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Ok... I am being a bit sarcastic, but Jupiter Ascending IS an awesome Anime.

And it throws some pretty big bones to WH and 40k (one of the weapons from a very BFG ship is called a "Warhammer" - although the weapons themselves are a COMPLETE STEAL of the Ouroboros from the Anime Heroic Age - which I now think I will watch again).

Speaking of stealing from anime or games:

• The plot is almost directly lifted from Vandread.
• the starships are BFG, Vandread, and ... Dammit!!! It will come to me.... I forgot all of a sudden.
• The starship weapons are from Heroic Age
• The hyper gate to their "home world" was a direct rip from Cowboy Bebop
• The. Grav bike is a WH40K Eldar Grav Bike combined with the anime I cannot remember (or maybe it is a manga???).

They did not explicitly show it, but the space fighters are ACTUALLY Mecha (but they did not show them transform - word is that is being saved for the sequels).

• But the mounting of the Mecha was every Mecha anime loading scene EVER (Gundum, Vandread, Evangelion, Captain Earth, etc... There are just too many to count)

So.... If you read a review that is all:

"WTF is up with this movie? "

Then the reviewer is obviously not at all familiar with ANY anime, Manga, or Wargames.

Because this movie is probably the first EVER to be nothing BUT Anime and gamer based.

The Wachowski's are Gods.

MB

I'm pretty sure that cowboy bebop wasn't the first piece of fiction to have a hypergate...

Sorry saying it was like Pacific Rim is enough to ensure I don't want to watch it

I might go see that today

I wish I'd known years ago that all I needed to do was constantly reference Anime and Table Top games to make good fiction. So many wasted years...

the sequel

I wouldn't get my hopes up on that ever happening.

My wife was interested in this but reviews seem to be very bad. Someone let me know if that isn't the case, given the right expectations.

References do not equal a good movie. They are lazy pandering. Why are we praising a movie for this?

It's not what you have, it's how you use it. Tech isn't enough if the plot and characters suck, and from what I've heard this is where Jupiter Ascending fails.

Everything I've heard about it amounts to "pretty but the script is poop." No amount of special effects can salvage a story that's not there.

 Soteks Prophet wrote:
Sorry saying it was like Pacific Rim is enough to ensure I don't want to watch it

Yeah, that doesn't motivate me to see it, especially given the scathing reviews. Although be warned...plenty on this forum LOVE Pacific Rim.

IMO, geeks could stand to demand more from their geek entertainment. But whatevs.

Pacific Rim was awesome for the fight scenes. Everything not a fight was just not worth the ticket.

Also:

Then the reviewer is obviously not at all familiar with ANY anime, Manga, or Wargames.

Because this movie is probably the first EVER to be nothing BUT Anime and gamer based.

These do not make the movie good. A movie should be able to stand on its own without this horsecrap.

I do have to say I am intrigued by the design aesthetics of the movie, I'm just not sure if the acting will not just be complete crap. Gives me a real "Dune" art-deco vibe.

For the same reasons that the art of the Necromungers from Chronicles of Riddick was absolutely awesome and inspired. The rest of the movie.....not so much.

BeAfraid wrote:
Ok... I am being a bit sarcastic, but Jupiter Ascending IS an awesome Anime.

And it throws some pretty big bones to WH and 40k (one of the weapons from a very BFG ship is called a "Warhammer" - although the weapons themselves are a COMPLETE STEAL of the Ouroboros from the Anime Heroic Age - which I now think I will watch again).

Speaking of stealing from anime or games:

• The plot is almost directly lifted from Vandread.
• the starships are BFG, Vandread, and ... Dammit!!! It will come to me.... I forgot all of a sudden.
• The starship weapons are from Heroic Age
• The hyper gate to their "home world" was a direct rip from Cowboy Bebop
• The. Grav bike is a WH40K Eldar Grav Bike combined with the anime I cannot remember (or maybe it is a manga???).

They did not explicitly show it, but the space fighters are ACTUALLY Mecha (but they did not show them transform - word is that is being saved for the sequels).

• But the mounting of the Mecha was every Mecha anime loading scene EVER (Gundum, Vandread, Evangelion, Captain Earth, etc... There are just too many to count)

So.... If you read a review that is all:

"WTF is up with this movie? "

Then the reviewer is obviously not at all familiar with ANY anime, Manga, or Wargames.

Because this movie is probably the first EVER to be nothing BUT Anime and gamer based.

The Wachowski's are Gods.

MB

Hate to break this to you, but all the things youre giving credit to as inspiration probably arent the inspirations for those things... Pretty much everything you listed was inspired heavily by something else.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jupiter_ascending_2014/

That's all, folks.

I hope Sean Bean doesn't die in this movie. He's an awesome actor and it would break my heart into a million different teeny tiny pieces forever if a character he played died.

This is a rare movie indeed. Sean Bean lives in this movie, although they give the idea that he dies in one scene before he shows back up later.

I liked it, but it felt like a YA novel, as it is pretty cheesy romance filled when there isn't cool things duking it out.

Spoilers ahoooooy!

 Sigvatr wrote:
Spoilers ahoooooy!

Honestly, from what I hear the film is completely and utterly predictable on every level.

The aforementioned spoiler demonstrates otherwise.

I mean, lets face it. That's groundbreaking stuff there.

Just got back from watching it. Used old gift cards, so no cash out of my pocket. Which is good, as it wasn’t the best. All flash, no substance.

But the flash was nice. It’s oozing the 40k vibe. Like Event Horizon showed us humanity venturing into the warp, Jupiter Ascending shows us how the upper crust of the 40k aristocracy lives.

That doesn’t make it a good movie, but all the 40k fans should rent/netflix it in a few months.

I want to check it out. I loved Pacific Rim, and I hope to be able to find the fun in this film. It should be easier to please me as a viewer since I tend to enjoy a lot of things in a movie that don't matter as much to mainstream audiences. Stupid fun can still be fun.

 AegisFate wrote:
This is a rare movie indeed. Sean Bean lives in this movie, although they give the idea that he dies in one scene before he shows back up later.

Richard Sharpe. One of the few characters tough enough to survive being played by Sean Bean.

 Compel wrote:
The aforementioned spoiler demonstrates otherwise.

I mean, lets face it. That's groundbreaking stuff there.

Sean Bean has lived to the end credits before Not his fault he's cast as the bad guy most of the time, and bad guys usually die

Although, a lot of the films he's been in, it's actually been quite plausible that if he DOES live, he's murdered quietly off-screen by one of the factions in the film shortly after it ends.

But seriously, I'm starting to think I'd like to see this film now.

 Sigvatr wrote:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jupiter_ascending_2014/

That's all, folks.

Even without that link, I probably wouldn't see it.... the radio station I listen to, Liquid Metal on Sirius/XM, the DJs were fairly merciless in their "review" of the film.


I also saw a sarcastic article that exalted the movie because it had "not one, but TWO scenes of Interplanetary Real Estate Law that you didn't even know you needed to see!"

A friend of my wife's watched it and she said it reminded her of Matrix 3. Lots of flashy action but little actual substance. She adores Sean Bean.

It's just sad that such a movie already made almost 4 times as much money as Paddington did. No sarcasm. Paddington is an outstanding movie. Very charmingly written, appealing to old and young, good script, engaging narrative.

If this bombs, will this make the Wachowskis to sci-fi action films what M. Night Shyamalan is to horror films? 1 groundbreaking film and everything else bombs.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything good since the first Matrix.

You mean they aren't already?

 Sigvatr wrote:

It's just sad that such a movie already made almost 4 times as much money as Paddington did. No sarcasm. Paddington is an outstanding movie. Very charmingly written, appealing to old and young, good script, engaging narrative.

I'm no expert in anything cinema related (I enjoy watching films... beyond that, I'm not very keen on the "science" of making movies)... but, could Paddington be suffering from being released at the "wrong" time of the year?

I mean, right now, it's around Valentine's day, so rom-coms are "in season" kids right now, are generally in school, and spring break is still a month + away for most people, so they aren't going to be letting Timmy and Sally skip school to go watch a movie, generally.