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What's the good word on Jupiter Ascending?

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jett said:
From a visual standpoint it's one of the most novel films made since... Well, since The Matrix.

One example: transitions. Speed Racer undoubtedly some of the most creative transitions I've ever seen in a movie.

Take this gif, for example:

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The red car is part of a flashback, showing Speed's older brother racing back when he was alive. When the Mach 6 comes bursting in from behind, the present time literally washes over the flashback. Watch how the entire scenery changes. Who has ever done something like this? Nobody. And it's not done just for kicks, throughout this race you see Speed racing against the game-like ghost replay of his brother, dueling with him and with himself, and whether he is willing to supplant his old lap record. So this cool transition has a narrative purpose.

It's really sad how little appreciation or acknowledgement it gets. Its visually layered approach to narrative and flashbacks is probably the only new thing I've seen in terms of cinematic language in my lifetime.

I liked Cloud Atlas, but I was pretty disappointed how standard it was compared to SR. No doubt the massive bomb that was SR shook them up. Who knows what kind of visual experimentation we would be getting out of the Wachs if their boldness had been rewarded.
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Trust me, you're preaching to the choir, but this post probably isn't for me.

I think the second GIF illustrates your point more bluntly, to those that never had the eye for those details.

The opening scene really makes people that claim the film is a shallow visual experience look like idiots to me.
 
Going to wait for reviews + audience reaction, if it has the BvS trailer (I think they would have said if it would at this point) that might be the final straw that pushes me to go see it.
 
En Ex said:
Jupiter and beyond the finite.
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ALL THESE BOMBS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
JUPITER
NO CHANCE
OF SUCCESS THERE

Kimosabae said:
Trust me, you're preaching to the choir, but this post probably isn't for me.

I think the second GIF illustrates your point more bluntly, to those that never had the eye for those details.

The opening scene really makes people that claim the film is a shallow visual experience look like idiots to me.
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First 20 minutes of the movie really tell you everything you need to know about it.
 
I guess it's not a Wachowski thread without people giving Speed Racer way more credit and recognition than it has any right to have.
 
The races in Speed Racer still look really good, but all of the CGI and green screens for the non-racing scenes have aged really badly.
 
Speed Racer suffers a lot from a fairly lousy villain and the dull complications he brings about. There was already enough meat there with the vanished/possibly dead older brother and living up to his legacy, but that unfortunately comes too easily for Speed.
 
Yeah, liking Speed Racer is something I do just to look cool. I'll go to a party and casually drop my love for the movie and then all the women are like, "Did you hear about that guy who likes the Wachowski's Speed Racer? He's so mysterious and cool!"
 
Eddie Redmayne's voice in the trailers is so hilarious

How anyone could take that dude seriously as a villain is beyond me
 
I didn't know it was a Wachowski.... That doesn't instill confidence at all. I still can't believe I watched Cloud Atlas all the way.
 
It looks like CGI nonsense overload to me, and not in a good way. Just watching the trailer makes my eyes glaze over already.
 
Blader said:
Coincidentally, early reviews for the first Hunger Games were calling it the best American sci-fi since The Matrix
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Which is why i tend to never go by what critics have to say.
Krakn3Dfx said:
If I've gotten anything from this thread it's that I need to watch Speed Racer.
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When it comes to adaptions it's easily one of the closest to it's source material and an over all fun movie as well.
 
Anton Sugar said:
Yeah, liking Speed Racer is something I do just to look cool. I'll go to a party and casually drop my love for the movie and then all the women are like, "Did you hear about that guy who likes the Wachowski's Speed Racer? He's so mysterious and cool!"
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LOL yeah... Liking Speed Racer gives you street cred and makes the ladies crave your genitals.
 
I just know the first time I saw the trailer, I just sat there wonder what the fuck I just saw. Rather confusing, looks like the sfx/cgi maybe be pretty cool, but not enough to sell me on seeing it.

Also read the budget was $150-175 million??
 
Fun fact: Those visually awesome Speed Racer scenes were designed by the guy who created Bullet Time in the first Matrix and then again in its sequels. That's why the visuals for Speed Racer are so godlike. They had an absolute master at the helm. Some of the shit the guy did to produce visuals like that is insane. Fascinating if you read into it.

Anyway I'm still there day one for this. I've enjoyed the Wachowski's filmography. Yes they never topped or repeated The Matrix but they still made some decent films.
 
Ghost_Messiah said:
Fun fact: Those visually awesome Speed Racer scenes were designed by the guy who created Bullet Time in the first Matrix and then again in its sequels. That's why the visuals for Speed Racer are so godlike. They had an absolute master at the helm. Some of the shit the guy did to produce visuals like that is insane. Fascinating if you read into it.

Anyway I'm still there day one for this. I've enjoyed the Wachowski's filmography. Yes they never topped or repeated The Matrix but they still made some decent films.
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I'm so pissed the home release never got a proper Making Of/Behind the Scenes. It's a movie that seriously deserves it.
 
Damn, I had no idea this actually opens next week. I thought it was later in Feb. It's really weird that Warner seems to have no idea what the fuck to do with this film. They delay it for half a year, there's no re-ramp on the marketing. There isn't even a new trailer. They drop the first ever public screening randomly at Sundance, people seem to have hated it? No press screenings, no promo tour, the Wachowskis don't even seem to be doing any press for this? What's going on? It can't be THAT bad can it?
 
duckroll said:
Damn, I had no idea this actually opens next week. I thought it was later in Feb. It's really weird that Warner seems to have no idea what the fuck to do with this film. They delay it for half a year, there's no re-ramp on the marketing. There isn't even a new trailer. They drop the first ever public screening randomly at Sundance, people seem to have hated it? No press screenings, no promo tour, the Wachowskis don't even seem to be doing any press for this? What's going on? It can't be THAT bad can it?
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They have zero faith in it and are cutting their loses, I guess. I assume the Wachs weren't able to "fix" the movie to the studio's desires.
 
duckroll said:
Damn, I had no idea this actually opens next week. I thought it was later in Feb. It's really weird that Warner seems to have no idea what the fuck to do with this film. They delay it for half a year, there's no re-ramp on the marketing. There isn't even a new trailer. They drop the first ever public screening randomly at Sundance, people seem to have hated it? No press screenings, no promo tour, the Wachowskis don't even seem to be doing any press for this? What's going on? It can't be THAT bad can it?
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The negative reaction to the rough cut in those test screenings made them doubtful and skeptical to the film's potential commercial performance and critical reception. Sounds like the audience reactions were really that poor hence the rather extreme measure of shifting the film from a Summer release to the February dumping ground. Sounds like they're trying to minimise the financial consequences of what they presume will be a definite bomb and financial failure. A profound shame but at least it gave the Wachowskis more time to potentially improve and strengthen the film. The film we're getting now is going to be superior to what we would have received last Summer so for that I'm thankful.

Day one for this still but the studio's extreme actions do we make me a little worried.
 
I think it will be one of those movies that grows on people. After seeing the trailer a few times in theaters it somehow manages to get more interesting to me.
 
I actually went to look up a trailer/tv spot for this thing, to see if the marketing has shifted after the decision to postpone it to february.

I couldn't find anything dated past last September.

Nothing.
 
BobbyRoberts said:
I actually went to look up a trailer/tv spot for this thing, to see if the marketing has shifted after the decision to postpone it to february.

I couldn't find anything dated past last September.

Nothing.
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Well there's this new trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqTs0nvrMUA

And new TV spots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od5yCRW8zOo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2V-LLSuAEg


But WB didn't bother telling anyone or even uploading it to their own youtube channel.

I don't know why they even bothered delaying it if they weren't even gonna make an effort at selling the thing, like with 300-2. They're just dumping it. I wonder why they even greenlit it.

Oh and rewatching that stuff made me realize why I don't care for the visuals shown. It has that whole orange/blue poster bullshit, only applied to the entire movie. Maybe the Wachs thought that would help against bombing? lol.
 
-MD- said:
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Perfect. I can see why Mila Kunis might not be everyone's favourite actress but as far as I'm concerned she's sexy and gorgeous. A great female lead for this film. Loved her in so many movies. "Hideous" is a fucking a word you use for an enemy in Lord of the Rings; not a lovely, talented and adorable actress like her.
 
Has anyone here seen this yet and can respond with their impressions, reactions and feedback? I'd love to see some reviews for this as I'm thinking of seeing it when it releases over here and it releases quite soon. Looking around now there's doesn't seem to be any critical reviews yet. I did read somewhere the studio has a press embargo on reviews that ends on February 2.

So reviews sometime tomorrow then I presume. Anyone managed to see this yet?
 
They tried to play the main character off as a bland everywoman before the big adventure and then they cast Mila Kunis and named her Jupiter Jones.




WRITING
 
Ya know I love most of the Wachowskis previous stuff, but this lack of hype is bringing me down.

Will definitely see it though. Maybe straight away if the (supposed?) Batman v Superman trailer is good.
 
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