Well, this just looks worse and worse
Sep. 27th, 2014 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
james_davis_nicollA link to the trailer for Jupiter Ascending
"When the exact same genes reappear in the exact same order, it is what you call reincarnation."
Discuss!
"When the exact same genes reappear in the exact same order, it is what you call reincarnation."
Discuss!
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reaction with the sound off
Date: 2014-09-28 06:30 pm (UTC)"Sun is setting behind some planet or other, not really sure which one. A... thing... spaceship? A city! On a river. Woman in a house. Spaceship again, maybe the same one? Some guy, I guess in the same house. Some gigantic corporation made this movie. A city by the sea, or maybe a lake. A spaceship flying over the city. A spaceship flying over a canyon. People in car. Some other guy, some guy in a ludicrous outfit. In a car again. Explosions! Stuff falls, a guy is in... what was that? Car again. Bees! Bees, or bugs. Stupid outfit and some thing. Something explodes out of something, some rings maybe. Antigravity... something. Spaceship. Candles! Lots of candles, hey. And some statues, and some ceremony, big ceremony. Some guys in classy, leather outfits. Another spaceshiup, another guy, I don't know what is it, a marriage ceremony? Tron! City... lights! That guy doesn't look happy. Spaceship? That guy looks... where is that, Coruscant? Coruscant again? Then this guy, uh, what? Thing with wings. Stupid titles that I don't care about. And then space bike..? Planet with the usual, uh, thingies. Antigravity boots! More antigravity boots. Thing, and that guy in a cathedral somewhere. A gun! And something rockets up out of the atmosphere of some planet. That guy, um, explosions, spaceships, and.. the title of the movie!"
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Date: 2014-09-27 02:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 02:32 pm (UTC)Turns out that film was accidental genius or something. Past performance does not guarantee future performance, indeed...
-- Steve's sworn off Warchowski films; they're bad for the drywall (and his forehead).
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Date: 2014-09-27 03:11 pm (UTC)And after the success of the first Matrix movie it almost went into production. It was originally written as a Jim Carey vehicle: that version was to have starred Keanu Reeves. Insert the comparison of your choice here.
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Date: 2014-09-27 03:52 pm (UTC)The Matrix itself was okay, though I admit to being unable to watch it a second time. The second movie was boooo-rinnnnng. The third - we gave that one a miss. I have been highly sceptical about Jupiter Rising since the first trailer.
I wonder if Kermode will like it the way he likes Lucy - because "it it bonkers."
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Date: 2014-09-27 05:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 05:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 11:25 pm (UTC)This looks to be about on the same level.
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Date: 2014-09-27 03:17 pm (UTC)(and they had the decency to call it "genetic reincarnation" and to 1, treat it as a quasi mystical belief during the hard sci-fi period of the show and then 2, to use it as a way to justify using an actor who'd previously played a character from the distant past to play a new role in the cast)
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Date: 2014-09-27 03:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 04:32 pm (UTC)Spewwwwww.
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Date: 2014-09-27 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 05:44 pm (UTC)Obviously I was wrong.
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Date: 2014-09-27 09:49 pm (UTC)As hypothesized by Twain and confirmed by Moore, it was another planet of the same name.
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Date: 2014-09-28 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 07:11 pm (UTC)or dragons..
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Date: 2014-09-27 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-27 11:24 pm (UTC)The question is whether things will blow up in satisfactory ways or not.
These are the people that brought us "The Matrix", where human beings somehow generate more power than it costs to keep them fed in giant tubes.
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Date: 2014-09-27 11:42 pm (UTC)That is no longer enough for me, which is why I missed out on the last two Transformers movies. I also need at least a few gorgeous set designs (whether actual or digital) and either some humor or semi-competent acting before I put up with this level of stupid.
(I'm more forgiving of superhero movies, since the science is _of course_ going to be absurd. Goes with the territory.)
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Date: 2014-09-28 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-29 02:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-28 11:06 am (UTC)so ....simon green fanfic w the numbers filed off ??
Date: 2014-09-28 03:22 pm (UTC)& the inevitable "magic blood' to rule them all - thx to commenter cowtools @ badass digest & others for highlighting this & coining the wellturned phrase
http://badassdigest.com/2014/08/05/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-movie-review-heroes-on-the-hack-shell/#comment-1528966194
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Date: 2014-09-29 04:04 pm (UTC)Cheer up. You can still hope that they get orbital mechanics right.
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Date: 2014-09-29 04:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-29 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-09-29 05:09 pm (UTC)