Interstellar - Part 9

[Naked Shia]

I agree. Interstellar is a movie worth seeing at the cinemas.

What did you think of Brand?

Anne did a fine job, but her character wasn't that interesting imo. The movie really belongs to Cooper and Murphy. Mann was also great.

 

[craigdbfan]

Mann was comically unnecessary.

 

[Naked Shia]

I think he was necessary to illustrate the themes of the movie, and balance the character portrayals.

 

[BatLobster]

Yeah, Mann was pretty much necessary.

They needed some sort of obstacle for Act 3 that got them into a situation where Cooper and TARS would have to jettison from the Endurance. The options for that are limited:

-Alien threat (clearly the movie wasn't going there)
-TARS or CASE betrayal (the movie was avoiding the evil AI trope as well)
-Arbitrary technical malfunction (meh)
-Romilly betrayal? (if he kept it together after waiting for them 23 years I don't think he has it in him)

I don't see what the problem is with Mann, it effectively tees up the third act while continuing the exploration of the themes of human nature. Plus you get a fun cameo out of it. The sequence where he's trying to dock, which leads right into the Cooper docking sequence is fantastic.

 

[Naked Shia]

that's where I stand too when it comes to Mann. I like what his character tells about how human nature can be really dark. But he's also not evil for the sake of being evil.

 

[DA_Champion]

Mann was in there as an insight into astronaut psychology.

Spoke to my friend who works at NASA in a senior position. He was happy to see the character there, because he undermines a lot of dumb questions that he gets from the mainstream media. Journalists and apparently some movie goers don't get the issue with long and lonely space flights. The contrast is to the movie's general assumption that humans need love.

My friend told me that he thinks people like Mann are the reason that the constellation program was killed off. People who are too obsessed with the mission and then can't see the big picture.

 

[craigdbfan]

Yeah, Mann just didn't work for me. Just felt like a chore to get through his part but that's just my view on it.

 

[drod1985]

I absolutely loved this movie, it has restored my faith in Nolan post TDKR. My one gripe with Mann was that when he was revealed it was less "Oh man, one of the original 12 was in stasis and is alive!" and more "Oh man, there's Matt Damon!" - it would've worked better for me if his cameo wasn't kept a secret. The way it played out was borderline distracting.

 

[The Guard]

They didn't stumble on to NASA.

[BLACKOUT]He left them the coordinates via gravity, remember? It was no accident, he literally directed himself there.[/BLACKOUT]

My issue isn't that the film didn't try to explain it. It's that it didn't work all that well as a concept. It was forced. There are better ways to get this man and NASA in touch with each other.

 

[The Guard]

Mann could have worked fine. There are elements of his inclusion that do work well. The problem with the character is that about 75% of his screentime caused the film to devolve into predictable, uninteresting, overexpository cliché.

 

[hafizbat]

Mann was one of the best parts of the movie.

 

[DA_Champion]

A really good fight scene too

And a great line "Those are the best odds I've had in twenty years"

 

[Rocketman]

I have a sneaking suspicion that Nolan will do Sandman starring JGL.

 

[Travesty]

Ha, I highly doubt it. And Nolan is totally not the right director for Sandman.

 

[DA_Champion]

I have a sneaking hope that Nolan will be directing an original property.

 

[Rocketman]

Ha, I highly doubt it. And Nolan is totally not the right director for Sandman.

Yeah, a property based on DC Comics and is focused around dreams... not up his alley at all.

Spoiler

 

[Travesty]

The dreams in Inception are nothing like what Sandman's overall aesthic is asking for. And Batman isn't Sandman. You need a director who has much more of a visual flair/style. Nolan isn't even close to someone who should be doing a movie so fantastical.

 

[ThePhantasm]

agreed

 

[batman1]

question. did cooper die in the blackhole and dreamed as he was dieing or did he actually get back to the station?

 

[hafizbat]

What's Nolan doing next anyway?

 

[MrMaooz]

I think might direct high production value pornos after this.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

A Nolan porno will be the most chaste porno ever.

 

[georgec]

Nolan already directed a porno.

On the Aggressively Masculine Perspective Of INTERSTELLAR
'And how the spaceship functions as an extension of Matthew McConaughey's penis.'

The spaceship itself is also a phallic symbol, an extension of the penis itself, and Cooper must guide it into position at the docking station and lock it into place. Nolan’s cinematography is anything but subtle, the docking scenes choreographed with all the tension-mounting sensuousness of a love scene. This isn’t space ballet; it’s space Zalman King. As Cooper successfully docks the ship in the station, the scene is punctuated by an ejaculatory sigh of relief.

 

[TheBat812]

8-Minute Behind-the-Scenes Video on Interstellar's Sound Design:

http://filmmakermagazine.com/88429-watch-behind-interstellars-sound-design/#.VHPxf9IcTIV

Sweet. Thanks for posting.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Nolan already directed a porno.

what the ****