Valerian was a ... thing
May. 7th, 2018 08:13 pmSo, Valerian is on Amazon Prime video.
I'd read some reviews that indicated I shouldn't get my hopes up - and I didn't, really. I was expecting a mediocre movie with a pair of boring leads.
But I'm still really disappointed, somehow. I think it's because it could have been so good. It could have been another quirky, humorous, visually stunning movie like The Fifth Element... but instead all we get is visually stunning, and that's hampered by poor CGI.
ou can see the potential in the movie everywhere, but it's all stomped on.
The lead is less than boring, he's actually off-putting. The writing is awful - almost paint by numbers. The actor can't pull off his badass douche lines, and probably no one could because they sound like they were written by a fifteen-year-old.
When the movie opened up with the most cliched, hackneyed scene of Valerian harassing Laureline for sex, I knew I was in for it. Laureline herself isn't allowed much of a personality. There's no chemistry and no heart.
I don't know. It's obvious why I didn't hear much about this movie even in sci-fi circles.
I'd read some reviews that indicated I shouldn't get my hopes up - and I didn't, really. I was expecting a mediocre movie with a pair of boring leads.
But I'm still really disappointed, somehow. I think it's because it could have been so good. It could have been another quirky, humorous, visually stunning movie like The Fifth Element... but instead all we get is visually stunning, and that's hampered by poor CGI.
ou can see the potential in the movie everywhere, but it's all stomped on.
The lead is less than boring, he's actually off-putting. The writing is awful - almost paint by numbers. The actor can't pull off his badass douche lines, and probably no one could because they sound like they were written by a fifteen-year-old.
When the movie opened up with the most cliched, hackneyed scene of Valerian harassing Laureline for sex, I knew I was in for it. Laureline herself isn't allowed much of a personality. There's no chemistry and no heart.
I don't know. It's obvious why I didn't hear much about this movie even in sci-fi circles.
