Jump for your life

[angelophile]

Finally got round to watching Jumper, which I've had on DVD for ages, which raises some points.

Why is it named after comfy knitwear favoured by Noel Edmonds?

Sam Jackson really does just agree to anything if he's asked.

Hayden Christensen really does have all the emotional range of a block of teak. The Star Wars movies weren't a fluke.

Rachel Bilson is frighteningly thin and makes Hayden Christensen look like a really really good actor.

Her entire character in the movie was dull and pointless.

It'd have been good if they'd spent more than 15 seconds explaining the villain's motivations and had it done by someone with an intelligible accent.

Jamie Bell needs to be in more movies. Even when you couldn't understand a word he was saying he rocked. What the hell was that accent anyway?

Being a teleporter will make you an immoral asshole.

Seriously, what was the point of showing people drowning in floods with no hope of rescue on the TV and then having the central character, who could have done something about it, walk out and go shag someone in London instead? Were we actually supposed to feel sympathy for him after that, on top of all the other immoral acts he committed? Did he learn and grow? Didn't seem like it.

Nice special effects, though, and some decent use of the various locations.

Maybe they should have gone with Eminem in the lead role after all.

Comments

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Bad adaptation of a fun book. :P. I mean, I didn't expect it to be the same (there was a very pre-9/11 'fighting against terrorists' plotline that would have to be dramatically changed) but it's like they took everything that was good, threw it out, and added a whole bunch of crap, too. The addition of Griffin was the only mildly good change they made, mostly because the actor who played him.

Grr. :P.

[darcblayde.livejournal.com]

I agree with points 1 thru all...
Hayden Christensen needs a restraining order from Hollywood...seriously...

[lainee-bug.livejournal.com]

Obviously, the point of this movie is showing that people in England are incredibly shagable... right?

*coughs*

Yes, dull movie. Awesome effects, and it could have just rocked. Could have. I know -I- would have liked to see at the end where he was actually -doing- the moral stuff. Sweeping in, rescuing people, being a -good- person to make up for everything he had done before.

And for the record? If I was a teleporter, I'd totally be breaking into vaults all the time. I just would. And dropping the ass from back in college in the middle of one and letting him take the beat for it. Wee!!