Valerian

Today I watched the movie 'Valerian'.
The cover blurb says "visually astonishing"
and yes, I agree, they went all out on the visuals, that was a whole lot of cool pixels that gave you a visual extravaganza at all times.

Problem is it had ten, maaaaaybe twenty minutes worth of story, and the other two hours were a whole lot of whoosh boom to give you a tour of those visuals.

It never mattered that these were alien races. It was a very basic story. You knew what had happened and what was going to happen, plot wise, from the first five minutes.

Also there were basically two characters and I found them both obnoxious. Which never helps.

I watched this film sped up and still felt like it was far too long.

Which is a pity, because the background pretty was a whole lot of work in every moment.

King Arthur Legend of the Sword

just watched the one with Charlie Hunnam.

... I'd have liked that better if they'd called it almost anything else.
There were bits of several British heroes pasted together if you squint, the sword was arguably recogniseably Arthurian, but the names were pasted on at random.

As a couple of hours of fantasy movie it passed the time. Women were mostly dead, in a brothel, or dead in a brothel, but there was one whole speaking role who got stuff done. Could be worse.

Don't reckon I'll rewatch it any time soon, but dont feel the need to get rid of it either.
Second time of viewing I'll not be waiting for it to have anything to do with Arthur and may well like it better.
Maybe.