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In this blog for the Herald, I cite five movies that make the case for bad buzz not neccessarily always meaning bad movie. Then I offer up five other movies which make the exact opposite case. Can you predict which category Jupiter Ascending fits into?

For the longest time, the “where there’s smoke, there’s fire” mode of thinking has been applied to films that garnered bad buzz during their development or production.

Innumerable films have reinforced this perception (see below), but as mainstream media has become more interested in chronicling every stage of a film’s existence, more of the behind-the-scenes processes play out publicly than ever before…