Seriously what is soo special about this film. It's a watered down version of star wars..
But seriously nominated for an oscar??? Why wasn't battleearth nominated for one?
It was soo much better?
Please tell me what makes this film great? I thought Dogma was better .
It is a scifi comedy -- and sadly it doesn't work very well. It is all too frenetic with crazy characters that are more silly than delightfully querky. Mila drove me nuts with that voice, as did Tucker (do you think he winces every time he thinks of this film?), and Oldman with that accent. Just too much - like the film was written by a committee on weed. And i love Willis in anything and thus it was the only reason i watched it all through. A shame really cause the special effects were awesome in parts.
But you know having said all that I still watch it when I come across it flipping channels.
What a terrible movie this is. I can't believe it held a 7,7 rating on IMDb. I was expecting 4,6.
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I love this movie, but I don't think of it as necessarily award worthy... maybe for visuals? I mean the props, costumes, and special effects are amazing. So beautifully done. Had anyone seen a character with bright orange hair in a film before this? A lead no less? The reconstruction scene was amazing, the bandage costume was iconically awesome, the elements at the end.. beautiful, the city in the sky was very well done, etc etc etc.. so visuals to me are a 9/10. Everything else is maybe a 7..
This movie was like Tank Girl! I loved that too! It was hysterical!!
shareI thought I was the only person in the world who loved Tank Girl! This is one of my favorites too. It's so ridiculous that you can't help but love it.
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Tank Girl was brilliant
Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch!
I thought I was the only person in the world who loved Tank Girl! This is one of my favorites too. It's so ridiculous that you can't help but love it.
I also loved Tank Girl it's one of my all time favourite films, and I don't just like The Fifth Element I absolutely adore it.
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Gary Oldman!
Him and I just can't not like it. I think you do have to adjust that this is an over the top comedic sci fi movie. It's not serious or profound like Dark City. It's more Men In Black in similarity.
And the cast included Chris Tucker and "Deebo" from Friday so that tells you what level of seriousness as well.
This movie and Galaxy Quest , because of Alan Rickman and Sam Rockwell, were the two movies back at the end of the 90s that I remember busting up over.
It's currently airing on the cruddy cable channel named Syfy and it hasn't aged too bad.
^I own the DVD and watch it probably once a year, but coincidentally I happened to catch this same Syfy showing... sadly, I caught it right before the Plavalaguna scene where the aliens shoot up the theater, which was extremely unfortunate timing given the events of last night in Colorado.
To address the OP. I remember going to see this movie with a bunch of friends, and thinking it was probably going to be awful; I had no expectations. I was thoroughly entertained, for reasons all mentioned above... the only other movie I can think of that was as much a pleasant surprise was 'Spaceballs'.
...it gets weirder, now TNT is showing the Dark Knight (also of course connected to Aurora...and to Gary Oldman)
shareI watched this film tonight since i first saw it over 10 years ago. And this time around i disliked it even more. I wasn't expecting Star Wars, nevertheless sci fi comedy is a difficult genre, mostly because there is a fine line between humor and something ridiculous, specially when they aimed using slapstick humor. That said, this movie jumps over the fence and situations like the ones mentioned by the OT (cartoon slapping) more than beeing hilarious are overkill.
The plot was awful as well. I wonder how can someone deem this thing as an original story? World will be destroyed if not stopped by lost item recovered by casual guy (who happens to be a retired army officer) just in time to prevent everything from going boom! I mean, really?
The effects and some parts of the design where the only good things about the movie.
Hear hear. I thought I was the only one that hated this drivel. From Oldman's awful accent, Tucker's awful screeching and the completely overrated, flat actress with orange hair. The only thing that was good were the effects.
Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch!
I really don't understand the love of this move. All this talent from the actors and production staff, yet none of the pieces fit to make anything coherent or entertaining.
It really hurt that I didn't realize it was a comedy when I 1st watched it. But when I've tried to view it since it's still not funny.
Thor 2-Attack of the Clones-The 5th Element the trifecta of bad movies.
Like one poster mentioned on another thread. Luc Bessin wrote this in Highschool. Years before Star Wars.
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It's called a different perspective. I found it to be very funny, intriguing, visually exciting, silly, engaging and just plain fun; something I don't see in many movies these days. For one thing, it doesn't take itself so seriously, which is one of the things that doomed the Star Wars prequels and later era Star Trek. Also, it has far more in common with the work of its conceptual designers, Moebius and Jean-Claude Mezieres, than Lucas and American pulp sci-fi/space opera. I suggest you check out Mezieres' (and Pierre Christin's) Valerian series, to see what I mean (3 volumes now available from Cinebook, with a handful of other stories previously reprinted by Dargaud USA and iBooks). Valerian mixes sci-fi adventure with liberal doses of humor and wild imagination, especially in the alien races. ILM ripped it off heavily, both in the 70s and in the prequels (Valerian began in the late 60s). Then, check out Moebius and Alejandro Jodorowsky's Incal for the other key element (the more mystical elements). Then you'll see where Besson got his inspiration. Franco-Belgian bande desinee were doing this kind of stuff long before George. Without creators like Moebius, Mezieres, Druillet, Caza, Dionnet, and others, there is no Metal Hurlant, which means no American Heavy Metal.
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