I already have it and it doesn’t usually drop down often. This is a good price - the normal blu ray version is $24 on Amazon.
CamelCamelCamel.
Remaster fortunately.
4K scan of the original 35mm negative. DV as well. Noice.
Always nice when they do some actual work on a re-release.
Think I will stick with the bluray though as I can't even remember the last time I watched this.
Easily Luc Besson's finest work, and one of the best sci-fi movies of the modern era.
I was going to say. Underrated film which can be enjoyed by all ages.
Along with Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys which is probably less suitable for kids but still a classic.
Agree, 2 of my favorites…
Definitely on my top movies list, which also includes:
Elm St, Aliens 2, Jurassic Park, T2, Martian, Shawshank, 300, Ironman, Snatch, Groundhog, 40yo Virgin, Borat, Toy Story 3, WallE.
…readers, what's on your Best Movies (or most rewatchable one) ??
@Kangal: I have a daughter and unfortunately the most watched movie in my household is frozen. On a positive note, if i ever get on who wants to be a millionaire, ill ace the frozen related questions.
@Kangal: True Lies
Total Recall
Commando
Die Hard 1 & 2
Fifth Element
Coming to America
Top Gun
Days of Thunder
Terminator 1 & 2
This is but a taste! So many great movies that I can watch and never get tired of. Notice that they're not recent…
@vinnycol: I watched Revolver a year or so ago. I think it's one of the less well known Guy Ritchie films. It was a wild ride and I enjoyed it.
Just wanted to say. Watched 12 Monkeys again, but this time had not watched it since the pandemic started. It definitely hit me differently.
Sorry, I didn't like it as much.
A bit too over the top for me.
I hated it. I loved Milla though. The Professionals is way better.
Yes I think this and the Big Blue (not the directors cut) were pretty good.
Leon: The Professional is also on sale, which is also a great film.
You read my cart.
Best to watch this with "No women, no kids!"
I haven't been able to enjoy Leon or any of his other movies since finding out about this.
"Besson's second wife was actress and director Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he started dating when he was 31 and she was 15. They married in late 1992 when Le Besco, 16, was pregnant with their daughter Shanna, who was born on 3 January 1993. Le Besco later claimed that their relationship inspired Besson's film Léon (1994), where the plot involved the emotional relationship between an adult man and a 12-year-old girl."
Guess you also can't enjoy anything the Weinstein Company produced? Or starred Kevin Spacey? Etc etc et al…not a criticism, just an observation that art in the form of film is more the sum of its contributors rather than an individual.
I try to separate the art from the artist when I can but the story of that particular film being based on that relationship is pretty wild.
@alcadive: Warning, slight spoilers: True, but the claim is a bit weak. In the movie Mathilda seems to be emotionally interested with Leon, but it is not implied that the feelings are mutual. I have always interpreted that Leon only wanted the protect an orphan while the child had a father-figure crush on him.
@bio: Also true. Your point prompted me to check the source of that Wikipedia passage and apparently the original script went a bit further.
"Maïwenn Le Besco (she plays a bit part in the film, a prostitute) who was married to Besson for a time, says in the same featurette that Leon is about her relationship with Besson. She says they met while she was still an adolescent, and eventually they started dating when she was fifteen. Still, the relationship in the film stays 'innocent’ (as well as frankly a bit icky). The 'making of’ reveals that at the urgings of Portman and her very protective parents, some of Besson’s more 'extreme’ beats concerning the film’s central relationship were excised at script stage; like a scene where Leon accidentally walks in on Mathilda as she takes a shower (he’s embarrassed, she’s oblivious!)."
Multipass
Negative; I am a meat popsicle.
Big badaboom
The best line
Super green!
Anybody else want to negotiate?
I really like your hat
Bzzzzzzzzzzz!
SBS ran this for 24 hours of programming once and you'd think after watching it four times in a row, watching the Fifth would be a chore but you'd be wrong.
Yep, although it is not a one off. Every May 5th since at least 2019 SBS have hosted a marathon for The Fifth Element.
May the Fifth Element day…. is it better than May the Fourth day :D
neat. No joke I don't think i've watched tv since, must've been 2019/2020 when I tuned in.
May it continue!
I was in central London with some mates; and they went into Ronnie Scotts which I couldn't afford, so I said go on without me. It was about 1:30am. I thought I could simply catch public transport home.
Unfortunately, the Tube closes around 1am (at least it did then) and the night bus schedule didn't stretch to my locale.
What to do, (almost) penniless and alone in the middle of the night in London, waiting for the day bus schedule to resume at 6am?
I stood in front of HMV, which had a big screen TV playing The Fifth Element on loop.
There was no audio, but it didn't matter, I knew every line already.
I will always fondly remember my 2.5 silent re-watches of this classic even as I stood alone in Piccadilly Circus.
Geez…good mates.
One of the movies that if you stumble upon it channel surfing, you need to watch it to the end.
For those playing at home, the regular price is $40.76.
I was looking at this edition which is apparently pretty good from the reviews! Unfortunately, the biggest complaint is that there are no special features at all on this edition.
Absolute cracker.
This film has been reissued and remastered on Blu Ray so many times that it's hard to keep track of what version you have and whether or not you should upgrade.
Yeah I will have to check my Linux ISO to see what version I have….
Already have it so I'll have to multipass …
Multipass?
She knows it's a multipass!
Looks like you can get an extra 8% if you buy two - consider Leon or V for Vendetta.
The Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/The World's End) which comes to $33 isn't bad either as a second title.
UK discs works here?
Yes
4K UHD Blu Ray are not region locked.
Big Bada Boom
Now I feel like getting out the copy I have and watching it again…. 4K and Dolby everything, visually and aurally a masterpiece.
Korben… K-K-Korben, my man, I have no fire. I have no matches…
I have no nothing!
I don't get the hype. Maybe i need to watch it again now I'm older.
Cultureless Philistine has entered the chat
In the same boat, I have a feeling ill like it a lot next time round.
Chicken, good
We still say that to this day.
Anywhere to stream?
Yeah probably plenty of places will stream this classic, it was made in 1997.
I just checked it's available on Stan and free to watch on SBS on demand.
According to Flicks.com.au it's only available to stream on SBS, and available to buy on a bunch of services. CompareTV.com.au says it's on Stan too.
"and available to buy on a bunch of services."
For some reason when I read the comment "Anywhere to stream?" I instantly only included "streaming services". Maybe I don't have a good understanding of the definition.
Paying to watch it was not considered streaming to me. Like how a "stream" of water just flows naturally and without a pay wall.
I just thought if you already have Stan, great you can watch it there. You don't? SBS On demand is your only choice but it might have ad breaks.
Not sure how to word it better, but paying to watch something can nearly be done anywhere. But asking for "stream" specific recommendations to me sounds like "convenience" is implied.
Yeah this is why I hate the Prime Video app, they keep shoving paid stuff in your face, even other streaming apps.
Just wait until 5th May (5/5). Last couple of years SBS played the 5th element back to back from midday to midnight.
JustWatch is your friend:
https://www.justwatch.com/au/movie/the-fifth-element
Also search on YouTube. Someone seems to have uploaded the full movie.
Green? SUPERGREEN
This movie definitely has a cult following, I haven't seen it in decades and don't remember it being that good… Looking forward to proving my past self very wrong.
There's a few movies that I rewatch every year or 2. This is one of them. Also Aliens.
GIMEEEEE DA CASSSSSHHHHH
"Been here long?" "Yeah, long enough. C'mon now give me da cashhhhhhhh!"
Aaaaahaaahahaha What do you mean its not loaded?!
You gotta press that little red button…
One of those 4K releases that were locally a limited run and exclusive to a retailer (JB Hi-Fi). Now it is only available overseas.
To buy, or not to buy… Hmm…
4K market access is shizen in Australia, frustrating as a willing consumer
"Korben sweetheart, what was that? It was BAD! It had no fire, no energy, no nothing! Y'know I got a Show to run here, and it must pop POP POP!"
Yes!!! Purchased. Thx OP.
Aziz lights!!
Much better thank you Aziz…
Love this line - I've said this to so many people over the years and had blank stares in return… Haha.
Me too! I reckon I say it a few times a month and only ever once somebody has said "thankyou Aziz"
What does 'ekto gammat' mean?
Uhhh.. never again… without my permission
that's what I thought.
😂😂
You fired!
“I only speak two languages, English and bad English.”
Expired?, showing as $61.69 for me.
I can still see $29.04
Pretty spensive
This is still in my top ten considering when it was made probably one of Luc Besson’s best films and won an Oscar for costume design iirc. I have the remastered Bluray and it gets a watch from time to time but a 2160p version might be nice.
Milla does an OK job, but it’s a stand out for Bruce Willis and Gary Oldman is amazing as usual.
Chris Tucker is my least liked character in this film but it has a decent plot, good score, great action, amazing costumes and for the time it was made very early in the CGI VFX days, pretty amazing for 1997. ~$30 is not bad for a UHD-BD version but I seem to caught in a loop updating to the next disc format as they come out.
We have to keep buying optical discs to convince the studios to spend money on the quality versions and not just upscale 2K/BD stuff at the cheapest price.
My BD collection tops out around 500 discs (DVDs even more but rarely if ever watched these days) but I’m being very selective with replacing BDs with UHD-BD - v.sick of paying for the same film from DVD > Bluray > UHD-Bluray unless they spent extra money remastering or doing something special and I don’t mean Steel Book version. Lol.
DVDs apparently still the number one selling format, (no idea why) and that’s a 24 year old SD format!
Only us connoisseurs are forking out money for $3-4K on OLED, another $2-4K on an AVR and probably similar money for our 5.1 or maybe 7.1 systems plus a decent another $500-$700 for a multi HDR capable UHD-BD player to really appreciate the quality. Panasonic DP-UB820 is a great buy even if it’s a little dated. And which idiot decided to put DVD and BD region locks back?
I often wait for 20% or 30% off various discs at JB - they seem to do that 4-5 times a year, esp for older films, sometimes you can get a classic like this for only ~$20 on UHD-BD.
My gear upscales 1080p BDs pretty well and current cost of living pressures and lack of work during past 2.5 years of COVID means I just don’t have the $$$ to spend on discs every year anymore as much as I would like too, and haven’t for a while.
I guess most of us are in a similar situation unless you have a decent six figure salary and lots of extra cash to burn.
I only hope studios keep investing in the higher quality UHD-BD films but some films I bought just show off the film grain that much more as they were cheap transfers, possibly upscales from the BD versions??
Many UHD-BD films take the pre 1991 digital soundtracks from the BD version and if you are lucky they should do a new telecine scan at 2160p. I’ve been a bit disappointed by some movies and really impressed by others. I don’t know whether others agree? It’s a bit hit and miss and the format has been around long enough we shouldn’t need to debate this.
Because of streaming, disc sales are continuing to decline but I’m not going to spend $100+ a month to have all the streaming services when their movies are often not even as good quality as my BDs - seems average punter doesn’t seem to care as much?
If you pay $39.95 or more for a UHD-BD maybe wait for a sale? especially if you already have the BD copy.
HDR, especially stuff with Dolby Vision I personally think can really make a 2160p film stand out but you won’t get DV HDR on a $500-$1500 cheap-ish side lit LED screen and those.cheap 4K screens are the bane of many of us I’m sure, and don’t do the format justice at all but when ppl are still buying DVDs I shake my head in despair.
But then again, everyone’s eyes and ears are different. I’m not spending $30+ on movies anymore unless they have something extra to justify that sort of spend.
Just my personal opinion but would be interested if others feel like we are still paying way too much to invest in decent 4K setup and then the higher cost of movies on top of that are often not much better than what we may already have on BD.
Cheers.
Streaming services & Plex makes UHD-BD looks less appealing.
I have a lot of anime blu-rays but they are more expensive than Hollywood blu-rays, this is because Japanese still prefer DVD over blu-rays.
DVD are cheaper to make, because it is cheaper to make, it would be cheaper to sell. As more are sold, it becomes even cheaper to make and sell.
I feel that UHD-BD is a dying format, streaming services will replace it.
Cheers OP! I think I grabbed the last one in stock 🙈
There are still three left for any latecomers 😁
All gone unfortunately
Mine arrived yesterday. Will boot it up sometime this weekend for some Aziz goodness!
Is it remastered or just a direct upscale?