Movies
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that's unfortunate. I love Besson's work, but a lot of the reviews I had read gave Valerian similar marks, namely that is sucked.
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C'mon, Fifth Element and Leon The Professional are classics
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Leon is one of my favourite films.
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I watched Underworld: Blood Wars lastnite. It was marginally less shit than the previous one, but still shit. It was free from the library so what can I say?
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Leon was good…..that's about it.
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Leon was good…..that's about it.
Try "The Big blue" a cracker of a movie by Luc Besson;
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^ now that's another brilliant film
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Leon was good…..that's about it.
If you haven't watched La Femme Nikita you aren't qualified to make that call. Tour de force, I promise.
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Leon was good…..that's about it.
If you haven't watched La Femme Nikita you aren't qualified to make that call. Tour de force, I promise.
+1 La Femme Nikita is a great film;
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I saw A Ghost Story on Monday. It's an interesting, weird little film, which features Casey Affleck under a sheet for more of its runtime.
I enjoyed it, though it's a little slow through the first act. With the references to the enormity of time in the marketing and reviews, I thought that it might have gone all Last and First Men, but it went a different way.
Here's an interview with the director David Lowery from The Guardian.
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I caught A Monster Calls today. It's about a boy with a dying mother, and a monster. It's a good film, but brought up a few emotions from losing mine a couple of years ago.
The Independent has a review of Shin Godzilla, which has just opened in the UK. I saw it last year, and it's a weird take on a Kaiju movie. Worth seeing.
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finally saw Alien Covenant lastnite. I was a bit disappointed with it and kinda surprised Ridley put this out. I mean, the gorey bits were cool but the plot and character development were dull. I call it the George Lucas syndrome – you basically create a film property that blows audiences away when it comes out but then over time you lose that creative vision all in the name of maintaining a firm grip on a franchise you helped create. The acting wasn't bad by any means but I didn't care for any of the characters at all. At least with Alien you could feel a genuine comradery among the crew, but with Covenant they were all expendable characters that did one stupid thing after another. Really annoying.
