When Warner Brothers pulled Jupiter Ascending from its summer slot less than 7 weeks before its expected July 16 premiere date, they cited the need for more time to finish complex special effects. Skeptics raised eyebrows because that’s what skeptics do. Loyal fans remained loyal because that’s what loyal fans do. The Wachowski siblings proceeded to complete their vision the way they wanted at whatever cost (this time, $190 million), because that’s what the Wachowski siblings do. No matter which story about delay anyone chooses to believe, we can be sure Jupiter Ascending will deliver wildly imaginative visual spectacle and wildly imaginative narrative risks. Most of us wouldn’t want it any other way. If a few months more work has helped improve the shape of the movie as much as the trailer has improved, then the extra time, effort and money looks to have been worth it.We should be grateful filmmakers like the Wachowskis can even exist in the current Hollywood economy — and that gratitude extends in large part to Warner Brothers, for granting Land and Andy this kind of freedom, on this scale, for that amount of money, and for all the other indulgences seeing this movie to its proper completion must have entailed.
New trailer for the the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending
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Ryan, you know all too well I hate to disagree with you, but gosh this just looks horrible.
even with that weird dog joke at the end.
ha, Joey! that dog joke is what sealed the deal for me. It’s offbeat, it lets us know the movie won’t be ponderous, Kunis and Tatum sell it with nice timing. It’s just off-the-wall fun. That back-and-forth is cuter writing than the entirety of Guardians of the Galaxy.
I’m still looking forward to this…even with that weird dog joke at the end.
Mila Kunis is a dud.
@W.J. while a trailer certainly doesn’t tell the whole story about whether a film is good or bad, in my opinion, I thought the trailer itself was beautiful.
This looks horrible! Plain and simple.
I really liked Cloud Atlas (and Bound, and The Matrix), but for some reason I find it hard to get excited about this film. I was initially, but the trailers have left me somewhat cold, and I’m not entirely sure why. I think part of it might be, I’m not sold on Mila Kunis’ performance here–she seems to me to be too muted, too passive. I hope I’m wrong and that the film is all it can be, but I can’t shake the gut feeling that something didn’t quite come together here.
I’ll be extremely shocked if I don’t love this movie. It’s right up my alley, being Sci-Fi and apparently epic, it’s got my imaginary husband of 20 years, Sean Bean, and I absolutely loved CLOUD ATLAS. What could go wrong?