I haven't seen Jupiter Ascending but I do agree with you on several of the trailers:
1. The first preview of Chappie made it look like a feature-length Robot Wars competition so I mentally killfiled it. But now the more recent trailer shows it has philosophical and narrative depth as a man-vs-machines-gone-bad story a la Terminator 2 (but hopefully less bombastic). I may go to see it.
2. The first two times I saw the previews for Run All Night I asked myself, "Wait, is this an ad for one of the Taken movies?" These flicks with Liam Neeson beating people up are becoming as tedious as Charles Bronson's Deathwish franchise. Or Bruce Willis' Die Hard.
3. I saw a few minutes of Ted on TV via picture-in-picture while I was programming something else on my DVR. My ghod, that movie is stupid. I can barely understand how it was green-lit. And given that it was made, I can barely understand why people went to see it. And given what a smoking turd the movie was, I can barely understand why Hollywood is crapping out a sequel. But apparently enough people went to see the first one that it made good money, so put your hip waders on because here comes another.
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Date: 2015-02-22 05:42 am (UTC)1. The first preview of Chappie made it look like a feature-length Robot Wars competition so I mentally killfiled it. But now the more recent trailer shows it has philosophical and narrative depth as a man-vs-machines-gone-bad story a la Terminator 2 (but hopefully less bombastic). I may go to see it.
2. The first two times I saw the previews for Run All Night I asked myself, "Wait, is this an ad for one of the Taken movies?" These flicks with Liam Neeson beating people up are becoming as tedious as Charles Bronson's Deathwish franchise. Or Bruce Willis' Die Hard.
3. I saw a few minutes of Ted on TV via picture-in-picture while I was programming something else on my DVR. My ghod, that movie is stupid. I can barely understand how it was green-lit. And given that it was made, I can barely understand why people went to see it. And given what a smoking turd the movie was, I can barely understand why Hollywood is crapping out a sequel. But apparently enough people went to see the first one that it made good money, so put your hip waders on because here comes another.