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Jupiter Ascending
2015 · Film · 127 min
Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…
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By the bee movie, you mean Jupiter ascending?
Well if we eliminate greed and capitalism then maybe at some point we can reach a Star Trek utopia where nobody has to work because we eliminate scarcity.
... Either that or the wealthy just hoard their money-printers and reject the laborers because they no longer need us to make money so society gets split into 99% living in feudal squalor and 1% living as Gods. Like in Jupiter Ascending. Man what a shit movie that was.
What I don't understand is why they want to call it the same thing and try and position it as a remake by abandoning the things that made it the thing. Of course people get angry when you stomp on their memories.
How difficult would it be to just use the core plot element and make a different story around it. This happens all the time this is what most movies are there's only maybe a dozen core plot elements and just different ways of telling that story. You can go full on Jupiter Ascending (but please get better writers) which is obviously the Cinderella story, but there was no hate for it because it stomped on people's memories of Cinderella. People hate it for other reasons of which were understandable.
I always thought the original matrix was stupid. Human batteries? Why aren't we powering our cities using domesticated farm animals? Don't they realize most power comes from the sun? The matrix was not at all an intelligent movie yet people are still analyzing it to this day.
What was good about the matrix was the revelatory structure of the plot coupled with good pacing, unique Kung Fu action (for the time), and stylized cinematography. These are all superficial things and superficial qualities are the primary components of what makes a movie good. A movie that is too deep and too intelligent usually is just bad.
But why do people think the matrix intelligent? Is it intelligent? No far from it. It's one of the stupidest premises ever, but the superficial aspects of it at the time were mind blowing and served to make people think the movie was more intelligent than it was.
The watchowskis got lucky with the matrix. All their other movies lacked the good pacing and other superficial qualities of the matrix but maintained the same level of dumbness (see Jupiter ascending)
Cloud Atlas > Jupiter Ascending
and I wouldnt say that Cloud Atlas qualifies as "... not good film"
Shades of the movie Jupiter Ascending. I wonder if the woman is related to Jupiter Jones. In seriousness, someone should have made an inventory of the products in her car and on it, because if that's something that's going to happen again it could put even more strain on a a fragile bee ecosystem. It could also lead to more effective bee repellents, and/or tools for beekeepers.
> He used to be able to but now he can't.
Netflix will still send you DVDs in the mail. They just don't promote them much. If you're a digital subscriber the disc add-on starts at $5/month.
You can also download Jupiter Ascending from iTunes for $15 (though you can't rent it).
It does suck that there's no DRM-free way to buy a movie online. But, again, no worse than the DVD-only era.