{"id":11464,"date":"2017-11-12T21:20:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T02:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11464"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T01:09:58","slug":"valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets"},"content":{"rendered":"

{4\/5} “I’m sorry, you’re a great driver. You’re the best driver in the entire universe.”<\/p>\n

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets<\/strong>, released in 2017<\/p>\n

Valerian and Laureline are special operatives who undertake dangerous missions in the far reaches of the galaxy. They return to Alpha, a huge space colony, after another successful mission. There they find that someone is attacking the colony with radiation — they’re assigned to protect the man in charge of defeating the attack. Meanwhile, Valerian asks Laureline to marry him.<\/p>\n

It’s visually stunning and it’s mildly amusing.<\/p>\n

The story feels a bit old fashioned. It’s based on a long-running series of comic books.<\/p>\n

The main characters don’t quite have what it takes to carry the movie — that might be the acting and\/or the dialogue. It’s not as good as The Fifth Element<\/strong> but it’s better than Lucy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It’s not quite a great movie, but it’s fun.<\/p>\n

Stars Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne. Directed by Luc Besson (Lucy<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Alexandre Desplat didn’t really stand out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{4\/5} “I’m sorry, you’re a great driver. You’re the best driver in the entire universe.” Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, released in 2017 Valerian and Laureline are special operatives who undertake dangerous missions in the far reaches of the galaxy. They return to Alpha, a huge space colony, after another successful mission. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-11464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12019,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}