Interstellar

Originally posted by Robtard
Getting the feeling that McConaughey's kid when she's older is the one helping him in the present, or his present.

Like multiple time-lines being shown all at once?

Disappointed you gave it a 5, as we're usually very close in which films we like. Was hoping this was going to be stellar.

Spoiler:
There is multiple timelines happening at once but it's the opposite of that. Cooper and TARS end passing through an event horizon and in doing so gather the final data needed by the humans on earth to overcome gravity and allow them to more easily get into space in large numbers. They end up in a tesseract constructed by unseen presumably humans from the future. This allows Cooper to pass the information to his young daughter in binary which she thinks is a ghost knocking books off her shelf but is actually Cooper manipulating gravity through time and only realises the significance of when she grows up. Then he gets returned through the worm hole near the end of the film and sees the mission he's part of on its way through the worm hole and attempts to make contact with Anne Hathaway's on the outward bound mission you see earlier in the film and which she thinks is a hand shake. There's a few other details in there about watches and extra dimensions and stuff.

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Seems almost paradox-like. The only way humanity(if it is humans) survived into that far future where they advanced enough to manipulate space-time was due to Cooper's past actions, but Cooper was only able to survive and pass along the data because of said future humans helping him do so. Though I guess I'm viewing time as a moment-by-moment even and not as if where a film reel where one can look at past, present and future all at once.

Still want to see this, just not dying to anymore. I might even wait until I can watch it at home in a month of so.

I saw the film on an IMAX screen, and though it looks really high definition, there was nothing that occured that was like "WOAH IMAX SPACE IS CRAZY."

The standout moment of that was obviously going through the wormhole, which unfortunately was interspered with (non)reaction shots of the astronauts, instead of letting us really see full on.

Weirdly, such crazy stuff is happening to these astronauts and they barely register that they are OUT IN SPACE IN UNCHARTED PLANETS AND GALAXIES.

It's like "Hm...look at that."

This movie sounds more unimpressive by the hour.

My journalism professor (who occasionally writes reviews) said this movie SUCKED (her words and emphasis exactly).

Originally posted by Quincy

The film also contains quite possibly the worst monologue this year, in which Anne Hathaway waxes philosophic about love.

when i heard that i was like "is this really happening? Is this really part of the script?" definitely one of the corniest thing i've ever heard on film

Originally posted by Lestov16
My journalism professor (who occasionally writes reviews) said this movie SUCKED (her words and emphasis exactly).

What do women know though?

#takethatfeminist

Christopher Nolan thinks that the Haters Need to Watch The Movie Again.

Well, Mr. Nolan, if you hadn't filmed it so shittily and made it 3 hours long, then perhaps I would consider that, but since it's more of a concept for a book and not a film (a very visual medium mind you), then maybe you should just release a novelization of it. The story and concepts would no doubt play out much better in book form.

Originally posted by Lestov16
Wow. Only got a 74% on RT (Inception got 86%). I was expecting this film to be far, far better, especially since this was originally a Spielberg film. I'll still give it a shot.

74% (or 73%, what it's at now) is WAAAYY too high. That's extremely generous and deceptive quite frankly. When so few of the elements of the film work, that is a ridiculously high score. I tend to agree with jaden in giving it about a 5/10. I'd say it's closer to about 50% success.

Originally posted by jaden101
About the closest comparison you can make is the film 'Contact' but that was more successful in marrying a coherent plot, realistic science and emotional resonance than Interstellar is.

Contact is a MUCH better film. One of my favorite books, too, btw.

Originally posted by dadudemon
I've already seen John Wick.

See it again. I wish I had, haha.. especially since Interstellar was sort of a birthday gift movie for me.

Originally posted by Quincy
The movie starts with something so bizarre and out of place that the "twist" at the end is telegraphed 3 hours in advance, and the rest of the movie you just wait for the "reveal."

I don't really fault it for that. That's kind of a common film or literary device. Something else that bothered my friends that I didn't really mind, but I can see where they are coming from was

Spoiler:
Matt Damon's character doing the whole "crazed space man cliche"

Spoiler:
Matt Damon

Originally posted by Quincy
The film also contains quite possibly the worst monologue this year, in which Anne Hathaway waxes philosophic about love.

Yeah, that was poorly done.. an interesting idea, but bad direction.

My opinion: Nolan shouldn't do this kind of visual spectacle science fiction because his style is so conceptual and bland visually. I got really bored with cutting back and forth to the mundane corn field (almost thought I was watching Signs or Field of Dreams), and I was extremely disappointed that most of the space and alternate planet stuff wasn't properly filmed. The great excitement came from docking f#cking space ships like this was Gravity all over again. Oh, that and

Spoiler:
huge f#cking waves that they stupidly mistook for mountains.

Wow. I'm just beyond shocked at

A) How bad the reviews are for this thing (I honest to God thought, with Nolan and previously Spielberg attached, that this would be the next 2001 or at least on the level of Contact; it may not even be better than shitty-ass Gravity)

and

B) The fact that Big Hero 6 whooped this film at the box office (as the last space adventure released by a big-name director, Avatar, became the highest grossing film of all time; I was expecting this film to break some kind of BO record).

I am going to be beyond pissed if out of my 4 most anticipated films of the year (Lucy, Transcendence, Godzilla, and Interstellar), Lucy, and not the Nolan space epic, ends up being the best out of them, and it's starting to seem like that will be the case.

When was Spielberg attached? It would have been much better had he directed it. Spielberg is at least great with camera movements and visual competence.

Jupiter Ascending is the next space epic I'm excited about. Even though it was delayed, I honestly highly doubt it will disappoint the way this did. But then again I'm also a Wachowsis fan.

From Wikipedia:

The film began development in June 2006 when Spielberg and Paramount Pictures announced plans for a science fiction film based on an eight-page treatment written by Obst and Thorne. Obst was attached to produce the film, which Variety said would "take several years to come together" before Spielberg directed it.[15][16] By March 2007, Jonathan Nolan was hired to write a screenplay for Interstellar.[17]

Steven Spielberg moved his production company DreamWorks in 2009 from Paramount to The Walt Disney Company, and Paramount needed a new director for Interstellar.

I was really looking forward to essentially an IMAX 3D version of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey. I'm dumbfounded that that's not what was delivered.

I'm not too excited for Jupiter Ascending, but not because I think it'll be bad, just not my cup of tea. I also enjoy the Wachowski Bros. and I think I'm one of the few who absolutely loved Ninja Assassin.

I'm going to see it again tomorrow and now that I have what happens in the final half hour clear in my head I might enjoy it a bit more. It'll still suffer from not being able to tie the separate elements of the film together that I mentioned previously. It could be made better by giving more focus to the context of humanity's peril by showing some world wide problems and showing the huge numbers of deaths caused by the food shortages.

There is some irreconcilable issues though. The planet with the waves. 1. Why would the ever think a planet on the edge of a black hole would be remotely suitable to save humanity? 2. A planet next to a black hole would be ripped apart. 3. Even forgoing that fact, if it managed to not be destroyed then it would be in a locked orbit much like our moon is and 1 side would constantly face the black hole so you wouldn't get waves moving across the planet as it rotated cos it wouldn't be rotating. 4. They know that gravity makes time relative so time on one side of the planet would pass differently than on the other so they couldn't settle there in any large numbers anyway.

Originally posted by Lestov16
...I also enjoy the Wachowski Bros. and I think I'm one of the few who absolutely loved Ninja Assassin.

Im going to see this today, I can't wait to write a good review and piss all yall haters off!🙂

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
That wasn't the Wachowskis.

Yeah, you're right. They only produced the film. The advertising mentioned them a lot so that's why I was mistaken.

I heard this movie was so loud and the audio was so bad, you cant hear what the fck the cast is saying.

What?

I enjoyed it. Wasn't a perfect movie or anything but was very unique. Well worth my dollars and time. And like Inception, if you actually pay attention to the movie you should have no problem following it.

Matt Damon's character was easily the worse part of the film IMO.

I liked this movie very much. I think it's Nolan's best film and was much more emotionally resonant than I was expecting.

I also liked the somber and bleak tone that the movie had throughout.

Even though it was 3 hours long I felt that overall the pacing was pretty good and so the running time was justified. Perhaps a bit too much time spent going back to the corn fields, but that wasn't a very big deal.

I also really liked the robots in the film.

Originally posted by Robtard
What?

Somone told me the voice audio was hard to hear, but maybe it was just that theater. Still waiting to see this movie later this week, was gonna see it last night but it was not in IMAX and Fury was free so saw that instead.