We explore the world in the movie "The Fifth Element", below are our show notes. Thank you for listening!!

Intro

Hi I’m Brad and I’m Steve and this is BS movie critics

Ok, so this is how it's gonna work. We are going to first talk about:

1. The first time we saw this movie
   1. Age
   2. First impressions
2. Compare movie to other Same year releases
   1. Cgi
   2. Popularity
   3. How it held up compared to the other movies mentioned here (aged)
3. Favorite quotes
4. Burning questions about the movie that we want more info on

Episode hook

The potential acting selections were Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, and Prince. What Movie you may ask………The Fifth Element.  Matthew Jackson https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/little-known-sci-fi-fact-fifth-elements-three-original-stars “

 (explain what we are doing in the podcast or what we plan to do with it)

Compare Movie to Era

Fifth Element released May 9 1997         #4

Notable 1997 Releases: (sorted by popularity)

1. Titanic                                [Dec. 19]      #1
2. Good Will Hunting               [Jan. 9]        #2
3. Men In Black                      [Jul. 2]         #3
4. Starship Troopers            [Nov. 7]        #5
5. Batman & Robin                  [Jun. 20]      #6
6. The Devil's Advocate       [Oct. 17]      #7
7. Hercules                              [Jun. 27]      #8
8. Austin Powers                     [May 2]        #10
9. Lost World: Jurassic Park   [May 23]      #11
10. Con Air                                [Jun. 6]        #12

*bold movies feature heavy cgi use for comparisons

* #9 was Jackie Brown (most popular)

https://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=feature&year=1997-01-01,1997-12-31

1st watch to Last watch

Puppets look worse now

Absolutely love the Divas’ song with LeeLoo kicking butt

They say perfect a lot in this movie

How the movie has aged

Steve- i feel about 70% of the movie has aged well, the music has the 90’s vibe and the tech involved is what drives the percentage down. Otherwise works well now.

I feel like the use of cgi in this film didn't ask for too much. Most of it is used to create solid non-elastic objects (buildings, cars, ships) [not characters] which is way easier to render. When they rebuilt Leelo from her hand, the cgi didn't have to move, and when they got to the harder parts to create, like her skin and hair, they cover her and then reveal with the live actor on the other side. So I feel like t