Archive for the ‘The Fifth Element’ Category
Instead of bitching for 1200 words about how unwatchably terrible Valerian And the City of a Thousand Planets was (and I wanted to like it! I tried SO HARD to like it!) I will instead point you in the direction of this love letter to Luc Besson’s masterpiece The Fifth Element.
(click the link, not the picture)
I was finishing high school when this movie came out, and I’ll admit, I was just a smidgen obsessed with it. I still remember the vague promos that came out months ahead of this movie. They didn’t say anything about what the movie was about, or who was it in. Yes, I was a very impressionable teen, but wow those promos made an impression on me! I had no idea what this movie was going to be about, but I knew I had to see it.
When the movie finally came out, I’d never seen anything like it, I didn’t know movies like this could exist. I had no idea if I was watching a movie, or a music video, or both at the same time. Great art direction, fun set design, fun soundtrack, great aliens, snarky script, and it is even more over the top than Baz Lurhmann’s Moulin Rouge.
If you can believe it, there are people who have never seen The Fifth Element! What would you tell someone who has never seen this movie to get them to see it? How would you convince them that this 20 year old scifi flick is worth their time?
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