Films reflect the society we live in. With Avatar, James Cameron had a plan. Create multi-sequels and he could profit inside, and outside the doors of the movie theaters. When IMDb still had the forum open, I had said that James Cameron had a lot of endless sequels to be able to release in the next few years.
Avatar fans called me, crazy and last August, Cameron announced 4 sequels to Avatar. Oh, Disney has plans to open parks with Avatar as its theme. I was right. With Avatar, Cameron wants to be the new Lucas. What does this have to do with Valerian? It's very simple, Valerian, you could call Valeria: The other Avatar, or how I'm Going to Try a New Franchise, with Endless sequels. The strategy is the same. With the end of the series Taken, EuropaCorp had as a new franchise to replace and create endless sequels, based on a French comic. The same strategy Cameron is doing with Avatar, different source material. Same limited thinking. Instead of creating one movie, thinking first about the quality of the scripts and the story, you want to tell, but no, the goal is to create sequels to appeal to the public as if people were addicted to drugs so that they do not stop giving them the money. Without stopping to think about the quality of the film. The result is a forgettable movie, which everyone forgets, because there is no quality, and the film is forgotten.
Here, it's the same story of fairy tales, with a handsome boy, a beautiful girl, who in the end get together. The guy, who wants to destroy a planet, race or universe, and the improvised hero has to stop the evil guy. Same holes in the script, forced situations, idiotic humor, forced romance. All this wrapped by a special effects gift wrap, which in a couple of years, get old.
That to begin with, the stories of these movies have never been adult-quality stories, just for kids or adults who refuse to grow up. But we have the good side, Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets was a flop at the box office. Let's hope the same goes for the Avatar sequels. And the movies directors begin to think of one film at a time, first in script and story and special effects as an aid to tell the story and not as the sole and most important focus of the film itself, just to feed the directors' ego.
Avatar fans called me, crazy and last August, Cameron announced 4 sequels to Avatar. Oh, Disney has plans to open parks with Avatar as its theme. I was right. With Avatar, Cameron wants to be the new Lucas. What does this have to do with Valerian? It's very simple, Valerian, you could call Valeria: The other Avatar, or how I'm Going to Try a New Franchise, with Endless sequels. The strategy is the same. With the end of the series Taken, EuropaCorp had as a new franchise to replace and create endless sequels, based on a French comic. The same strategy Cameron is doing with Avatar, different source material. Same limited thinking. Instead of creating one movie, thinking first about the quality of the scripts and the story, you want to tell, but no, the goal is to create sequels to appeal to the public as if people were addicted to drugs so that they do not stop giving them the money. Without stopping to think about the quality of the film. The result is a forgettable movie, which everyone forgets, because there is no quality, and the film is forgotten.
Here, it's the same story of fairy tales, with a handsome boy, a beautiful girl, who in the end get together. The guy, who wants to destroy a planet, race or universe, and the improvised hero has to stop the evil guy. Same holes in the script, forced situations, idiotic humor, forced romance. All this wrapped by a special effects gift wrap, which in a couple of years, get old.
That to begin with, the stories of these movies have never been adult-quality stories, just for kids or adults who refuse to grow up. But we have the good side, Valerian and the City of Thousand Planets was a flop at the box office. Let's hope the same goes for the Avatar sequels. And the movies directors begin to think of one film at a time, first in script and story and special effects as an aid to tell the story and not as the sole and most important focus of the film itself, just to feed the directors' ego.