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movie review - Jupiter Ascending

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2016.04.15

As much as I like Mila Kunis and suspect she deserves a break for being on Family Guy for so long, this movie was a troubled project by the (now) sisters that made the "Matrix" movies. A beautiful young woman cleans toilets for a living but is found by her people and goes off on a space adventure in which she saves the day only to be dumped back on Earth washing toilets again. There was something about bees that seemed more clever than it turned out to be. Better luck next time, Mila.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud