This is a quotable classic. I think I'll watch it again...
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Negative, I am a meat popsicle
Super green!
"One, two, three, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Smoke you!
you want some more
ANYBODY ELSE WANNA NEGOTIATE?!?
Funnily enough, there is another post on [email protected] about the Fifth element today: https://lemmyverse.link/sopuli.xyz/post/22501895
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Light!
Plenty to praise and love about this film … but I think it’s worth mentioning how it’s also another one of Gary Oldman’s classic roles!
"I am very DISAPPOINTED!"
"EMPTY! The opposite of FULL!"
It's literally the only way I inform people of my disappointment, with spittle-laden rage!
I remember when it came out, people were hating on it. I kept explaining that just because you didn't get it, doesn't make it a bad movie.
A lot of the things they did, particularly in editing, are quite brilliant.
Pro-tip: Next time you watch it, notice how the hero and the villain never actually interact with each other. The closest is when Zorg orders a bunch of cab drivers to be fired.
The part that killed it for me when it came out was it was called the next Star Wars (heck it may have been one article but I grew up in the middle of nowhere, kinda like Luke heh, but it was closer to Hoth than Tatooine), like I can enjoy it fine, actually a favourite, but nowhere near the enjoyment I get out of the original trilogy. Okay I'll admit the original trilogy has a huge nostalgia factor but you don't think of that when you're like 16.
I do think it's a really fun movie overall, super green.
This is my favorite movie of all time. Besson started working on the screenplay when he was 16. And when you watch the movie, one definitely feels that this movie is Besson's life passion. What's even more impressive to me is how this movie still looks good today. Gaulthier's costumes still look futuristic and fantastical. And all the actors' deliveries are just spot on.
Tons of style, beautiful world building, impressive makeup and costumes, fantastic acting.
But, extremely mediocre cliche story. Still a great movie, just don't think about it too hard.
For those who haven't seen it yet: To be clear, it's meant to have a silly story.
It was the specific intention of the director Luc Besson, to create a story that feels like it was a dream, a fantasy of another world, and thus facilitate his narrative goal of allegory.
Whether he succeeded in that or did it in an effective way is a whole other problem, but it was NOT he tried to make the story as serious-toned as a psudo-documentary yet failed miserably.