Yeah, that was awesome. I wish.
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Fuck, yeah.
Jupiter seems to spend most of her movie ascending to the "rescue me" tower.
She rescued herself at one point.
From a petulant Eddie Radmayne while he was wearing a caftan that did more than half of the work of fighting him.
I did say most. But once you have been rescued five times in nearly identical scenes, it just doesn't feel very bad ass.
If she had finished the job with Redmayne it would have helped a bit but the movie would have been a narrative mess either way. There was a lot of potential squandered there, in my estimation.
The Wachowskis are feeling a bit George Lucas to me these days.
The Wachowskis have felt Lucas-y to me since Matrix Reloaded.
Reviews seem to indicate they're doing a good job with Sense8 (or Lily is, I guess, since Lana just left the project).
I can definitely see how stresses in their personal lives might have interfered with doing their best work since 2003. Hopefully things will goa bit smoother from now on.
I think Sense8 has the same problems as some of that other stuff, but it's also got more room to make up for those problems. Or better characters. Or just more characters.
Jupiter Ascending was stupid in someways, but I also found it tremendously fun and watchable.