Comments on: Trailer for ‘Jumper’ AKA guilty till proven innocent

By: Jerry Gordon

Jerry Gordon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:40:55 +0000

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…

By: culturalelite

culturalelite — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:01:11 +0000

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.

By: J.R.

J.R. — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:52:25 +0000

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.

By: Waffles

Waffles — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:03:45 +0000

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.