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plloud

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I watched "Jumper" today on Channel 4, having seen it when it came out in the cinema. Watching it the second time round, it struck me that David was annoying and irresponsible all the way through because he kept on blundering into danger and was ignoring Griffin's warnings not to be too conspicuous.

It also reminded me of Harry Potter (the character, not the films) being annoying because he's always charging into dangerous situations without thinking, trying to be a hero, and trhen having to be rescued by Hermione/ Ron / Snape / etc.
 
This may be the geekyest thing I will ever say, but it is annoying that he is jumping all over the place in broad daylight and at one point in the middle of a crowded pub, he jumped about 4 feet, what was the point?
I do realise it's a film and not real life but just imagine you found you did have this power, sounRAB amazing, but actually how could you use it without being seen, you decide to have breakfast in Paris one morning and just randomly jump to the centre of Paris, dozens of people would see you appear out of nowhere, you would be caught on CCTV and investigated and inevitably get caught very easily.

The only way it would work would be if you had jump spots in your favorite cities that were definite safe places, apartments that you rent that you know nobody would be in when you arrived.

I know it's a film and superpowers don't exist :) honest just thinking out loud.
 
I could understand the 4 feet bit, if it's as easy to you as walking then it becomes second nature. As Samuel L said "Been a while since you used a door" (or something like that). If you had been telekinetic for four years would you bother standing up to reach something two feet away or woul;d you just summon it to hand? Yes he could have waited for the lift to go up 6 floors but why bither, as soon as the doors shut he pops up to his room and he's saved himself time. Of course there's a risk that the lift could break down and the desk clerk would be bloody surprised that he wasn't in it, but after so many times such small risks are probably ignored.

But I quite agree about teh appearing in the middle of a street, particularly given the damaging side effects of a junp (lots of things being blown about for example). It certainly wasn't subtle at all.

A classic example was appearing in the middle of an operating room in a hospital, like that wouldn't have consequences? Although to be fair the fact that he never considered the consequences of his misue of the power was kind of the point of the film.

For me the film suffered because the leading man had such little charisma or screen presence (just like in Star Wars) and Jamie Bell was far more interesting. A film full of Jamie would have been great.

[There was also the thrown in back story that the Paladins had been hunting jumpers for centuries. One can't help but feel that in the days before CCTV, jet planes, tazers, jump gate tracking electrogizmos and hand propelled electric nets they wouldn't have stood a chance in hell.]
 
Having read the books before ever seeing the film, I was hugely disappointed in how they portrayed the main character, and how they changed the plot considerably, but this is what they do in movies. However they made David into a complete idiot.
 
Its a fun but at times an annoyingly ridiculous film.
There is no way a security man at the bank would leave his post to take some scrote off the streets to a toilet - especially a toilet that is right next to the large underground vault.
There's either a public toilet at street level or tell the bugger to piss somewhere else.

And surely he couldn't have used the same trick for every bank to get inside the vault.
 
I watched this again last night, only for the second time - I had refused to watch again after the first viewing, but decided to give it another go (I felt that might have been unfair to the movie before because of the male lead)

Still disliked it intensely - for the same reasons, though nothing to do with HC or RB - they took a cracker of an idea (being able to Jump in a flash - kind of reminded me of jaunting from the Tomorrow People - still one of the coolest powers ever, IMHO) and they turned it into a shitty movie and don't even get me started on how it ended - for me top nomination in the 'worst ending to a movie' category
 
[pedant mode]'Jaunting' is from Alfred Bester's seminal sci-fi novel 'The Satrs, My Destination', originally.[/pedant mode].

I strongly recommend it. It's fab.
 
When I watched it first time round in the cinema, I enjoyed the slapstick/exciting idea of jumping, and didn't like the hunters/Paladin part of the story. Second time round yesterday, I liked the hunter bit and it was only the second time round that I realised how annoying and irresponsible David was.
 
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