# Name this fantasy movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [January 27, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653 "2021-01-27T23:55:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/1 "2021-01-27T23:55:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/2 "2021-01-28T00:17:42Z")
Was it this one? [Upside Down Trailer 2013 Kirsten Dunst Movie - Official [HD] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veONCcRWbw&ab_channel=CieonMovies) cause it does seem pretty dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/3 "2021-01-28T00:35:56Z")
Yep, that’s it. I know I’d never make it through the movie when I can’t even get through the trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/4 "2021-01-28T03:39:58Z")
Nothing worse than good sci-fi turned into a romance movie. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/5 "2021-01-28T03:51:48Z")
I tried watching this once, didn’t get very far. It is really bad. > **[Upside Down Fullmovie ᴴᴰ - video Dailymotion](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3e6cfg)** > > watch Upside Down (2012) FullMovie HD https://betternetworkers.com/1374992-1 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/6 "2021-01-28T22:03:22Z")
And the sad thing is, there was already a better movie with Kirsten Dunst engaged in upside-down kissing. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/7 "2021-01-28T22:16:21Z")
I don’t remember that from _Bring it On_. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/8 "2021-01-29T14:55:47Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Was it this one? [Upside Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3veONCcRWbw&ab_channel=CieonMovies) 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? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/9 "2021-01-29T16:03:37Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Can we make that idea fly? Not based on real-world physics, no. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/10 "2021-01-29T19:57:29Z")
A wizard who looked nothing like Sir Ian McKellen did it. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/11 "2021-01-29T20:05:48Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Not based on real-world physics, no. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/12 "2021-01-29T20:20:43Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/13 "2021-01-29T20:22:42Z")
This, BTW, uses the same basic concept without being awful. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Aa7sa-Zd-3E/maxresdefault.jpg "Patema Inverted Official Trailer 1 (2014) - Animated Movie HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa7sa-Zd-3E) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/14 "2021-01-31T07:40:51Z")
Well, the wife and I thought it was a pretty good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/15 "2021-02-04T20:04:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/16 "2021-02-04T20:57:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/17 "2021-02-04T21:10:30Z")
> **[Upside Down movie review & film summary (2013) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/upside-down-2013)** > > Have you ever idly speculated about how the visionary epic "Dark City" might have been changed if director Alex Proyas had been replaced halfway through by Baz Luhrman? Have you lain awake at night contemplating what one of Luc Besson's bombastic... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-fantasy-movie/931653/18 "2021-02-04T21:21:23Z")
I found the script: > **[Upside Down Movie Script](https://www.scripts.com/script/upside_down_22644)** > > Read, review and discuss the entire Upside Down movie script by Juan Solanas on Scripts.com