Jumper and the Echelon of Movies
I WENT AND saw Jumper this afternoon with Beth, our old boss Eric, his wife's first husband James, and their kid Garrett (all of which who live together; an odd family that should be explained only with enough time for full details). Anyway, the movie was actually pretty entertaining. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 15%, calling it "an erratic action pic with little coherence and lackluster special effects."You see, that's the thing about movies. There are, in some general order, good movies, entertaining movies, and then bad movies. Good movies are the types of things that you expect a lot out of, mean for them to really touch some important part of your heart and soul, and eventually deliver; these are the Oscar nominees. Entertaining movies are the sorts that you go to knowing that you're not going to have some great, cognitive realization while you're watching it, but you see it and enjoy it anyway; movies like the most recent Rambo film fit into this category (although I have yet to experience that gem yet). Then, of course, there are the bad movies, the stinkers, the ones that take themselves too seriously but, seriously, have nothing to offer. Somehow these movie get the best trailer directors in Hollywood, because it seems like all the really awesome trailers are the suckiest of suckfests out there. Not in all cases, of course, but it's enough for me to make an observation on.
Anyway, Jumper was entertaining, and the fight scene near the end is something that anyone who's played Portal would appreciate.
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