 Tastes like wasted opportunity Hey guys welcome to another episode of ten years old today the show where I talk about movies that are turning ten years old And I take you down a little trip down Nostalgia Avenue today's episode is about Jumper a movie that was released on February 14th 2008 It was based on a 1992 novel by Steven Gold the film was directed by a claim director Doug Lehman He was written by Simon Kenberg Jim Ullis and David S. Goyer This frickin hack. This is when I really started to see how much of a shitty writer David S. Goyer was It's pretty interesting that Simon Kenberg basically the man who is really behind the writing for the X-Men movies as a part of this But Goyer Jumper is a wasted opportunity of an extremely interesting concept Everyone always has that conversation about what superhero power would they want to have whether it be invisibility incredible strength the ability to fly This movie is the one that really convinced me that the one to have is Teleporting especially from the trailers the trailers were so Intriguing the idea of being able to literally go anywhere have Unlimited wealth but then also be hunted down for the power that you inherently have and admittedly throughout the film the concept Of teleporting is constantly used in an intriguing and very cool way The effects in this movie are pretty darn good. If not, they actually still stand up to today However, there's one really big issue that kind of angers me in the trailer that was first released for this movie They show that every time Hating Christensen was going to do a jump. It would always make this noise Now admittedly hearing that noise every time would have been super annoying but in super intense parts It kind of would have been cool instead all it does is it just makes this noise Now I'm not saying that hearing the rule all the time would have been cool But it just kind of ruined it for me This was my first interaction of a trailer giving you a false impression of a movie as well So there's a lot of nostalgic feelers to this movie My friends thought it was all right But I just saw through all the holes in this movie one of them being Hating Christensen's absolutely horrible acting through this movie He really doesn't do a good job. He's still kind of on the Hating Christensen Anakin Skywalker train even though this movie was a few years later after revenge of the Sith But you still just can't stand his whining throughout this movie Even though you actually care for his character at the beginning when he's a child when he falls into the water And he teleports into a library to save his life the fact that Michael Rooker is abusive father You get this attachment to him and when you see him grown up when he's able to go anywhere He goes to London just for the hell of it, and then he spends the rest of the day in Cairo It's a cool idea Even the fight scenes in this movie are really well choreographed Especially when he finds out that Jamie Bell is another teleporter and they have a fight later on in the movie And they're jumping from seat place to place Scene to scene at one point they go to the Arctic then to Chechnya and they go to Paris and all these other places I even remember how dope it was when Samuel L. Jackson turns around and a double-decker bus from London is Flying at him in the dunes of Egypt All of that sounded really cool But the problem was you didn't give a shit about any of these characters Hayden Christensen has this very platonic relationship with Rachel Bosun Which is interesting considering they are if I'm correct married now But everything that happens in this movie is just so rudimentary so boring at times and also just so Ridiculous at one point Jamie Bell is caught in this collapsed tower this power tower And he's just having this casual conversation with Hayden Christensen now I know that the jumpers have an ability to kind of adverse over electricity, but that's fucking ridiculous He's getting over a hundred thousand volts, and he's just he should be vaporized And they just I don't know it's just David S. Goyer shit-ass writing written all over it Which sucks because Doug Lehman is a good director and you can see that he does do good directing through this movie However, the movie is just held back with the performance of the lead Hayden Christensen as well It's just the shitty writing by David S. Goyer. Samuel L. Jackson is kind of cool There is an interesting idea about what are consequences when you have such powers, but they never really delve into it They're supposed to be a war, but you only ever really see Frickin Jamie Bell and Hayden Christensen fighting dudes with these weird grapple gun things another thing that this movie actually introduced me to was that weird Aqua and yellow warming color Ratio thing that's used on posters to kind of drag people into it It's been used for movies like I am number four. It was used for Mad Max It's just this kind of color template that is the most appealing to people's eyes And this was the first time I ever saw it in a movie trailer or a movie poster There was also a really crappy ass game that was released with it. I never played it I wasn't that desperate for a chief ends, but I do know some people who played it It was apparently an easy thousand, but they said it was a piece of garbage either way Jumper is a wasted opportunity that was really hindered by Hayden Christensen David S Goyer's shit-tastic writing and just some really stupid garbage thrown into this movie It has an incredibly in-depth concept and of idea that I wish Had it been handled by different people might have been much more of an interesting idea hell This could have been a really cool TV show or mini series It's actually spawned a lot of fan films and a lot of people who are getting into film and testing after effects and whatnot To test it out themselves So this movie does have a placeholder for reasons that are not really the movie's main reason The movie was supposed to be successful and turned it actually just gave a lot of other people ideas to try and do their own Little short jumper movies so in the end jumper is a piece of garbage But it's a memorable piece of garbage because of its interesting concept and just Really showing that teleportation is a pretty cool power to have Anyways guys, thank you for tuning in to another episode of ten years old today. Let me know what you guys think of jumper Did you like this movie? Did you play the game? What were your thoughts about it? If you liked this video leave a like down below and if you're interested in more maybe subscribe Anyways until the next episode. I'll see you guys later