I never saw the movie- just the promos. Two planets, much like Earth, exist so close to one another that two lovers could stand on their respective worlds and kiss. That’s it. I’m just wondering if it was as dumb as it promised.
Was it this one? Upside Down Trailer 2013 Kirsten Dunst Movie - Official [HD] - YouTube cause it does seem pretty dumb.
Yep, that’s it. I know I’d never make it through the movie when I can’t even get through the trailer.
Nothing worse than good sci-fi turned into a romance movie.
I tried watching this once, didn’t get very far. It is really bad.
And the sad thing is, there was already a better movie with Kirsten Dunst engaged in upside-down kissing.
I don’t remember that from Bring it On.
Oh, that is bizarre. But it reminds me of a story idea I once had in which two planets approach gradually enough that they collide but do not disintegrate. They were rotating in opposite directions so the end result after many years was an oblong planet where the north hemisphere rotated opposite the southern hemisphere and there was a violent band of molten rock at the equator a couple of hundred miles across. Can we make that idea fly?
Not based on real-world physics, no.
A wizard who looked nothing like Sir Ian McKellen did it.
I’m a sucker for blatantly impossible fantasy scenarios, they can be tons of fun, plausibility be damned. But the reviews for this movie say the plot is boring and the characters are cliched, and that can’t make up for an awesomely weird concept like this.
You don’t have to rely on reviews–you can see any or all of the whole thing in my link above.
This, BTW, uses the same basic concept without being awful.
Well, the wife and I thought it was a pretty good movie.
The trailer was interesting. I still don’t feel like watching the movie, but I will say this:
It seems to me (and if you’ve seen the film and I’m wrong, correct me) that the question of whether the twin-world setting is feasible or not is irrelevant because it’s an allegory. I mean, the idea of livestock walking on two legs and speaking English is pretty dumb, but people seem to like Animal Farm just fine anyway.
The problem with the part I watched before giving up wasn’t the science, it was the script and the acting. It was trying to be a quirky stylized movie (think Brazil or Joe vs. The Volcano or The Princess Bride, etc.) instead of a “straight” movie–and really sucking at it.
I found the script: