Valerian.....ugh.

Has got to be one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Acting - awful

Writing - awful

Direction - not good

Story line - mundane and unfocused

CGI - good

Make up design - interesting

Trailer for A Wrinkle in Time - excellent.



I could elaborate, but I've already wasted too much time with this film.

Updated On: 7/29/17 at 04:56 AM

In science fiction we call this kinda stuff Space Opera (Space opera is a sub genre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, melodramatic adventure, interplanetary battles, as well as chivalric romance, and often risk-taking.)

It is one of the lowest levels of scifi and needs a strong control to bring it up to a story you care about- cough*StarWars* cough. At a certain point JUST visuals can't cut it. There seems to be a real opinion in Hollywood if it looks good people won't care that there is no substance.

Not so much.

To be fair, SF is full of borrowed influences. David Gerrold once wrote an apology to Robert Heinlein , worried he's stolen the idea for Tribbles from Heinlein's flatcats. Heinlien replied saying they probably both owed Buttler's "Pigs is Pigs" ss a debt.



For a more obvious borrowing/research- try this Northwest Smith character from C.L. Moore

By profession, Smith is an outlaw who lives by a variety of criminal means, including smuggling. By nature, he is an anti-hero, ruthless, self-serving, and cynical. Despite this, he has a core of goodness and often does the right thing in spite of himself. Smith is described as a dark haired man with "space bronzed" skin and pale eyes, who wears brown spacer's leathers and carries a raygun at his side like an old west gunfighter. His ship, the Maid, is small and unspectacular but surprisingly fast and agile.

Cough* HAN SOLO*Cough

Things I enjoyed in Valerian:

The opening montage where the space station is built.
The inter-dimensional market sequence.
The three comic information brokers.
Some of the visuals in the mad rushes through the station.
Rhianna's campy burlesque dance.


If they'd recast the leads and/or cut all the terrible conversations about their "relationship" it would have been a fairly painless romp.