- Mar 19, 2006
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Looks terrible.........rotten tomatoes agrees.
'Jupiter Ascending' Was So Bad It Bummed Me Out
http://www.zimbio.com/Zimbio+Film+Reviews/articles/hP_UQHSywmD/Jupiter+Ascending+Bad+Bummed+OutSo what's the lesson? Well, here are a few. First, maybe the Wachowskis shouldn't be given the kind of blank check freedom they've been given. It pains me to say that, but it's the truth. Second, it's all about the script. If that dialogue doesn't work, rewrite it or don't make the movie. Third, world building is hard. There's no right way to do it, but this is the wrong way. The reason you can't throw people into the deep end of your meticulously developed science fiction world isn't because they won't be able to follow. Audiences are pretty good at following a coherent story no matter how weird it gets. The reason you can't do it is because it all seems like a joke if the audience hasn't been given a reason to care about what's happening on the screen. And at no point during Jupiter Ascending did it feel like we should care about these characters. It was just too awful. And it makes me sad.
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