Guess what guys and gals?  We have a Theatrical Review this week!  This week we went to see Jupiter Ascending, the Wachowskis newest film adventure.  We were both intrigued by the trailers we saw before but were worried from previous experiences as well as the fact this movie was almost delayed a year.  It was originally on our Summer Movie list for geeks-sake!  Was the movie worth it?  

Well to start off let’s be positive, this movie is abso-lutely gorgeous!  The graphics, vistas and just pure strange creatures all looked fantastic and if that is all you want from a movie I would highly recommend you see this movie in the theater now.  Heck even spring for the 3D as I have heard it only enhances the awesomeness that is this movies beauty.   The action for the most part was pretty fast paced and enjoyable except for the confusing and long action scene over Chicago or Tatum and Bean’s jaunt through a wall of robots. That is about where I’m going to stop with the positives though.

So lets get into the cons of this movie.  The writing of this movie is so damn choppy and inconsistent that it really becomes more than a little hard to follow and just plain nonsensical at times.  The love story between Tatum and Kunis feels really forces and kind of out of character, see Anakin/Padme “no but I love you~.”  Okay maybe not that bad but it felt shoehorned in.  Besides Tatum and Bean I didn’t really think the acting was anything to sneeze at (it was either bad or just kinda bland).  Also don’t get me started on Mr. Wisper face that Eddie Redmayne was playing.  I don’t know if it was his choice or bad directing but his character needed some major tweeks as it was sometimes so hard to hear him unless he screamed. The last part that I’ll harp on was the story.  Overall it felt like big sections were cut out or just forgotten entirely.  The movie builds up a cool mythos and talks some awesome history and I would loved to have seen but instead seems to stick with a weird hybrid feel of Flash Gordon mixed with Dune and the Matrix.

All in all, no this is not a horrible movie but it is also far from a great movie.  The action and absolute beauty might win over some and hell even the over all feeling of Cheesy might make some believe this will be a cult hit down the line.  But I keep feeling that I kind of want to see the original cut of the movie to see what was or was not lost.  Whether you see this one… well that choice is yours but definitely keep your expectations in check (we went in with none really).

Also this week we have  Streaming Review as well as some new nerd news.