Xanadu level bad?
*wrenching shudder*
I still have my Xanadu soundtrack album. Very bad movie. Suprisingly good soundtrack. Olivia Newton-John and ELO. Newton-John had a beautiful voice but often sang bad material. Jeff Lynne is a great songwriter. Somehow the soundtrack works.
Sounds like Ishtar bad.
How about Gigli?
I watched “Jupiter Ascending” today.
Positives:
* beautiful visuals
* someone who checks with authentic type characters instead of going in over her head
* character gains power, wants to go home, save her family, improve their lives
* Sean Bean plays a noble character and doesn’t die! And his betrayal is for an honorable reason (minor spoiler), betrays the noble because the really bad guys have his daughter
Negatives:
* they only hint at the plotline of why Earth is valuable, don’t explain it quite well enough
* the power struggle of the siblings is described but not quite good enough
* too many scenes of Mila Kunis scrubbing toilets
* the true evil guy (the oldest sibling) has a horrific monologue. Life is consumption, society is a pyramid, those at top are the most valuable, we offer what everyone wants - more time. That explains why he’s fighting to retain his property and why others would do anything to get the “regenex”. Then he says it is all for the most important thing - profits. I would think immortality and power were the most important things, money being secondary and flowing from those things. But they had to throw in a “business is evil” mantra.
* for a movie decrying excesses, they put a lot of extravagant special effects
* they play homage to the bureaucratic scenes in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, and it isn’t funny
Who didn’t like Xanadu?
Electric Light Orchestra - Xanadu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4siEWXsZBHM