Interstellar - Part 8

[Tim_Riggins]

Her speech is terrible? The "love is the one thing that transcends time & space" one? (not a spoiler, it's in the trailer)

Man, it's like anytime there's emotion, some people will just call it corny or cheesy or flatout terrible, anyway, I find it to be a beautiful speech.

Anne is excellent in the movie, good character as well. Murph's character (especially as a kid) is pretty great too.

 

[flickchick85]

I'm calling it terrible because I thought it was clunky writing and seemed to come out of nowhere, not because it was emotional. I was basically making the same face at her as [blackout]Cooper was[/blackout] in that moment. I love GOOD emotional speeches. That just wasn't one, imo. So we'll just have to respectfully disagree on that.

Mysteryman asked for female perspectives and I gave him one. *shrug*

 

[titansupes]

I was really worried about the speech when I heard the line in the trailer, but I felt they pulled it off, as much as you can pull those things off.

 

[craigdbfan]

Watched it tonight (or rather last night).

I don't think this movie was made for entertainment at least not in the traditional sense. For me this was a lesson and at times even a sermon with the cadence of desperation from the author.

The beauty of this movie is that Nolan tried giving us all a gift. It's more than likely we'll never see interstellar travel in our lifetime and the grief and joy it will simultaneously bring but this was his attempt at giving us a glimpse of something we'll never experience but something that our descendents hopefully will and what it means for our species as a whole.

This isn't Nolan's best work but it's his most important.

 

[Kansiov]

That [BLACKOUT]love transcends time speech[/BLACKOUT] was just terrible; had it been a less capable actress delivering that, it would've been downright hilarious- and not in a good way. With that said, this is easily Nolan's best acted movie, it's just a shame the dialogue given to these actors, especially the space crew, isn't up to par with their talent.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

What's terrible about it?

 

[Rowsdower!]

What's terrible about it?

Nothing. Look, I didn't love this movie the way I wanted to... I think I need to see it again to fully process everything in it. There are a lot of little things that I had issues with, but the dialogue was not one of them. I didn't find anything in Anne's speech (or any of the character's speeches for that matter to be "cringeworthy" as the Hypesters like to call it. The only dialogue fault is give the movie would be the overuse of that poem Caine kept reciting. I think the movie had some problems I terms of story, but that's really it.

 

[BatLobster]

Brand's speech didn't bother me because (don't read if you haven't seen, semi-major spoiler):

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In the context of the movie, there are other "beings" that are literally guiding them (possibly out of love/compassion). The laws of physics are being defied by the gravitational anomalies that led Coop to NASA and the very existence of the wormhole. Brand as a scientist is trying to confront this head-on and reconcile the physics with the miraculous, and ponders if our own bonds of love are somehow quantifiable in a higher dimension. She's eventually proven right, but in that moment Cooper's reaction of incredulity is meant to mirror out own reaction. I think it was literally pulled off about as well as you could pull off a monologue like that. Many props to Anne.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Yeah, she really sells it, and after all, the movie is about

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love

 

[Tonymosello]

Only 2 more hours until I see it!

 

[antsman41]

Outside of Joker's dialogue, this might be some of the best dialogue Nolan Bros. have written... it was fast and easy while still being educational and mind blowing.

It could easily been a little slogging like Inception or just too wordy like 2001 or too sic-fi like Sunshine but it wasn't.

 

[Ajendo]

I don't understand why so many people are having a difficult time rating the movie. After seeing it this afternoon I give it an 8.5/10.

Great movie. Ambitious in scope, wonderfully acted and the themes of love and the science FICTION aspect of it all was truly remarkable in gelling everything together. Maybe I enjoyed this movie more than most because I didn't microscopically follow the film's production and I had no expectations what so ever other than knowing it was a scifi film from Nolan. I want to see the film again but not straight away, possibly after a week but I agree with those that this isn't a typical blockbuster vehicle.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Yeah, I don't know, it either hits you or it doesn't.

 

[Micromind]

Saw the film today. I think it is a great Science Fiction movie.

Once viewers accept that this is not like other "grounded" Nolan movies (though Nolan and Kip Thorne have tried to present a Black Hole as close to the real one as possible) following the rest of the movie is not that tough.

Matthew McConaughey delivers one hell of performance, Zimmer's score is also one of his best, the effects are amazing, first two acts are done well, the third act is where most people will ask questions.

Edit: People in my theater seemed happy with the movie.
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[StarkTheProdigy]

Saw it last night, it wasn't terrible, but there was just way too much going on in this movie, even for me (a regular movie goer) so it has nothing to do about being able to keep up with what is going on. It was just too much, even for almost a three hour movie. The acting was solid, and there were a lot of beautifully shot scenes, but the movie just felt overloaded in the end for me. People say it is a movie you have to see a second time to understand some things, but once is honestly enough for me. It was not horrible, and I am really impressed with Nolan's ambitious imagination, but this idea was too be for a movie I thought. As someone I went to the movie with said, "It's Inception on steroids."

 

[Micromind]

I wonder how the movie would have turned out if Spielberg had directed it (as he was initially going to direct before Nolan took over.)

 

[rashad]

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[Eros]

This movie is what 2012s Prometheus should have been, a transcending epic of space, love and discovery and a alot of wonder.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Saw it last night, it wasn't terrible, but there was just way too much going on in this movie, even for me (a regular movie goer) so it has nothing to do about being able to keep up with what is going on. It was just too much, even for almost a three hour movie. The acting was solid, and there were a lot of beautifully shot scenes, but the movie just felt overloaded in the end for me. People say it is a movie you have to see a second time to understand some things, but once is honestly enough for me. It was not horrible, and I am really impressed with Nolan's ambitious imagination, but this idea was too be for a movie I thought. As someone I went to the movie with said, "It's Inception on steroids."

Yeah, I kind of agree with this. I think he had a few too many things going on here and that's why I missed some things watching it. Some of the stuff towards the end I felt should have been a little clearer and perhaps they could have done that if they trimmed some things at the beginning and in the middle.

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Honestly, they could have cut the entire water planet sequence and not really lost anything as it proves to be pretty much worthless to their mission.

I don't know. I liked a lot of things in this movie, but I have to say that I didn't love it like I was expecting too. Characters, acting, special effects, all that was great... I just felt like the story needed some tweaking. Inception remains Nolan's best film in my book.

 

[TheNextNolan22]

 

[Tim_Riggins]

Cut the

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water planet sequence?????? It's that sequence that leads to that incredible moment, you need to convey that & up the stakes, boom, 23 years are gone

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Spoiler

Cooper in a Scrambled Cable Porn dimension is no more weirder than the clones in The Prestige.

 

[Castro]

I thought this movie was incredible. It's definitely in my all time list. Sure, it has it's share of flaws as with all Nolan films, but nothing a little fan editing can't do if it really bothers you that much.

BTW, i found nothing wrong with A.Brand's speech. As the person above who said they were making the same face as Cooper was making at Brand, I think that was the point. The audience is Cooper in that scene IMO. Were supposed to feel like "what a load of horse****."

I do feel Hathaway could have easily been replaced with another actress. She's one of the best at crying in the business and in a movie with so much crying, she didn't really display that much emotion(maybe b/c she was trying to hide her true agenda leading up to her speech?). Damon could have been replaced as well. I'm just saying the money probably spent on two big names as those two could have been used elsewhere and had just as effective character's with lesser known actors. Like, maybe a little more diversity? As with all Hollywood movies, the past, present and future is a white and black world. The future of the rest of us exist in little glass tubes. Thank you to all the brave white astronauts on that wall for saving our poor brown asses again and screw you Matt Damon! You're not our solo white savior from Elysium anymore!

 

[moviefan!]

Found this amazing theory online

Fits perfectly

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What if in the original timeline Cooper goes into the black hole and dies there. Murph never receives any message. They do not solve gravity. Plan A fails. Everyone on Earth dies. Brand (Anne Hathaway) is the last member of mankind still alive. On Edmunds' planet she grows the fertilized eggs they had brought with them on the Endurance. She succeeds with plan B. The new humans live on that planet. Eventually they become more technologically advanced than we were back on Earth, and at some point in the future they attain such a deep understanding of the universe that they evolve to live in a higher dimension, the bulk. There they perceive love physically, love has a tangible existence in this higher dimension. They perceive the love that linked humans back on Earth a long, long time ago. And then out of love they devise a way to allow these humans to keep living too, some of whom were their ancestors, their great-great-...-great-grand-parents. They perceive the strong love that linked Cooper and his daughter. They realize they can save the humans who lived on Earth by enabling Cooper to communicate with his daughter from inside that black hole, through the link that bound them together. Once Cooper succeeds they send him back near Saturn through a wormhole, to allow him to see his daughter one last time. Brand allowed the future humans to live, Cooper allowed the humans back on Earth to live. In the end Cooper leaves to reunite with Brand, in a sense reuniting humanity together: the future humans who couldn't have lived without Brand, and Earth's humans who couldn't have lived without Cooper. It was love that had brought Brand to Edmunds' planet and allowed future humans to live, and it was love that allowed Cooper to save Earth's humans

 

[Hurm...]

Nolan's best film. I'll elaborate later, but....


Wow.