My brother lives for blockbusters. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration but these huge movies are pretty much all he watches. And don't you dare to tell him a film suck if it made tons of money at the box office because, in his logic, if a movie makes money then it's great; if it doesn't make money, then it's not. Now and then, however, there's that one film he hates and, coincidence or not, that film usually bombed. These are the movies I'm focusing on after my hiatus for this week's Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves.
Fantastic Four (2015)
Four young outcasts, Reed Richards (Miles Teller), Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan), Sue Storm (Kate Mara), and Ben Grimm (Jamie Bell), teleport to an alternate universe which gives them powers. When they come back to Earth, their friend, Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell), is jealous, becomes their enemy and they must fight him. As if the first film wasn't bad enough, they decided to make another one. And it was terrible. Both in terms of film quality and money. There's Michael B. Jordan, I'll give the film that.
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry. The plot is courtesy of IMDb because the film was so bad my brother suggested I'd stay the hell away from it and so did I. It's not like I had read any positive review anyway.
Pixels (2015)
When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. Again, thank you IMDb for providing the plot because this one too I managed to avoid. Once again, I have to thank my brother for it. He went to the movies to see this. I don't know what he was expecting, honestly.
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