Jupiter Ascending - Trailer

"So, Andy. Lana. You're just coming off one of the most ambitious, complex movies in recent years. Are you going to take a break and go smaller with your next project?"

"No. Crazier. Bigger and crazier."

"...Not sure you can top Cloud Atlas but-"

"BIGGER AND CRAZIER."

Ughhhh. Another "chosen one" plot. If you told me this was based on a Young Adult novel for teens I would believe you. I know you guys love Cloud Atlas, but I really don't think they've pulled off a narrative since The Matrix. They really could use a third collaborator to rewrite some of their dialogue.

Sean Bean is in it though, so that's a plus.

To be fair, Tatum is a MUCH more interesting and versatile actor than Taylor Kitsch. But I get your point. This movie might get lost in its own insane mythology and forget to tell a story about interesting people.

From the trailer, Mila doesn't look like she belongs in this movie. She's fine as the sassy girlfriend in raunchy rom-coms, but seems miscast in a space opera. Hope I'm wrong.

LOL, "now."

They rehabilitated themselves to me with SPEED RACER and CLOUD ATLAS, so I'm down for the ride.

Last edited by Dorkman (2013-12-11 03:58:07)

I am firmly in the camp of LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVIIIIINNNNGGG Speed Racer.

And apparently that makes me weird, I've never understood it.

I have the same feeling towards Speed Racer that I do Cloud Atlas: Goddamn that's impressive, amazing amazing story construction and editing, but totally misguided and unsuccessful.

Making your energetic kids racing movie 80% about international corporate politics is a fucking bizarre choice, and cartoon physics in a live action movie do not work (at least the way they execute them). I think the choice to have the cars all look totally weightless and stupidly bouncing around in the action scenes was a real mistake, and on top of that, for a movie called "Speed Racer" the races are few and far between.

But damn is it pretty. It may not work but I'm glad something that off-the-charts weird got made.

Last edited by bullet3 (2013-12-11 05:50:37)

Well, we know this: it will be pretty and fairly insane.

Personally, regardless of casting misgivings and story potential concerns, I am excited to see this film. I have a growing love of scifi concept art and movies like this just bring some interesting and fun designs to the science fiction world. As much fun as hard scifi is, there is something about space opera that is more exciting to me. I'll take the weird title too, thank you very much

I am soooooo glad I didn't see Speed Racer in the theater.  I completely totally love it (even if it does drag a bit toward the end), but I can easily imagine that it's just too bright and too loud and too crazy on the big screen.  On my 42" plasma TV (small in the grand scheme of things), it's exactly the right amount of bright and loud and crazy. 

Yeah, Jupiter Ascending could easily be a trainwreck, but, at least if it is, it should be an interesting trainwreck, unlike, say, the prequel trilogy.  I'm hoping for at least The Fifth Element.