Trailer for ‘Jumper’ AKA guilty till proven innocent
I don’t know who or what it is that made me suddenly quite pessimistic towards modern sci-fi films…. at I guess i’m going to say directors like Paul W.S. Anderson, to a lesser extent Tony Scott and pro-douchebag Nic Cage with his stupid hair have ruined the genre for me. Ok that’s perhaps a bit hyperbolic, not ruined exactly but just made me look at every new sci-fi themed film I see as rubbish until I see more than a trailer. Sci-fi movies in my eyes are guilty until proved innocent. The new film from Doug Liman ‘Jumper’ might possibly be the break through I needed, a catalyst for change. perhaps. maybe. I hope.
I’m not sure about Sam Jackson’s weird hair, and Hayden Christensen has a lot to prove.. in anyones eyes. Luckily Doug Liman is a good director and the script was written by David Goyer so hopefully that’ll whip Hayden’s shitty acting into shape or at the very least let him stand there looking like teen-magazine fodder while Jamie Bell quite clearly acts circles around him.
The trailer looks like a lot of fun I think, and a lot less complicated than I thought it might be. It’s a nice little concept and if they can just fashion a decent plot around it hopefully it’ll break the high-budget sci-fi curse.
You can check out the trailer on the official site here, or download a quicktime version from IGN here
Looks pretty neat minus the cliche romance. Maybe if that wasn’t in there I wouldn’t be thinking of The Covenant when I see this.
I love how people think movies just pop into existence from nothing then proceed to judge it based on…. nothing.
This movie is from possibly the best sci-fi book written in twenty years. Also called Jumper by Steven Gould. He also wrote another begging-to-be-a-movie book called Wildside.
I’m glad you have such high hopes for this crap because after seeing the trailer they have totally !@#$%&* this book up.
They’ve got Davey as some smug punk with a cool power. The truth is he discovers this ability after almost being raped as a little boy. He then goes through a very cool discovery process that’s been totally bypassed by this movie. Also, there is NO other jumper in the book and because the book does such an incredible job of describing the physics of his ability, you learn it’s impossible for him to bring anything through with him that he can’t lift.
They’ve taken an opportunity for a phenomenally enjoyable and breakthrough movie and turned it into yet another piece of Hollywood Mc Sci-Fi. What a raging disappointment.
It’s nice to hear hear an opinion from someone so passionate about the book J.R., I obviously need to pick up that book it sounds incredible.
I just finished the novels. I wouldn’t call them the best in twenty years, but they’re very good. Sadly, it looks like they’ve bypassed what made them special in favor of J.R.’s “Mc Sci-Fi.” Apparently, they have a trilogy in mind. *insert eye roll here*
No one trusts the source material anymore…