No studio will throw money at the Wachowskis after this

May 22, 2015 14:55 GMT  ·  By
Eddie Redmayne should give his Oscar back for his performance in "Jupiter Ascending"
   Eddie Redmayne should give his Oscar back for his performance in "Jupiter Ascending"

Few are the movies to have failed so spectacularly at the box office as the recent offering from the Wachowski siblings, the Warner Bros. release “Jupiter Ascending,” with Mila Kunis, Channing Tatum, Eddie Redmayne and Sean Bean.

Perhaps Disney’s “John Carter” is a comparable commercial failure: it too needed many millions to make, took forever to bring to the big screen, held immense promise and ended up delivering little by comparison.

“Jupiter Ascending” was supposed to be the boldest, most beautiful and well executed, and most successful release of 2015: instead, it made just $181 million (€164 million) on a jaw-dropping budget of $176 million (€159.5 million), and was skewered by critics.

Screen Junkies has dedicated a new Honest Trailer for the film, which sums up some of the biggest complaints formulated against it: poor performances, one-dimensional characters, bad dialog, and such a convoluted story that it stopped making sense in the first act.

You can see it in full below. It concludes that no studio will be throwing money at the Wachowskis after this, because they took a fortune and pretty much tossed it down the drain.

To the film’s credit, much like “John Carter,” it was not a failure for being dumb, but for wanting to achieve so much that it crumbled under its own weight. These films might be disappointing not necessarily because they’re horrible but because they include glimpses at their brilliant potential. Somehow, this only makes matters worse.