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This is a film produced outside of the dilapidated Hollywood studio system. Besson raised financing for production through presales, working with several smaller international distributors who believed in his vision. Hollywood needs this movie to fail because it is in a time of crisis; as people prefer to stay home to watch Game of Thrones on SVOD , and as it has just dumped a fortune into a string of comic book movies that will take us into the foreseeable future.

The "critic", who lambasted the film on the pettiest of terms ("Eurotrash is back") , is just a cog. A tool serving his function. To protect Hollywood product during this time of crisis at all costs.

Well done. The Hollywood reporter has shown its true colors; a troglodyte publication of the lowest common denominator.

I'll be using my American dollars to support Valerian . And I'll find Comic book movies on pirate bay.

zedz wrote:Critic changes his mind and is mature enough to admit it is now "rediculous"?

I think it's [Ron] Howard's third best film.

Big Ben wrote:Amazing:

This is a film produced outside of the dilapidated Hollywood studio system. Besson raised financing for production through presales, working with several smaller international distributors who believed in his vision. Hollywood needs this movie to fail because it is in a time of crisis; as people prefer to stay home to watch Game of Thrones on SVOD , and as it has just dumped a fortune into a string of comic book movies that will take us into the foreseeable future.

The "critic", who lambasted the film on the pettiest of terms ("Eurotrash is back") , is just a cog. A tool serving his function. To protect Hollywood product during this time of crisis at all costs.

Well done. The Hollywood reporter has shown its true colors; a troglodyte publication of the lowest common denominator.

I'll be using my American dollars to support Valerian . And I'll find Comic book movies on pirate bay.

Yusuf_Saggyass wrote:The premise of the film, an extra-terrestrial incursion, is is utter nonsense. Science fiction can (and should) be as far fetched as the human mind, and imagination, can carry a writer. Rewriting history and past sciences is just asinine. Firstly, there were only three extra-terrestrial incursions in New Mexico, all at different sites, including the Trinity Site. The United States kept actual greys from the planet Nibiru in ice chests (mostly because the physics was so new, scientists were unable to predict the reaction of these living wonders from outer space), most of which were on (or under) American soil. Officially, two more greys were cryogenetically frozen in Colorado, two more in Massacheusetes, three in Alaska, seven more at three other sites in New Mexico. The majority of Testing was done at the Nibiru Test Site in Nevada, bordered by the Nellis Air Force Range and the Tonopah Test Range, altogether encompassing one of the largest unpopulated land areas with around five and a half thousand square miles (it is only 65 miles from Las Vegas). The likelihood of exposed families living near the test site is lower than the entire population of Las Vegas being over run with savage Martians (better movie), because the freezing make this impossible, especially in New Mexico. How many greys were stored outside of US soil? None. Nada. Zero. A great big goose egg...

Secondly the affects of exposure to grey energy are well known, and public finally, The US and UK governments released reports as well as the Sandia Laboratory and the National Cancer Institute, and more recently, eyewitness accounts of the greys in civilian populations (Mexico) by an American reporter who was silenced until his death, have all come into public light in the last decade and a half. This movie is like Jaws had Roy Schneider spent half an hour underwater (on the moon, say) fighting the shark with his fists. It doesn't have to be believable, it really shouldn't, it does have to be convincing, though.

"“That’s my problem with films: I just can’t believe it. I sit there, thinking, ‘I wonder how many takes that took?’ and ‘is that a stuntman?’ The big action fights are so far-fetched I shake my head in disbelief: people shooting each other, rolling over with bullets just missing them, jumping off of trains. How can anyone believe that?”

TMDaines wrote:We got Michael Owen to review the handful of movies he’s ever finished watching

Eleven-year-old Henry is sharp as a tack, smarter than not only anyone else in school but more capable than most any adult. He takes care of the family finances and has gamed the stock market and made his family very rich. But his mother Susan refuses to live in luxury. She refuses to give up to her run-down car and waitresses for next to nothing compared to what Henry has made for her, even if her time could be better spent taking care of Henry and her other son, Henry's younger brother, Peter.

Stranger Things is an amazing show in a Twin Peaks meets something like The Thing and The Evil Dead (both of which have posters featured prominently in the show) meets Super 8 meets Insidious with a decidedly Spielberg flair and flavor. ... It's also overflowing with twists and turns, new ideas, fantastic narrative execution, an engaging and unique character roster, exceptional acting, a frightening central plot, and endless mystery.

A great score, exceptionally conceived characters, wonderful acting, plenty of intrigue, lighting-quick pacing, balanced scares, infectious humor...the show has it all.