61 Fifth Element
"Big Baddah Boom"
In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay
My friend Trent told me about this movie. I watched it and I hated it.
Luc Besson, Ian Holm, Gary Oldman, Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovichl Blade Runner influences what’s not to like right? It just seemed over the top and stupid.
Then my eyes were opened. I heard an interview with Luc Besson where he explained the movie a bit. He was going for a Sci Fi movie that a 16 year old would make if they had the chance. Now it makes perfect sense. It’s a fantastical romp in the world of sci-fi.
It is not moody, dark, just fun. There is a lot of color and basic humor. Gary Oldman makes for a bizarre Car Salesman Power hungry Mogul. I am an Oldman fan and he is the highlight of the movie with his cartonish twisted performance. Looks like he had fun. Actually looks like everyone had fun on this one.
Don’t expect to have your socks blown off by special effects or deep plots. Just tilt your head in confusion as you watch a one of a kind film. It’s a comic book of a 16 year old and its fun. Chris Tucker is super green in this movie.
On the cool meter it ranks low but on the guilty pleasure meter very high.
posted by Morris @ 2:10 PM
2 Comments
2 Comments:
If you want to engage in 16 year old hormonal fantasies about Milijovich...keep them private. This movie flat out sucks with Tucker being particularly painful to watch (Arsenio Hall meets Herbie Hancock on crack - not funny). And I can't believe you mumbled "Blade Runner" in connection with this drivel - a sacrilege.
I would say that the director was not going for hormonal fanasies but rather a comic book atmosphere from an interview that he had. I can see the angle. I really just didnt like any of the movie until I looked at it this way.
As for Blade Runner the movie like Metropolis before it, influence all things good and bad and in Luc Bessons mind he was influenced. You can see it with the flying cars endlessly high buildings and even a tip of the hat with the asian food, noodles ofcourse. I read the original screenplay for blade runner now talk about drivel. It was meant to be a horror movie complete with chainsaws. I had the pleasure of seeing the directors cut in 91 and then recently the new directors cut of Bladerunner at the Egyption theatre in Seattle. Great movie but that review will have to wait unitl I get to number 3.
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