helluva-boring-perpetually white sand beach







UP

  • 'blow-you-away' visuals in 3D (1st half hour I was thinking, 'yes! This is where it's at! I have seen the future and it rocks!')
  • scenes where they arrive at the desert city on the tourist coach/battle-cruiser (being in two realities at once was impressive; so was the take-over of the guard guy in the tower)
  • Cara De-whatsername's eyebrows (and, possibly, combat suit...)
DOWN
  • really dreary military types
  • nothing interesting for the actors to do (what WERE they doing? What for?). Still, must be boring as hell to have to 'act' for umpteen hours in front of a blue-screen.
  • tooooooo long.................
  • really cheesy love story vehicle
  • that creature which eat some ball-thing and then went cross-eyed and shat energy balls
  • oh c'mon - wafelike ethereal androgynous beings who 'lived in harmony with Nature' and perfect peace between them on-a-helluva-boring-perpetually white sand beach on a planet and fed it energy from the creature's arse and and .... (snore)
SIDEWAYS
  • 'Lucy' was interesting (of course, anything with Scarlett Johansson in is already interesting), classy, and had a strong philosophical underpinning; 'Valerian' didn't. 4 days later I can't remember what it was 'about' (apart from cratures shitting harmony, or something)
  • Cara De-thingy's eyebrows

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