Definitely have to step up my game and not procrastinate one the details...though most people don't pay them any attention unless they see a breakdown, but yes! I need to upgrade my game for my various series.
Simply gorgeous. I swear, if Besson would have just cast the leads with two appropriately charismatic non-sibling looking seasoned actors who actually can have potent romantic chemistry (try a brash Channing Tatum against a buttoned-up Alica Vikander for example) - and then brought in a english dialogue script doctor to vamp up the rapartee tension with some rat-a-tat overlapping quips in tit-for-tat cleverly cruel flirty retort... The franchise might have easily gone stratospheric! Shame because so much of the immaculate world building was realized oh so stunningly right! Wish Eric Serra would have done the music score also. Not that Alexandre Desplat didn't deliver, but I think the movie could've benefited from Serra's distinctly pattented for Besson quirkiness. Ah well, I still dig it.
That's my biggest gripe with this movie as well. The leads are such uncharismatic wooden puppets, that I simply can't watch more than 15 minutes when trying to rewatch the movie. And I rewatch Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending once in a while, which is also a flawed movie with incredible world building and vfx, but the big difference there is, the leads are all actually rather good, which makes a huge difference. (Also, Michael Giacchino's score is incredible, especially the opening movements.) Casting really dropped the ball on this. Can't believe at times that this is the same auteur who did the Fifth Element, which is heavily influenced by Valerian and Laureline, heck, Jean-Claude Mézières actually worked on that movie.
@@svenneve Yep, the leads are just woefully miscast to appear like precocious siblings playing space-cops in their treehouse rather than competent officers with combustable attraction for each other. The other part of why they're so wooden is Besson's clunky exposition driven dialogue and his lackluster staging for its delivery. He needed to study how Richard Donner modernized the screwball rapport-by-repartee approach in his Superman and Lethal Weapon series with the characters constantly making asides over one another while moving and multi-tasking. The Aaron Sorkin energy approach too. Hell, JJ Abrams is also excellent at that. But Besson instead had the entire movie stall while the leads stared vacantly at each other waiting for their turn to exchange would-be banter, which was always awkwardly flat and never witty or charming. Should have brought someone like a Shane Black in to do a pass on sprucing up the banter for enjoyably glib bounced around digs in snappy zig-zag formationed while dealing with little contrived dramaric plot hiccups simultaneously to make it fun and involvening through sheer energy. Instead, everytime his leads addressed one another the movie seemed to lull for a respite like to watch an unmounted tire deflate in an empty garage.
As awesome as these vfx are, I really have no interest in watching this movie. Do they have vfx breakdown version of the movie with the supe's narrating the team's challenges instead? I would watch that
Incredible job guys!!!! Never cease to amaze!
Simply stunning!
Definitely have to step up my game and not procrastinate one the details...though most people don't pay them any attention unless they see a breakdown, but yes! I need to upgrade my game for my various series.
Underrated film♥️
The last second is new...tnx for that!
Simply gorgeous.
I swear, if Besson would have just cast the leads with two appropriately charismatic non-sibling looking seasoned actors who actually can have potent romantic chemistry (try a brash Channing Tatum against a buttoned-up Alica Vikander for example) - and then brought in a english dialogue script doctor to vamp up the rapartee tension with some rat-a-tat overlapping quips in tit-for-tat cleverly cruel flirty retort...
The franchise might have easily gone stratospheric! Shame because so much of the immaculate world building was realized oh so stunningly right!
Wish Eric Serra would have done the music score also. Not that Alexandre Desplat didn't deliver, but I think the movie could've benefited from Serra's distinctly pattented for Besson quirkiness.
Ah well, I still dig it.
That's my biggest gripe with this movie as well. The leads are such uncharismatic wooden puppets, that I simply can't watch more than 15 minutes when trying to rewatch the movie.
And I rewatch Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending once in a while, which is also a flawed movie with incredible world building and vfx, but the big difference there is, the leads are all actually rather good, which makes a huge difference. (Also, Michael Giacchino's score is incredible, especially the opening movements.)
Casting really dropped the ball on this. Can't believe at times that this is the same auteur who did the Fifth Element, which is heavily influenced by Valerian and Laureline, heck, Jean-Claude Mézières actually worked on that movie.
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Yep, the leads are just woefully miscast to appear like precocious siblings playing space-cops in their treehouse rather than competent officers with combustable attraction for each other.
The other part of why they're so wooden is Besson's clunky exposition driven dialogue and his lackluster staging for its delivery.
He needed to study how Richard Donner modernized the screwball rapport-by-repartee approach in his Superman and Lethal Weapon series with the characters constantly making asides over one another while moving and multi-tasking. The Aaron Sorkin energy approach too. Hell, JJ Abrams is also excellent at that. But Besson instead had the entire movie stall while the leads stared vacantly at each other waiting for their turn to exchange would-be banter, which was always awkwardly flat and never witty or charming.
Should have brought someone like a Shane Black in to do a pass on sprucing up the banter for enjoyably glib bounced around digs in snappy zig-zag formationed while dealing with little contrived dramaric plot hiccups simultaneously to make it fun and involvening through sheer energy. Instead, everytime his leads addressed one another the movie seemed to lull for a respite like to watch an unmounted tire deflate in an empty garage.
Oh man, Eric Serra would have brought this movie to another level. I cannot stop thinking about what if now... Thanks lol
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As awesome as these vfx are, I really have no interest in watching this movie. Do they have vfx breakdown version of the movie with the supe's narrating the team's challenges instead? I would watch that
Damn, I was beaten to viewing it first
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