The Fifth Element
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Nowhere Man
Commodore
Exellent movie!, exellent cast! I think Cris Tuckers role was meant to be obnoxious and Gary Oldman as Zorg was awsome. This is one of my favorite movies that came out at the perfect time when Sci fi was sort of in bad shape. The portrail of the future was funny to say the least. It shows the more things change the more they stay the same. This movie was fun and I love it. We need more movies like that , I give it and A. It is a prototype for Star Trek11
A fun and funny movie, I knew right from the robbery scene at the door of Bruce Willis miniapartment that this was to be a sci fi comedy and not a serious take on the future.
I had a blast with it, even Tucker wasn't that annoying, his performance just seemed to be in the spirit of the film. I laughed and chuckled my way through it.
Still do.
Vons
I had a blast with it, even Tucker wasn't that annoying, his performance just seemed to be in the spirit of the film. I laughed and chuckled my way through it.
Still do.
Vons
Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti
a shlock opera - very fitting
I liked it when I first saw it and I like it now. It's completely silly and great fun.
Finger's gonna kill me. 
A
Amaris
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I thoroughly enjoy this movie. Recently, I picked up the Blu-ray for $3! It's even better in high definition! Love it, love it, love it. Love the culture, the mythos, a very non-appareled Leelo. 
J.
J.
I love this movie . . . it's like the polar opposite of Brazil . . . maybe that's not the best comparison, but it's got so many bright colors that you just don't see these days in films and games even . . . everything seems to be severely color graded now so that it's like you're wearing welding goggles all the time
john titor
Captain
Another reason why the 90s were so great. Its fun and revels in its own absurdity, this is the anathema to serious films which are ridiculous in their premises and end up absurd but not in a good way as a result, I'm looking at you Mr. Nolan!
Yeah, I also love this movie. We don't get enough over-the-top, funny, sci-fi actioners. At least, not ones that are actually funny. Whoever said it was juvenile: of course it is! It was supposed to be. Besson wrote it as a teenager, and he made it with the same mindset.
Plus, it's so quotable. Come on, everybody loves doing that.
"You're a monster, Zorg."
"I know."
Plus, it's so quotable. Come on, everybody loves doing that.
"You're a monster, Zorg."
"I know."
I just remembered something.
This is the only PG-13 movie I can think of that actually shows a boob. Why do I bring this up? Well, I was only 13 back in '97 when I first saw this movie in theaters, and a friend and I saw it by ourselves without parental supervision. When the VHS came out and my parents saw it, they got bent out of shape over the fact they I had been able to get in to the theater and see it.
My parents where so conservative that they thought even the thermal bandages showed too much skin.
This is the only PG-13 movie I can think of that actually shows a boob. Why do I bring this up? Well, I was only 13 back in '97 when I first saw this movie in theaters, and a friend and I saw it by ourselves without parental supervision. When the VHS came out and my parents saw it, they got bent out of shape over the fact they I had been able to get in to the theater and see it.
My parents where so conservative that they thought even the thermal bandages showed too much skin.
Plus, it was like, 1.5 seconds of sideboob.
You can get away with "brief" nudity in a PG-13.
You can get away with "brief" nudity in a PG-13.
Titanic.
Supergreen!
It took me close to a decade before I got around to seeing this. I wish I'd seen it in the theatres, because it's so spectacular.
The thing that surprised me the most about this film was that this was a comedy. Besson's previous work like Leon and the original La Femme Nikita weren't exactly yukfests. And in fact what initially turned me off F.E. (sight unseen) was the impression that it was a Blade Runner ripoff.
Instead, it's a fun fantasy, with Bruce Willis playing completely to type -- nothing wrong with that at all, when it works, and it works here. Milla Jovovich is hilarious, not to mention cute. And there are little set pieces that may not have added much by way of plot, but really gave us a fully-formed fantasy world (the Thai food cart, the Rastafarian ground crew, etc, not to mention a great cameo by Lee Evans who was just recently on Doctor Who).
And then, of course, there's Gary Oldman, who has more fun playing a villain than I think any actor has since Telly Savalas chewed things up as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The scene with the cherry was hilarious, too. "It's not here..."
The only sad part about the film is that Brion James, who plays Munro (and who, as it happens, appeared in Blade Runner 15 years earlier), died a couple years after making this film, in which he actually played a good guy for once.
I think I've seen this film a dozen times since it came out on DVD, and I never tire of it (unlike, ironically, Blade Runner, which I can only watch so many times). And best of all, no one decided to spoil it by making Fifth Element 2 (I think we can thank Milla for that; in her recent Maxim interview she mentioned any such sequel would have to be made without her because she thinks the first movie was fine as it is).
Alex
The thing that surprised me the most about this film was that this was a comedy. Besson's previous work like Leon and the original La Femme Nikita weren't exactly yukfests. And in fact what initially turned me off F.E. (sight unseen) was the impression that it was a Blade Runner ripoff.
Instead, it's a fun fantasy, with Bruce Willis playing completely to type -- nothing wrong with that at all, when it works, and it works here. Milla Jovovich is hilarious, not to mention cute. And there are little set pieces that may not have added much by way of plot, but really gave us a fully-formed fantasy world (the Thai food cart, the Rastafarian ground crew, etc, not to mention a great cameo by Lee Evans who was just recently on Doctor Who).
And then, of course, there's Gary Oldman, who has more fun playing a villain than I think any actor has since Telly Savalas chewed things up as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The scene with the cherry was hilarious, too. "It's not here..."
The only sad part about the film is that Brion James, who plays Munro (and who, as it happens, appeared in Blade Runner 15 years earlier), died a couple years after making this film, in which he actually played a good guy for once.
I think I've seen this film a dozen times since it came out on DVD, and I never tire of it (unlike, ironically, Blade Runner, which I can only watch so many times). And best of all, no one decided to spoil it by making Fifth Element 2 (I think we can thank Milla for that; in her recent Maxim interview she mentioned any such sequel would have to be made without her because she thinks the first movie was fine as it is).
Alex
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