Jupiter Ascending
I for the life of me don't really get why this film is shit on so much. It's the sort of film that of course won't be for everyone's tastes. I think it's just one of those films that people decided was 'bad' and so they can only view it through a lens of the film being bad. I have read so many comments about how terrible it is. That I almost didn't go see it.
The reason I saw it is because I like big science fiction / fantasy action adventure stuff with good visuals. So I thought, 'there may be enough of that to make it worth while.' I totally expected the film to be as crappy, dumb and atrocious as comments I had seen. However none of the crappy and atrocious stuff was there. It was a big over the top entertaining science fantasy film that delivered what I wanted. It is no atrocious. It is not crappy. The film looks great and is well shot. It feels like they edited some scenes out for time that were necessary, which is my main complaint. The story is interesting. The settings are interesting. The whole giant millions year old galactic civilization thing we see bits of is great.
Struggling with the negative comments, there is nothing more 'dumb' or 'stupid' in this than any big budget special effects action film we get these days. It just seems this film, like a film like John Carter (a better film than this), it got labelled with being awful, dumb and bad before people ever saw it. If you go into the film with that in mind, of course it may seem dumb. All these films are though. The Hulk? Iron Man, hell that last captain America film had a nazi's conscience in 1970s computers. Dumber than anything in this. Yet those films people give suspension of disbelief for. This, a lot of people won't.
It seems a lot of people like to demonstrate their movie watching brilliance by shitting on films and being negative. It's why those terrible 'cinema sins' or 'Everything wrong with....' videos that nit pick movies to the dumbest possible level are popular. This film, there for some reason, like with John Carter, a general view which then gave people permission to shit all over it and so many do.
The film doesn't deserve it. Will you like it, I don't know. Did I like it yes. I like great looking, well designed fantasy films with good action, great visuals and an interesting story. I actually think the story was too complicated for the level of attention required those going into the film to hate, or with out an open mind to follow.
All I would say is, if a big space opera action adventure film is something that you like and don't have to take too seriously, then you'll probably like it. It's no worse than any of these other films, people just decided it was and never gave it a chance.
