Jupiter Ascending

POSTED BY: MAL4PREZ
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 06:09
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WISHIMAY

Sunday, February 8, 2015 9:21 AM

Yeah, we were REALLY AMAZINGLY SPECTACULARLY BORED!!! today and were going to go see it... until I saw it had a rotten tomato score of 22. Think I'll wait for Netflix. Still bored.

GWEK

Sunday, February 8, 2015 7:18 PM

I will agree that "boring" and "pretty" are probably the two best words to describe the movie.

Having said that, if you're at all interested, I strongly recommend seeing it in the theater. On the small screen, it will be considerably less pretty but every bit as boring.

SECOND

Monday, February 9, 2015 7:54 PM

Ultimately, this all boils down to two questions: 1) Is “Jupiter Ascending” completely bananas? Absolutely. 2) Will you have fun watching it? As long as you’re OK with the answer to the first question, I don’t see why not. www.thewrap.com/jupiter-ascending-review-wachowskis-mila-kunis-channin
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It's blandly, often listlessly bad, just-out-of-film-school-and-shopping-a-tentpole-screenplay bad. – www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jupiter-ascending-2015

At least Redmayne's mannered acting plants a freak flag in the movie's swollen purplish heart. At times his performance seems modeled on how Redmayne imagines Glenn Close might look and sound, should she live to be 100. He trembles and flares his nostrils. He whispers 90% of his lines and shrieks the other ten. Not once does he blink when you expect him to, or for as long. Did Redmayne decide it was necessary to destroy the film in order to save it? If so, give the man an "A" for anarchy. – www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jupiter-ascending-2015

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

OLDGUY

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:36 AM

ok...so the credits roll, the lights come up , and before I can catch myself, out of my mouth, in a loud voice I hear... "BOY DID THAT SUCK!"

sorry.. i just wasn't quick enough.

so:
1) As expected, heavy use of the CGI servers..and some of it was great
2) Total failure to develop characters that could have been so much more
3) Typical of the Wachowski movie making..it was tediously long on fight/chase scenes that sucked up precious time that could have been used on story plot, character dev.
4) i didn't realize it was an LGBT flick..my bad....
5) Mila met my every expectation..which for the record was really really low.
6) pointy ears?...seriously..did they raid Universal Studios for leftovers from Teen Wolf and old Star Trek props?

save your money kiddos.....really...trust me on this...seriously....go watch some Fireballs XL5 marionette reruns or something...LOL

SHINYGOODGUY

Thursday, February 12, 2015 8:00 PM

Regarding Cloud Atlas, to each his own.

Regarding Jupiter Ascending; have yet the time to go see it, although it's getting creamed by reviewers across the country. My guess is that the Wachowski's are far better at adapting a story than creating a bold fresh new story (a la the Matrix).

Not very surprising to me, but rather disappointing.

SGG

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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
Haven't found any more depth in Cloud Atlas. Sorry. Just doesn't do it for me.

Back to the topic: saw Jupiter Ascending today.

Gorgeous! Beautiful! Eye candy! Pretty!

Also: stupid. Incredibly shallow and predictable and stupid. Had no heart or soul.

Glad I saw it, won't see it again.

Someday someone will put all this insane **pretty** together with a plot that is interesting and surprising and, what's more, will present it as something more than a Disney roller coaster. I was soooo bored with the action sequences in this movie. EoT and GotG were 100x the worth of this movie, probably with 1/1000 of the FX budget.

It's still really damned pretty.

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ECGORDON

Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:22 PM

I had intended to go see it by now, but based on everything I've heard I figure it won't be long before it shows up at the discount theater. Then it will just be $1 on Tuesdays, and that might be all it is worth.

MAL4PREZ

Friday, February 13, 2015 4:02 AM

Like GWEK said, if you're going to see this movie see it in a theater. A good theater. It was flawed sure, but visually it's a work of art. I was so disappointed in the endless adventure ride of it (and the overly booming music that made me numb, I failed to say before) but the attention to detail in creating this verse was really stunning. I should stress that more.

There were also many nods to cyperpunk throughout, I'm sure many more than I caught.

In fact, now that I've had a week I think I will likely go see it again just to look at all the pretty. I might like it better when I don't go in expecting plotty goodness.

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AURAPTOR

Friday, February 13, 2015 7:34 PM

I'm hearing less than impressive reviews, all over. And now here as well.

Netflix date, if that.

OLDGUY

Saturday, February 14, 2015 2:25 AM

no..honestly... I knew that it should be seen in a quality theater..my home projection unit isn't up to the level of definition.

although I'd at least have the option to adjust the spoken word track so that I could friggin hear what they were sayin!!! lol...seems to be a trend these days for some sort of processing...and I go to a first class theater so I'm not sure I can blame it on them...but the fx and the music tracks were plenty loud..but softer spoken script was very hard to hear...the pre-movie trailers were all spot on with vocals...so I'll blame the movie itself.

but bottom line..it is a visual treat...just not a good movie... I don't regret seeing it at the theater...but it won't be in my dvd/digital collection in the future.

AURAPTOR

Saturday, February 14, 2015 3:28 AM

If I want to be visually wowed by a movie, hell, I'll just go see some random IMAX flick.

But that's not what I want to go see when I think of sci-fi drama. I want some semblance of a STORY too. Hell, this makes John Carter seem like one of the first Star Wars movies.

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