Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is one big plot hole riddled with plot holes and cheesy-ness to boot but I find it mildly enjoyable (yes, I know it is much panned and generally disliked).
I loved it. Visually amazing. The critics were upset because they were clearly expecting something profound, but they obviously watched a different trailer to me. Criticising Valerian and the city of a thousand planets for lacking depth was like criticising Frozen for having too many songs. It was always about the visual appeal, and it had a lot of visual appeal.
The next scene, at Mül, was also good set-up for the motivations of the film: A humanoid species living in perfect balance with a whole, tropical-beautiful planet, which is then — predictably —
spoiler
destroyed by an out-worlder space-battle that had nothing to do with them.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is one big plot hole riddled with plot holes and cheesy-ness to boot but I find it mildly enjoyable (yes, I know it is much panned and generally disliked).
I loved it. Visually amazing. The critics were upset because they were clearly expecting something profound, but they obviously watched a different trailer to me. Criticising Valerian and the city of a thousand planets for lacking depth was like criticising Frozen for having too many songs. It was always about the visual appeal, and it had a lot of visual appeal.
I find that movie to be a masterpiece of somehow really good and really bad at the same time
The intro to Valerian is amazing.
The next scene, at Mül, was also good set-up for the motivations of the film: A humanoid species living in perfect balance with a whole, tropical-beautiful planet, which is then — predictably —
spoiler
destroyed by an out-worlder space-battle that had nothing to do with them.
The story was fine, the the production values were great, but the two leads were dead fish. Not sure whose good idea that was.
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That’s because it’s dystopian fantasy not dystopian sci-fi