Jupiter Ascending (2-6-15) (1 Viewer)

[(HULK)]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

 

[El Floppo]

Another movie that sounds promising, Steven Seagal has been cast as the lead in the Robert Oppenheimer story, the architect of the Manhattan Project.

oh come on.

 

[snogger]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

 

[joffer]

Another movie that sounds promising, Steven Seagal has been cast as the lead in the Robert Oppenheimer story, the architect of the Manhattan Project.

oh come on.

Van Damme was considered but the accent is all wrong

 

[El Floppo]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

I can't even get PPV for $6

 

[snogger]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

I can't even get PPV for $6

That's a nice advantage to living in a small town.. The theater is large( 8 screens, two are stadium seating), but still "Small Town" pricing..

 

[Gr00vus]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

I can't even get PPV for $6

That's a nice advantage to living in a small town.. The theater is large( 8 screens, two are stadium seating), but still "Small Town" pricing..

That doesn't even cover half a movie in Los Angeles.

 

[El Floppo]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

I can't even get PPV for $6

That's a nice advantage to living in a small town.. The theater is large( 8 screens, two are stadium seating), but still "Small Town" pricing..

That doesn't even cover half a movie in Los Angeles.

how much is LA now?

$15 here in NYC- $19.50 for 3d

 

[Gr00vus]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

I can't even get PPV for $6

That's a nice advantage to living in a small town.. The theater is large( 8 screens, two are stadium seating), but still "Small Town" pricing..

That doesn't even cover half a movie in Los Angeles.

how much is LA now?

$15 here in NYC- $19.50 for 3d

I think it's around $13/$14 non-3d here. Around $17 for 3D, $19 for IMAX 3D. Technically that's for Pasadena, not Los Angeles.

 

[MaxThreshold]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

 

[dparker713]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

 

[shadyridr]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

guys?

 

[MaxThreshold]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

guys?

Yeah, the Wachowski brothers. Actually, one of them had a sex change about a year or two ago and is now a woman. So the Wachoswski siblings is probably more accurate.

Update: now i get what you were saying.

 

[Gr00vus]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

I thought V for Vendetta was all right.

 

[(HULK)]

Lol at MaxT

I looked matrix, v for vendetta, and cloud Atlas.

I may be more forgiving than others. I can appreciate eye candy type films sometimes

 

[MaxThreshold]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

I thought V for Vendetta was all right.

V for vendetta was not directed by the wachowski siblings.

 

[Bob Magaw]

Another movie that sounds promising, Steven Seagal has been cast as the lead in the Robert Oppenheimer story, the architect of the Manhattan Project.

oh come on.

Van Damme was considered but the accent is all wrong

And Stallone is in talks to play the lead in the Bobby Fischer Story.

I can see him sneering at a famous opponents dunderheaded move and delivering the line, "What's wrong, having a spazzky, Boris?

Today's p/review, from long time LA Times film critic, Kenneth Turan. With observations like, "It's all more wooden than you can imagine." (I doubt it - not the wooden, but the can't imagine it part), I think I may be checking this out when it comes to DVD, which sounds like it could be sooner than later. But it should be good fun hearing it get savaged in reviews in the interim. Maybe this should have been a $175 million dollar straight to video epic?

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-82739968/

* The Wachowski siblings (henceforth I'll just simply use Wachowskis) were involved with V For Vendetta on a production level, I think, as MaxT alluded to.

Curse Of The Matrix excerpt (Wachowskis Descending?)

"The shame of Jupiter Ascending is that it again proves that the Wachowskis know how to cleanly shoot action, and how to stage larger-than-life, effects-heavy set pieces. And like the rest of their post-Matrix work, it suggests that the writing/directing siblings are barely competent storytellers. No matter how much CG glitz and glamor they deliver, their films are so consumed by stock hero-villain and save-the-princess (and the world) scenarios that they feel shopworn, not to mention weighed down by de rigueur monsters and dialogue equally defined by ridiculously fanciful terms and leaden exposition.

Incapable of self-penning a compelling vehicle for their grand aesthetic ambitions, the Wachowskis have become poster-children for a 21st century blockbuster cinema value system that prizes action pageantry above plotting. Which is another way of saying—someone hire them an outside screenwriter."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/05/wachowskis-descending-they-are-the-one-hit-wonders.html

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, a generous one star, leading with, "The Wachowskis lay a planet-sized egg with this soulless sci-fi whatsit"

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/jupiter-ascending-20150205

The Abrasax dynasty sounds like a dyslexic rendering of the classic early 70's Santana album with the heavily psychedelic cover (same artist as B. Brew by Miles).

 

[Gr00vus]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

I thought V for Vendetta was all right.

V for vendetta was not directed by the wachowski siblings.

True, but they did write and produce it.

 

[grateful zed]

i thought this was about the planet. he is up by the moon.

 

[Tom Servo]

how much is LA now?


$15 here in NYC- $19.50 for 3d

I think it's around $13/$14 non-3d here. Around $17 for 3D, $19 for IMAX 3D. Technically that's for Pasadena, not Los Angeles.

Good heavens. I'd never see a movie at those prices.

 

[El Floppo]

how much is LA now?


$15 here in NYC- $19.50 for 3d

I think it's around $13/$14 non-3d here. Around $17 for 3D, $19 for IMAX 3D. Technically that's for Pasadena, not Los Angeles.

Good heavens. I'd never see a movie at those prices.

add in baby sitter and THEIR expenses (on top of hourly rate) and it's like $100 just to see a movie for us.

 

[cstu]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

I thought V for Vendetta was all right.

V for vendetta was not directed by the wachowski siblings.

True, but they did write and produce it.

Someone also hasn't seen Bound.

 

[cstu]

Harry Knowles of AICN liked it a lot. He likes everything though.

Considering giving this a shot tomorrow as my wife has 2 of her friends coming over (both who have kids and the baby daddy left).... ducking out seems like a smart move, even if the movie isn't great.

Have to spend vacation time or lose it so my Dad and I are going to see it tomorrow at 1pm..

Read reviews of it being a "Space Opera" in the sense of... don't expect the plot to make a ton of sense, but the ride to get there is fun..

A rare late winter flick for only $6

I can't even get PPV for $6

That's a nice advantage to living in a small town.. The theater is large( 8 screens, two are stadium seating), but still "Small Town" pricing..

That doesn't even cover half a movie in Los Angeles.

how much is LA now?

$15 here in NYC- $19.50 for 3d

I think it's around $13/$14 non-3d here. Around $17 for 3D, $19 for IMAX 3D. Technically that's for Pasadena, not Los Angeles.

Definitely expensive here, but $8 before noon at AMC. Also $8.50 for tickets at Costco (although I have to pay a $2 surcharge at the theater I go to).

 

[Bonfire]

It is reportedly the director siblings first original screenplay in the sci fi genre since the Matrix trilogy ever?

 

[Tom Servo]

Charlie Jane Anders review on io9.

Honestly, a lot of this movie felt as though co-directors Andy and Lana Wachowski wrote a bunch of ideas on index cards, which they then threw up in the air. (And then half the index cards accidentally went out the window.)

 

[Bob Magaw]

Wachowski's have a Netflix series coming out later in the year.

Local theater (LA suburb), if not the largest premiere screen or 3D, is $7.50 if it starts by 12:30.

 

[snogger]

Just returned and have to say as a movie it worked well..

If you go in expecting "epic" then it will fail for you.

But if you go in, like I did, hoping for an updated "Flash Gordon" then you will be entertained and it is worth $6. 3.5 out of 5.

 

[(HULK)]

Saw it. Feel asleep in the third act. It's nice visually, but the sorry isn't compelling and is kinda repetitive.

 

[MC Gas Money]

This movie looks terrible. I hate when sci-fi is so over the top it becomes basically a fantasy film.

I like my sci-fi to have more sci and less fi

 

[snogger]

Saw it. Feel asleep in the third act. It's nice visually, but the sorry isn't compelling and is kinda repetitive.

At a point it did get repetitive.. Then again there were 3 siblings wanting the power so each side needed to be shown..

At the same time I hope you woke up in time to watch the way over the top Cheesy ending..

A true... " I hope you didn't take this movie seriously" ending

 

[RandyDB]

I have heard at least 1 critic refer to this movie as

JUPITER When is it ending

 

[cstu]

I have heard at least 1 critic refer to this movie as

JUPITER When is it ending

 

[shader]

I loved it and hope they make more, but if the reviews are meaningful, they won't.

I wonder if Star Wars came out in this era, if anyone would go see it. By the time people looked on their smartphones and saw that rotten tomatoes gave it less than 30%, they'd save their money.

But it's a great flick.

 

[Mario Kart]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

I thought V for Vendetta was all right.

V for vendetta was not directed by the wachowski siblings.

True, but they did write and produce it.

The story was already written for them. It was not an original screenplay. The Jupiter movie is a renter at best. Too bad North Korea didn't threaten anyone over this movie. It could have used the publicity.

 

[joffer]

Can't believe people paid money to watch this

 

[cstu]

27% on the Tomatometer. Not a good. Also, the fact that it's release date was originally bumped from last July to now wasn't a good sign. Looks to be another mess like Speed Racer was.

These guys have made 1 really good movie and a bunch of messes.

I thought V for Vendetta was all right.

V for vendetta was not directed by the wachowski siblings.

True, but they did write and produce it.

The story was already written for them. It was not an original screenplay. The Jupiter movie is a renter at best. Too bad North Korea didn't threaten anyone over this movie. It could have used the publicity.

It was a comic book.

 

[cstu]

I loved it and hope they make more, but if the reviews are meaningful, they won't.

I wonder if Star Wars came out in this era, if anyone would go see it. By the time people looked on their smartphones and saw that rotten tomatoes gave it less than 30%, they'd save their money.

But it's a great flick.

Haven't seen it (but will) and here are my ..

Star Wars would have done well if there hadn't been a Star Wars. However, movies today have to have to be better (sometimes just visuals) because of all the movies that have been made. Star Wars was not only a technological achievement but it also had a compelling story with interesting characters. From what I've seen the characters are the weak point of JA.

 

[snogger]

Can't believe people paid money to watch this

I've wasted $6 on worse.

For those that can't catch a matinee for under $8 wait for the rental.

Then watch it with the mindset of "Awesome, an updated Special Effects Flash Gordon movie" and it is pretty enjoyable.

 

[Psychopav]

Google Jupiter Ascending and just read the headlines/snippets. I wonder if any movie has been so poorly reviewed. I thought they pay reviewers for good reviews, and that it was all fixed. What happened?

 

[shadyridr]

What makes you think they pay reviewers for good reviews?

 

[El Floppo]

pretty sure they get paid by the word guys.

 

[Insein]

Not to be that guy...but this looks really, really bad. A blond vulcan/elf Channing Tatum?

Looks like Mugatu

This is exactly what I thought from the previews. I'd be willing to see it based on the Wachowskis history but this just looks like a Hunger games clone. Not plot wise but just the aesthetics of it. Seems to be aiming for the 10-17 year old female demo.

 

[Bob Magaw]

Bombed this weekend with $19 million (Sponge Bob led the way with $56 million), though Seventh Son flopped even worse with half of that domestically, but did $70 million overseas with an unusual week early international release.

 

[cstu]

Not to be that guy...but this looks really, really bad. A blond vulcan/elf Channing Tatum?

Looks like Mugatu

This is exactly what I thought from the previews. I'd be willing to see it based on the Wachowskis history but this just looks like a Hunger games clone. Not plot wise but just the aesthetics of it. Seems to be aiming for the 10-17 year old female demo.

The only demo that got a higher score from men than women was under 18. Definitely skewed towards women though - 6.2 overall from women and 6.0 from men - unusual for a sci-fi movie.

 

[Insein]

Not to be that guy...but this looks really, really bad. A blond vulcan/elf Channing Tatum?

Looks like Mugatu

This is exactly what I thought from the previews. I'd be willing to see it based on the Wachowskis history but this just looks like a Hunger games clone. Not plot wise but just the aesthetics of it. Seems to be aiming for the 10-17 year old female demo.

The only demo that got a higher score from men than women was under 18. Definitely skewed towards women though - 6.2 overall from women and 6.0 from men - unusual for a sci-fi movie.

Hmm imagine that.

 

[Hawks64]

I loved it and hope they make more, but if the reviews are meaningful, they won't.

I wonder if Star Wars came out in this era, if anyone would go see it. By the time people looked on their smartphones and saw that rotten tomatoes gave it less than 30%, they'd save their money.

But it's a great flick.

It was so bad. Plot wasn't even remotely fleshed out. So many aspects of the storyline that were glossed over. Visually it was cool, but that was it. Both my sons wanted to see it so we went. Everyone regretted that choice.

 

[Insein]

I loved it and hope they make more, but if the reviews are meaningful, they won't.

I wonder if Star Wars came out in this era, if anyone would go see it. By the time people looked on their smartphones and saw that rotten tomatoes gave it less than 30%, they'd save their money.

But it's a great flick.

It was so bad. Plot wasn't even remotely fleshed out. So many aspects of the storyline that were glossed over. Visually it was cool, but that was it. Both my sons wanted to see it so we went. Everyone regretted that choice.

So basically Avatar.

 

[Bob Magaw]

Give or take a couple billion plus.

 

[flysack]

"The shame of Jupiter Ascending is that it again proves that the Wachowskis know how to cleanly shoot action, and how to stage larger-than-life, effects-heavy set pieces. And like the rest of their post-Matrix work, it suggests that the writing/directing siblings are barely competent storytellers. No matter how much CG glitz and glamor they deliver, their films are so consumed by stock hero-villain and save-the-princess (and the world) scenarios that they feel shopworn, not to mention weighed down by de rigueur monsters and dialogue equally defined by ridiculously fanciful terms and leaden exposition.

Incapable of self-penning a compelling vehicle for their grand aesthetic ambitions, the Wachowskis have become poster-children for a 21st century blockbuster cinema value system that prizes action pageantry above plotting. Which is another way of sayingsomeone hire them an outside screenwriter."

Seriously spot on. They do a decent job of translating good story into film (Matrix, V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas) but when left to their own writing, they're just god awful cliche-driven sewage mongers (just look at the last two Matrix films).

All of this only confirms that they ripped off the original Matrix film from an unknown black sci-fi writer. The progressive decline in writing in that trilogy is clear evidence (IMO) of them having to generate their own ideas...which are total crap.

 

[shader]

I loved it and hope they make more, but if the reviews are meaningful, they won't.

I wonder if Star Wars came out in this era, if anyone would go see it. By the time people looked on their smartphones and saw that rotten tomatoes gave it less than 30%, they'd save their money.

But it's a great flick.

It was so bad. Plot wasn't even remotely fleshed out. So many aspects of the storyline that were glossed over. Visually it was cool, but that was it. Both my sons wanted to see it so we went. Everyone regretted that choice.

I'm easily amused when it comes to Sci-fi.

Interesting storyline, and I thought they did it well. Looks like most people don't agree. Too bad, because I'd love to see sequels, which won't happen now.