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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Maybe people are getting tired of massive CGI effects that essentially make every movie a cartoon. I was watching Terminator the other day and my son was riveted to the screen. Good action and little or no CGI. I even pointed out to him how the guy in the truck on fire was really on fire! Not some guy standing in front of a green screen with computer generated fire on him with a starbucks latte waiting on a nearby table..
Done right, CGI works. Yes, there’s a line where the movie becomes all about the sturm und drang of the CGI and loses the plot.
For others, it works just fine.
He must be the most obscure actor in the world. I’ve never even HEARD of him! LOL!
Of course, I rarely keep up with Hollyweird any more. :)
There was little or no CGI when Terminator was made. The film is filled with visual and special effects - mostly involving models and miniatures - which is the way effects were done in the days before 0101010101111000s...
A movie released in January or February is done so to die. The studio doesn’t want to waste the precious summer or holiday release windows.
That being said, every once in a while you get a winner in January/February. Hollywood wanted American Sniper to bomb, but the quality of the film and the lack of serious competition made it a hit.
You know you are REALLY in for a dog when a movie was supposed to be released in the summer or holidays and it was pushed back to February.
The trailer was unintentionally funny.
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