World Building is present in every movie whether the audience notices or not.
For every instance ofimpressive world buildingthere is a film where what is built simply doesn’t pass inspection.
It is disappointing then that the 2006 adaptation ofChristopher Paolini’s fantasy sagadiverged so heavily from its source material.
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Hopefully, for fans of the novel,a television revivalcould help give the source material much needed justice.
Or at least that is what we’re told Tomorrowland is.
What truly givesMorbiusand the entire Sony-verse, by extension, terrible world building isits mind-boggling post credit scene.
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This stinger seesSpiderman: Homecoming’s Vulture (Michael Keaton) teleported into the world ofMorbiusvia Dr.
Strange’s spell fromSpiderman: No Way Home.
The vulture meets with Morbius and teases a sinister team up, to kill Spider-man.
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Morbius just ended his own movie by becoming a good guy, Dr.
Strange’s spell brought peopletothe MCU not removed them, etc etc etc.
The aspects of Divergent’s world that are original thoughts seem half-baked and underutilized.
Even the film’s actors felt no love for this world.
The sequel reveals that everyone was aliens the whole time!
Unfortunately, Valerian took from vfx-saturated, story light prequels rather than the original trilogy.
At one point, a pope car is seen, still riding inside a popemobile.
Does the pope ride inside of another car?
Unfortunately for audiences the imagination stopped at that very core idea.
In the universe ofBrighteverything seems to be the exact same as the world of viewers at home.
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A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a thousand planets. Special operatives Valerian and Laureline must race to identify the marauding menace and safeguard not just Alpha, but the future of the universe.
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