[trailer] Jupiter Ascending

This movie is going to suck. You can quote me.

Why? Because they just pushed back the release date from July 18 to February 2015. 1. Movies released in Jan and Feb are usually terrible. 2. a 7 month push back is not just a few tweeks.

Anyway the preview looked pretty.

The offcial reason was VFX delays. Is this true? Who knows.

Oh hai Seen Been

Farley's right that February is traditionally a dumping ground for mediocre movies. There are sometimes good movies that get released in February, but mostly it's B- or C-grade stuff like Jumper and Chronicle and Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Shuffling a movie out of a prime summer release slot into February is a huge vote of no confidence.

Channing's not pretty enough anymore?

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Farley's right that February is traditionally a dumping ground for mediocre movies.

While traditionally true hasnt there been a couple exceptions the past couple years?

Edit: after taking a look. Nope still a dumping ground.

ranalin wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

Farley's right that February is traditionally a dumping ground for mediocre movies.

While traditionally true hasnt there been a couple exceptions the past couple years?

Here are the lineups for Feb. 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010. I know Shutter Island has its fans, but otherwise I'm just seeing a whole lot of lame.

Yeah, when I saw that delay announced and that it was February... mentally I hung my head in disappointment. I'm starting to worry that the Wachowskis will never be able to meet or surpass what they did in the first Matrix movie. Such potential, but everything they've done since then seems to come up short.

cartoonin99 wrote:

Channing's not pretty enough anymore? :D

I know one 13-year old girl who still thinks he's pretty (and it's not me).
Then again, she's 13 and might have switched movie heartthrobs a dozen times by now.
I vaguely remember thinking this movie might be passable, I think that would require me to check out the first page of the thread, and oh oh can't reach it.

Well, the Internet Hate Machine is in full force and it has got Jupiter Ascending in its sights.

I just saw it, and I'm here to say: don't drink the haterade.

The movie is a lot of fun, the visuals, production design, and ship design are just amazing, the action scenes are amazing, the musical score is fantastic, and even though the story is kind of tropey it's still quite enjoyable. It's an original screenplay, which is getting rarer all the time. It positively oozes Wachowskiness.

Manage your expectations - don't go in expecting some cinematic masterpiece. This is a summer blockbuster released in February. It is great fun, and a real visual treat (and that includes the adorable Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum). Also, [spoiler alert] Terry Gilliam has a wonderful Brazil-ish cameo, and Sean Bean doesn't die!

BadKen wrote:

Well, the Internet Hate Machine is in full force and it has got Jupiter Ascending in its sights.

I just saw it, and I'm here to say: don't drink the haterade.

The movie is a lot of fun, the visuals, production design, and ship design are just amazing, the action scenes are amazing, the musical score is fantastic, and even though the story is kind of tropey it's still quite enjoyable. It's an original screenplay, which is getting rarer all the time. It positively oozes Wachowskiness.

Manage your expectations - don't go in expecting some cinematic masterpiece. This is a summer blockbuster released in February. It is great fun, and a real visual treat (and that includes the adorable Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum). Also, [spoiler alert] Terry Gilliam has a wonderful Brazil-ish cameo, and Sean Bean doesn't die!

A rare gem. Unless it's a trilogy.

BadKen wrote:

Well, the Internet Hate Machine is in full force and it has got Jupiter Ascending in its sights.

I just saw it, and I'm here to say: don't drink the haterade.

The movie is a lot of fun, the visuals, production design, and ship design are just amazing, the action scenes are amazing, the musical score is fantastic, and even though the story is kind of tropey it's still quite enjoyable. It's an original screenplay, which is getting rarer all the time. It positively oozes Wachowskiness.

Manage your expectations - don't go in expecting some cinematic masterpiece. This is a summer blockbuster released in February. It is great fun, and a real visual treat (and that includes the adorable Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum). Also, [spoiler alert] Terry Gilliam has a wonderful Brazil-ish cameo, and Sean Bean doesn't die!

Doesn't die?? Spoiler alert, jeez...

I saw AVClub gave it a B, sounds pretty solid in my book. Will watch. Plus Mila Kunis is always great.

The hate machine ran strong against Speed Racer too, which I thought was fantastic. I'm definitely down for a big, dumb, gorgeous sci-fi romp.

Most outlets I've seen have been pretty forgiving on it. And, you know, not for nothing, but given what the actual internet hate machine is capable of, I'm not sure the moniker is best used for people who don't like a movie.

Danielle Riendeau seemed to really enjoy it, saying it was nonsensical, disjointed, and campy, but also totally fun and beautiful.

That kind of thing has its place. I'll watch it. Probably not in the theater but I'll watch it.

Holy cow this movie was very satisfying! I enjoyed it a bunch. Very fun sci fi movie. I would disagree about it not being a cinematic masterpiece so many of the shots were very grandiose. Also I thought it was a very interesting world that I would love to see more movies set in.

Hope others go and enjoy it!

Saw it. Watched it. It was awesome.

Watched it yesterday and went away very, very impressed. The movie feels fresh and original -- something surprisingly hard to pull off these days in the sci-fi genre. It oozes style, and is executed superbly. Unfortunately, I think it will not do specially well, and will end up being remembered more as an arthouse piece rather than a sci-fi/action/space opera blockbuster. It eschews too many formulas that guarantee groans of the critics, but also the box office appeal.

I forgot to say I saw it in imax 3d and that made it even better!

Saw it, it lost me when Jupiter started dealing with her 'space family'. So much easily transparent intrigue which the main character is oblivious to, then Kain/Kane/whatever has to swoop in and save her. This rescue the damsel in distress happens way too many times, it gets very old very quick.
On the plus side it looked nice.

karmajay wrote:

I forgot to say I saw it in imax 3d and that made it even better!

Yep, Imax 3D looked positively majestic.

Saw it, thought it was highly enjoyable right up until...

Spoiler:

halfway through when they decided "oops we didn't establish that she's SUPER in love with the guy who rescued her, time to shoehorn in the crappy love story!" It would have been much more interesting to have made the love story less explicit and Kane/Kain?'s motivation more ambiguous. I love me a good romance, don't get me wrong, but this was bad romance cheesing up a pretty solid action movie.

Yeah, it didn't help that there was approximately zero chemistry between those two characters.

Chaz wrote:

The hate machine ran strong against Speed Racer too, which I thought was fantastic. I'm definitely down for a big, dumb, gorgeous sci-fi romp.

The wife and I saw it this morning, and that's a pretty good assessment. I'd say it's worth paying to see on the big screen, but the pacing left alot to be desired. There were long periods where not much of anything happened, and then later on it seemed they were shoving a bunch of plot points together in just a few minutes.

Still though, a big dumb good ol' movie. It doesn't deserve all the hate.

I fell so deeply in love with this batsh*t movie. Someone on tumblr described it as the novel all girls wrote when they were 14 and frothing with a mix of swelling hormones and fading Disney fantasies, which I have to say is accurate to the point of pain. I mean, gorgeous Russian toilet scrubber finds out she is actually a space princess when a werewolf space marine rescues her from death at the hands of Greys? Pardon me, werewolf ANGEL space marine with a Sad because his wings are gone. And then everything is Alexander McQueen dresses and melodrama and bees, for some reason, and Eddie Redmayne doing his best heroin-addicted Voldemort impression.

Anyway the whole thing is just ridiculously joyful nonsense the whole way through. Go see it immediately.

What a beautiful, girly mess of a movie. I loved some of it, disliked some of it, and thought some of it was just plain silly. Who thought space roller blades were a cool idea?

More than anything, this is one of those movies where I wish I could get a no-holds-barred account of the production, because this didn't feel like a movie that was the same at release as when it went into production. At the end, I was left with lingering questions about the behind the scenes story. Why do some scenes feel oddly truncated, like they start or end in the middle? Was the ending meant to feel like a strange non sequitur? Why are all of the green screen stunts with Mila Kunnis universally wooden and unconvincing when both her performance and the movie's effects are otherwise very good? Why do recognizable actors and actresses pop up for single speaking lines and then disappear?

It's such a weird motion picture, and it feels like it's destined for cult classic status, especially among girls. Because this movie was very obviously made for women, baldly and gloriously so, in a genre that's usually tripping over itself to catch the eye of teenage boys.

And there was one scene that left me crying that likely won't affect even one in ten other viewers. It's the scene where Jupiter tells Cain that there are things she wants to change about herself but that she still cares about the same things, loves the same people, and is the same person at heart. Knowing that those words were written by a trans woman, and having had that exact conversation myself, just completely wrecked me.

I missed this in theaters, so I requested it via the Netflix. The description on the DVD sleeve feels so hilariously batsh*t, I feel I must share:

Impoverished young Jupiter Jones struggles to make ends meet.

Aw, little girl in the big city, huh? Classic rom-com setup! Can't wait for the meet cute!

But when a genetically engineered hunter from another planet tracks her down, she learns she's been predestined to change the fate of the universe.

Now I really regret missing it in theaters.

It is exactly as hilarious as that sleeve description would imply.

Thank you for not spoiling that

Spoiler:

Channing earns his wings in the end.

That made my night.