I was really looking forward to Jupiter Ascending, particularly the amazing visuals direct from the brains of the Wachowski brothers, then the Internet ruined it for me.

To be clear, I love the Internet; I spend way too much time on it, it’s given me a career, played a part in my wife and I meeting, and has probably taught me far more than any of my school teachers or university lecturers. It’s pretty awesome.

The trailers for Jupiter Ascending looked pretty impressive when they first started appearing, but almost immediately people started tearing the movie apart. It wasn’t even out yet and to be honest, it never really had a chance.

Sure, I could probably have just avoided the naysayers, but that’s harder than you think these days. My favourite newsreader Zite presents me with articles it knows I’ll be interested in and some of them have inevitably been about the movie. Even without reading the articles I could see what people were saying because I was still being exposed to the headlines, and my opinion was slowly being manipulated. Throw Twitter, Google+, The Verge, and [insert other random website] into the mix and it’s pretty tricky. I’m actively trying to avoid the same fate with the new Star Wars movie but I fear that it’s not really working.

I still haven’t seen Jupiter Ascending. I do want to see it but it came out here in Australia last week and according to my local cinema listings it’s finishing up next week. That’s a two-week run — that almost never happens.

Stop being a jerk Internet, not every movie needs to be a cinematic masterpiece.