@@kuribayashi84 the market part while krazy its still cool and funny and enjoable, same with the war part.. the problem is how once they get to the station things go literally off the rail.. literally the movie at one point just makes a huge detour.. expends nearly one hour there and then returns by the end to the original track.. and the detour is completely pointless and non related with the main plot
Only L here was invoking Magellan at 4:00, the violent murderer and slaver who, after enslaving Teluche in Argentina and burning entire villages in Guam, ultimately picked a fight with natives in the Phillipines and lost. Cosmologists are rightfully attempting to get the scientific community to rename the "Magellanic Cloud" which I'm fully behind.
I actually really loved this movie... but the intro is something else, with that song... and the handshake bringing hope for the future. outstanding. Looking at the world in 2024 it seems the craziest unlikely science fiction... but there is still hope. lets pray it can happen.
@@ScorpiusZA. We humans will never learn. Ever since we learned how to kill!!!!!!!! No matter how we try and be civil and decent to each other someone or many has to ruin the moment. I could go on but what is the point.
@@larropowell3658 On the other hand, society is progressing. Most people do not live in fear of starving to death or being brutally murdered for their land / daughter / fur etc. You are able to sit on your phone or other device, watching videos and commenting about how terrible things are without worry about where your next meal is. Things have been getting better. We are not perfect by any means, there is still injustice, violence, pain and death in the world. But there are people who are trying and who *are* making the world a better place. The beginning of this film is the kind of world, *those* people make.
@@ptonpc I love this comment and OP's. I don't care what the doomers really say to scare us or to drag the majority of society with them despite recent years. Humanity is going forward one way or another and may it be successful and harmonious. :)
A lot of habitable planets need water and air to survive it's safe to say, the other planets might not have land mass like ours so the aliens DNA adapted.
@@AesirUnlimited Humans are basically just a suit filled with water to keep us alive. A suit made of skin, muscle, and fat mostly. We simply bought the ocean with us on land. That's why you need to refuel your suit with water regularly throughout the day. So not a stretch that aliens would artificially create a suit filled with water if they didn't evolve one.
Well it's a good thing I guess. Since the station has become a huge hub for different civilisations accross the galaxy to assemble, you wouldn't want it moving too fast in space so that people can still find their way there without too much confusion.
The movie says it moved 700 million miles (about as far as Saturn), but it makes it look like somewhere far beyond our solar system. Also said it grew 2% in one year - fast enough that it would be far larger than the solar system in only a few centuries. This movie doesn’t take itself seriously at ALL, and it’s better for it. If they were going for even a little bit of realism, they could have shunted the station over to L5 - still within the Earth’s orbit round the Sun, but far enough away that it could grow freely.
@@spacemiaou67 i guess, but all the aliens all traveled a lot farther just to get there, and none of them could give them boosters to go a bit faster? im sure with their smaller ships they could move fast enough to catch up to it even with a little push.
@@sjh3217 Well also the aliens that went from primitives to building their own ship in 30 years didn't make sense. also fighting near a planet that was not involved in a war either.
There's only 1 solar system lol you don't need to specify that it's earth's. Every other is called a star system or eventually the name of that star's. The Sun is the only sun in the universe. The rest are just stars. The Sun is also called Sol. We live in THE "Solar" system not A "solar system" :)
I feel like that happens a lot with big budget movies - you get one or two absolutely breathtaking, near perfect - masterwork level scenes, and then the rest of the movie is just garbage
I met Cara Delevingne aka Lauraline, very unpleasant and thought she was doing me a favor to be in her presence. The same week I met with Paris Hilton, completely different interaction. Really chill and respectful. Just goes to show, just because you got money and / or fame doesn’t buy you class. And yes I know what made Paris famous but again being nice to service workers means a lot to me as a person. A multi-billionaire being nice to a guy who makes under $50,000, I’d say earns people’s respect.
I literally wept when I got far enough into science to realize that Star Trek would never be a reality, that it wasn't a problem of technology, it was a problem of physics. Now, I'm grateful that humanity is confined to this planet, it deserves to be imprisoned here. The best evidence ever for intelligent design, the universe is child-proof, with everything out of our reach. The only thing we can hurt or destroy is ourselves.
@@logicplague media reports bad events, because bad events don't need much time and explanation. If you move into statistics, you see how much we develop, how much we improve. Poverty and nations are our greatest enemy. Poverty makes people vulnerable to follow bad people. Nations blocking leaders from taking up responsibility for this planet and all its beings.
If we stopped being mean to ourselves, it would resort in us having to find someone else to be mean to...guess who would that be... In my opinion, it is a fear and hatred of the alien that will bring and unite humans together...not understanding. After all, thats how EU, NATO or UN was created..because of fear. NATO from fear of the USSR, UN from fear of the extremism and EU from fear of both Russian military and US expansionistic market.
This opening was the best part of the movie, and really so amazingly detailed and more imagination then anything I had seen up to this point. I really wish we had stayed with the station for more of the movie
I cant even count the number of times I've watched the first 30 minutes of this movie... always thinking, cant be as bad as I remember it, with such a great intro...
It'd be cool to see this intro sequence remade set in the TOS Star Trek universe showing how the major races of the Federation first arrive at Earth. It'd be the best 5 minutes of Star Trek made in the last 20 years. 🙂
It's interesting how universal it quickly becomes- There clearly was hesitation within the alien species, but later it's accepted as "something you do to greet a human". Perhaps it became THE way to greet someone. By the standards of what could instead be a vocal greeting, breaking all barriers and simply touching one another is a sign of mutual trust and friendship.
Because the director of this Luc Besson wanted to do Valerian and Laureline and he couldnt so he made 5th element instead ... then much later he could actually do Valerian and Laureline.. so 5th Element is literally "not-valerian and laureline"
I want to love this move, because the universe is just so great, but the lead actors just don't fit. They also have such a great universe and story to work with and just waste time with unimportant side stories.
Imagine a movie with the story of this space station alone. That, in my view, is enough - it has enough potential for challenge, enlightenment and drama by itself.
Seriously Passengers was released around the same time, they should’ve switched leads, it would’ve improved both movies. At the very least the male leads, Dane has a creepy look that would’ve been more believable in Passengers and Chris would’ve been just a more capable version of Starlord.
Sadly it wasn’t even a plausible dream to have when this movie came out. I wish they had just made that first date say 2120 or something rather than making out that we will somehow have time to achieve international harmony and expand the international space station to be 10 times bigger in just 3 years. Sci-fi movies always have a terrible sense of how long things take.
@@leejerrett8268 In my opinion I think this is an alternate history setting where once we got to space, every country worked together on the space station and I belive unified under a world government as suggested by the flags in the background of some of the scenes.
@@AsianBoyPlayz It would have to be an alternate history setting wouldn’t it? My point it they could have just changed the dates and removed that conceit.
Everytime I see this intro it brings tears to my eyes thinking that someday this could come true, I know that at my age I won't be around but I hope my kids can experience this one day, when you think about it why else were we created if not to help one another and live in peace.
I watched this film in its entirely. I thought at the time that it was wierd, wonderful and destined to be a classic, although truthfully I did not understand it. I still think this. Like a masterpiece of art, it made me stop and think, which was/is perhaps its whole purpose.
I'd really encourage you to read the comics if you can manage to find english versions of these, they're great, even though some have aged a bit poorly 😊. The film was... Not always respectful of it, but also way less complexe. I do love the cycle "Métro Chatelet, Direction Cassiopée" and "Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos". Beautifull ones 😊
What a great start to a film to then discover that the two main characters have poor acting ability and absolutely zero chemistry with each other. What were they thinking? Such a shame.
Man, I remember watching this and just being amazed as the intro was playing. Was so excited because it was so promising. And then we actually got into the movie and it was just damn atrocious. This intro was wasted on such a film.
0:59 Oh yeah! I remember the news about the ISS suddenly being a lot bigger in 2020 and a Chinese space capsule docking on it in the middle of the pandemic. 😉
Isn't it funny that aliens are always monolithic with each member of a species being the same, but then you got humans that are inexplicably all different languages, appearances, cultures, religions, etc? Then it's usually treated as a virtue or a good thing that this is the case, despite the fact these differences lead to intense unrest, terrorism, and war.
2020 in Valerian: The dawn of a spacefaring adventure for united humanity 2020 in reality: Lockdown bitches you ain't going nowhere and stay six feet away from me, too ☹ It's wild how this scene affects me so much, like the world would be so incredible if we were actually able to work together. I don't doubt that would be the catalyst that draws the attention of other species if they're really out there.
This deserved a much better movie. This scene alone proved how good this movie could be. I still don't get it. It clearly had a talented and passionate team behind it. And yet it was so awful for most of its runtime
One of my favourite scifi movies, I really enjoyed it and whenever they air it on TV I watch it. Could have been better cutting some "comedic" scenes and focusing more on the whole society of the station, not to mention on the finale (a bit too rushed, in my opinion). Still, always a great visual experience, with so much potential for TV series, rpgs, videogames, etc.
That’s not how orbits work? If you can push the station into the unknown reaches of space, you can probably push it into a healthy orbit. The moon is quite large but not really a risk to the planet as it orbits. Maybe they were just sick of readjusting the orbit and decided it was no longer worth the trouble?
The pretext that we wouldn't have stopped the level of expenditure put into space exploration and development that was present at its height in the 70s and instead continued on that path with would have given us some sort of Super-ISS in the 2020s is kinda sad. Because we get to understand what we lost due to inaction. Could be likened to the loss of momentum that the development of ancient Rome underwent in the Dark Ages where we lost that knowledge for centuries until rediscovering it. Similar problem with space stuff today. The people that engineered all the amazing stuff in the 70s are old or dead and no one learnt from the masters to pass that knowledge on because the budget was decreased.
I think the comic story for this was better. Space station Alpha in it's infancy wasn't built by humans but by another unknown race thousands of years ago.
The most beautiful four minutes of sci-fi.....then it goes completely off the rails.
Yeah it would make for a better short film lol.
Can't tell you how many times I've watched this movie till 30 min in.
fork you, yes the people where not the kindest. sorry for that.
While I agree this is the movies' best part... I actually mostly enjoyed what follows.
@@kuribayashi84 the market part while krazy its still cool and funny and enjoable, same with the war part.. the problem is how once they get to the station things go literally off the rail..
literally the movie at one point just makes a huge detour.. expends nearly one hour there and then returns by the end to the original track.. and the detour is completely pointless and non related with the main plot
This whole montage is unexpectedly one of the most wholesome sequences in scifi history.
This is my good ending for humanity
Only L here was invoking Magellan at 4:00, the violent murderer and slaver who, after enslaving Teluche in Argentina and burning entire villages in Guam, ultimately picked a fight with natives in the Phillipines and lost. Cosmologists are rightfully attempting to get the scientific community to rename the "Magellanic Cloud" which I'm fully behind.
Probably one of the most beautiful introductions to a movie.
agreed, had high hopes.. then i watched it :(
@@mushroom330 Best thing about the entire movie lol, all downhill from there
Totally agree.
@@avocadotoast6369 It's like that Wolverine: Origins film... that intro SHOULD have been the film...
For real.
If they had just stopped here, it would have won best picture.
Didn't need to do shit, just stop right here and Fin.
@@Dapur-0073 would've been my favorite short film ever made if they did.
Should had learned from George Kastanza and left on a high-note. 😂
Say what you want about the rest of the movie, but this intro is amazing!
Thank you for your permission to say what I want.
@@yaosio Now it's been rescinded.
@@yaosiois no longer available
This movie was bad. Interesting universe but I just didn't care about the main characters.
This is one of those movies that should be turned into a tv series because of how huge their universe is.
That's why it worked well as a comic book series first. Some things just don't work well being adapted to a 2 hour movie.
There actually is a european animated tv series about valerian and laureline
@@wannabesq now a movie saga. For the big storylines then yes.
I actually really loved this movie... but the intro is something else, with that song... and the handshake bringing hope for the future.
outstanding.
Looking at the world in 2024 it seems the craziest unlikely science fiction... but there is still hope. lets pray it can happen.
It probably won’t…..
With the way things are going, we don't need hope, we need 13 miracles and at least 1 intervention.
@@ScorpiusZA. We humans will never learn. Ever since we learned how to kill!!!!!!!! No matter how we try and be civil and decent to each other someone or many has to ruin the moment. I could go on but what is the point.
@@larropowell3658 On the other hand, society is progressing. Most people do not live in fear of starving to death or being brutally murdered for their land / daughter / fur etc. You are able to sit on your phone or other device, watching videos and commenting about how terrible things are without worry about where your next meal is.
Things have been getting better. We are not perfect by any means, there is still injustice, violence, pain and death in the world. But there are people who are trying and who *are* making the world a better place.
The beginning of this film is the kind of world, *those* people make.
@@ptonpc I love this comment and OP's. I don't care what the doomers really say to scare us or to drag the majority of society with them despite recent years. Humanity is going forward one way or another and may it be successful and harmonious. :)
Classic sci-fi optimism. The smartest people coming together, and drawing more and more of the best the universe has to offer.
Wish there was more modern sci-fi like this.
Rewatching this I realized a lot of those aliens were basically sea creatures. Interesting idea from the creators.
A lot of habitable planets need water and air to survive it's safe to say, the other planets might not have land mass like ours so the aliens DNA adapted.
Would this also mean their ships would be filled with water instead of air? To fit to their aquatic needs?
@@KitsunoIRL probably not. would be a huge amount of extra mass to lug into space.
@@KitsunoIRLIt would probably be more efficient to just have their water needs met by specialized suits instead of entire ships.
@@AesirUnlimited Humans are basically just a suit filled with water to keep us alive. A suit made of skin, muscle, and fat mostly. We simply bought the ocean with us on land. That's why you need to refuel your suit with water regularly throughout the day. So not a stretch that aliens would artificially create a suit filled with water if they didn't evolve one.
That movie was going great until we met the lead characters.
The worst I've ever seen... The male actor is so intense as a frog....
Until this opening scene ended…yep
Cara is profoundly unwatchable, I hope we never hear a note from her again
Hahahahaha
Even more so when you know what their characters are like in the comics
If only the rest of the film was anywhere as good as the intro. None of those characters needed to speak but the story telling was masterful.
Since it's moving much slower than lightspeed, the station is STILL in Earth's solar system by the time of the movie.
Well it's a good thing I guess. Since the station has become a huge hub for different civilisations accross the galaxy to assemble, you wouldn't want it moving too fast in space so that people can still find their way there without too much confusion.
The movie says it moved 700 million miles (about as far as Saturn), but it makes it look like somewhere far beyond our solar system. Also said it grew 2% in one year - fast enough that it would be far larger than the solar system in only a few centuries. This movie doesn’t take itself seriously at ALL, and it’s better for it.
If they were going for even a little bit of realism, they could have shunted the station over to L5 - still within the Earth’s orbit round the Sun, but far enough away that it could grow freely.
@@spacemiaou67 i guess, but all the aliens all traveled a lot farther just to get there, and none of them could give them boosters to go a bit faster? im sure with their smaller ships they could move fast enough to catch up to it even with a little push.
@@sjh3217 Well also the aliens that went from primitives to building their own ship in 30 years didn't make sense. also fighting near a planet that was not involved in a war either.
There's only 1 solar system lol you don't need to specify that it's earth's.
Every other is called a star system or eventually the name of that star's.
The Sun is the only sun in the universe. The rest are just stars. The Sun is also called Sol. We live in THE "Solar" system not A "solar system" :)
The single best part of the entire movie. Gets me misty-eyed every time.
I feel like that happens a lot with big budget movies - you get one or two absolutely breathtaking, near perfect - masterwork level scenes, and then the rest of the movie is just garbage
Also, RIP Rutger Hauer.
Loved every handshake, every bow and smile. Everyone coming together in peace, and calling a new place home.
telling my kids this intro was actually a sci-fi short
I met Cara Delevingne aka Lauraline, very unpleasant and thought she was doing me a favor to be in her presence. The same week I met with Paris Hilton, completely different interaction. Really chill and respectful. Just goes to show, just because you got money and / or fame doesn’t buy you class. And yes I know what made Paris famous but again being nice to service workers means a lot to me as a person. A multi-billionaire being nice to a guy who makes under $50,000, I’d say earns people’s respect.
Can confirm, Paris is a delight in person!
Paris Hilton is surprinsingly one of those people you like the more you learn bout her.
I love the optimism of this intro.
An intro that shows us how we would be, and should be, and could be if we just stopped being idiots....
"if we just stopped being idiots..."
alas...
I literally wept when I got far enough into science to realize that Star Trek would never be a reality, that it wasn't a problem of technology, it was a problem of physics. Now, I'm grateful that humanity is confined to this planet, it deserves to be imprisoned here. The best evidence ever for intelligent design, the universe is child-proof, with everything out of our reach. The only thing we can hurt or destroy is ourselves.
But being an idiot is a constitutional, as well as a birth right, of every human from this great planet!
@@logicplague media reports bad events, because bad events don't need much time and explanation. If you move into statistics, you see how much we develop, how much we improve. Poverty and nations are our greatest enemy. Poverty makes people vulnerable to follow bad people. Nations blocking leaders from taking up responsibility for this planet and all its beings.
If we stopped being mean to ourselves, it would resort in us having to find someone else to be mean to...guess who would that be...
In my opinion, it is a fear and hatred of the alien that will bring and unite humans together...not understanding. After all, thats how EU, NATO or UN was created..because of fear. NATO from fear of the USSR, UN from fear of the extremism and EU from fear of both Russian military and US expansionistic market.
What a great opening, I had so much promise when I watched this the first time, but then .... dear oh dear.
This opening was the best part of the movie, and really so amazingly detailed and more imagination then anything I had seen up to this point. I really wish we had stayed with the station for more of the movie
I strongly feel, that (VALERIAN: CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS) stories, should be made into a show series.
Like The Expanse did.
@@BHSilver Ya. What’s wrong with it?
This should be the final scene of the series 'For All Mankind'.
I cant even count the number of times I've watched the first 30 minutes of this movie... always thinking, cant be as bad as I remember it, with such a great intro...
It'd be cool to see this intro sequence remade set in the TOS Star Trek universe showing how the major races of the Federation first arrive at Earth. It'd be the best 5 minutes of Star Trek made in the last 20 years. 🙂
2:06 At this point, there is Ukraine, but this is a 2017 movie, so I really love this scene 😄
This beautiful intro open so huge plot possibilities.
The handshake is important.
It's something human and also universal. We can provide something of our own to the universe.
It's interesting how universal it quickly becomes- There clearly was hesitation within the alien species, but later it's accepted as "something you do to greet a human". Perhaps it became THE way to greet someone. By the standards of what could instead be a vocal greeting, breaking all barriers and simply touching one another is a sign of mutual trust and friendship.
I don't care what people say about this movie, the opening is absolutely the best.
This setting honestly seems better fitted to a series of short stories, rather than one big movie. Should have been a tv show.
BEST part of the entire movie. Really like the hope and advancement in the opening sequence.
The most beautiful and fascinating few mins of all sci-fi films ever.
This gives me the same feeling as the 5th element. This will definitely be a cult classic in a few years.
Alas the rest of the movie doesn't live up to that intro.
Because the director of this Luc Besson wanted to do Valerian and Laureline and he couldnt so he made 5th element instead ... then much later he could actually do Valerian and Laureline.. so 5th Element is literally "not-valerian and laureline"
I think both films were directed by the same person
The best 5 minutes in a movie
Me gusta mucho la película y gracias por el video y gracias a ti también 😊😊❤😊😊
I want to love this move, because the universe is just so great, but the lead actors just don't fit. They also have such a great universe and story to work with and just waste time with unimportant side stories.
Imagine a movie with the story of this space station alone. That, in my view, is enough - it has enough potential for challenge, enlightenment and drama by itself.
The future we need but don't deserve
I really enjoyed this movie.
Me too, best five minutes ever 😜
I truly love this. I have watched this many times
The only part of this movie worth watching.
Seriously Passengers was released around the same time, they should’ve switched leads, it would’ve improved both movies. At the very least the male leads, Dane has a creepy look that would’ve been more believable in Passengers and Chris would’ve been just a more capable version of Starlord.
I liked this movie. I thought it was fun and gorgeous. Now to get on with my life.
I see a lot of negative comments. I love this movie gets better every time I watch it.
The movie has some questionable artistic choices, but it's simply the fact that the two leads had zero chemistry and had no star appeal.
A great 4-minute movie. I could watch it over and over and over again.
Shame about the other 125 minutes.
Always makes me emotional.
I used to love this scene as a young space nerd.
I couldn't sit through this movie but the intro is solid gold.
Ill give the movie credit, it certainly knew how to design aliens.
If anyone asks what the opposite of cynicism is, show them this.
Judging by the comments they will go right back to Cynical if they watch the rest of the movie...
Sadly it wasn’t even a plausible dream to have when this movie came out. I wish they had just made that first date say 2120 or something rather than making out that we will somehow have time to achieve international harmony and expand the international space station to be 10 times bigger in just 3 years. Sci-fi movies always have a terrible sense of how long things take.
@@leejerrett8268 In my opinion I think this is an alternate history setting where once we got to space, every country worked together on the space station and I belive unified under a world government as suggested by the flags in the background of some of the scenes.
@@AsianBoyPlayz It would have to be an alternate history setting wouldn’t it? My point it they could have just changed the dates and removed that conceit.
Everytime I see this intro it brings tears to my eyes thinking that someday this could come true, I know that at my age I won't be around but I hope my kids can experience this one day, when you think about it why else were we created if not to help one another and live in peace.
I watched this film in its entirely. I thought at the time that it was wierd, wonderful and destined to be a classic, although truthfully I did not understand it. I still think this. Like a masterpiece of art, it made me stop and think, which was/is perhaps its whole purpose.
I'd really encourage you to read the comics if you can manage to find english versions of these, they're great, even though some have aged a bit poorly 😊.
The film was... Not always respectful of it, but also way less complexe.
I do love the cycle "Métro Chatelet, Direction Cassiopée" and "Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos". Beautifull ones 😊
Great intro!
I liked the intro. I even liked the setup on Mule. Then we meet the male and female leads.
Ein wirklich toller Film, schade nur das die Geschichte nicht weiter erzählt wird!
if the aliens at 3:05 are the same aliens from 5th element that tried to save the galaxy
"For the happiness of mankind."
What a great start to a film to then discover that the two main characters have poor acting ability and absolutely zero chemistry with each other. What were they thinking? Such a shame.
They should have just filmed the first 5 min and called it a "Short Film" No one cares about the other 97% of this bad film
This is a work of fiction, and it portrays what would happen if everyone was always nice to each other.
This is one of the greatest, most optimistic opening sequences ever produced.
Man, I remember watching this and just being amazed as the intro was playing. Was so excited because it was so promising.
And then we actually got into the movie and it was just damn atrocious. This intro was wasted on such a film.
0:59 Oh yeah! I remember the news about the ISS suddenly being a lot bigger in 2020 and a Chinese space capsule docking on it in the middle of the pandemic. 😉
Isn't it funny that aliens are always monolithic with each member of a species being the same, but then you got humans that are inexplicably all different languages, appearances, cultures, religions, etc?
Then it's usually treated as a virtue or a good thing that this is the case, despite the fact these differences lead to intense unrest, terrorism, and war.
I love how it goes from 4:3 to 16:9!
I'm sure it's done alot but I immediately think of the opening for "Superman: The Movie" and it makes me smile.
2020 in Valerian: The dawn of a spacefaring adventure for united humanity
2020 in reality: Lockdown bitches you ain't going nowhere and stay six feet away from me, too
☹ It's wild how this scene affects me so much, like the world would be so incredible if we were actually able to work together. I don't doubt that would be the catalyst that draws the attention of other species if they're really out there.
The lockdowns proved that we can't work together and will beat each other up over toilet paper.
@@gimzod76 Yep, our world is much more similar to Idiocracy than Valerian. Ow, my balls!
Dang, 2020 ISS suppose to be like that? Bigger than i expected...must've been scrapped plans
I don't care what anyone says, I freaking LOVE this movie! I never got tired of it.
My inner space marine is saying to purge them all
This was the best part of the movie.
An absolutely amazing intro to a sci-fi movie. Shame about the rest of it, though. I really, really wanted to like it. But... you know.
Uneven film, with some absurd/questionable narrative assumptions and themes, but also interesting.
Absolutely loved this introduction and it made me think of all the cool things that could have followed. And then it got all silly.
On the upside, they didn't cast Marques Houston in this.
One of the best movies starts ever.
When you play Fanatic Xenophiles in Stellaris.
Valerian and the Movie of a Thousand Disappointments.
Literally the only part of the movie worth watching
This deserved a much better movie. This scene alone proved how good this movie could be. I still don't get it. It clearly had a talented and passionate team behind it. And yet it was so awful for most of its runtime
I wish we could all get along this well
Best part of the whole movie
The intro was better than the entirety of the rest of the movie, which was so forgettable I’ve forgotten it
Sometimes, what flies beautifully as a "bédé" ends up with a film adaptation that flies like the classic lead balloon in a high-gravity environment. 😕
One of my favourite scifi movies, I really enjoyed it and whenever they air it on TV I watch it. Could have been better cutting some "comedic" scenes and focusing more on the whole society of the station, not to mention on the finale (a bit too rushed, in my opinion). Still, always a great visual experience, with so much potential for TV series, rpgs, videogames, etc.
Absolute banger 🔥🔥💯💯
Best sci fi intro evah❤
It would be funny if the scariest alien turned out to be the friendliest
Ngl, this intro made me cry
Well, you can't say the movie didn't have a good start 😊
How the future should be.
I hope NASA puts this clip onto whatever the next spaceship that leaves our solar system.....
Sad to see Rutger Hauer. One of his last roles.
0:59
2020 😁🤣🙄🤢🤕🤧🫤😟☹️😮😨😰😥😢😭😱😖😣🥱💀☠️👻
In Hungary we said:
Human plans.
Destiny executes.
So is it.
Aliens seem very similar to those in / from The Fifth Element 🔥
The gravity generator always impresses me. It feels like it could be fabricated in real life
That’s not how orbits work? If you can push the station into the unknown reaches of space, you can probably push it into a healthy orbit. The moon is quite large but not really a risk to the planet as it orbits.
Maybe they were just sick of readjusting the orbit and decided it was no longer worth the trouble?
The pretext that we wouldn't have stopped the level of expenditure put into space exploration and development that was present at its height in the 70s and instead continued on that path with would have given us some sort of Super-ISS in the 2020s is kinda sad. Because we get to understand what we lost due to inaction. Could be likened to the loss of momentum that the development of ancient Rome underwent in the Dark Ages where we lost that knowledge for centuries until rediscovering it. Similar problem with space stuff today. The people that engineered all the amazing stuff in the 70s are old or dead and no one learnt from the masters to pass that knowledge on because the budget was decreased.
Well, it aged bad, the ISS is still not that large and will be dumped in few years in the ocean. Unfortunately, it will stay a scifi :(
I think the comic story for this was better. Space station Alpha in it's infancy wasn't built by humans but by another unknown race thousands of years ago.
this is like if apple made a commercial for their new brand of handshake
Rutger. We miss you 🔆
Hey.. why did the movie cut off? I was watching that... oh.