I "saw" Jupiter Rising on a flight once. I couldn't get the sound to work with my headphones, so I listened to my own music the whole time and just watched the visuals. I missed the title sequence, so I didn't even figure out what movie it was until it was over. But from watching without any dialogue to help, I got the impression that the protagonist (Jupiter?) spent the majority of the movie getting kidnapped or getting rescued, bouncing around like a pinball with little agency of her own. Or maybe that was making some kind of Statement. Also, it was kind of repeating itself over and over. Not in a "variations on a theme" way, but, like, Jupiter fights against the fish-lipped bad guy, then wins by kicking him in the crotch, then she tries to escape from his space station as it's falling apart... at which point she crosses paths with the fish-lipped bad guy again, and she beats him by kicking him in the crotch again.
Anyway... I've actually never heard anything but good things about Punch Drunk Love.
Wes Anderson: I liked The Life Aquatic and The Fantastic Mr. Fox. But The Royal Tennanbaums fell directly into that awkward in-between spot where the cast were too unpleasant for me to identify with anyone, but not unpleasant enough for me to enjoy their misery as black comedy.
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