This or Dune?
Which gets award for the most spectacularly campy and elaborately awful film?
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"Fifth Element" has some cool stuff in it, while "Dune" has such a gaping absence of merit that it can even make a Bruce Willis movie look good.
There's nothing awful about The Fifth Element. Can't say that about the movie version of Dune. Really? Sting!? "I WILL kill him!" Beyond camp. Kitsch. Though The Third Element was saddled with the vomitous vocal stylings and alleged acting of Chris Tucker (all together now: "Who??), it was directed by Luc Besson, who had the good taste and sense to marry the film's leading lady, Mulla Jovavich, an achievement that drives MC's "Alice" to *ahem* "abuse" himself daily, if not hourly, and which has the classic home-theater system Diva demo
scene. Plus it's about an hour shorter than Dune.
The interesting question is not "This or Dune", but "Fifth Element" vs. "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets".
Both are kind of cool movies which are seriously handicapped by annoying lead actors, which wastes more of its potential?
I like your implicit notion of just ignoring Dune The Movie altogether, but I’ve yet to see Valarien etc., which I hope comes to premium cable soon. I want to see it. I’m in the minority, in that I actually like Cara Delevinge a lot. Milla Jovovich is more physically dynamic, and I applaud her. Cara, to me, is FAR more seductive, and that trumps dynamism. The male lead in Valarien seems to be the standard-in-this-era kappa male (male? really? girly-man, video-game-playing, no-real-Y- chromosom-having, um, BOY male? That one?), so he’s a nonentity. So I’d like to see this movie for one-half of its lead cast. Expectations not high; but I’ve sat through worse.
I expect that Fifth Element, the execrable Chris Tucker and his undescended-testicles girly-voice notwithstanding, will out.
I do recommend "Valerian" to anyone tho likes "5th Element", because those are the people who are most likely to appreciate the good qualities if "Valerian".
But I do have to warn you, the lead actor is just as bad and "kapoa male" as you fear, he's completely miscast. Cara D. isn't much better, and she's kinda out seductive'd by Rhianna and a CGI alien princess. Still, I liked the movie, in spite of the miscasting.