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David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sun Dec 8 15:30:01 UTC 2019


Fifth Element was pure camp, which is the opposite of pretentious.

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 9:08 AM Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:

> It's been a long time since I watched the movie. I remember an
> incredibly annoying gay character, a shoot-out that was filmed in a
> rather amateurish way (at least from the perspective of someone used to
> the masterful style of John Woo), a riddle the answer to which was
> obvious to the viewer five minutes before the protagonists came up with
> it...
>
> I found it pretentious and empty and not much fun. It was certainly nice
> to look at.
>
> I was unfair to Lars von Trier. After "Dancer in the Dark" I swore that
> I would never watch another von Trier movie. So perhaps he has done
> something worthwhile since then. I wouldn't know.
>
>
>
> Am 08.12.2019 um 13:39 schrieb Jochen Stremmel:
> > What's there to hate about The Fifth Element?
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