differently.

I've not read the Valerian comic either, but it seems like the whole thing is modernized and more progressive. Which is a good thing.

   
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I guess I'm a sucker for multi-culti progressive sci fi, because I want to see this. I miss the old optimistic view of a pan sapient community.

   
 
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