"All I ever wanted, all I ever needed..."

[greygirlbeast]

How do you break a fairy tale? You send Cinderella back to her cinders.

Or back to scrubbing toilets.

This is, near as I could tell, the message of the almost indescribably insipid Jupiter Ascending. I have been a steadfast admirer of the Wachowskis ever since Bound (1996). Though, I will admit that I skipped Speed Racer, because the very idea

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[setsuled]

There's a screenplay that might have been written in an afternoon. By a twelve year old.

I felt like it was a very cynical grab for the Divergence audience.

There's wooden acting and Inexplicable direction.

I thought Sean Bean was good. But as my first exposure to Channing Tatum, it really made me wonder how he's managed to do so well for himself.

Oh, and there's Mila Kunis. if I never again have to suffer a single moment of Mila Kunis, it'll be far too soon.

She has a natural warmth that can be effective. I felt Jupiter Ascending might have been Warner Brothers' answer to Marvel's Farscape movie, Guardians of the Galaxy, and I wouldn't have minded seeing Kunis in the earthling fish out of water role. There's just not enough that's earthly about her, as you said, sloppy caricature family or the fact that, at the end of the day, she really loves scrubbing toilets.

[greygirlbeast]

and I wouldn't have minded seeing Kunis in the earthling fish out of water role.

She had the same affect on my as the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard.

[setsuled]

Her tone in Jupiter Ascending does have a consistent falseness to it.

I meant to point out that Joss Whedon says he didn't leave Twitter due to the bullying tweets as had been widely reported. But he doesn't deny the extraordinary, short sighted rancour aimed at him there.

[harvey_rrit]

" '...A feminism that isn’t about personal choice is a perverse thing indeed.' "

"Liberation" without personal choice is a thing we have seen before.

I seem to recall it ended badly; explosion of a bomb-material reactor and an epidemic of kuru particularly stand out.

I also recall it was defended and rationalized on this side of the Iron Curtain by the same people pushing it now.

[greygirlbeast]

"Liberation" without personal choice is a thing we have seen before.

I will set you free! Whether you like it or not! And if you don't want what we're selling, I will destroy you!

Um. Yeah.

[harvey_rrit]

"Come da revolution, everybody gettin' STRAWBERRIES AND CREAM!"

"I'm allergic to strawberries."

"Come da revolution, you'll eat stawberries and like 'em."

[elibrite]

1. Until now, I didn't realize there had even been a fuss over the treatment of Black Widow in Age of Ultron. I poked around -- apparently a lot of people without critical thinking skills or any desire to analyze a narrative looked at the same scenes that I thought made Natasha a wonderfully more nuanced character and gave fans a look at her backstory (which most other Avengers got a fleshed-out version of several movies ago)...and then some of those same people got on Twitter and lobbed poorly spelled obscenities and threats at Whedon

[ext_3150328]

I have...mixed feelings about the "Age of Ultron"/Black Widow thing. I am a woman who can't have children for various medical reasons, so perhaps I am personalizing this too much. AND I don't know what Whedon intended with the now-infamous line "You think you're the only monster on this team?" - I have also heard that a LOT was cut out of the theatre release and perhaps the inevitable extended blu-ray film will cast all this in a better light. Yet I am VERY unhappy about the way Black Widow's character was insulted and shamed by the male actors who play Captain America and Hawkeye. We live in a world in which Wonder Woman's first EVER big-screen appearance was in "The Lego Movie" - and I am NOT okay with that

[greygirlbeast]

Incidentally, what do you think of the MRA boycott of the new "Mad Max" movie?

It was good for a laugh.

[robyn_ma]

Um, hi.