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beccaelizabethToday 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.
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.