Interstellar - Part 9

[Enriquespy]

Sometimes great movies are not movies for everyone.

 

[the last son]

I just admit i had no idea what was going on half the time. iF you don't have much of a background in space travel i really recommend skipping

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Saw this last night, thought it was superb and havent been able to get it out of my head since. I am a big Nolan fan, but admit he has drawbacks, one of them was a lack of emotion in his movies, not so here, I was nearly in tears several times, and then the ending, I was literally fighting them back!

I really dont get the criticisms about it being hard to understand either? I am a generally smart guy, but I am certainly no astronaut or science whizz, yet I had no problem understanding any of it. I did have other problems [BLACKOUT]Like Cooper not asking about his son at the end? I know it was more about him and Murphy, but at least ASK about him? Also why did Cooper just not move out of the way when Damon was cracking his helmet, why did he just let him do it while trying to talk him down, the guy was obviously crazy[/BLACKOUT] But these are more nitpicks than anything. I did find the first hour a little slow too.

This is another superb Nolan flick for me, and I think with re-watches its only going to get better, 9.5/10. Everything was great for me and the movie had me hooked from the start.

 

[vinny]

I liked it pretty much...

 

[vinny]

I too wondered why [BLACKOUT]another ship hadn't left to go find Anne since Cooper had left. But, they had to build the new home outside of Saturn and relocate everyone there so maybe they were busy doing that..

I loved it up until Cooper went into the Black Hole, I hated the whole tesseract idea and the bookshelf stuff. If he was able to spell out "STAY", then why not just send a more complete message like "this is Cooper from the future. do not go on this mission as it is a one way trip and Brand knows this".... or something like that... he could have sent any message, not just some vague one word message. I mean he sent GPS coordinates to himself....

I loved 90% of it, was meh on 5%, hated 5%....


I really like the idea of him sending messages to himself in the past and knew when he got home that his daughter would be old, I just don't like the cheesy (to me) way he did the messaging.

I do need to see it again, now that I know a bit more about soft singularities and some other stuff I have learned since seeing it. I still won't like the tesseract part no matter how many times I see it[/BLACKOUT]

 

[Travesty]

Do we still have to do spoiler tags? It's been a week.

 

[kvz5]

Director's cut coming?

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/culture/interstellar-behind-the-scenes?click=feed

 

[Enriquespy]

REAL trivia about the movie:

Spoiler

Everithing is real. The only CGI is of the "humor light" in the robot. The robot is a method actor and believed the ligth was not a realistic part of his character.

Gargantua's behavior is based on the humongous mouth of Anne Hattaway.

Mickey Rourke and Kevin Smith both auditioned for the role of young Murphy.

The tidal waves where created droping your mom onto the sea.

I'm sorry!

 

[redfirebird2008]

Director's cut coming?

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/culture/interstellar-behind-the-scenes?click=feed

Uh...WTF? We know the following is not true.

6. Nolan became a father during filming.
Interstellar, Nolan insists, is a film more about family than space. It's fitting then that he had his first child in the middle of production. "Even when I was watching early sequences of the film," he says, "I was experiencing them on an emotional level completely different from when I wrote the script."

 

[vinny]

Do we still have to do spoiler tags? It's been a week.

Spoiler

Good question

 

[BatLobster]

Uh...WTF? We know the following is not true.

6. Nolan became a father during filming.
Interstellar, Nolan insists, is a film more about family than space. It's fitting then that he had his first child in the middle of production. "Even when I was watching early sequences of the film," he says, "I was experiencing them on an emotional level completely different from when I wrote the script."

Yeah...that whole article seems really poorly researched. I highly doubt the director's cut thing is true. He hasn't done that before, don't see why he'd start now.

 

[Marvel]

Well for me, this film was a tedious and mind-numbing experience.

5/10

The set up was interesting but almost everything gets bogged down with exposition and a wide scope and those factors suck all the heart and most of the emotion directly out of the story. There’s one note at play throughout the film and it’s a grim, mock-cerebral note. Honestly, I do believe that both lead characters smiled exactly once during the entire three hour run time.

The pseudo-science and pure scientific conjecture just can’t gloss over the tedium and pure lack of any intrigue. At times, I had flashbacks to watching Star Trek the Motion Picture. Long sweeping shots of space vehicles and space itself were overused as if such spectacle alone was suppose to awe the audience. I can see why a 1979 audience may have been amazed but I can’t imagine too many people in this era will be moved or impressed. Conjecture and bizzaro science aside, the ending plays out like some bad DVD alternate ending of The Matrix sequels.

Like most of the critiques I’ve read, I agree this movie has ambition and style but severely lacks soul, proper intelligence and focus.

A line from early in the film goes something like this… “At least we’ve established your ‘if I told you to drive off a cliff’ parameter.” It appears that is Nolan’s message to his rabid fanbase. This movie proves who is loyal and who will drive off that cliff with him.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Yeah...that whole article seems really poorly researched. I highly doubt the director's cut thing is true. He hasn't done that before, don't see why he'd start now.

On the kid thing, it must be talking about Jonah Nolan. He and his wife had a child recently. But the article never says anything about Jonah and definitely seems to make it sound like they mean Chris. Kinda does make you wonder if the director's cut part is total BS.

 

[BatLobster]

This movie proves who is loyal and who will drive off that cliff with him.

Ehhh. There are non-Nolan fans out there who found this to be his best film and there are hardcore Nolan fans who were disappointed. And PLENTY of middle ground in between. You're painting with far too wide a brush for a movie this wildly divisive.

 

[Tequilla]

Director's cut coming?

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/culture/interstellar-behind-the-scenes?click=feed

Don't believe it. Sounds bogus.

 

[redfirebird2008]

A line from early in the film goes something like this… “At least we’ve established your ‘if I told you to drive off a cliff’ parameter.” It appears that is Nolan’s message to his rabid fanbase. This movie proves who is loyal and who will drive off that cliff with him.

Not really. I liked the movie but can easily understand why others didn't like it. How about you stop projecting your own reaction onto everyone else? What you wrote above is just as bad as the Nolanites claiming people "didn't get it" or whatever.

 

[BatmanFanboy]

Well for me, this film was a tedious and mind-numbing experience.

5/10

The set up was interesting but almost everything gets bogged down with exposition and a wide scope and those factors suck all the heart and most of the emotion directly out of the story. There’s one note at play throughout the film and it’s a grim, mock-cerebral note. Honestly, I do believe that both lead characters smiled exactly once during the entire three hour run time.

The pseudo-science and pure scientific conjecture just can’t gloss over the tedium and pure lack of any intrigue. At times, I had flashbacks to watching Star Trek the Motion Picture. Long sweeping shots of space vehicles and space itself were overused as if such spectacle alone was suppose to awe the audience. I can see why a 1979 audience may have been amazed but I can’t imagine too many people in this era will be moved or impressed. Conjecture and bizzaro science aside, the ending plays out like some bad DVD alternate ending of The Matrix sequels.

Like most of the critiques I’ve read, I agree this movie has ambition and style but severely lacks soul, proper intelligence and focus.

A line from early in the film goes something like this… “At least we’ve established your ‘if I told you to drive off a cliff’ parameter.” It appears that is Nolan’s message to his rabid fanbase. This movie proves who is loyal and who will drive off that cliff with him.

5/10 ?? You must have terrible taste in movies hahaa. What a joke of a "review"

 

[Guts]

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[jmc]

I like how he explains that we have access to the 3 coordinates of space because we live in 4 dimensions. That succinctly explains how the ending "works." Cooper is in the 5th dimension, which allows him access to the 4th dimension, which is time.

And yeah, nobody knows what's in a black hole, so go crazy.

Maybe it's just me reading too much science literature over the years but was the 5th dimensional concept confusing to some people?

 

[dark_b]

someone who never heard or read about the 5th dimmension got it explained through Nolan's movie characters. i think it was ''good enough''

i would bet my life on that at least 50% of people who watched Interstellar didnt know what they were watching when Cooper was floating in a big room full of blurred books. not because they were dumb.

 

[JackWhite]

If we didn't get a director's cut of TDKR there is no way we get one for Interstellar. Besides, that film did not need to be any longer than it already was, and for the record I was perfectly fine with the run time.

 

[dark_b]

from 2005 on there are at least 5 articles for every Nolan movie how there will be a directors cut. statistics show that people who read movie news like to click on those articles. about Nolan's directors cut. so it makes sense.

the question is if movie fans understand whats the purpose of those article. more clicks more money.

 

[Anubis]

Movie was okay. I'd give it a 7 our of 10.

 

[dark_b]

on youtube type ''interstellar dock scene''

enjoy the zimmer music from the docking scnee. its the definition of epic.

 

[Dr.]

Carl Sagan’s classic tutorial on higher dimensions: