Has anyone seen Jupiter Ascending? The trailer looks good but it has gotten really bad reviews over here.
I quite liked it--I had a silly grin on my face all the way through. It was fun! I really cannot understand all the hate--especially the hate sent at Mila Kunis. I liked her AND
Jupiter Ascending. I also especially liked Magic Mike--I mean Channing Tatum--as 'Caine'.
Jupiter (Mila Kunis) says, yearningly, "But I
like dogs!" in re Channing/Caine, who is a genetic 'splice' wolf/human, and I laughed out loud. Caine the wolfman once had bird wings that had been amputated as punishment, so, as is usual with the Wachowski siblings, things are complicated, an over-the-top mish-mash.
I see many influences: Cordwainer Smith's
Norstrilia and his bombastic future history ('The Instrumentality of Mankind') with the Underpeople (animals-slash-humans treated as property) that spanned several interlocking stories, novellas and novels; Robert Heinlein's
Glory Road, with a soldier of fortune who helps a beautiful young girl (who turns out to be far, far older, and the Empress of the Twenty Universes besides); H. Rider Haggard's
She (or more likely the 1965 film starring Ursula Andress and John Richardson)--there are even elements of Terry Gilliam's
Brazil.Oh well--at least it isn't
boring!