Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets | July 21, 2017 | FLOP OF THE YEAR

[dashrendar44]

Besson's Jupiter Ascending. Concept art porn, abysmal acting.

 

Those two leads, ugh. You know something is wrong when you wish Rihanna was cast as the female lead instead. Back in 1997, Besson could afford Bruce Willis when he was still Hollywood action star royalty and an international draw, now he couldn't get more than Chronicle of a wimpy kid who is a Box office bomb magnet twenty years after.

 

I can't even fathom the marketing blitz that will descend upon me from french networks, this thing is gonna be everywhere hailed as the Second Coming.

Of course, it will do big here in France, Luc Besson is basically considered the french James Cameron.

[Harley]

Besson must have been so confident in the overall project the leads didn't matter.  

 

Visually it's great.

 

It doesn't appear STX is putting hardly any money in promoting their films outside this. That'll help their bottom line in case this flops.

[MrPink]

3 minutes ago, dashrendar44 said:

Besson's Jupiter Ascending. Concept art porn, abysmal acting.

 

Those two leads, ugh. You know something is wrong when you wish Rihanna was cast as the female lead instead. Back in 1997, Besson could afford Bruce Willis when he was still Hollywood action star royalty and an international draw, now he couldn't get more than Chronicle of a wimpy kid who is a Box office bomb magnet twenty years after.

 

I can't even fathom the marketing blitz that will descend upon me from french networks, this thing is gonna be everywhere hailed as the Second Coming.

Of course, it will do big here in France, Luc Besson is basically considered the french James Cameron.

 

July 21st will be hell for you, and I can't wait. 

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Meh, still doesn't appeal to me. But I hope it does great just for sci fi's sake.

[ban1o]

they should have gotten attractive charismatic people to lead this film lmao. These leads look terrible. 

Edited March 29, 2017 by ban1o

[dashrendar44]

15 minutes ago, MrPink said:

 

July 21st will be hell for you, and I can't wait. 

[Macleod]

I'm in.  Even if I'm the only one in the theater opening day.  Love seeing Besson getting to play in a bigger fish tank again.

[WrathOfHan]

I think the visuals look good, but I'm not convinced on  and Cara.

 

26 minutes ago, Boxofficerules said:

Here's the article I read about them

http://www.thewrap.com/stx-entertainment-struggle-flops-executive-exit-strategy/

Movies like “Edge of Seventeen” with mid-range budgets that were supposed to be the company’s focus have failed at the box office

 

   

[Arlborn]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

 

 

Movies like “Edge of Seventeen” with mid-range budgets that were supposed to be the company’s focus have failed at the box office

 

   

 

Yep cause they just make way too many mistakes distributing and marketing their movies. They won't do Valerian any favors sadly as it certainly could use some good marketing.

[Morieris]

For a space movie, it's fitting to cast black holes of personality as your leads. 

 

It looks amazing, like an even better Corusant, but...well, maybe the cut the human personality out of the trailer. I hope. 

[Valonqar]

40 minutes ago, dashrendar44 said:

Besson's Jupiter Ascending. Concept art porn, abysmal acting.

 

Those two leads, ugh. You know something is wrong when you wish Rihanna was cast as the female lead instead. Back in 1997, Besson could afford Bruce Willis when he was still Hollywood action star royalty and an international draw, now he couldn't get more than Chronicle of a wimpy kid who is a Box office bomb magnet twenty years after.

 

I can't even fathom the marketing blitz that will descend upon me from french networks, this thing is gonna be everywhere hailed as the Second Coming.

Of course, it will do big here in France, Luc Besson is basically considered the french James Cameron.

 

RiRi has more charisma in her 2 seconds appearance than the leads in the whole trailer. Stunning visuals, generic story, really bland leads. But then, that didn't hurt Kong Skull Island.

Edited March 29, 2017 by Valonqar

[Goffe]

Every frame looks so busy, Besson's mission with this one must have been to use every single color in the color wheel as much as he could. It's exhausting. Doesn't help it looks like another blockbuster from the Happy Meal school. Not interested.

Edited March 29, 2017 by Goffe

[filmlover]

It looks pretty, if nothing else.

[Hiccup21]

This looks great! I am there opening weekend. I really think they should move this to August. It would have a much better chance of doing well there. I hope this can at least gross more than Jupiter Ascending. 

[Plain Old Tele]

This looks so great. 

 

It will crash and burn here in the States. 

[filmlover]

2 minutes ago, Hiccup21 said:

This looks great! I am there opening weekend. I really think they should move this to August. It would have a much better chance of doing well there. I hope this can at least gross more than Jupiter Ascending. 

It's laughable how dead August is this year. The biggest movies opening there are...The Emoji Movie and Annabelle 2? Hahaha get out.

[baumer]

This looks like the epitome of what is shit about film.  I'm not saying all film or all of Hollywood is shit, I'm just saying this is the kind of stuff that looks like shit.  All CGI, probably zero story.  

[Nova]

Visually it looks really good. And that's all I've got. 

 

The leads on the other hand. Oh my. I've gotten more charisma from the piece of toast that I eat in the morning. 

 

I may check this out just because August is dead so I don't have many movies that I really want to see in that month. 

Edited March 29, 2017 by Nova

[baumer]

3 hours ago, filmlover said:

It's laughable how dead August is this year. The biggest movies opening there are...The Emoji Movie and Annabelle 2? Hahaha get out.

 

Don't forget about Nut Job 2....that's going to be massive.  

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

 

Don't forget about Nut Job 2....that's going to be massive.