Runtime
87 minutes

Up for Discussion

1. Introduction
2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY– Q& A with this week’s guest, Petula Neale (3:12)
3. COME TALK TO ME – Fielding listener feedback on hated sci-fi films (16:27)
4. THE NEW SLANG – Review and reaction to JUPITER ASCENDING (33:52)
5. THE OTHER SIDE pt I – Petula spins THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1:01:21)
6. THE OTHER SIDE pt II – Ryan spins SPEED RACER (1:12:13)

 

Thoughts from your host…

 

Are you the sort of listener who cares more about the tone of a speaker’s voice than what it is they are speaking about, then lordy do I ever have a great episode for you!

You see this week brought upon another episode recorded on a Sunday morning. Turns out this particular Sunday morning followed a particularly boisterous Saturday night for my guest. So her dulcet tones – which I certainly believe sound better than my own on any given day – have an extra bit of smokiness to them that makes for a pretty darned good audio.

I’d love to tell you that we were putting those dulcet tones towards a discussion of your favorite film, but we’re talking about JUPITER ASCENDING…so call it a hunch.

Regardless of the quality of the film (one we still find good things to say about), I’m one who believes that some people could just read the phone book and turn in a good episode.

 

Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-thirty-one.

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10 Replies to “Episode 131 – JUPITER ASCENDING”

  1. I loved Pacific Rim, I really enjoyed Jupiter Ascending. They are FUN, they look good and they have female characters that I actually LIKE. A sexually aggressive Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum in guyliner, Douglas Booth’s cheekbones, Sean Bean! What else do you want, world?

    I think there is a director’s cut coming for this film for sure. It seems like so many scenes hit the cutting room floor. Like that cousin? We missed an introduction to him somewhere between their first dinner-table conversation and the whole ‘OH YEAH, donate yer eggs!’ and I’m sure we also missed an entire backstory with Caine too.

    (I also enjoyed watching Prometheus for the ride, but I’m not with you at the end Ryan!)

    Opera notes: Rufus Wainwright is making his second opera, Hadrian, with the COC for 2018. Contemporary opera is toootaaally in the cineplexes. Have you not seen the lines of salivating fans on Saturday afternoons? Lots of space for OPERA. Just not sure if there’s a lot of space for SPACE Opera.

    Dune notes: The ‘spice’ is a drug. It’s not comparable to oil. It’s narcotics.

    1. Oh I’ve seen the lines of salivating fans, alright – I’m actually pretty impressed by that crowd’s passion.

      You’ll know this better than me though: In general, aren’t those screenings Live from The Met more geared towards established operas, or are they flocking to new shows as well?

      1. Previous years they’ve screened The Enchanted Island (almost a ‘mash-up’ opera with a variety of composers http://www.metopera.org/opera/enchanted-island-tickets.aspx), a variety of Phillip Glass operas and most memorably John Adam’s The Death of Klinghoffer. I think they definitely tend to stream their more traditional ones in theatres but pepper it with the unconventional stuff too.

        It all obviously depends though, it’s much more expensive and bottom-line-cutting to screen something like Muhly’s Two Boys (http://www.metopera.org/opera/twoboys-muhly-tickets.aspx), since they want to up the demand to see this show ‘in house’ but that is literally a brand new opera, so give it a few years and we might see it on-screen too.

        The Royal Opera House is also pushing these screenings too, more popular overseas than here (The Met literally dominates Cineplex) and the Bloor Cinema has screened their stuff semi-regularly.

        That said, I highly recommend seeing the magnificent Die Walkure at our good ol’ Canadian Opera Company as I will tomorrow night.

    1. So much love for THE CORE. I think I might have mentioned it more over the last two episodes than I have in the last ten years.

      When Halfyard goes to bat for something, I’ve learned to brace myself when it comes to Halfyardian contrarianism:

      Sometimes he steers us to unexpected places, sometimes he steers us off a very steep cliff.

  4. Ryan, you need to take the plunge and watch Southland Tales. It’s worth experiencing at least once for the insane cast and to see The Rock act so ridiculous.

  5. Great guest, always good to hear from a fellow Wittertainment listener.

    Jupiter Ascending was rubbish but enough fun to get away with it. I actually enjoyed it. The great shame is that Jupiter was such a thin underdeveloped character, had they done more with her the film could have been so much better.

    As flawed as it was I loved Cloud Atlas but have to be honest, The Wachowski’s have only made two great films, The Matrix and Bound.

    1. Funny thing in the month that has come and gone since this episode: as wildly messy as the film was, JUPITER is looking better and better considering the absolute dreck that we have been handed this winter.

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