Willow ,'Storyteller'
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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.
I saw Whit Stillman's new Jane Austen movie, Love & Friendship, over the weekend and enjoyed it tons. The trailer: [link]
I had no interest in her Underworld movies so haven't seen Beckinsale in anything for years. I'd forgotten how delightful she could be in period stuff! (She was a fun Emma but she will always be Flora Poste to meeee). Also refreshing is the fact that her character is both the heroine and the villain of the story, but it's all so frothy, there is only a sliver of moralizing in the proceedings.
Also: The Last Days of Disco reunion!
Jupiter ascending was indeed mostly fun and watchable. But the third or fourth time dude saved her from some crisis with seconds to spare it started to feel kind of repetitive.
Robert Post's child, yes.
When it comes to Jupiter Ascending, I prefer to let Shrill and Mallory speak for me.
Sense8, I enjoyed the first season tremendously, but it's very in the Late Wachowski Period of Operatic Interlocking Shit That You Probably Shouldn't Think Too Hard About But Just Let The Feels Wash Over You And Assume It All Means Something.
(OH HAI I ALSO LIKED CLOUD ATLAS)
The first time I saw Jupiter Ascending, my friend and I laughed the whole way through. It was ridiculous fun. The next time I saw it was with a young teenage girl and she loved it. All the stuff I thought was silly af, she adored to bits. She thinks Avengers and Superman and Batman are boring because it's all just fighting and stuff blowing up. JA was her superhero movie. Seeing it with her changed my opinion about it. I mean, it's still dumb, but honestly so are MY favorite movies. "Bees recognize a queen!" isn't actually dumber than "I got my spider powers from a radioactive spider!"