i like leeloo.
Senno Ekto Gamat!
Also one of MY favorites!!! This was a fun movie. Much to the dismay of my co-workers at the time, I said, “Super Green” so much their ears bled.
I think one of my favorite scenes in the whole flick was the bit about negotiations…
Korben Dallas: We need to find the leader, Mangalores won’t fight without the leader.
Aknot: One more shot, and we start killing hostages!
Korben Dallas: That’s the leader.
Aknot: Send someone to negotiate.
Fog: Uh, I-I’ve never negotiated before.
Korben Dallas: Do you mind if I try?
Fog: No, sure, sure, sure.
Fog: We’re sending somebody in to negotiate!
[Corben walks into the room and shoots Aknot between the eyes. As he falls, the other Mangalores drop their weapons and bow over him, keening]
Korben Dallas: Anybody else want to negotiate?
Fog: Wh-where did he learn to n-negotiate like that?
President Lindberg: [looking at General Munro] I wonder.
Frakken Sweet!
what does senno ekto gamat mean?
uh, uh, never without permission, why?
when i first saw this movie i was convinced that in the end, chris tucker was gonna open his stone because he was so flaming!
I loved Chris Tucker in this movie!
OmigodomigodomigodCorbinmymanCorbinmymanomigod!
Oh I know, I mean how can anyone like this…
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…wait, did you say you LIKED this movie? As in enjoyed it? As in didn’t want to gouge out your own eyes and impale yourself on a rusty spork every time Chris Tucker came on screen and started speaking at a pitch only dogs can hear?
Seriously?
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Well…I think this may be a personal challenge for me to go and rewatch using the “variable suspension of disbelief” Sean technique.
I wanted to like this movie. I really did. I think the main problem is exactly what the GWC guys are talking about in podcast #66, but slightly different. I wanted a hard-core kick-ass serious Blade Runner meets Die Hard, and what I got was Ice Pirates meets Police Academy. I wanted serious and was force fed campy and I resented the movie for it.
I respect you guys, so I am forced to reconsider my position. I promise to rewatch this with an open mind and altered suspension of disbelief.
My friend sums up my way of thinking in a dead-pan hysterical MEGA SPOILER of the movie.
[spoiler](total deadpan voice)Yeah, the Fifth Element? Craaaaaaapy movie. You want to know what the fifth element is? Love. Love is the fifth element. So not kidding. Love.[/spoiler]
I say almost the same thing about The Fifth Element that I say about the various Resident Evil movies.
- It has spaceships, aliens and explosions.
- It has Milla Jovovich
What, it needs a plot that makes sense or something too? 
But, if you can’t quite get through the movie on your own, maybe these people can help.
I first saw previews of the film when I was in France a few years ago and it was very, very good in my view. I did not find it campy but a bit more serious than one would expect. The humor was necessary because otherwise the whole story would just have been extremely depressing, dark, and unwatchable.
I’m sorry, Solai. I really am. I should probably hate this movie. You give a Frenchman $80,000,000 and he spends it on costumes. I’m not a Bruce Willis fan, the movie ends too abruptly, it’s full of camp, Chris Tucker screams relentlessly, Milla Jojovovich’s (sp?) costume was hot but ridiculous, the Fifth Element reveal was anticlimactic, Luke Perry’s cameo was WTF? But…I dunno. I wasn’t in love with it the first time I saw it, but every time I’ve seen it since, I smile and get a bigger kick out of it. Even Chris Tucker.
I can’t really say too many bad things about it, cause all I can think is John McClane. And Half neckid Mila jovovich. How could it go wrong, well okay it went a little wrong,
but “colourfull” well all like colours right?
Gary Oldman Well okay he was a little off and by a little I mean a lot.
But Pretty Colours???
All in all it was good enough, cause did I mention the whole Space die hard thing?
I love this movie it is just a ton of fun to watch. Chris Tucker can be hit or miss but I thought he was funny in this. Gary Oldman is a great actor this wasn’t his best movie but he was sufficiently creepy. I liked the special effects especially the scene where they rebuild Mila from the little chunk that was left after her ship was destroyed.
I’ll just say, whent the GF and I were first dating, I came across this puppy on UHF. I saw Leeloo with her hair and bandageware on a ledge and called the GF so we could figure out WTF was going on.
Yeah, lame ending. But if that was a problem, I wouldn’t read half of the authors I do (coughnealstephensoncough)
hey guys, heck out the imdb trivia page for this movie, there is a lot of cool stuff, including:
digital domain used a lot of personal info and ‘in-jokes’ in the bg of all the nyc sfx. Including, putting their names on the cars, putting the digital domain logo on all kinds of stuff, and funny license plates.
the ballroom explosion is was the largest indoor explosion ever and nearly got out of control
the hair dye used on leeloo destroyed her hair so they had to switch to a wig.
read it, soooo much more.
This film was so post-modern . . .
I liked when the IanHolm knocked out Dallas and then the Dallas wakes up and uses this statue of a crucifix or whatever to get himself up . . . hilarious.
I like Bruce Willis. I like Luc Besson. I like Gary Oldman. And I like Mila Jovovich. The movie was also beautifully shot, edited, art directed, and costumed. Yeah, it’s a bit cheesy at times, and it’s got that quirky french sense of humour, but hey, if you can roll with it, The Fifth Element is a fun ride. One of my favourite movies.
“That’s a very nice hat.”
“You like it?!?!?”
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I bought it. Twice. I’d do it again.
'nuff said.
Agreed.
I didn’t buy it, but it was really entertaining. I still like watching it here and there.
Luc Besson wants to “return to scifi” and “make what he describes as The Fifth Element to the power of ten”! (so…The 9,765,625th Element?)
http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured/posts/the-morning-read-october-13-2010
(heh, of course they’d use the multipass photo). Either way, woohoo!
One of my favorite movies, and one of the three sci fi movies that my mom likes and we can bond over. Even if I didn’t like it on its own merits, I’d like it for that alone. It was hard being the only geek in a non-geek family sometimes.