![]() “I don’t know that it’s a straight A to B kind of thing, where you support Jupiter Ascending and the Wachowskis specifically get to keep making movies,” she says. Watercutter acknowledges this concern, but still thinks that supporting original sci-fi does more good than harm, since many creators benefit from a film’s success, not just those directly responsible for it. He argues that when bad movies succeed, it only encourages studios to churn out more of the same, and also empowers mediocre filmmakers at the expense of more promising talents. “I really rebel against this idea of supporting something even if we think it’s bad, because we think Hollywood will magically somehow make more movies that are actually good now,” Adams says. ![]() ![]() “And so if we as a community ignore projects like this-like Cloud Atlas-we won’t see more of them.”īut science fiction editor John Joseph Adams refuses to be guilt-tripped into buying tickets for a film he’s sure he’ll hate. “The only thing that Hollywood understands is money,” London says in Episode 138 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
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