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Shitfest 2015: Jupiter Ascending

cropped-shitfest-trees-white-creepy.jpgI am so pleased to present Melissa from SNAP CRACKLE WATCH and her first ever post here!!!!

A couple of weeks ago, I was super bored and I put my name in for a bunch of stupid contests from my local newspaper. To my surprise I won two tickets to see Jupiter Ascending. So last time I did this contest thing, I won tickets for Kill the Messenger. Bueller, Bueller, anyone seen that effing movie? Nope, because it was a piece of crap.

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Knowing that I thought to myself, maybe I shouldn’t go see this movie, then I saw some more trailers and really thought wow, Melissa, you should not go see this crap movie. But being the nice person that I am, I invited one of my best gf’s to see it and she said, yes I will drop everything to see it! As much as I love her I thought dammit, now I have to go.

So we stocked up on candy and goldfish and I carried 2 sodas and a water in my purse and got in line an hour before the movie started.

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OMG, the people in that line were NUTTY to say the least. Apparently, there are a bunch of people out there, all weird as hell who thrive on these free movie contests. These three really odd, eccentric women started talking about hating pretty much anything mainstream out there and how they refuse to pay for HBO or Starz or anything like that. Mind you I am in the middle of them, my arm hurts from lugging all the smuggled sodas. Then my friend finally shows up and we are just stuck there listening to these people bitch about everything. At this point, I am over it I want to go home, but screw it my best buddy is here and we will make a night out of it.

Then my friend said that the whole theater smelled like a roller rink. Remember those? My young friends out there (Zoe, Natasha, Anna) probably don’t remember, but those places smelled like old socks and BO. I really wish she had not said that because that’s all I could focus on.

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We finally get in and the place is packed. It’s like a giant party of weirdos  and rejected Comic-Con people in there. But we are good we got our snacks and 10 dollar popcorn that I gave in and bought because it just smelled too good.

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(My $$$ popcorn)

The movie starts after a million previews as usual, and we cannot see the movie, it looks all fuzzy. I thought everyone was about to riot in there, people started going crazy. The movie is in 3-D and they forgot to give us glasses. So then they turn the lights back on, pass out glasses to every single person in the theater. Oh god! They turn the movie back on and we have to watch the previews again. At this point, this movie better be Oscar worthy, because it is a Monday and it is just too early in the week to deal with this type of shenanigans.

On to the movie, Jupiter Ascending is the worst movie of 2015. It is only February, but I am sure it is the worst.

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The movie is about a girl named Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), her Russian father named her that because he liked planets. The father is killed and I couldn’t tell you why these Russian people came in and shot him, and now the mother is left to raise her alone.

Her mother and her clean toilets for a living. Out in space there a bunch of people fighting for mother Earth. Those are the two sides of the stories, Jupiter who is on Earth and the people in space who want to utilize Earth for nefarious things.

This pretty dude Titus, his sister Kalique (Tuppence Middleton) and brother Balem (Eddie Redmayne) are all part of the Abrasax family. That pretty guy hires Caine Wise (Channing Tatum) to find the special person on Earth who is actually the mother of those space people re-incarnated. Uh huh sure, still with me. I am sure you guys can guess who it is.

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Caine is actually a half-man, half dog person and Jupiter tells him she really likes dogs, so yeah it’s a match made in heaven. He takes her to see Stinger (Sean Bean), he used to be a fighter in space and now he lives on Earth with his daughter, in a place filled with bees. The bees are attracted to Jupiter because it turns out she is really Queen Abrasax. When Caine and Stinger see this, they realize they need to save her because her space children actually want to kill her and take her throne.

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Turns out Balem, since he is the oldest should actually get throne next, but his brothers and sisters want it too.  Balem is a bad guy, I mean they all are, but he has a bunch of dragons slash dinosaur minions doing his dirty work. So when he sees Jupiter, who he believes is his mother, he wants to kill her because apparently a million years ago she tried to kill him. HUH? What the hell was going on, I still really don’t know. In fact, towards the end I was falling asleep and ready go to home and the 3-D glasses were giving me a headache.

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From there I don’t know what the hell happened. The whole movie was action sequences that were superfluous and pointless and nothing really made sense or tied together. The only thing I enjoyed was seeing this pretty, pretty man.

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I know the Waschoiski duo who did the Matrix films did this, so you would think it would be halfway decent, but it just didn’t work. I think they were trying to hard to be cool like Guardians of the Galaxy. The graphics and 3-D component of the film were really well done though, so I will give them kudos for that aspect, and only that.

Everything in this movie reminded me of something else… in space.

Magic Mike in space

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Family Guy’s Meg in space

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Jupiter Ascending (2014) trailer (Screengrab)

The logo on the barrels in Breaking Bad in space

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Ned Stark in Space

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The girl from Belle in space

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Stephen Hawking in space

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A girl who has hair like Lana Wachowski in space

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Wannabe Queen Amidala in space

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Moral of this post, whatever you do, don’t waste your money or time on this weird craptastic movie.

}}Melissa

105 comments

  2. Zoë

    Lady! I love this! Smuggling shit into the theatre is the only way to watch a movie 😛 I grab mini burgers and spans of sweets, pack my bag and pay the cinema only for my Slush Puppy because screw them and their exorbitant prices (especially here – the Slushy is almost equal to a damn movie ticket!!!!!!!). NOOOOOOOOOOOO, Redmayne in this? And Sean Bean? And Channing Tatum? What is going on in the world? I had no interest seeing this, even with The Matrix names attached to it, solely because my goodness, those previews peeved me already. What I DO know, though, is there are few things as entertaining as watching a shitty movie with your bestie!

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  6. emmakwall

    Awesome review!!! Really funny 🙂 🙂
    Cannot believe they forgot the glasses and STARTED THE PREVIEWS AGAIN!!!!!!! NO!!!
    And loved the ‘Breaking Bad’ logos – well spotted!!
    Made me laugh about smuggling the food into the cinema, it’s a similar state of affairs when I go. Military operation!!
    This film sounds terrible, I didn’t fancy it much anyway but your review has solidified it for me!!

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  20. lukebbtt

    I love that the entire cinema sequence was Shitfest worthy. Not just the film, but the queues, the audiences, the staff… I think this deserves double points for that reason alone!

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  21. caragale

    I hate that this is so terrible. I really had hoped for better. 😦 But, hey, you got a great Shitfest review out of it!!! Well done, Melissa!!! Damn those Wachowskis, stealing things/people from other sources!!! Hahaha.

    Oh, also the most important thing here: HOW DO YOU KEEP WINNING ALL THESE MOVIE TICKETS??? …And can you share? 😉

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  23. Smash

    A belated congrats on your first shitfest post Melissa! What a beauty it was, too!
    But man oh man, it really made me miss Ned stark. Such a handsome half pony laid to rest too soon.

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