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This nails it. I happen to know the filmmakers and any chance I get to defend them, I do. The studio, New Line, ruined this film. 100%. The footage for a better film exists out there ... the proper ending was shot but cut by the head of New Line, amazing voice over work was scrapped in favor of big names, whole scenes were cut. All of these decisions were made at the studio level. 100% of what was wrong with that movie lies at the feet of the studio heads.

Who made the decision to have both main characters sound exactly the same. They had Craig and Kidman in awesome roles as well. Subtle knife coulda been so awesome but alas.

As someone who read through the original when I was about 10 or so, and still considers it one of my favourite novels to this day... Attempting to sit through that movie when I eventually told myself I had to at least give it a try made me supremely uncomfortable. They dumbed down or fudged so much of it! Instead of Lyra being crafty and street-smart she basically just gets handed new plot points out of nowhere. And all even slightly religious references are thrown away of course, despite being central to the entire series.

Also, a fine actor Daniel Craig may be, but he's too damn calm to ever be any kind of Lord Asriel. He was always portrayed as being almost like a force of nature, a tempest in human form.

It really was beautifully cast. Nicole Kidman was picture perfect as Mrs. Coulter.

Am I the only one who liked it?

I still understand nothing about the books and movie despite studying them for months.

No kidding. Such a wasted opportunity on some of the best literature in the last two decades. Since you didn't mention it, i also thought the soundtrack was atrocious. (The end song was basically someone saying Lyra repeatedly)

I've never seen this movie. My mom told me that it was a movie that was anti-christ and that it was of the devil. Lol

To shreds, you say?

I was SO disappointed by that movie. The His Dark Materials trilogy CHANGED me as a person. Daniel Craig as Lord Asriel and Nicole Kidman as Mrs. Coulter could not have been more well casted. Despite this, the movie had none of the punch that the books had. None of the tragedy of having your daemons ripped away from you like they are a sacred, intimate part of yourself, none of Lord Asriel's ambition and confidence that comes with the idea that (SPOILERS) killing god and freeing humanity from the fear of eternal damnation will be a cause worth any possible sacrifice, not the shock of finding a hidden city in the clouds and teleporting to it that was the jawdropping cliffhanger ending of the first book. Who the hell gave the green light to this movie? Let's start with a book that says religions use their power and authority to control people and ruin their lives for their own selfish benefit, and has psychopaths torturing children remorselessly, but let's take out anything controversial or even mildly disagreeable. We wouldn't want to offend anyone religious who is watching this movie by presenting them with the main idea of the book.

One of my absolute favorites because of the visuals and universe. One of my least favorites because of what a shitty movie it was in the end

It's rough because it's so wonderfully competent, but so utterly toothless at the same time.

Seriously - it looks great

I loved that movie so much I bought it. But I never read the book so I didn't suffer from the "book is better than the movie" syndrome.

Not gonna lie, it's one my favorite movies of all time. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I'm buying the books soon I'm so excited to read them!!!

Catholic Church went after this movie harder than North Korea did with The Interview...

Go read his dark materials. Amazing trilogy

Not to mention the amazing books!

They completely cut off the ending. It's as if they had made Star Wars, and ended it with the rebels taking off for the Death Star.

That polar bear fight was pretty dope though.

Great source material.

It really should have been a trilogy. Nothing from the books needed doing differently, just turn the books into movies. How marketing missed this one is beyond me. Three films would have grossed way more money!

To shreds you say?

The "His Dark Materials" and the "Eragon" series were both fucking incredibly written in my opinion, and the movie adaptations of both were fucking abysmal.

Such a waste.

To shreds you say?

Didn't think it was so bad. Armored bears!

Oh shit I had the video game for that when I was a kid.

the video game was ok, just a generic adventure / fighting game that incorporated elements from the movie. Was hard to play because I never watched the movie prior. But then I felt the game was lacking and different from the movie / book, which made it hard to enjoy.

How so? I never saw the movie.

This is one of those movies that I was sure I missed something. Everyone said it was going to be awesome and when I finally watched i just couldn't even follow it. It was boring and made no sense to me. I have to assume what i heard was people eager to see it because it had all the potential to be grand.

What do you mean by the editing floor?

I read the series of novels in Highschool and LOVED them. Was so excited to hear about the move. The movie was... I don't even have words to describe how disappointed I am.

I'll forever resent the people who fucked this adaptation so monumentally.

My middle school grade watched it when it came out and I found it so damn boring, like nothing was happening. It looked pretty, but that can only old a preteens attention for so long.

Armoured polar bears saves the movie.

Couldn't agree more. I've read the books, and I really, really think this series deserves a second chance at life.

I'm still shaking my head how they fucked up the first one so bad.

I remember being in the car with my religious grandmother when this movie was coming out and she was listening to Spirit 105.3, our local Christian radio station. A guest on the station was talking about how he would rather have his children watch hardcore porn than this film because "at least they would be able to understand why the porn was evil". Too this day I have no idea what the movie is actually about.

I actually did like the movie. Havent read the books, but I really wish they had made a sequel.

Not to forget that it is based on an amazing book series. So disappointed.

This one kills me. The cast was great, the visuals were stunning, but with the way they butchered that ending to, what, not offend the church...? And then the writers strike killed any hopes for the Subtle Knife or Amber Spyglass. But it's probably better that way. The end didn't go the way it should have, so I don't know how they would have even got to the Subtle Knife without murdering Lyra's friend.

The biggest let down for me though is that Nicole Kidman was phenomenal in the role of the mother. I would have loved to see more of her in that role.

I'm really hoping the BBC version turns out well.

Also, they stripped Pullman's anticlerical tone.

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So much this!!! It's like it was the reverse of "great concept sloppy execution". Great execution but really sloppy concept/writing slogged it down.

Oh man, don't remind me. I was even the right age to be more forgiving with my movies and still left feeling unsatisfied. They botched it.

I completely agree with this sentiment, it could have been "the next Lord of the Rings" but come on, HOW IS EPISODE ONE NOT THE TOP COMMENT?

The only movie I've ever walked out on.

I saw this movie as a kid and loved it, maybe because I didn't read the books. Still think it had some great moments, like that polar bear fight was done really well.

Also, they called it The Golden Compass ffs

Well how's his wife holding up?

I liked the books. I wanted it to be good.

When I saw the movie I was so confused as I'd previously read the books, the plot was so fragmented and badly explained/ paced in the movie. They don't even explain Dust! Like wtf that's a huge part of the plot! Disappointing movie.

Agreed on all fronts.

I enjoyed all the actors chosen for their roles, even the kids. I did not mind combining one of the characters. The daemon looked good. The bears looked good.

The film sucks.

The movie sucked from start to finish. And Lyra had a completely different personality than in the books, which annoyed me the most, since it means there's not even one correct scene.

They tried to cram too much into the first movie, IMO. The series didn't have the same familiarity in America as Harry Potter.

To shreds, you say?

To shreds you say?

I hated the books, too, so was actually hoping for an improvement. They managed to make them even more lackluster.

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That movie is infuriatingly stupid, and that's not even getting into the 10% brain usage bullshit. It's a movie about a reality warper on her way to apotheosis, who for some reason just allows a mob boss to be a torn on her side because apparently she's too detached from mundane stuff to destroy him and thus not be distracted by his mundane meddling. Like there's that scene early on, after she undergoes the process and begins gaining powers, when she outright kills a cab driver so that he won't lead the bad guys to her, a horrendously pragmatic move intended to show us that she's begun to lose her humanity. Then later on she meets the mob boss, lets him see her, threatens him, has him under her control... and lets him live. Yeah, kill the cabbie who could be a loose end, but let the murderous mob boss who certainly is a threat live, because super brain I guess.

Lucy? Oh god, THAT movie.

Especially as its hilarious watching Morgan Freeman teach a class on absolute bogus science that makes no sense in a very serious voice.

I actually liked this movie right up until..."poof she's a USB" then I was like wtf. One of the Worst endings ever.

The way I imagine Lucy was made:

A bunch of sci-fi writers/enthusiasts got stoned as fuck and one of them was like "Dudes, you know that 'humans only use 10% of the brain' stuff right?" and the others unanimously uttered "yeah its bullshit" and then the one dude goes on with "but imagine it like... wasn't. what could happen if it was real and someone went up to 100%?"

And some other dude was eavesdropping on that conversation and wrote it all down and made a movie about it.

I can kinda enjoy the movie on that basis. To me it's a movie about extrapolating from a stupid idea, and really going overboard into absurdities. It's similar to things like steampunk, where you just assume that humans never made the leap into modern electronic age and made up all sorts of retro-futuristic machines using steam power and perhaps primitive electronics.

Or maybe I just have a major crush on Scarlet Johansson.

She didnt become an USB. She gave him the USB for knowledge to the world for Morgan Freeman to determine when it would be ready for the world. She is everywhere. If you saw the part on the cellphone she sent him a message through that saying she is literally everywhere.

I turned off the part of my brain that cared about the fundamental plot issues and was just happily along for the ride after that.
Then I was simply watching "Scarlett Johansson does so may drugs she ascends to become GOD."

and then poof she's a usb

She's not a god damn usb. If you copy everything on your computer to a usb, that doesn't magically turn your computer into it.

Lucy

How the hell did they get Morgan Freeman into that?

Lucy was a great movie, you just don't have enough of your brain unlocked to get it

Apparently there's gonna be a sequel about that "usb" probably in her efforts to delete all the porn in the world..

Most Scarlet Johansson's independent movies end up like that, complete shit

Is that what happens in that movie? I've only seen the trailer but the concept seemed cool

Sorry to ruin your day like this, but they're working on a sequel

Lucy was the worst!

I thought you were talking about Her for a second.

She's too bomb to hate her movies

That was pretty much how the movie goes.

Well now I dont need to watch it. Thanks

I always wonder, what if the movie had been done from the Interpol officers perspective, where he's investigating these weird occurrences in Hong Kong with this lady, and he slowly realised she's ascending to a new plane or whatever. With cool visuals from Hong Kong and some good action scenes.

Worst movie I've ever seen, my boyfriend and I still make fun of it.

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Thing is when I saw who was directing it, I knew it was going to be shit.

Am I the only one here who thought he was talking about the movie Her with Joaquin Phoenix?

I saw this in theaters bc I couldn't get into a concert. Most disappointing day of my life.

To be fair, she wasn't the USB. She transcended reality and left behind a supercomputer of her own design to condense down all she'd learned into a handy form of data transfer that is compatible with what we use in this age.

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Yeah that movie

Dawg if my adult daughter called me to say "I remember your milk" I'd tell her to fuck off

until the part with the USB it was not a bad movie. The usb just made it bad. But maybe it is not just a usb. maybe it is more like a Amazon Fire Stick on coke. :D

Call me a petty cunt but I literally lost a friend over this movie.

I hated it. My friend, who isn't so bright and likes shitty movies, walked out with our group and she says "That ending blew my mind. That was amazing!"

I rage quit the group and GTFO. It's one of her favourite movies and I have talked to her maybe 5 times since we saw it at the cinema.

My fiance and I went to see that when it came out because we're both suckers for alien invasion flicks. It was a gorgeous movie, aesthetically flawless, but the plot was god awful. There was no main character, no development, nothing.

We're looking forward to seeing the sequel.

And then a whole different kind of movie as the ending.

Yeah, but man their chili is great.

Biggest utter bullshit moment of that movie:

"Oh thank goodness, we finally got out of the building ONLY TO GET SMASHED BY A 50-FOOT TALL ALIEN THAT NOBODY SAW (OR HEARD) ANY EVIDENCE OF BEFORE THAT SECOND? They literally saw the entire city from the roof multiple times...goddamn it!

Yeah, they ended the movie just as they were getting past all of the rehashed footage from Cloverfield and the plot was starting to get interesting.

The "normal" people were rich, smug assholes who spent the first 40 minutes of the movie gawping at all the gaudy luxuries they were about to enjoy. There was nothing relatable about them. I was quite happy to see their day go to shit.

I actually really like the movie myself the ending is awesome and leaves you wondering what happened after

I actually have fond memories from that film. My friends and I watched it on Netflix knowing it was a turd, so we all got drunk and roasted it the whole time.

The main characters were stupid, useless, and unlikeable, and the big action scene had a bunch of reconnaissance drones doing dogfights with aliens, which was probably one of the dumbest things I've ever seen in my entire life.

The preview for that looked so good. Movie was complete shit.

you basically just had 2 hours of them Blair Witching it going "I'm so scared!" in the corner.

"I'm so startled!"

Yes. The characters were all horrible people that really sucked. I liked the second half better than the first just because they were getting what they deserved.

Dude that movie did not in any way look good ...

And they killed Turk. Those bastards!

That's actually probably more truthful than if they were somehow involved with fighting said aliens.

If you go for the realistic approach, people will still bitch and moan.

I saw this movie in theater. I had forgotten about that day, and the whole movie altogether. It all just came crashing back.

I actually went watching it twice.

Did they run out of money or something because the last 5 minutes are just animation of what the guy does when he goes into the spaceship. I was like wtf?

Agreed.

Just this one chick was screaming half way through it all

Somehow this train wreck popped into my head. I really didn't expect to find it here because it was just that bad... even worse for me because i took a date to see it.

The utter crap movie which ended with a few minutes of a much better movie. That's what really irked me, that the last scenes were from a movie I would have actually liked to see instead of the unbearably bad actors performing the unbearably annoying characters from the preceding hour and a half or however long that thing was.

Came here for this. WTF was with the ending? It felt like some basement-dwelling neckbeard fantasy...

I think this was the worst movie I've ever seen. Me and my friends still make fun of it to this day.

To be fair that's probably what a normal person's experience of an alien invasion would be, realistically.

And then the best charachter (the drone) straight up dies and we're stuck with the other assholes.

My friends and I had a tradition in high school to all go as a group and watch a movie. Both times we picked terrible movies, and this was one of them.

I was getting pissed off at the dude that kept looking at the light and getting drawn in. It happened so many freaking times! Like every five minutes, he'd look at it and off he'd go til someone stopped him. I hated it.

I was so looking forward to this one too. I really hope they never make a sequel

Skyline

This seemed promising? It look like it would be bad. My friend made me watch it despite my reluctance. It was far worse that I thought it could be. I stopped watching less than half way.

Still though, that drone fight scene.....as a roboticist, I drool when I think of it, even though they are of course just remote piloted.

If you liked the premise of that type of alien invasion, I think you'd really like The Phenomenon

Oh my god that movie,

I remember when the fighter drone got shot down and the girl started crying. Why are you crying? It's a drone, there's an airforce remote pilot somewhere swearing his ass off that's about it.

The ending credits looked like it could've been a decent videogame idea though. Probably the most entertaining thing in the entire movie.

Man I really liked skyline, and I'd like to see a sequel, I believe one was in the works not too long ago, and maybe got shitcanned?

It seemed like a lot of potential for a cool movie, but turned out to just be a really long intro to a cool movie. Still, loved the alien concepts and the visual effects.

I was about to go into this movie with high expectations until I saw the song video the Honest Trailer folks did. Expectations dropped, and we all watched it to make fun of the stupid choices the characters made.

Only way I'll watch it again is if Mystery Science Theater 3000 does it

The best part of skyline was the "last push" scene with the air force on that major bombing run, thing. I remember it was actually a really cool combat scene with excellent visuals, and then it hits the mothership with the big-ass bomb and it goes down, I leaned in to my fiance and said "I bet you it eats a brain and gets right back up."

DUDE YES THIS IS THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!! I love you for saying this.

ok the ending was just strange though.

Yeah! It's all them in an apartment being like "the water doesn't work!" and in like the end credits the guy turns into an alien and starts fighting the other aliens. Where was that in act one?

The only reason that movie was okay with me was because I was given an opportunity to make the whole theater laugh.

When the alien tentacles were going through the apartment searching for the woman to take her to the mother ship, I started singing...

THEY CLIMBING IN YO WINDOWS, SNATCHING YO PEOPLE UP! TRYNA RAPE 'EM! SO HIDE YA KIDS HIDE YA WIFE! HIDE YA KIDS HIDE YA WIFE!

I have rarely felt such satisfaction. I was the reason people enjoyed sitting there through a terrible film.

In all fairness, I still think Ryan Reynolds was a GREAT Hal Jordan. It wasn't his fault that the script sucked donkey dick.

Weren't we all...

I'm not a fan of Warner Bros. grimdarkgrit DC movies, and many of my film school friends were. Like they were ALL ABOUT the Dark Knight movies. I prefer fun and goofy stuff like The Avengers. So I was like, "I bet I'll love Green Lantern. I bet it's my favorite DC Comics movie."

I think I got like 11 minutes in?

What was bad about it? I actually thought it was fun for being a comic movie.

"Hey, Lets catch this cloud of gas with our powers of imagination!". But what should we imagine? "How about a giant net?"

There was one moment that I thought was great in this movie.

He shows up as Lantern to see Carol and she immediately know its Hal.

She says something like, "I've known you since we were kids. I've seen you naked. You think I wouldn't recognize you because I can't see your cheekbones?"

Subtly brilliant.

Not as good as Green Hornet 🐝

As a kid this was my favorite comic book. Didn't even bother to see the movie when I heard how bad it was.

Which one? I got like 3 DVDs around here (including animated) and they are ALL origin stories. Just like Spider, I hear.

Yeah I'm pretty stoked, hopefully they cast Armie Hammer for the first ever live action version.........

Peter Sarsgaard was unexpectedly great in that movie, though.

Honestly, I enjoyed it more than Batman V Superman...

I can vaguely remember this perplexing bit - Hal is taken to another planet, given his suits, meets all kinds of bizarre aliens... and then goes home and falls asleep as if nothing happened.

Still has the best live-action villain performance ever as far as I'm concerned. Mark Strong IS Sinestro

As bad as that movie was (and it was prettty bad)... The movie had a few fun moments. I liked that they at least attempted to have the corps and guardians in the movie. Part of what they did with the mythology was interesting.

GL is/was my favorite comic series, so you'd think that I'd have a extremely negative reaction like most fanboys.. I kind of went the other way with it. Yeah it was bad, but I was just happy to see it in any form on the big screen.

I actually watched it twice... The second time was like, was it really this bad? The answer was yes.

I'm hoping that we will someday see a cool GL movie on the big screen, or better yet... A tv series.

And when Green Lantern flopped, the studio got cold feet and axed him completely from Justice League. So now we're getting a Justice League movie without one of it's iconic founding members.

I may get downvoted for this but i dont see why people thought the movie was bad.The movie was one of the reasons i started reading green lanterns comics

Am I the only one who liked this movie?

That's actually the only DC movie I've seen in a long time that I actually liked, because it had more of the feel of a Marvel movie. I find that DC movies tend to suck because they try too hard to be super aggro, without a shred of humor to be found. I prefer the light-hearted way Marvel does it, where they are serious about solving the crisis but still have time to goof around in the process.

Call me a lunactic but i love the Green Lantern movie.

But then again i have been a complete GL fanboy from about 8 years old.

I dont care.

Didn't live up to the hype but I did enjoy it. Haven't seen it a second time though.

I don't recommend getting your hopes up for any superhero movie that isn't animated.

I love Ryan Reynolds but I really don't think he was a good choice for Hal Jordan. I'd almost rather have him play Guy Gardner.

i know people hated this movie but the first half wasnt so bad.

What about green hornet?

I wanted to love the movie so badly, but it ended up being mediocre at best. The film spends way too much time on the origin story and not enough time on action.

At the very very end of "Gravity" a woman behind me sniffed and got up to leave. "Green Lantern was SO much better..." her teenage son mumbled on the way out. They were totally pissed. I wonder what reality they live in.

It's always fun to mention that the guy who made Green Lantern a pile of shit is the same guy that has since made the TV Show Arrow a pile of shit. They even have the same issues. Over-emphasis on romance, playing fast and loose with beloved characters origins and status, and just overall, shitty disjointed writing.

Marc Guggenheim.

I recall watching it when I was sick, as my mom got it from the library to cheer my up (knowing I loved the books), and honestly I just felt worse after watching it.

I want to chant "redo!" Loudly whenever it comes up in conversation

Seeing the movie convinced me to not read the book for 2 or 3 years. Then I did and was retroactively furious.

You must be mistaken, there was never an Eragon movie.

Seriously though it was a fun book series when we were younger but in hindsight it was just a good story very questionably written by an inexperienced 16 year old. Not the greatest material for a film adaptation.

When the movie came out I was really into the books so my family took me to the movie for my birthday. Worst birthday present I've ever gotten, by far.

PS: My mom bought the dvd.

I loved those books as a kid, but when the 4th in the series came out it couldn't get through the second chapter. I had reached a high enough level of education to realize just how poorly written the books were; I wish it was released earlier on so i could have finished it.

I very vaguely remember seeing this movie years ago. I don't remember much about it, nor do I know much about Eragon, but I was assured that his love interest was a hot black-haired elf lady in leather.

The love interest in the movie was not hot, not black-haired, not wearing leather, and barely an elf. I don't know how they botched that but it didn't exactly bode well.

My boss told me he loves the movie. I cringed so hard I think I offended him.

I tried reading those but the writing was so bad I couldn't get through the first couple pages.

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why do directors try to get creative? Just make the movie the same as the book. It cooler seeing the characters and big scenes then to read them.

I saw the movie without knowing anything about the source material and thought it was fine. But after I read the book I realized it was terrible. Probably the worst film adaptation of anything I've ever seen.

Book 3 was an abomination

I want to see Eragon adapted into a series. I think that it would be great for GoT fans to watch with their kids.

I watched this without reading the books cause a friend wanted to go see it. First act of the film: okay your uncle died, sorry. But there are magical dirt assassins trying to kill you. Magical. Dirt. Assassins. YOU. DON'T HAVE TIME TO BUILD A GIANT FUNERAL PYRE AND MAKE A GIANT SMOKE CLOUD THAT SAYS "HERE I AM" TO THE MAGICAL. DIRT. ASSASSINS!!

Never saw the movie, but played the game based on the movie and vowed never to watch that movie

came to say this I'm obviously not the only one!

I loved the movie as a kid. I should probably rewatch it now that I'm 20...

I read that as erdogan. Like the Turkish president and was confused

They fucked up that movie beyond belief. Seems to be a pretty obvious one-time cash grab looking back on it. I wish they would make a Netflix series based on it, I think it could translate well to that format as the pace of the books is pretty slow at times.

What made the movie so bad? I have read all the books but never watched the movie.

I read a rumor that Christopher Paolini is trying to get the movie rights back so he can do it right this time

Yup. Watched it 1st week in the cinema. Wanted to cry seeing how bad it was. It's up there with twilight and minions as the worst movies I went to cinema to watch. May be the worst movie I paid to watch.

My fiance is an Eragon fan. She says the movie is flat out nothing to do with the books except for a few names. That the movie isn't that bad, as long as you can totally separate yourself from any ideas of it being an adaption of the books.

There are books? Are they suitable for adult males to read?

The writer, Christopher Paolini is an active redditor, I don't remember his username though.

Man, these books were beautiful. I read them all maybe a month ago, and man were they great. I can't wrap my head around how many things went so wrong in that movie.

Absolutely terrible. I loved the hell out of the books. Went to watch it in theaters and ended up walking out before it ended.

Hell, the GBA game got more right than the movie did

Probably the only time a movie adaptation ruined an entire series for me, especially since Paolini approved of the film. I got to book two and I haven't given enough of a shit to read the other two books.

As a huge fan of The Dragonriders of Pern I'm glad they never allowed anyone to make a film. It would have been awful.

There's a movie? Glad I have the books and dodged that bullet down the line when it comes up again.

Movie was ok, mangled the book quite a bit though

For the life of me I can't figure out why people think this book is good.

Came here for this answer.

what movie?

There was a movie?

^{We must never mention it for the abomination that it is.}

There's an Eragon film? Are you sure? I'm pretty certain this doesn't exist.

Similarly: Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Incredibly clever books. I would be shocked if the screen writers even finished reading the wikipedia summaries. Completely missed everything cool about the books, from the leading cast to the social commentary to the world building to the humor. The movie was a travesty honestly. It wasn't just bad, it was frankly so bad it was a little insulting.

What movie

I know the books weren't very original... But the movies could have been a decent trilogy. They had the tech to make a great dragon and make the magic convincing... But they decided to just fuck it up.

I spent the whole movie incredulous at how they just skipped huge pieces of the plot.

I never read the books but the movie wasn't that bad to me. Was actually looking forward to a sequel

I don't really remember the movie. I thought I enjoyed it, but I don't remember. I'll have to check it out again.

OMG YES. Absolutely destroyed those books as a kid, then the movie destroyed my hopes and dreams ):

To be fair the books were almost pure plagiarism so I felt that the movie accurately portrayed the overall theme.

I actually enjoyed the movie, the game was FANTASTIC, and the books were amazing. Yeah the movie sucked but it was still fun anyway.

These books where a complete rip off of star wars. It's like the kid watched star wars and then did the same thing with dragons.

YES

I honestly like it. It's an incredibly awful adaptation of the book, but I liked it as a movie.

I'm extremely biased though because DAMN I love dragons.

This movie made me so angry. It just suddenly became about aliens. Wtf? I get angry every time I remember this movie exists.

From what I remember, there was literally no benefit whatsoever in Cage "knowing" anything....the outcome is the same regardless. The people were going to die anyway, and the children would have been saved anyway. Because "it's all destiny" or something....

I admittedly like that movie. I think the beings were actually "angels". The whole saving only the innocent children to start fresh in a new world gave a religious vibe.

I love this movie. Its my guilty pleasure.

It's a 90% movie. The first 90% is really good. If you turn it off before the last 10% it can still be a great movie. I thought Insidious was another great 90% movie.

How about Next?

There were aliens? I guess that means I have successfully repressed most of my memories of it.

We watched this in a silly course I took called "Science in Cinema" or something along those lines. Basically we watched films with some underlying science in them and took turns picking apart all of the mistakes the film made. For example, a goldmine movie was The Day After Tomorrow, and a movie that held up okay was Contagion if I recall correctly.

I liked it a lot until like the last 20 minutes when it got real stupid real fast

Is that the one that implies that Jesus and God and Angels are all aliens?

Not sure if I'm confusing this with another film... but 5 minutes in I said "So... it's about Aliens and a Solar Flare destroying the earth right?"

As soon as a character asks "Are there aliens out there dad?" or whatever, you know they're gonna show up...

That movie terrified me in a way only Black Mirror has been able to since.

The idea of knowing that the world is going to end, and knowing that the only chance your child has to avoid it, is to give them up to some unknown being who you've only encounters with is through prophetic disasters, then the movie gives you just enough time to think about what you would do in that situation.

The Adam/Eve allegory was a little blatant, but it also adds to the idea that maybe this has happened before, since Adam/Eve is a known story in the movie. Don't know if it would've been a better/worse movie if they determined that God or some other spiritual being was behind it all.

I actually liked it. Kinda tied into the pseudoscience and religion

Deus Ex Alienema.

So fucking tired of that shit. Was pretty disappointed when Indiana Jones succumbed to it.

Easily one of the worst movies I've seen. The trailers looked so good but the movie itself was poorly executed.

And then aliens Nic Cage appears.

This a thousand times over. Such a good premise... until aliens.

It was lame. Nic Cage did nothing all movie. It was just him showing up places slightly to late to stop anything from happening.

Ayyyyyyy lmao?

I saw that in theaters with 2 guys I was in the Army with, and we spent the entire time ripping it. We pissed someone off at one point, but the movie kept getting more and more ridiculous.

I feel bad for ruining the guy's good time, but god was that a bad movie

I was just ranting about this movie to a coworker. It was so good up until aliens and weird Christian themes? I'm still mad.

Knowing

even in the trailer, its a macguffin that makes him understand. that made me write it off forever.

swing away

Such stupid bullshit.

Who were the poor kids who didn't get a cute fluffy bunny or the like. Some kids had to bring blue whales or grizzly bears.

I thought the exact thing about 10 Cloverfield Lane. Great until aliens showed up...

I had a bad feeling about Valerion when they spent months hyping it up but never actually showed us what the hell it was about. All I know is that it's sci-fi and Rihanna's in it (who knows for how long) with hair that changes colour.

In the spring, my husband and I saw a trailer for Valerian and it was intro'd by the main 2 stars as "Hi, we're Actor and Actress, from the summer blockbuster Valerian, and blah blah blah.." At the same time, my husband and I whispered, "How do you know it's a blockbuster if it's not even out yet?!" Yeah... wishful thinking on their part.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Yawns.

I wanted to love this so bad, but yeah, every day that goes by since I watched it seems worse. What was the point of the love-interest? It was so unnecessary.

Honestly my only problem with it was that these two top notch agents literally looked like they were 15

I just thought it looked too similar to Jupiter Ascending and decided I wasn't watching based off of that. Seems like I made a good choice.

What was so bad about it? I thought it was a pretty fun movie, but to be fair I'm very easily entertained

It's kinda sad since it's based off a French comic that is very much worth checking out. And an adaptation has been in development hell for decades and we get this..

My enjoyment level of Valerian would have been 100% unchanged if I wore earplugs throughout the whole thing.

And there trailers were highlighting the scenery if I remember correctly as one of the best parts

I haven't seen it, but the pre release scenes were terribly boring. A robot voice going on for 5 minutes about this wonderful world (what happened to show not tell?) while two pretty actors who don't seem to be able to emote sat And looked blankly at each other.

I still don't understand how that movie wasn't animated. By all rights it should have been an animated feature film, and it probably would have been great in that form. Every time I saw a trailer or clip or screenshot from it, I kept thinking, "This would look great animated".

Is it that bad? :(

I wanted to go with gf to watch it last weekend, but ended up passing it.

I actually think it might have been the worst film I've ever seen. It was just Such a waste of time.