Of Jumping

Howdy! So, I watched Jumper last night. Gotta say, it's pretty good. I thought the movie was fun throughout and wore it's obvious comic book-esqueness (it's a word! ...) on its sleeve, which I appreciated. The only problems I had with the flick (beware, here be spoilers!) were the 'justification' as to why the Paladins tracked down Jumpers. Okay, so they've been doing it since the Middle Ages, back when people were all God fearing and would've thought these people were demons of some sort, okay. I can buy that. But the idea that in this modern age that is still the main reasoning as to why they hunt them down? Fuck off. That's just lazy, I mean, I can buy into Samuel L because he's one, just one, but this idea that the entire of ALL the Paladins do it for this reason is just bogus to me. And they didn't offer any alternative reasoning which stuck in my craw. Also, the run time is pretty short which works for it, I guess. But I still feel there should have been an extra scene in there, maybe to...I don't know...provide better reasoning. Maybe? Yeah? No. Your loss. 

Overall though, I felt it was a good start to what I've read as being the first of three Jumper movies. It's weird though, growing up on a hefty diet of comic books, etc the idea of teleporting, although still awesome, just reminds me of the X-Men. It just seems like a mutant gene over this whole god-like thing they were running with, and because teleporters aren't that rare in the X-Men world I didn't think the whole Jumping thing was that unique. They've not gone with the 'prejudiced' thing like in the X-Men and instead opted for, apparently, religious zealots. Hm, fun times. 

On movie news regarding me...I have rewritten the script now into what will probably be it's new basic skeletal structure. It was tough, like I thought it would be, and it took me longer than I thought it would. I've written in some new scenes and am going to reread the whole thing later, but I'm hoping the whole thing is better now. And, yes, by the way, I have been bumped up to an actual 'script doctor' (remember there's a difference, kids!) on this project after the writer, Kulraj, opted out of rewriting it. Whatever. I may put the script up here in a before and after kinda thing for those interested to see what it's like and what changes I've made.

I guess I better go back to work...I guess. 

Steve.