Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

[TigerClaw]

Check out the trailer for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, it's from the director of The Fifth Element.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Looks like a very pretty cinematic Ambien.

[TigerClaw]

New trailer released.

[Andrew NDB]

This has "Flop" written all over it. No way it does one bit better than "Jupiter Ascending."

Luc Besson needs to make one movie, and one movie alone: "Mathilda: The Professional 2," starring Natalie Portman.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

This has "Flop" written all over it. No way it does one bit better than "Jupiter Ascending."

Luc Besson needs to make one movie, and one movie alone: "Mathilda: The Professional 2," starring Natalie Portman.

Fifth Element was awesome, and I'm sure he will not disappoint with Valerian.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Fifth Element was awesome

I dunno... I felt like it was the best thing ever when I saw it the first time. Then I watched it a year later and all of it fell apart for me. I think it invested too much energy in seeing how "cool" it could be. Visually pretty striking. I suspect "Valerian" will be more of the same, only probably a lot more painfully expensive and without any A-list stars this time.

[NinjaPug]

Who gave him $180 million to make this? I'd be shocked if this comes close to breaking even.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Who gave him $180 million to make this? I'd be shocked if this comes close to breaking even.

considering the movie is based on the comic that pretty much influence a lot of Scifi, including Star Wars.

I still wanna see it, cause it looks like it could be a cool scifi movie in the vain of Fifth Element.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

cause it looks like it could be a cool scifi movie in the vain of Fifth Element.

They'd better hope not... Fifth Element barely broke even, if that. There's a reason we haven't seen a "Fifth Element 2" in the past 20 years.

Wow. Fifth Element was really 20 years ago, wasn't it?

[NinjaPug]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

considering the movie is based on the comic that pretty much influence a lot of Scifi, including Star Wars.

Means absolutely nothing. It's an IP that few know or care about. They promoted John Carter the same way and you saw how that turned out.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Means absolutely nothing. It's an IP that few know or care about. They promoted John Carter the same way and you saw how that turned out.

John Carter didn't had a good director for it, and Luc Besson is really good director, I think it'll turn out to be a fun and entertaining movie.

[NinjaPug]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

John Carter didn't had a good director for it, and Luc Besson is really good director, I think it'll turn out to be a fun and entertaining movie.

What exactly are you disagreeing with? I never said you wouldn't like the movie.

Do you not consider Stanton to be a good director because his filmography is primarily animation?

[ProactiveMan]

John Carter was about a billion times better than anything Besson has done lately, maybe ever. I think Disney fumbled the marketing.

[ProphetofGanja]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Looks like a very pretty cinematic Ambien.

I heartily agree with that. I can also see myself waiting to watch this on DVD at home so I can roll up and crack jokes like my own personal MST3K

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

What exactly are you disagreeing with? I never said you wouldn't like the movie.

Do you not consider Stanton to be a good director because his filmography is primarily animation?

John Carter bombed at the box office cause it wasn't marketed well.

[NinjaPug]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

John Carter bombed at the box office cause it wasn't marketed well.

What? First, that wasn't anywhere in your previous posts. Second, you made the comment that Valerian would be successful because it's "based on the comic that pretty much influence a lot of Scifi, including Star Wars" - that's exactly how John Carter was advertised.

[drgon78]

I love the Fifth Element and the Professional but I don't care much for most of the rest of his movies. I hope this movie will be good and if it is good I hope it will make money.

[snake]

It LOOKS visually appealing, but it's gonna flop hard. I'm all for more sci-fi in theaters, but there's no way it'll be a success.

TigerClaw just can't admit that or he'll go against his viral marketing contract.

[TigerClaw]

The movie looks cool, and I'm a sucker for these big epic scifi movies, I don't care if it's good, bad or indifferent, movies like this are the reason I go to the movies.

[snake]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

The movie looks cool, and I'm a sucker for these big epic scifi movies, I don't care if it's good, bad or indifferent, movies like this are the reason I go to the movies.

I never said it doesn't look cool. It does.

But it's a huge budget sci-fi movie based on a mostly unknown property. If it does well, I'll be shocked. I want you to say "this has a high chance of flopping". If you can't do that then you're pretty much outed as a shill.