It is supposed to be a mess and I CANNOT wait to see it!
Of course it will be a mess. It is the Wachoskwi Siblings! Mess is their middle name. But what a beautiful mess it will be. I have to admit their movies have gone off the rails often. Bound was a masterpiece. Granted, I watched with a theater of lesbians and that might have tainted my opinion, but it was pretty darn good!
. The Matrix was amazing, only to be followed up by dull sequels. I loved the Cloud Atlas. All the parts with everyone by Tom Hanks. Directing actors isn't their strong suit. They were lucky they wrote "Neo" as a blank character and then hired Keanu for the part. Perfect casting!
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And the more I read about Jupiter Ascending, the better / worse it sounds. I mean the visuals are stunning. Just look.
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Gorgeous - Although doesn't it remind you of Dinotopia?
And I had to search for a picture of Douglas Booth when I read this in Salon. "The plot of “Jupiter Ascending” consists almost entirely of Jupiter getting enticed or coerced into really bad decisions – like an Alexander McQueen-style wedding with another godlike entity named Titus (Douglas Booth), a fellow so vain and pretty and metrosexual he makes David Beckham circa 2002 look like a fishing buddy of Hemingway – and then getting rescued by intergalactic pointy-eared bad boy Tatum and his atomic boots."
Mila (with bride of Frankenstein hair?) and Douglas Booth (too pretty by far).
But wait, there's more. For your $19.95 we will double your bad movie offer and give you this... "Maybe there’s an online guide somewhere that explains what the hell is going on in “Jupiter Ascending” – or maybe there would be if anyone cared, which honestly makes me sad. At any rate, Jupiter gets dragged into some kind of cosmic royal-family turf war and/or hambone acting competition between Eddie Redmayne and Tuppence Middleton, playing a pair of decadent, semi-immortal beings whose attitude toward you and me is not benevolent."
Academy Award Nominee (not for this) Eddie Redmayne, Douglas Booth and Tuppence Middleton in round one of the "Hambone Acting Competition"
I am aquiver with anticipation. And I love the name Tuppence. I think of Julie Andrews!
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But it does look pretty....
. Postscript: Explanation of Reference to Tuppence - if you don't understand. When I was little, this part of the movie just bored the hell out of me.