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Sep. 24th, 2010 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI watched 'Jumper'.
It was really really boring.
I can't believe they spent a bunch of FX money and did all those 'look we're somewhere foreign' bits and didn't bother with interesting characters to wrap around it.
... no, wait, I can totally believe that. I mean, I watched it, so it did what it set out to do, really.
*sigh*
Two female characters with lines and names. Didn't talk to each other. One was a damsel in distress, one was a mom. Guys Do Things, Women Get Done To.
So. Damn. Boring.
Also, when the dude walked in hunting jumpers and was all 'NSA' that was a much more interesting story. The one that ended up happening where medieval Paladin dudes have been hunting Jumpers for hundreds of years - despite the only effective weapon being electricity, which iirc wasn't medieval - that was just boring. It's not that religion is necessarily a boring motive, but if all the motivation is We Think God Says So then after that it's boring. Trying to figure out and reconcile the theology while bringing people back to a caring and loving religion... is actually what Vicar of Wakefield was doing, except in a very C18 unreadable way... urgh, I found a good point to it. ANYway, that involves personalities and people and trying to figure things out. This film only got as far as 'Paladins kill Jumpers'. The rest was FX and fight scenes.
Seeing what happens to spy stuff when you add teleportation, that's a lot more interesting.
Also if Jumpers have been around for hundreds of years then how come nobody has heard of them? If they jump into banks and steal stuff then that would be something banks would have to account for. You'd get electrified bank vaults, vaults with electric nets around them that might stop jumpers getting in. People losing money tends to lead to ingenious ways of making sure the money stays put.
If assorted governments are using newly emerging Jumpers as weapons against each other then it makes sense to suppress the knowledge, even if it leads to lots of bank robberies.
If a bunch of medieval dudes are going around electrocuting people then... what? Aside from not making sense in itself it don't make sense of the worldbuilding.
There are so many stories where things staying secret depends on people, in general, being very stupid.
... plausible to a point.
I'm grouchy and I have enough of a cold not to feel well and not enough I feel I could take time off actual doing stuff. Blah.
It was really really boring.
I can't believe they spent a bunch of FX money and did all those 'look we're somewhere foreign' bits and didn't bother with interesting characters to wrap around it.
... no, wait, I can totally believe that. I mean, I watched it, so it did what it set out to do, really.
*sigh*
Two female characters with lines and names. Didn't talk to each other. One was a damsel in distress, one was a mom. Guys Do Things, Women Get Done To.
So. Damn. Boring.
Also, when the dude walked in hunting jumpers and was all 'NSA' that was a much more interesting story. The one that ended up happening where medieval Paladin dudes have been hunting Jumpers for hundreds of years - despite the only effective weapon being electricity, which iirc wasn't medieval - that was just boring. It's not that religion is necessarily a boring motive, but if all the motivation is We Think God Says So then after that it's boring. Trying to figure out and reconcile the theology while bringing people back to a caring and loving religion... is actually what Vicar of Wakefield was doing, except in a very C18 unreadable way... urgh, I found a good point to it. ANYway, that involves personalities and people and trying to figure things out. This film only got as far as 'Paladins kill Jumpers'. The rest was FX and fight scenes.
Seeing what happens to spy stuff when you add teleportation, that's a lot more interesting.
Also if Jumpers have been around for hundreds of years then how come nobody has heard of them? If they jump into banks and steal stuff then that would be something banks would have to account for. You'd get electrified bank vaults, vaults with electric nets around them that might stop jumpers getting in. People losing money tends to lead to ingenious ways of making sure the money stays put.
If assorted governments are using newly emerging Jumpers as weapons against each other then it makes sense to suppress the knowledge, even if it leads to lots of bank robberies.
If a bunch of medieval dudes are going around electrocuting people then... what? Aside from not making sense in itself it don't make sense of the worldbuilding.
There are so many stories where things staying secret depends on people, in general, being very stupid.
... plausible to a point.
I'm grouchy and I have enough of a cold not to feel well and not enough I feel I could take time off actual doing stuff. Blah.