just saw "The Fifth Element"...

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Ghost Rider wrote:Though one thing I really love about Fifth Element is that the future isn't clean.

It's dirty, greasy, grimy and still filled with many of the same concepts of today, packaged in a better way.

Though if Mc Donalds ever gets cashiers that look like that...I'll start eatin their fries again. :)
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I thought it was a great movie. I own the video and always think about upgrading to the dvd now and then. What I liked most were the little things, the details they put in like the cigarettes that were two thirds filter. But as great a performance as the main characters gave, I have to say, the guy who played the president was the worst actor I've ever seen.
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Peregrin Toker wrote:I still don't get the Milla-worship going on.
Well, for me it's because I think she's very, very pretty. :)

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Mark S wrote:I thought it was a great movie. I own the video and always think about upgrading to the dvd now and then. What I liked most were the little things, the details they put in like the cigarettes that were two thirds filter. But as great a performance as the main characters gave, I have to say, the guy who played the president was the worst actor I've ever seen.
I have the regular DVD. I don't think it's available with any extras but it is one of the titles I've seen available in Super Bit.
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Anyone else notice that the priest called Corban Dallas "Mr. Willis" and Bruce corrected him by saying "Dallas"? ;)
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Tsyroc wrote:
Mark S wrote:I thought it was a great movie. I own the video and always think about upgrading to the dvd now and then. What I liked most were the little things, the details they put in like the cigarettes that were two thirds filter. But as great a performance as the main characters gave, I have to say, the guy who played the president was the worst actor I've ever seen.
I have the regular DVD. I don't think it's available with any extras but it is one of the titles I've seen available in Super Bit.
Yup...nice on my giant screen :P

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And yeup, neoolong cool flying thai resturants....now I can get Thai when I want it :)
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Peregrin Toker wrote:I still don't get the Milla-worship going on.
She's a female, she's got a pretty face, and she's got an athletic body. Granted, she doesn't have a huge rack, but so what? Are you really that picky about women?

PS. I bought the movie on DVD and have watched it many times. Excellent film.
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This film was a lot of fun. The visuals were great. I like all the buxom flight attendents on the way to Faustan Paradise. One of these days I'm going to pick up the DVD.

As for Milla, she is a little too thin for me. Pretty face though, no doubt about it.
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The flight attendants and their outfits were great. I also liked the uniforms for the women working at McDonalds. They showed a lot of McCleavage with their rather large McRacks. :D
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Vertigo1 wrote:Anyone else notice that the priest called Corban Dallas "Mr. Willis" and Bruce corrected him by saying "Dallas"? ;)
Damn, looks like I need to go and rent it again just to see that. :P
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Vertigo1 wrote:Anyone else notice that the priest called Corban Dallas "Mr. Willis" and Bruce corrected him by saying "Dallas"? ;)
Was that in the script, or ad-libbed?
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Peregrin Toker wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:Anyone else notice that the priest called Corban Dallas "Mr. Willis" and Bruce corrected him by saying "Dallas"? ;)
Was that in the script, or ad-libbed?
Screw up, that they either didn't catch before release or thought it was funny and insignificant. Either way, its a nice easter egg.
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Ghost Rider wrote:Though one thing I really love about Fifth Element is that the future isn't clean.
Not only that. Most futuristic SF movies tend to have a lot of black, white, grey, and generally muted colors. The Fifth Element was a concious attempt to add more to the palet and was quite succesful.
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GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Read a rumor years ago, before Episode One, that Lucas wanted to split directing the prequels between himself, Spielberg, and Besson.
Whoever persuaded him otherwise should be shot ...
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GoldenFalcon wrote:Who else liked that scene where MJ as Leeloo kicked around those aliens like rag dolls?
Nothing sexier than a woman kicking ass. 8)
I have to disagree in this one case (as a general rule, you're right). The fight scene looked too fake, even for this movie. It almost seemed like someone decided to take a bad anime fight scene and make it live action. Maybe I'd feel different if it weren't for the "slap-'em-silly" move near the end. That just got to me.
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Fucking silly assed movie.

But fun.
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The Fifth Element is a wrongfully underrated movie, IMO. It remains on my list of memorable scifi to this day.
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Knife wrote:
Peregrin Toker wrote:
Vertigo1 wrote:Anyone else notice that the priest called Corban Dallas "Mr. Willis" and Bruce corrected him by saying "Dallas"? ;)
Was that in the script, or ad-libbed?
Screw up, that they either didn't catch before release or thought it was funny and insignificant. Either way, its a nice easter egg.
IIRC he said "Mr Wallace" not "Willis" and was then corrected to "Dallas". I don't think it was a screw up.
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Winston Blake wrote:
Knife wrote:Screw up, that they either didn't catch before release or thought it was funny and insignificant. Either way, its a nice easter egg.
IIRC he said "Mr Wallace" not "Willis" and was then corrected to "Dallas". I don't think it was a screw up.
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Winston Blake wrote:
Knife wrote:Screw up, that they either didn't catch before release or thought it was funny and insignificant. Either way, its a nice easter egg.
IIRC he said "Mr Wallace" not "Willis" and was then corrected to "Dallas". I don't think it was a screw up.
Maybe that's what they want you to think. :P
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Maybe they anticipated that we would think that that's what they wanted us to think, but if they knew that we would think they had anticipated us thinking that that's what they wanted us to think, then they would have thought that we thought that they thought... *slips into a coma
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