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Dean (6927 KP) rated Blue beetle (2023) in Movies

Aug 27, 2023  
Blue beetle (2023)
Blue beetle (2023)
2023 | Action, Adventure
7
7.3 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
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Ok Super Hero Film
Yet another Super Hero Film of a character you've probably never heard of. Bit more of a comic element to it. Although predictable the family element of the film brings the most humour to it. The SFX look good with some cool action scenes. Maybe not in the A Team category of Super Hero's it's fun enough.
  
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David McK (3874 KP) rated The City of Shifting Waters (Valérian and Laureline, #1) in Books

Jan 28, 2019  
The City of Shifting Waters (Valérian and Laureline, #1)
The City of Shifting Waters (Valérian and Laureline, #1)
Pierre Christin | 2010
4
5.3 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Like many others, I'm sure, I first only heard of Valerian as a result of the absolutely-bonkers 2017 movie 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'.

Reading the interviews with the stars that came out at around about that time, I learnt that Valerian was actually a French comic, and that it had influenced elements of the really-rather-fun Bruce Willis flick 'The Fifth Element'. I caught Valerian when it showed up on Netflix and, while it was OK, it wasn't really anything special.

When I saw this comic given away as a freebie on Comixology, I thought I would give it a try: I don't know what I was expecting (something closer to the movie?), but this most definitely wasn't it!

This is set largely in the (then) future of the mid-80s, where the world is in ruins and New York is about to be swallowed by the ocean. Valerian and Laureline are both time-travelers, who must travel back to this period of their history: a period in which little is known about, a sort-of second Dark Ages.

This comic does show it's age, particularly in it's treatment of Laureline (who doesn't seem to really do all that much) and in Sun Rae: truth be told, it just never really gripped me at all.