Fifth Element, The (1997)

Gender and the fifth element

  • I'm a male and i like the fifth element

    Votes: 23 53.5%

  • I'm a female and i like the fifth element

    Votes: 16 37.2%

  • I'm a male and i don't like the fifth element

    Votes: 2 4.7%

  • I'm a female and i don't like the fifth element

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Total voters
    43
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

Hi, my name's Naomi & I love this film. Nuff said.

Action, comedy, slick design, cool concepts ... anyone not connect Leeloo with the Da Vinci Code? Regeneration from a ... hand wasn't it? Cool.
Jumping off a building and landing in the back of a flying taxi? Cool. The auto-wash? Cool. The pre-packaged micro-wave Kingly meals? Cool ... need I go on?
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

I loved it, absolutely fantastic, I think it was directed by Luc Besson who, I think, also directed "Leon". Gary Oldman stars in both, an actor who, as Paige Turner has already stated, is ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE. Also, note the comparisons between Willis's character(5th El') and Reno's (Leon), both seem to accept what there lot is all about until they meet the "little girl lost" in both cases.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

Paradox 99 said:
I've always loved the film. I'm not too keen on the comedy element, but the story is interesting, it's well produced and I'm easy to please. Show me spaceships and monsters and invariably, I'm happy.:)
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I really liked this one as well. though i am kind of in Paradox99 camp, so sci-fi usualy keeps me happy. and i did like the comedy in it.:D
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

One of my favorite movies. Not really in the top ten but definitely in my top 20.
A different type of movie and I ahve always thought it was extremely entertaining.

If you get the collectors edition dvd it has film facts throughout it and there where a lot of things I picked up on but did not realize how intentional they were.

Cool stuff

*snow*
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

I love the film. Probably because I like kick ass female characters - instead of being weak little love interests. Also because it's science fiction ;). Why did girls like it more than fellas? Hmmm strong female character? Costumes by Jean Paul Gautier (sp)? I don't really know! I really like the music myself.

It's just a fun movie
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

steve12553 said:
Read the poll. It was split down the middle by gender. This group is not a bunch of cavemen (although I don't hold a prejudice against them)*
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I was just responding to the comments by the original poster! I noticed that it was split down the middle there.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

purple_kathryn said:
I love the film. Probably because I like kick ass female characters - instead of being weak little love interests. Also because it's science fiction ;). Why did girls like it more than fellas? Hmmm strong female character? Costumes by Jean Paul Gautier (sp)? I don't really know! I really like the music myself.
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There wasn't really one reason for why they loved it. Music i think is def a factor - most of my girl mates (and tbh me as well) always go on about the diva dance scene. Absolutly amazing. Think with some of them they also like it because its not serious sci-fi. I shall make further enquiries :)
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

It started out good, but got too ridiculous and absurd later on.
Still worth seeing though
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

I remember only seeing the trailer on Entertainment Tonight and thought it looked ridiculous, but when I rented it when it first came to VHS, it's been one of my favorites ever since.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

hui don' lake hit...
i felt so much more could have been done with it. just disapointing.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

Definitley enjoyed that look of it, the action and the characters but I also saw plenty of missed opportunities. The Diva song was a big let down because it when I saw her I was expecting to hear music unlike I've never heard, instead it was just a lame disco opera thing. The Rai/Salasa fusion by Khaled in the beginning of the movie was very appropriate. I enjoy dusting this movie off about once every three years. I would love to see that design team with work with really good writers.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

I liked it
As long as your not expecting a in depth film you won't be be too disappointed.
Milla .........ummmmm....:rolleyes: nice.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

This is a great film and I've watched it a few times now. I like it because:

It's a lot of fun
Leeloo
It's got some good action but it's all tongue-in-cheek
It has a blue opera singer with lots of tentacles and a great voice (she's a real opera singer but I can't remember her name)
Leeloo
Gary Oldman is great as the villain
It has a spaceliner and a space hotel which I'd rather like to have a holiday on/in
Leeloo
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

The first time I saw The Fifth Element, I didn't like it because it was silly.

The second time I saw The Fifth Element, I liked it because I realised it was meant to be silly :)

I still like it.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

iansales said:
The second time I saw The Fifth Element, I liked it because I realised it was meant to be silly :)
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This works for me.

It's one of my favourite films. I really like the whole Euro-SF style which you don't get to see in movies very often. It owes a lot (well almost everything) to (continental) European Sci-Fi comics which have a very different style and tone to the way SF developed in the UK and US. Because of that there are a lot over-the-top elements and a lot of it plays out as a farce which is really alien to a lot of people and not what they expect in a big SF blockbuster.
 
Re: The fifth element - do you like it?

Love the movie! It's grandiose and yet funny. It doesn't take itself seriously. Funny sci-fi is hard to do; i don't know of many others.

It has everything! Supreme Beings, Ultimate Evil, good and bad aliens, kick-ass boys and girls, a garbage strike, Chinese food, an annoying mother... i never get tired of this film.
 
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