Inception is by a close margin my favourite Nolan film and one of my favourite modern non-geek films of all.
I always loved the robots TARS and CASE the way they made them 'act' in the movie was outstanding
Yeah those where great. There design is inspired by the monolith from 2001.I always loved the robots TARS and CASE the way they made them 'act' in the movie was outstanding
Interstellar is really good, but I do find it very jarring how its unusually scientifically accurate up until going into the black hole and then just goes in the completely opposite direction. Both how the gravity is portrayed and how the concept of love is used in a way I don't think fits the tone of the rest of the film.
Personally I think that's exactly the point though. The film uses scientific fact to a point, as a means to push up against the edge of what is unknown or seemingly unknowable. The inside of a black hole is something currently beyond our comprehension, because it is where all conceptions of time and space completely break down. In movie terms I think it basically be thought of as a metaphor for whatever happens after we die. Theoretically speaking, if there were such a thing as 5th dimensional beings that operate outside our concept of time and space, they would be able to put a tesseract in there. While certainly strange and unlikely, the universe is full of strange phenomenon and it seems to get stranger and stranger the more we uncover, and we ultimately have only barely scratched the surface in terms of our knowledge of it.
I think approaching the film with that mindset and openness as opposed to looking at it as some type of science class you can get more wonder out of it. At least that's my experience with it, but that type of stuff is right up my alley. I tend to be more amazed by what we don't know. Like how we still haven't even really have an agreed upon idea of what exactly consciousness is, or how we don't know what 95% of the universe is even made out of. I think the movie gets at the root of some of the big questions that we need to stay engaged with.
The love concept isn't so much about whether there are things beyond our understanding but I just felt a bit of it felt too cheesy compared to the rest of the film, and one can also point to that the connection was used pretty poorly compared to what could have been done with it.
I think it is though, as I think that's the point of Brand's speech. It's suggesting, what if there's more to love than what we can perceive and know.
As for it being cheesy, yeah, I can't argue that. It's a big earnest swing. Respect your opinion though, obviously it's not going to work for everyone.
“Obvious Reasons” being code for, GREAT TASTE!Interstellar is my favorite Nolan film outside of his Batman work for obvious reasons.
Dunkirk.Cant choose between The Prestige and Dunkirk as his best film.
Both are fantastic. Tenet is i guess for now his most underrated film, the ideas behind it are really interesting.