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‘Jupiter Ascending’ Debuts to Muted Crowd at Sundance
Variety ^ | January 27, 2015 | Ramin Setoodeh

Posted on 01/29/2015 5:55:35 AM PST by C19fan

The Sundance Film Festival isn’t a typical launchpad for studio blockbusters, but Warner Bros. surprised theater-goers on Tuesday night by unveiling the Wachowski siblings’ “Jupiter Ascending” at a “secret screening.”

The invitation-only event, which was not billed as a premiere, was the first time “Jupiter Ascending” was shown to the public. Variety broke news of the screening on Tuesday afternoon, but there were other clues the audience wasn’t about to see a typical Sundance indie.

When attendees with tickets arrived at the Egyptian Theater in Park City, they were handed 3D glasses.

Despite the hype of a secret screening, clusters of seats inside the 300-person venue remained empty, and a handful of patrons walked out of the two-hour-plus space epic starring Mila Kunis as a princess and Channing Tatum as an intergalactic soldier tasked with rescuing her.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: fiction; movies; science; wachowski
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Looks like another Wachowski bomb. These guys now guy/girl are one hit wonders. The only interesting question is does Sean Bean survive to the end of the film.
1 posted on 01/29/2015 5:55:35 AM PST by C19fan
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“... does Sean Bean survive to the end of the film?”

If so.. it would be just a few times in his acting career. LOL! Personally, I think he is a good actor.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 5:57:09 AM PST by momtothree
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Bean is awesome. Usually if he is in it, that is a good sign. I remember him from “Sharp’s Rifles” on PBS.


3 posted on 01/29/2015 5:59:05 AM PST by C19fan
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"Looks like another Wachowski bomb. These guys now guy/girl are one hit wonders."

Roger that. The two Matrix sequels were so stinky bad it was hard to believe they were made by the same people who made the original.

4 posted on 01/29/2015 5:59:23 AM PST by circlecity
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Mila looks good in leather at least. What a pretty girl.


5 posted on 01/29/2015 6:02:57 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: C19fan; GraceG; kiryandil; SevenofNine; LUV W; Tax-chick; TheMom; BuckeyeTexan; miliantnutcase; ...


6 posted on 01/29/2015 6:03:50 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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For what it’s worth.. I saw an interview with him. His favorite dying scene was Boramir (LOTR). I had to laugh because most actors answer questions about their favorite character vs what dying scene was your favorite.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 6:05:03 AM PST by momtothree
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sounds like he should wear a red shirt....just sayin’


8 posted on 01/29/2015 6:09:12 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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um... booramir blinked


9 posted on 01/29/2015 6:10:54 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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LOL!


10 posted on 01/29/2015 6:31:48 AM PST by Rummyfan
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Fun with statistics! Not that I ever object to seeing pictures of Sean Bean ... he even looks good when he’s scruffy.


11 posted on 01/29/2015 6:32:16 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's always a longer trip when you defy God." ~ Msgr. Charles Pope)
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In Ronin he was merely dismissed from the team. Doesn't he ever do comedy?
12 posted on 01/29/2015 6:38:26 AM PST by Rummyfan
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I think he is good, for sure. I liked his British series as a Napoleonic era Brit soldier - good stuff.

That said, his latest series (a bomb) about so-called “Legends” (cover personas and background for spies) was childish in its pretext, woefully concocted, and some rather bad acting by him, IMO.


13 posted on 01/29/2015 6:40:47 AM PST by Gaffer
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“... he even looks good when he’s scruffy”.

:)


14 posted on 01/29/2015 6:43:13 AM PST by momtothree
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As a rule, I prefer well-groomed.


15 posted on 01/29/2015 6:49:44 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's always a longer trip when you defy God." ~ Msgr. Charles Pope)
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Me too but yes... he does have a certain “charisma”.


16 posted on 01/29/2015 6:52:18 AM PST by momtothree
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Yup.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 7:12:55 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It's always a longer trip when you defy God." ~ Msgr. Charles Pope)
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Was he the guy ambushed with a cup of coffee?


18 posted on 01/29/2015 7:13:07 AM PST by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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Sundance?

Probably not enough gay cowboys eating pudding to keep the audiences attention.


19 posted on 01/29/2015 7:16:14 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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They should have Sean Bean be the chief of security in the 2016 “Star Trek” movie.


20 posted on 01/29/2015 7:20:52 AM PST by baltimorepoet
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