Jupiter Ascending

I saw Jupiter Ascending several months ago and I'm realizing now that I should've done a post on it at the time. I know some people have said some bad things about it, but I don't know what they thought was so bad about it. I loved it. But first, I should point out that this post will contain a lot of spoilers, so if you haven't seen it, I suggest you don't read it yet. You've been warned. I thought Mila Kunis was great in her role. Mila Kunis (Jupiter Jones) was born to two human parents and relatives, and yet she had the same exact DNA as someone completely not human. Isn't that itself ingenious? I thought it was a very interesting turn of events. Also, the fact that the House of Abrasax could produce immortality at the expense of some many lives. That's a major plot part right there. It starts off with an unethical but highly desirable process going on there. And that has to be addressed in the movie. I thought it was interesting who she turned out to be because it was rather unexpected.

"I love dogs, I've always loved dogs." I liked when she said that.

I thought that Jupiter and Caine's relationship was interesting because she didn't really know the relationships that she shouldn't have given her position, or much about him in general. On the other hand, he knew some about her and knew she was above his position.

Sometimes I think Mila Kunis, in this movie and others with her in it, looks similar to someone I know, but not always. Maybe it's that look she's giving in the above picture.

I thought the ending was interesting too. After all that, she still ends up doing something similar to what she was, only she chooses it and feels good about herself. That is, despite the fact that she's doing all this other stuff during the night and what not which is obviously different than the beginning of the movie.

 I absolutely loved the piece where there was in a hidden facility on Jupiter. I've always thought something was hidden on Jupiter since it's clouds would hide anything and it does have a solid core despite what some people may think about it being entirely made of gas. For all we know, there's an alien civilization on Jupiter that has really dense bones, body and strong muscles to stand the high gravity, and they created the gas or strengthened it or something to keep them selves hidden with their superior technology. For all we know they remotely disabled NASA's cameras so that they wouldn't see anything, then turned it back on when they were done.

This is one of the few, if not the only, scene that had all three siblings in it.

Not knowing much about the siblings was kind of dangerous for Jupiter given all there power, but since they see their mother in her, their relationship with her could reveal their attitude towards Jupiter. Balem kind of a good example. Near the end of his mothers life, he didn't get along with her very well, and argued a lot. He wanted to kill Jupiter because she threatened his wealth and power. However, his relationship wasn't always bad with his mother. She groomed him as her replacement and they got along well. In fact, after a terrible fight in which he killed her, he regretted it later. In all actuality, he killed her because she asked him to. So he had mixed feelings for her over the years.
So that's what I thought about the movie. What did you think about Jupiter Ascending? Tell me what you did or didn't like about it.

The Hunger Games

Most of the time (in my other blog) I'm here to talk about horror movies. Today, I'm here to talk about a not-so-horror movie. (Unless you count the scene with the genetically enhanced bees). Today I'm here to talk about the movie probably most of you have heard of The Hunger Games (Part 1). Obviously The Hunger Games series is on its third movie, but I'm only going to be talking about the first part.

Here's a famous picture that pretty much everyone has seen, whether they watched the movie or not. Ask anyone and they'll recognize this picture.

 Given what I know about the number 13, being bad luck and what it leads to in horror movies, it makes a lot of sense to me that there would be 13 districts. And that the 13th would get destroyed, because, when doesn't something happen to the 13th? That's why in 1408 there is 14 stories to the building, but no 13th floor. A lot of times when I watch a movie, I recognize several actors/actresses or at least one notable actor/actress. A good example of this is actually when I watch Jupiter Ascending, because I recognized Mila Kunis from Black Swan. In the Hunger Games, I didn't recognize any actors/actresses, that I remember. I went and saw it because I heard about how good it was and wanted to see it for myself. It was as good as it was depicted to me. I mean, sure at times I lost track of who had killed who, and who was left alive, but then again, who didn't? I thought that a piece got a little slow and boring in the capital, but it certainly wasn't once they made it to the forest and it was kill or be killed. I don't think there was quite as much done with the sponsor later in the movie as there should of, because it seemed minimal, despite how much emphasis was put on their importance earlier on. In general, I don't know how necessary the sponsors were anyways. Who ever had was going to get killed, would get killed, they just needed to make sure that it wasn't them. It was kill or be killed. It was interesting who Katniss and the other guy were going to kill themselves so there was a winner. Me, I'd be fine with taking my big fat check or whatever and going home as long as they wouldn't pick me again. However, no matter who is ruling, or whatever, there always has got to be someone who doesn't like the system, or wants something better or different. That's the rule, synergy and the like doesn't make a good movie. It leads to boring movies such as, well I can't name any movies off the top of my head like that, but you get the point. I guess I'm just good at picking out movies and never watch anything boring, maybe it's because a good portion of them are horror movies. With all that said, I just wonder what the next parts are going to bring. Will she just go home and them move on to the next Hunger Games? Will something else happen to prevent the next one? Will the next movie take place between now and then?