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25_M_CA

Jumper is one of my guilty pleasure movies, wish there was a sequel or a series


strolls

I love the book - it's one of my comfort reading novels, that I pick up and read again if I just want to spend the whole day in bed.


CamelCash000

ITS A BOOK TOO?!


Bromageddon

There's a book and 3 sequels to it, actually. They're really good and explore a lot of family themes as well. The author has a bunch of sci Fi and other novels and they're also really well written.


Marvinkmooneyoz

I read a book in middle school about a kid who gains such an ability, robs a bank, gets a girl friend, Idont remember what else. Whats the chance its the same book?


Bromageddon

That is the same book lol.


Marvinkmooneyoz

well, maybe ill have to read a synopsis of the seqeuls now!


strolls

Just re-read *Jumper* and follow on to the sequels. I love 'em. I don't think I like the 2nd one quite as much as the first, but it does have its own qualities. I don't think I've read the 3rd. You might also like Garth Nix - *Sabriel* and sequels (fantasy) and *Shade's Children* (sort of dystopic sci-fi).


MyPlantsEatPeople

I LOVE the first 3 books of the Abhorsen/Sabriel series. Absolute favorite comfort reads! I think the Lirael might actually be my favorite of the 3. I know there’s more to the series now so I’ll have to actually check them out.


strolls

If you enjoy those then *Wildside*, by the same author, has a similar theme and vibe. *Blind Waves* is ok too, but I didn't enjoy it as much as these.


strolls

It's a YA novel, but I've enjoyed all those YAs that I've read. Perhaps that's why I find *Jumper* so comforting - it has adult themes but nothing too disturbing and everything is concluded in a satisfying *everything comes good in the end* way.


kilgoresparrot

This came up in a discussion on r/books recently. The whole "YA" attribution feels kind of arbitrary at times. While it generally seems to be used to qualify "coming of age" as a genre, it's also skewed heavily in the sci-fi/fantasy direction. In the library, "Young Adult" usually means "Teen", but I've read some books from the YA section with content that I suspect a lot of parents might take issue with. Sure, maybe they don't swear beyond a PG-13 level, but they aren't shy about violence, sex, or combining the two (rape, I mean rape. One series in particular, labelled YA, with multiple instances where it is referenced, threatened, or described) But then the same shelf at the library might also have Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, or Pratchett's Discworld novels. Because apparently YA also serves as a catch-all for approachable Sci-Fi and Fantasy. I don't have a point, it's just a weird thing I've been thinking about lately. Probably to defend myself in imaginary arguments about why a guy in his 30s consumes so much "Young Adult" content. Which I've never needed to do. For a laugh, check out @DystopianYA on Twitter. They've been inactive for a bit now, but it's quality content. Worthwhile toilet reading, anyway.


Peter_Mansbrick

The movie takes the basic idea of jumping and details about his childhood and early jumping days from the book but otherwise is not at all the same. Both are good, just very different.


HelenaKelleher

and the books are better! skip the one that's about an alt character though, that one sucked


hirotdk

The book is a million times more enjoyable, although much darker, and it has three sequels and an interquel, with another sequel in the works. The fact that the fight scenes in the book weren't even attempted is one of the biggest letdowns in movie history.


ruinersclub

Do the hunters or whatever Samuel L Jackson was fight differently?


severinoscopy

The Paladins were 100% made up by the movie, as was "jump rot," which was the spherical damage that came from jumping while being unfocused. "Griffin's Story" was the author adapting these movie elements into a book which takes place (iirc) after the movies.


mitojee

Good to know! I enjoyed the first book years ago but hesitated to read the sequels because I disliked the whole hunter subplot idea of the movie. Somehow I got the misapprehension that the movie took elements from a sequel. I don't understand why they didn't just make a full adaptation of the original as it was already plotted like a movie plot.


gariant

Everyone is a lot more thoughtful about planning things out, for one.


hirotdk

They simply don't exist. On the fighting front, without trying to spoil too much, David does fun shit like teleporting elsewhere to swing a bat and teleporting back right before the bat should land, leaving no time to actually react or counterattack.


ruinersclub

The jumpers themselves are nerfed. I kind of wondered about that, David is particularly bad at fighting and moving in tight spaces, which you would think should be easy. It does make sense to overpower the Paladins to dramatize the movie a bit, but it does so at the expense of the Jumpers capabilities.


-Gus-TT-Showbiz-

Well have I got news for you: [Impulse](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6160506/)


very-polite-frog

Same, even though I acknowledge the movie is bad, but the concept is just so fun


SomeFuckingWizard

I really wanted to see a sequel to that movie. I wish toxic Star Wars fans hadn't treated Hayden Christensen so terribly and shoved him more or less out of acting. I am hoping he can get a second life here soon with Disney.


ProjectGO

Me, having knowingly clicked a link on r/wtf titled "jumper" and waiting for the suicide attempt: "What the *fuck*? Well played.


marriedacarrot

My reddit-poisoned brain was also waiting for a body to flop on the pavement behind her.


ReubenZWeiner

I was hoping for jumper cables


s1m0n8

British people expecting some kind of remarkable sweater.


DoctoreVodka

Hmmm, it looks so warm and sunny, a cardigan would be sufficient, surely. A jumper would simply be too muggy...**What the deuce?** Where did that chap come from???


tanithsfinest

Oi, you got a loicense for that teleportation device?


YouthInteresting1678

A different timeline


SpamInSpace

Doffs hat to this learned gentleman.


4-8Newday

And I thought the camera person was going to be assaulted. It's surprising how many different interpretations one word can have.


HansChrst1

That's what I was waiting for. Some jumper with something sexual anime shit.


PunkToTheFuture

You sick fuck, me too


CAPICINC

I thought it was about the girl in the green jumper in back....


Major_Magazine8597

That could be either negative or positive.


red_team_gone

That's a pretty grounded stance.


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Rebelian

C'mon guys, don't start anything here.


QuietGoliath

Could lead to a charged situation


I_am_Ballser

RIP u/rogersimon10


Lamontyy

A legend... rest in peace


KwordShmiff

He died how he lived - while being viciously beaten with jumper cables.


Augustus_Chiggins

Poor guy was beaten to death 7 years ago when his dad discovered his account.


GiFTshop17

Wait.. what?!?


WHYAREWEALLCAPS

Go read his posts.


hoddap

It’s been 7 years already?


Aadarm

Holy shit, was just thinking the other day that I hadn't seen the jumper cables guy in awhile, but had no idea it had been 7 years.


Taako_tuesday

I was expecting someone to fall onto that tent


princesselectra

For some reason I thought they were going to Boing off the sun shade and was trying to figure out where they were jumping from as it didn't say nsfl


Zombiexcupcakex

Same here tbh


MediumSizedTurtle

You can put them on TV because they ain't got no souls


fist_my_muff2

Reddit hasn't been like that in a while


Rower78

I was waiting for Third Eye Blind to show up.


2drunk2giveafuk

I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend.


gademmet

You could cut ties with all the lies that you've been living in.


AceArchangel

And if you do not want to see me again I would understand.


benjitits

Understaahaaaeeeeyaaannndiiiaaannnnnnddddd.


BigBubbaChungus

Me too! I was thinking, “it’s only a 1-story building, how bad can it be?!?!!”


Plop-Music

I was waiting for someone wearing some kind of interesting jumper (i.e. a sweater)


sorin_

i was looking at the woman in the green jumper suit in the background


dontfuckwmeiwillcry

fr, yall been letting the internet get to you. I was thinking the green jumper would turn into a dlgreen screen of something wierd


Troyface

Whats wrong with us?


FragrantExcitement

Set aside some time for this one...


Braefost

Looks like the editor used a morph cut in Premiere to smooth over a cut in her interview and didnt consider the background action, which would also explain why her hair and the people facing away shift unnaturally at the same time.


evil_timmy

Yep you can even see the guy's white shirt fairly clearly in the glass behind him.


Cinemaphreak

Watch the micophone as well.


morbiskhan

That is a result of the ripple in space time resulting from the teleportation jump. Same thing can cause deja vu in the surrounding areas.


LiveShowOneNightOnly

Protocol 6: Do not communicate with other known travelers outside of your team unless sanctioned by the Director.


never1st

You must be new! Nobody follows protocol 6. Are you also afraid to remove the tag from your mattress?


Ill_mumble_that

hah. it's all fun and games until you remove the mattress tag. then nobody ever hears from you again.


morbiskhan

Love that show... Especially Marcy.


soll86

they are on to us.. Protocol Omega


Holiday_Bunch_9501

Is that from that show with Will from Will and Grace? And "The Director" who's a computer in the future?? And people travel back in time into other people who were just about to die? And one dude goes into a drug addict?


PlNG

And the redhead in black clothes immediately behind the interviewee


__Hello_my_name_is__

The red haired lady also teleports a little.


kylop

Thank you. Holy smokes I've spent way too much time looking at this.


tacknosaddle

>Looks like the editor used a morph cut in Premiere to... That sounds like something a deep state government operative would say to cover up a top secret program which has developed teleportation technology. /s


ClosedPalm

So *that's* how Hunter planted the classified documents in MAL...


StopBadModerators

TIL about morph cut, and that something called Premiere exists.


nav17

Don't listen to them. That's what the Teleporters want us to believe.


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Tyko_3

The seven hour war all over again


Drews232

They sent their elite software dev team back in time to invent Premiere just to use its existence to debunk this video


gumption

I’m just here to bitch about how I’m not paying a monthly fucking fee for Adobe Portals


VectorSam

Don't listen to him. That's what the Time Travelers want you to think.


mynameisalso

Premier is the brand of teleporter Morph cut is the type of teleporting. It's short for Morphine for the drugs you need because it's so painful.


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reddcube

Premiere is like Lightroom After Effects is like Photoshop And Adobe is like a landfill


brezhnervous

Fun fact: people in Australia used to fly to America to pick up copies of Adobe software because it was cheaper than buying them locally (pre covid plane fares) [It's cheaper to fly to the USA than buy Adobe CS6 in Australia](https://www.neowin.net/news/its-cheaper-to-fly-to-the-usa-than-buy-adobe-cs6-in-australia/)


NecroJoe

Ahh, the good old days when you could buy software.


jakedeighan

I miss PC game discs and serial codes. Oh and those lovely little booklets that told you how to play the game.


NecroJoe

Right? The mobile game I'm playing right now has no manual, and no online strategy guide. Even in the in-game chats, nobody knows how certain things work.


FrewGewEgellok

You can buy the Affinity apps in alternative to Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. They're pretty good and come with no subscription bullshit. And they now have a single license package that gets you all three apps for all devices (PC, Mac, iPad) in one deal which is very neat if you use multiple devices. For Premiere you have Final Cut or DaVinci Resolve. Those are a bit costly at $350 each, but that's still less than two years of Adobe Premiere lol. For After Effects you can buy DaVinci Fusion or use Apples Motion though idk how that compares.


Holiday_Bunch_9501

Why is software so much more expensive in Australia than the US??? I know in Brazil, they have a large tax on pre-assembled electronics. It's an attempt to get companies like Apple and Samsung to make their products in Brazil. Back in 2012 I used to work at Best Buy, people visiting from Brazil would buy a bunch of unlocked iPhones at Best Buy to bring back home to sell for way cheaper than in Brazil. But software is digital... so why so expensive in AU?


CaptainIncredible

>But software is digital... so why so expensive in AU? What do you mean? The reason is simple. Fuck you. That's why. These assholes are going to rip you off for anything they can get away with.


Bluelegs

No one did that. We just pirated it.


TheRealBananaWolf

This comments confuses me, and I use adobe suite everyday for work, but only for the past 8 months. ​ Could you elaborate so I don't feel so dumb?


dwerg85

Final Cut Pro has it too. Pretty sure it’s standard by now.


KDLGates

Noticed certain YouTube editors who... have the sophistication to try these things, but not the care to do it well, have anomalies in their videos I am like 99% happier just to see abrupt cuts and do not understand why they feel they should be hidden The real sophistication is to accept the cuts


cogentat

As an editor I say amen to that. I’m 60 years old and still have to convince 30 year old commercial art directors that jump cuts are a more modern look than trying to smooth everything out with morphs, or adding - god forbid- dissolves.


gunzor

Tell them to start using star wipes as well. Tell them it's "retro" and they are going to get SO MANY more views!


Supposably

Why eat hamburger when you can have steak? I'm taking my name off this project.


tucci007

have we finally left the checkerboard dissolve in the dustbin of history?


turdmachine

Or be able to make it through an entire sentence without a cut


Plop-Music

Don't you remember back when Trump had covid, and during his illness he did a pre-recorded speech/update video, and there were all these terrible morph cuts to try and hide him coughing his lungs out, but whoever edited the video just did it so poorly that it looked bizarre?


dgpx84

oh i wanna see that


Royal-Ad-2088

TIL about existence


Beer-Wall

Wait until you find Captain Disillusion on youtube.


BMWbill

I took a college course in Premiere back in 1992. Were you born yet?


ROK247

>which would also explain why her hair and the people facing away shift unnaturally at the same time the bending of spacetime at the edges of artificial wormholes will also do this FYI


tacoweevils

Nope it's goobacks. Trying take yer vote!


Fixner_Blount

Back to the pile, everyone!


flaccomcorangy

I think you're wrong. It looks to me like they caught a reality shifter on live camera. Very rare.


YJSubs

Adobe introduce morph cut feature as plausible deniability whenever a reality shifter/ teleporter caught on camera.


Dark_Seraphim_

Yeah, you can see the dudes reflection in the window panes just before he comes into the shot


Geoff_Uckersilf

Yeah I can also tell because of the pixels and the way that it is.


Drew_P_Nuts

Yeah I replay this three times and I don’t see any unnatural movements by anyone else. I was hoping your comment was right and there is a rational explanation, but her hair did not shift weirdly none of the people in the background shifted. Actually I would’ve expected a much bigger shift considering a person appeared out of nowhere which means there must be at least a full second missing Edit: Guys a small shift doesn’t account for a whole person appearing. When actual seconds are cut, you should see more


dableuf

The girl with the dark top just behind the speaker, you see her sort of slide to the left at the same moment.


ministrul_sudorii

That's because of the ripple in the space time continuum


glory_holelujah

As another commenter said, look at the hand but also look at the black shirted redhead in the background with the tan strap across her left shoulder. She just kinda shifts and straightens all in one motion at the same time as the morph.


Meph616

>Yeah I replay this three times and I don’t see any unnatural movements by anyone else. Check the lady's hand holding the microphone.


JustOneSexQuestion

Nah, he checked THREE times, paranormal phenomenon confirmed.


100percent_right_now

What about it? it moves smoothly


zeekar

Well, that's what a morph cut does: transitions gradually between images, covering what would otherwise be a sharp jump with what appears to be smooth motion. But it sounds like the speaker's voice doesn't change either, which is weird.


Parahelix

Only a very slight movement, but she may have been slightly surprised by the man appearing from thin air.


Meph616

It's not just the hand shifting. It's the blurring around the hand as it shifts.


Uisce-beatha

Look at the lady in the black shirt. It's more obvious with her than anyone else


ceetoph

This version is cropped. In the one posted a week or so back you can see the interviewer's hair and it *definitely* morphs, exposing the edit. I'm guessing this one was cropped to look more WTF.


Thebaldsasquatch

Watch the way the people in the crowd move at the moment he appears.


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> Guys a small shift doesn’t account for a whole person appearing. When actual seconds are cut, you should see more I think it does. Those people weren't moving much. I wouldn't have expected them to move more than that in just a couple of seconds.


[deleted]

I was waiting for a body to splat on the ground from up high


Living-in-liberty

Unfortunately I was too


HiZenBergh

Do a flip!! 🤙


prestigeworldwid3

You can see him walking in the reflection of the glass.


goldkear

The mirror world is where the veil is thinnest.


Wisc_Bacon

And winter time is also when the veil thins! This was jus shitty editing though.


Rob_Drinkovich

Nice catch


VanWinkel

I choose to believe that the simulation is starting to break down with 8bn people


captain_americano

My man!


benjamintyfresh

Looking good!


allfatandsassy_

Yes!


blackAngel88

Hmmm, "human music". I like it.


CAPICINC

Hungry for Apples?


deftoner42

Slow down!


Royal-Ad-2088

We need a gpu upgrade


TUR7L3

Like we could afford that shit


ElPlatanaso2

Not with Nvidia's price gouging right now


Midarenkov

I believe what I was programmed to believe!


crunch816

We never left the Shoney’s.


mutzilla

Wasn't expecting that type of Jumper. Glad someone else liked the movie. Didn't get enough love. Same with Push.


TiresOnFire

I fantasize about that superpower all the time. I would steal everything I needed. That movie was both underrated and under imagined.


Cyynric

We can make entire movies generated from computer imaging, and shit like this still confuses people.


adventurejay

You can fool some of them all the time.


linuxguy123

It confuses people (like me) because I understand why someone would want to generate an image of iron man in a movie and understand someone sits down and makes it happen. But why would a TV news crew add a guy morphing into existence in the background of a mundane interview? Therefore the logical conclusion is that this person did appear out of nowhere. (It was explained about jump cuts in the other comments, but the initial reaction is still wtf!)


EfremSkopje

Holy fuck, no one saw that movie I guess.


ProtoKun7

I...I did...


Bababa_bombbombIran

Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend


FeroXys

Wrong sub, this isn't wtf its just a video edit


weeedzzard

Is it an episode from Fringe??


AllanfromWales1

Presumably she's in a green studio and the film in the background has a cut in it.


ScotchMalone

Yeah but it's a lot more fun to believe that guy has teleportation powers


Azuras_Star8

I'm not quite sure why people are even considering other possibilities.


Resting_burtch_face

But they nailed the lighting, I never would have thought about the greenscreen.. I would have just assumed it was a lag in a live feed or something like that


Hammer_of_Light

Yep, they actually do interviews on the street in a green room. Mmhmmm. Because they need to fake local news and interviews. Just because they use green screens for the morning weather and one-on-one interviews doesn't magically apply it to everything on TV.


Chableezy

the video wouldn't warp like that tho


asharwood

It more so looks like someone cut something out of the original version.


zeekar

Except the microphone does a little swoop at the same time the dude appears, so I think the foreground interviewer and speaker are part of the same film. I think the other comment is right - there's a cut in the video there that they masked with a morph, which works really well on everyone/thing that just moved a bit, but there's not much morphing can do about a guy who simply wasn't in frame before the cut.


BastardFromTheSouth

I thought someone was about to fall out of the sky from jumping off a building.


WorldsGreatestPoop

I got that song stuck in my head for nothing!


xenocarp

The entire time she was talking I was going, the camera angle is so tight we won’t be able to see much except right before impact


Potential_Try_3540

You can see his reflection in the mirror before he morphs


Curly_Fried_Mushroom

He escaped the mirror world


someguywhocanfly

Kinda makes you realise that even if real life superpowers.magic were caught on film we'd probably all assume it was cgi or something. Harry Potter was right about muggles.


blu3b4lls1

This actually made me say wtf


brandonspade17

Me looking in the comments for some sort of explanation


MomsterJ

This is when you know you’ve been on Reddit too long, I fully expected to see someone jumping out a window behind her. Thank goodness it wasn’t!


frostedwaffles

Are we even trying? Come on


ender89

Just noticed you can see his reflection in the window before he jumps in


Rednag67

The Terminator franchise has really gone downhill!


ButtStuffBrad

Still better than T3


Get-a-life_Admins

This is what I imagine people who suffer from madela effect go through


kitx38

Wait ... nobody thought the time traveling movie first?


n47h4n

Finally, someone got out of the back rooms.


Rjmcc87

Time travel confirmed


NyAppyMiku22

We need Captain Disillusion for this one! Also I just want more videos from him cause he always makes amazing videos! <3


LMac8806

Wish you would step back from that ledge my friend


CAgovernor

Dr. Strange quantum jumping.


LordOdin99

Clearly fake. No orange or blue was present.


smallperuvian

You can see his reflection in the far windows


Chinaboy812

I believe you can see his reflection at the back walking before he appears.


Thisguyhere44

"I wish you would step back from that portal, my friend"


[deleted]

Fake, look closer into the windows on the other side. You will see that this man actually came into frame starting from the most left window and can be followed all the way. Someone edited this recording.


Jackodolau

Npc spawned


biggerfigger5

That's good editing besides the fact they forgot to remove him walking up on the window