I'm trying to remember the name of a movie I watched a while back, but I can't for the life of me remember it. Which is bad, as I rented it intentionally! There are some things I remember about it that, if anyone else has seen it, should easily identify it:
Set in the future
It is a french movie
An alien ship comes to earth, the head of these aliens takes the form of Osiris
There's this special girl with blue hair that plays an important part in the plot (I forget what, exactly)
Osiris recruits this dude, I think he's a detective or something, and turns one of his legs to metal
There is some nudity including a sex scene with the metal-legged dude and the blue haired chick and then with Osiris and the blue haired chick (or maybe it was Osiris possessing the metal-legged dude)
The blue-haired chick was French but for whatever reason was made to say all her lines in English
There is some sort of medical-government thingy and the blue haired chick is important to them
At the end of the movie the chick has shaved her hair and is seen on the Eiffel Tower observation deck with a baby
IIRC the entire movie is filmed with the actors in front of a green screen and everything else is CGI.
That's the best my fuzzy mind can remember at the moment. The cover of the DVD had the blue-haired chick on it, with some blue make-up under her eye with the alien's pyramid-ship on it and the future city. I hope someone recognizes this movie, its driving me nuts!
Posted by Chris (Member # 71) on :
D'oh! A quick search of Wikipedia and the answer is found. Stupid me. Oh well. Maybe other people will want to see it now!
UBB code won't let me post the link. The movie is Immortel (Ad Vitam).
Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
Yeeeesss. Wikipedia is your friend..... your friend.....
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
For a second there I thought you were describing The Fifth Element. Of course that's silly because that film is totally different...coz the chick had red hair. Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I saw that movie Ultraviolet yesterday and the chick in that movie had hair which changed a whole bunch of colors, still sucked though.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Chris: D'oh! A quick search of Wikipedia and the answer is found. Stupid me. Oh well. Maybe other people will want to see it now!
UBB code won't let me post the link. The movie is Immortel (Ad Vitam).
Another "Music Video Without Music Movie" that looks amazing but sucks total ass- zero plot, bad acting and poor interaction with the obviously CGI everything around the actors.
Even worse than Fifth Element.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
oh come on....you KNOW you liked Willis' "Anyone else want to negotiate?"
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Who doesn't love Ruby Rod?
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Super-green!
(it's also my Mum's favourite movie of all time)
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
Multi-pass!
...Which game are we playing?
P.S. Anything with Gary Oldman in it is automatically not crap.
Posted by Chris (Member # 71) on :
Maybe I just have horrible taste in movies, but I actually quite like The Fifth Element. So Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
The lack of any plot kills it for me- all the performances are good (well, not Mila J's but she knew zero english back then)- it's just the lame-ass "TEH EVIL IS COMING!!!" idiocy that bugs me. None of the bad guys have any motivation to their actions, particularly not TEH EVIL that is coming from space to...er....destroy things? Ruin their credit? Borrow money?
Yeah....something.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Yeah, they never explained how it could communicate with Zorg or why it dripped motor oil on his forehead. Blood would've been more logical, but none of the other blood in the movie looked like that.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
But it was black blood because it was EVIL!
I think that movie has started to become one of those cult hits that never really did well in the theater, but a lot of people like it. Of course, TNT's constant showing of it may have something to do with that. Personally, I think it's just a fun movie with lots of eye candy.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: The lack of any plot kills it for me- all the performances are good (well, not Mila J's but she knew zero english back then)- it's just the lame-ass "TEH EVIL IS COMING!!!" idiocy that bugs me. None of the bad guys have any motivation to their actions, particularly not TEH EVIL that is coming from space to...er....destroy things? Ruin their credit? Borrow money?
Yeah....something.
That's a good point. This movie was basically a precursor to Armageddon: Giant object headed toward Earth and it's up to Bruce Willis to save the day.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
It's a french comic book movie, plot logic isn't to be expected when you have a 1/3 naked chick strolling around a high rise ledge and an ex-special agent driving a taxi.
Besides, you don't need a plot to have a good film, just look at Blade Runner, or Ghost in the Shell...ok, maybe not, those do have plots, they just don't dwell on them too much.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
What are you talking about, Blade Runner focused greatly on its plot. You know Replicants.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Only in the dective/voiceover version (which is waaay better than the artsy/boring crapola "Director's Cut").
Ghost In The Shell had a plot, but there was sooo much stuff to digest and look at that you need to watch the movie a few times to really follow it. Stand Alone Complex is far superior though.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
I've actually never seen the voice over version of Blade Runner, only the director's cut.
I seam to recall a huge chunk in the middle of GiTS that was just the Major wandering around the canals discussing philosophy with Bato on the boat. I know the plot is complex and everything, I just didn't feel the film felt like it had to pay attention to it, that is the "plot" about the ghost hacks & the puppet master felt more like background action in an odd way.
Same thing goes for Blade Runner, or at least the version I've seen.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Really- go get yourself the new (or possibly not-yet-released) DVD with both versions of Blade Runner. The voiceover makes for this cool detective film noir that matches the dark atmosphere of the movie and helps tremendously with the film's pacing.
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: The voiceover makes for this cool detective film noir that matches the dark atmosphere of the movie and helps tremendously with the film's pacing.
!, !, & ?!?
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
Do you have a problem with that sentence? I think it sums it up very nice, and I like the Film Noir angle of the regular version.
Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Really- go get yourself the new (or possibly not-yet-released) DVD with both versions of Blade Runner. The voiceover makes for this cool detective film noir that matches the dark atmosphere of the movie and helps tremendously with the film's pacing.
It's being released in March I think, and yes I'm planning on getting it, mostly for the new cut though. To be honest I haven't heard many good things about the theatrical cut so I've really not bothered looking for it.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 24) on :
From the BR FAQ:
quote: Ridley Scott made BR in a style called "film noir". Film noir is the "hardboiled detective" style of story-telling, perhaps the most famous example is the Humphrey Bogart movie "The Maltese Falcon" (directed by John Huston). A characteristic of film noir is the voice-overs by the detective, explaining what he is thinking/doing at the time.
Having said that, it is interesting to note that Ridley Scott originally made BR without the voice-overs, but due to it's poor reception when sneak previewed, the studio insisted that the voice-overs be added. Ridley Scott has said in an interview on American television that in film noir, voice-overs sometimes work, and sometimes don't, and they didn't work in BR.
"(A)n extensive voice-over was added to help people relate to Harrison Ford's character and make following the plot easier. (A)fter a draft by novelist- screenwriter Darryl Ponicsan was discarded, a TV veteran named Roland Kibbee got the job. As finally written, the voice-over met with universal scorn from the filmmakers, mostly for what Scott characterized as its 'Irving the Explainer' quality.... It sounded so tinny and ersatz that, in a curious bit of film folklore, many members of the team believe to this day that Harrison Ford, consciously or not, did an uninspired reading of it in the hopes it wouldn't be used. And when co-writers Fancher and Peoples, now friends, saw it together, they were so afraid the other had written it that they refrained from any negative comments until months later." [Source: Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 13, 1992]
The ending of the film was also changed by the studio. Scott wanted to end the film with Deckard and Rachael getting into the elevator, but the studio decided that the film needed a happier, less ambiguous ending. The aerial landscape photography used in the theatrical release was outtakes from Stanley Kubrik's The Shining (which, coincidentally, starred Joe Turkel).
In 1992, Ridley Scott released a "Director's Cut" of Blade Runner (BRDC), which eliminates the voice-overs and the happy ending. This version is discussed in more detail below.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
Again I'm not being Geek-cool here but I watched both versions on TV here a year or two ago - they played the narrated version on Friday and the Director's cut the next. I preferred the narrated version. Maybe I just like happy endings.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I saw Immortal yesterday on Sci-Fi. It was okay. The fx were good but the plot made no real sense.
Posted by Chris (Member # 71) on :
Yeah, the plot is a little WTF? ish. I think I might watch it again to see if I can get more out of it.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
N-no! Chris, don't!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
IT'S A TRAP!!! Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Chris will get that shield down, he needs more time!
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