Comment by vidarh

8 days ago

Fifth Element is pretty much Besson doing Valerian before he was able to get funding for Valerian, so we kinda did get a spiritual sequel of sorts.

Unfortunately, while I've grown to like the Valerian movie, when compared to Fifth Element it would seem that Besson should have been given a far tighter budget for Valerian rather than the apparent near free reign he got.

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mgoetzke  8 days ago

For Valerian he should have been better at casting people that had chemistry and felt real

  • ticulatedspline  8 days ago

    I desperately wanted to like Valerian since I love Fifth Element, while visually striking the story line was pretty meh and OMG the casting was horrible. I think I could casually enjoy it even with the bad story if they had done better job casting.

  • justinclift  7 days ago

    Yeah. Really wanted to like Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but Dane DeHaan's utter lack of chemistry with his co-star (seemed like he was afraid to even look at her?) absolutely destroyed it in the worst way possible. :(