Ever seen a movie so bad, you just can't stop thinking about it? Valerian is like that for me. So much potential: good source material. Great visuals. A director famous enough to get Hollywood's best of the best to work with him. A huuuuge budget. And yet, and yet, and yet.
That movie was impossibly insipid, didn't take any risk, had a scenario so unimaginative and dialogues so stilted and predictable I could almost recite them along with the characters. It's been three months since I went to the cinema and I'm still baffled. That movie had every preconditions one could dream off to make an awesome movie, or at least a decent one. The creative team was obviously invested, they were some very beautiful sceneries and character designs, a few nice ideas here and there, but damn was it forgettable.
A completely transparent plot held together by a thread. Two main characters without backstories, without chemistry, without any motivation to speak off, completely interchangeable. Mean ugly dark villains and noble elegant victims. A "romance" so heavy on gender roles it made me want to barf.
It feels like such a waste. I just don't get it. How could it all go so wrong?
That movie was impossibly insipid, didn't take any risk, had a scenario so unimaginative and dialogues so stilted and predictable I could almost recite them along with the characters. It's been three months since I went to the cinema and I'm still baffled. That movie had every preconditions one could dream off to make an awesome movie, or at least a decent one. The creative team was obviously invested, they were some very beautiful sceneries and character designs, a few nice ideas here and there, but damn was it forgettable.
A completely transparent plot held together by a thread. Two main characters without backstories, without chemistry, without any motivation to speak off, completely interchangeable. Mean ugly dark villains and noble elegant victims. A "romance" so heavy on gender roles it made me want to barf.
It feels like such a waste. I just don't get it. How could it all go so wrong?
