Posted on 02/07/2015 12:40:09 PM PST by Perdogg
The Wachowski siblings’ “Jupiter Ascending” is not “The Matrix,” according to the majority of critics panning the science fiction spectacle starring Channing Tatum as an intergalactic bounty hunter and Mila Kunis as the oblivious heir to the universe.
The Warner Bros. release has 31 percent “rotten” approval rating from 49 critics counted, so far, by Rotten Tomatoes. Unfortunately, even the 15 reviews the critic aggregator considers “fresh” aren’t very positive.
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The movie is a trainwreck. If you don’t have time to get to the theater just drink a six pack of Red Bull and hold a blow drier up to each ear and you’ll get the gist of it.
I’m a fan of elaborate 3D computer generated imagery which is why I went to see it. There was lots of pretty stuff to look at including some nice hyperstereo scenes of Chicago’s skyline. In those terms I got my money’s worth, but it’s a shame what a good movie this could have been with some decent writing, direction and an rudimentary understanding of pacing. As it is this feels like an incoherent six hour story crammed into two hours. I’m still not sure whose side some of the characters were on - (does anyone know if the tattooed Asian chick was one of the bad guys?)
I left the theater wondering how the hell this thing ever got greenlighted and released.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/xanadu/
Heh heh heh...
Sounds like Ishtar bad.
*Yikes!*
In gay Hollywood, it might be the case that trannie producers get funding. It may not change until all the gay-controlled studios go bust.
I took my daughter to it years and years ago because she just had to see it. She ended up grabbing my elbow and telling me "let's get out of here."
The worst movie I've ever seen, I think, even "Plan 9 from Outer Space."
Xanadu-gag, choke-and Olivia Newton John on skates singing that awful song. I think I even saw a perfume with that name...
Yes....but they pioneered that 360 degree surround quickclip technique...
A good friend at the time warned me not to see Xanadu, and I’ve been grateful ever since.
Friends don’t let friends see Xanadu.
Wasn’t there a Gene Kelley roller skating scene?
“I think I even saw a perfume with that name...”
So that wasn’t a terrible dream then.
*OMG*
If the “experts” hate it, I’ll probably love it. It usually goes that way. Some homosexual towel-crying wimpy sadsack story usually gets the “experts” loving a movie; e.g. Bridges Over Madison County.
And a short Don Bluth animated sequence.
I can’t say that I was impressed by the trailer. The plot seemed muddled.
How about Gigli?
Did you ever see the 6th sense? I thought that was a wonderful movie. It had romance, but no sex, dead people but it wasn’t gory (there was a scene that freaked me out, but I’m the worst, ask my family), it had clean language, in one scene the guy says: that’s bullsh*t and the little kid says: don’t use bad language and there was no more in the entire picture.
I thought it was a good story, and I really appreciated how not offensive it was in terms of sex, violence, language.
To be fair, the only real acting in that movie was by J-Lo’s backside.
And it just couldn’t hold the movie together.
They were well loved LONG before then. I think it’s all because Matrix made so much money, often times the Hollywood guys know they don’t understand the audiences, everybody knows Matrix is stupid, they even put it in the March dump zone, and yet it made the fat cash. I think that’s why they get greenlit now, the studios say “yeah, it looks dumb, but look at how much money Matrix made”. Because in the end the studios don’t care if the movies are good or bad, they want them profitable.
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