Interstellar - Part 8

[I SEE SPIDEY]

It is DOA regardless. Not their cup of tea.

I think it can still get a best picture and perhaps best director nomination but it has virtually no chance of winning. Sci fi movies need to have all the positive buzz in the world to win the top prize because the Academy just doesn't love the genre enough for it to just skirt by.

 

[redfirebird2008]

I think it can still get a best picture and perhaps best director nomination but it has virtually no chance of winning. Sci fi movies need to have all the positive buzz in the world to win the top prize because the Academy just doesn't love the genre enough for it to just skirt by.

Best Director nomination is DOA. Only 5 spots available for that. Could sneak in as 9th or 10th for Best Picture nomination if it makes a lot of money, but I think the film could be a bit of a box office flop.

 

[SuperJediHero]

Why there are so many critics giving this a rotten?

 

[Black Narcissus]

Why there are so many critics giving this a rotten?

I thought this was certified fresh? NY Times gave this a positive, which is a big win for Nolan.

 

[BatLobster]

Best Director nomination is DOA. Only 5 spots available for that. Could sneak in as 9th or 10th for Best Picture nomination if it makes a lot of money, but I think the film could be a bit of a box office flop.

The one thing this movie might have going for it is that the SAG was apparently floored by the movie, and that's representative of a sizable chunk of the Academy. And we know that a lot of directors are loving it too. I wouldn't be so fast to call it DOA just yet for a Director nomination.

After seeing the movie though, it really doesn't matter. It wouldn't suit this film to win any of the big ones and snubs will probably only add to its mystique.

To be honest though, the emotional core and ultimate message of this film are very Oscar-y. And I mean that in the best sense, in that this is an extraordinarily humanistic film, not in the tired Oscar-bait sense. It's true that the older voters will not recognize that that through all the astrophysics-babble though.

And you're right- box office will definitely play a role too in terms of whether the Academy feels "obligated" to throw it a bone.

 

[flickchick85]

Why there are so many critics giving this a rotten?

Because the narrative takes a turn that would best be described as "polarizing." It will work for some, less so for others. I'm currently in the latter camp, but I need to see it again this weekend to better get a handle on my feelings about it.

On another note, I've been dying to hear the score again, and I can't even find samples up anywhere!

 

[Marvolo]

Because the narrative takes a turn that would best be described as "polarizing." It will work for some, less so for others. I'm currently in the latter camp, but I need to see it again this weekend to better get a handle on my feelings about it.

On another note, I've been dying to hear the score again, and I can't even find samples up anywhere!

You wont be able to. Zimmer didnt want the score released before the film came out so they arent making it available to the public until after the first two weeks of the film's theatrical run. Zimmer felt the score needed to be experienced for the first time with the film.

It might leak early, and one track already has, but it wont officially be out until the week after next.

 

[Mysteryman]

Good luck on her getting a nomination for a sci fi flick with semi disappointing reviews. That is going to be really, really tough to do. The Academy are going to have to adore this film and maybe they will but sci fi usually isn't adored by the Academy.

Not to mention that they already gave a number of Oscars including Best Director to Gravity last year , So they might not be so quick to honor another space based film so soon .

 

[TheVileOne]

Creating characters outside your own gender isn't always easy for certain people, some people excel at it better than others, some just find it too difficult to write for the opposite gender so they tend to walk on the side of caution and create characters that are a bit more neutral.

The film was co-written by Jonathan Nolan you know.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Not to mention that they already gave a number of Oscars including Best Director to Gravity last year , So they might not be so quick to honor another space based film so soon .

I've definitely thought of Gravity's effect on this film's chances. The Academy might not be so quick to repeat itself, especially with with a genre they are reluctant to award in the first place.

The award season stuff isn't serious but I follow it pretty decently on occasion. Interstellar needed to not be at all Polarizing to be a big player. It's guaranteed all of the tech noms if nothing else.

 

[kvz5]

Not sure what she is in the film (haven't seen it yet) but I really liked Brand in the Jonah Nolan script. My only complaint was when she became [blackout]a cliche love interest in the 3rd act[/blackout] but prior to that she was this independent, smart, competent, "all business" woman.

 

[Mikelus]

My point is that so many people want Interstellar and its ilk to be GREAT IMPORTANT FILMS when that's not even really what the people making them are going for.

Well, think again:

Nolan: “I’ve always believed that if you want to really try and make a great film, not a good film, but a great film, you have to take a lot of risks. It was very clear to me that if you’re going to make a film called Interstellar, it’s going to have to be something extremely ambitious. You push it in all the possible directions you can. Not for its own sake, but because you know that if you’re going to try to add something to the canon, besides fiction films and all the rest, and live up to the promise of that title and the scale of that title, you really have to go there.”

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/04/-sp-christopher-nolan-interstellar-rebooted-blockbuster

The article is a must read for any fan of cinema and filmmaking, some more bits:

The first reports from screenings have had audience members – studio heads, journalists, crew-members – leaving the cinema in tears. “People can’t really talk about it when they first get out of the film,” said Thomas, who I met shortly after I too was thunderstruck by Nolan’s epic, emerging blinking from a theatre on the Paramount lot into blinding sunshine. “They need a day or so to process it. And then they call you up.”

“I have been shocked to realise how much more emotional this film is,” Nolan said a day later, when I met him at the officers of his production company, a tan bungalow nestled on the Warner Bros lot amid palm trees and azaleas, just a stone’s throw from Clint Eastwood’s Malpaso Productions. The extreme reaction has taken him aback, he said. “I have spent years of my life thinking only about this film and I mean only this film. The responses where it’s lacking – ‘it’s just a movie and it’s pretty good, I liked it’ – they are the things that kill you. This is my obsession for years, you just pour yourself into it.”

If Nolan’s success has in large part depended on an audience of little Nolans, notepads out, faces scrunched up as they attempt to outwit the master from the front row, the film-maker found himself, as he approached the release of Interstellar, in the unusual position of pivoting towards encouraging a more limbic, left-brained response to his work. The only praise that made him a little uncomfortable was praise for the complexity of his films. “What I’ve found is, people who let my films wash over them – who don’t treat it like a crossword puzzle, or like there is a test afterwards – they get the most out of the film,” he said. “I have done various things in my career, including, with Memento, telling a very simple story in an incredibly complex way. Inception is a very complicated story told in a very complicated way. Interstellar is very upfront about being simple as a story.

It should come as no surprise that the maker of Memento and Inception – two masterpieces of watchmaker cinema – should have wound up at the door of Albert Einstein, who deduced the postulates of relativity while processing patents for clocks at a Bern patent office. Few, though, could have anticipated the emotional resonance he gets from relativity in the film, as McConaughey and his crew set down on a water planet where every hour spent means a seven-year chunk missed from his daughter’s life back on Earth. To say that Interstellar is Nolan’s most emotional film isn’t exactly accurate. It actually puts the audience through an entirely new species of emotion: a fiendish compound of grief, longing, loss and awe at time’s immensity. This is how love shows up in a Christopher Nolan film.

In early October, Nolan held a special screening of Interstellar for his fellow directors, at the Imax cinema at Universal City. Tarantino was there, as was Paul Thomas Anderson. Nolan was at the door, greeting them as they arrived. “Hey, I heard it’s a time travel movie,” Tarantino said. “Well, you know, it’s not really a time-travel movie, even though everyone is using that as a thing,” Nolan replied. “You just have to see it. You’ll see what I mean.”

Taking his seat, Tarantino had absolutely no idea about what was about to unfold on the screen. “There’s some other real cool directors there,” he told me later. “We’re waiting for the movie to start and it hit me. I realised that it hadn’t been since The Matrix that I was actually that interested in seeing a movie even though I didn’t know what I was going to see.”

After the movie was over, the directors descended on Nolan like a pack of gulls, peppering him with questions for 45 minutes. Anderson thought the movie was “beautiful” and wanted to know about the whys and wherefores of shooting on Imax 70mm. Tarantino, too, was impressed. “It’s been a while since somebody has come out with such a big vision to things,” he told me. “Even the elements, the fact that dust is everywhere, and they’re living in this dust bowl that is just completely enveloping this area of the world. That’s almost something you expect from Tarkovsky or Malick, not a science fiction adventure movie.”

 

[flickchick85]

You wont be able to. Zimmer didnt want the score released before the film came out so they arent making it available to the public until after the first two weeks of the film's theatrical run. Zimmer felt the score needed to be experienced for the first time with the film.

It might leak early, and one track already has, but it wont officially be out until the week after next.

That evil, talented son of a b****. And I see how you subtly snuck some useful info in there. Which I appreciate.

 

[jmc]

The film was co-written by Jonathan Nolan you know.

I'm not sure how that changes anything I wrote.

 

[Kansiov]

Just saw it... and I don't really know what to say.

 

[AnneFan]

Just a day left for me. I'm ready to see Anne and her character's sassy Brand of humour.

Sorry, had to do that.

 

[The Shape]

It's been pretty painful waiting til Friday to see this. I just keep trying to reassure myself by remembering that I'll be seeing it on the biggest IMAX screen in the country.

 

[craigdbfan]

I'll be watching this today at 11:35 tonight in LieMax. I would go to the one in SF but I'm tight on my budget this month and doing so would cost me a pretty penny.

 

[titansupes]

Just got back from the cinema.

Processing.

 

[craigdbfan]

That seems to be everyone's reaction titansupes.

 

[The Joker]

Interesting rankings of Nolan's movies from Variety, including Interstellar:

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/r...nolan-from-following-to-inception-1201345787/

 

[TheNextNolan22]

I just saw this last night and I'm still trying to fully let this movie sink in. It's an EXTREMELY ambitious movie, perhaps too ambitious. But I did love it though.

 

[titansupes]

That seems to be everyone's reaction titansupes.

Ha, so I gather. I really, genuinely have no idea what I'm feeling right now. Luckily it's past midnight here, so I'll sleep on it. That usually helps.

 

[weezerspider]

This will be the Nolan film that his fans will be scared of, but he'll win over the cinephiles who always doubted him. Second time seeing it, TDK is my favorite Nolan film due to being a huge Batman fan, but this is easily his best film.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Yep, for me, and I love all Nolan's movies, but nothing comes close to Interstellar imo, the scale is just so huge, and it takes place in space man, that alone ^^ and it's got McConaughey, those two need to pair up again, killer team.

Oh and yes, keep Hoyte Van Hoytema, please, I love Wally's work but here, although Interstellar screams Nolan, and he definitely has a style of his own, there's so much warmth here & texture (not to say there's not in Wally's work, it's different, here it feels more tactile) with Hoyte that I don't think Wally would have brought.

Incredible stuff.