Interstellar - Part 9

[DA_Champion]

I'm embarrassed for people who think all spaceships are phallic symbols.

Some spaceships have sexual imagery, for example the Nostromo in Alien.

 

[titansupes]

... Mother ****er's get paid to write that. Think about that for a second.

 

[georgec]

... Mother ****er's get paid to write that. Think about that for a second.

When I first read that page I thought it was satire, but then I realized the author was actually serious. All I could do was .

 

[TheGuy]

I loved it. The space stuff was really intense, and the emotional stuff was really really moving.

Also, I know some people are talking about "plot-holes", but to me, most (if not all) movies have plot-holes. What matters in the end, is not that the movie has plot-holes, it's that the director manages to make you believe in the journey, and connect with the story, in spite of the plot-holes.

Bingo! t:

 

[TheGuy]

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 film follows the concept of a closed universe where everything repeats forever. Never was it forced at all. That's simply how the physics of the movie works.

 

[Mr.T]

I'm there with others regarding Mann's role being a sort of speed bump to the flow of the movie. I think it would've been better received had it been an unknown actor. Matt Damon was just, distracting. I guess. I just can't put my finger on it...

 

[Brother Jack]

I didn't care for the cutting between the Mann sequence and the stuff going on on earth. I get what Nolan was trying to do and it's one of his patented devices but I don't think it totally worked there. I would rather have had the corn burning stuff be left as its own extended sequence not broken up by the scenes with the astronauts.

 

[Infinity9999x]

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.

I didn't think so. Hathaway's character clearly outlines how these beings thay exist in a higher dimension can utilize time, that it's possible time to them is something they can move through just like we can move through our three dimensuons.

McConaughey is goven access to this ability. They showed that something strange was happening to give him the coordinates, they inserted an explanation of how 5th dimensional beings could possibly operate, and then they had McConaughey's character adhere to those rules. I thought it was executed fine.

As a concept, it's bolstered by the fact that, as far as we know now, it is a theoretical possibility.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Expanded score is on Paramount's website.

 

[spider-neil]

People think Inception is amazing (Rotten Tomato) and I think it's 'meh'.
People think Interstellar is 'meh' (Rotten Tomato) and think it's amazing.
Opinions, eh.

 

[hafizbat]

1. TDK Trilogy
2. Interstellar
3. The Prestige
4. Inception
5. Memento

And I thought Memento was superb.

 

[dark_b]

a 1 month old movie should never be on any list. IMO a movie needs to be at least 1 year old so that we can compare it

IMO there is no wormhole or blackhole where Interstellar is a better movie than Prestige.

 

[Dr.]

...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.

Nolan has admitted how much 2001 influenced Interstellar. So it’s interesting to note certain similarities between Mann and HAL. Some think that the HAL betrayal/subplot was superfluous to 2001 (and could have been excised without much effect); others say HAL was thematically relevant. And now we have the same debate about Mann.

 

[spider-neil]

TDK
Prestige
Memento
Interstellar
Inception
Batman Begins
TDKR
Following


Insomnia

 

[hafizbat]

a 1 month old movie should never be on any list. IMO a movie needs to be at least 1 year old so that we can compare it

IMO there is no wormhole or blackhole where Interstellar is a better movie than Prestige.

This is a subjective list and I've seen every movie on it, lol.

While Interstellar may not be Nolan's most technically impressive work, it was just so on point for me personally.

I will say that Nolan seems to get a better reception (even his worst films are still very good) when he makes more mechanical, tight thrillers like Memento, The Prestige, and The Dark Knight.

His last two outings, TDKR and Interstellar, have focused more on heavy themes and emotions, and are simply more sentimental.

 

[Naked Shia]

which is exactly why they work so well with me. That said, I do think Memento is as much emotion driven as those two.

 

[spider-neil]

Nolan's movies are usually cold and calculating but Interstellar had heart and that is why I connected with it more than Inception (for example) despite Inception having a tighter plot.
I will always choose characters over plot.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Corper's plight in Interstellar definitely works on a sympathetic level. Frankly, I never gave a hoot about Cobb or his kids in the entirety of Inception. Every time the film would cut to Cobb's issues the film came to a screeching halt, because it did not feel like an organic part of the film. It felt superfluous and artificial. This makes sense because Leo flat out admitted in an interview that Cobb was a paper thin role he persuaded Nolan to expand as a condition to coming on to this film. And to me, it shows. I cared more about Cillian Murphy and his parental anxiety than I did Cobb's. Because Murphy's part was a part of the script from the start and not an artificially inflated part.

Interstellar is a different story. The father-daughter story is the heart of the film and it in its current form would not work without it. And Nolan/Matthew pulled it off swimmingly.

For this reason above all Interstellar is the better film.

 

[hafizbat]

I love Pearce, Bale, and Dicaprio, but I think Mcconaughey had the best acting of any Nolan lead so far.

 

[Faora]

Sex with Christopher Nolan
[YT]watch?v=_a7P-lg1dbI[/YT]

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Someone needs to show this to Nolan. Might shatter his prude exterior, prompting him to make his own "Eyes Wide Shut".

 

[BatLobster]

Man, College Humor just tries so hard and so consistently fails at being funny.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Expanded score is on Paramount's website.

Quoting for everyone's benefit.

 

[spider-neil]

Corper's plight in Interstellar definitely works on a sympathetic level. Frankly, I never gave a hoot about Cobb or his kids in the entirety of Inception. Every time the film would cut to Cobb's issues the film came to a screeching halt, because it did not feel like an organic part of the film. It felt superfluous and artificial. This makes sense because Leo flat out admitted in an interview that Cobb was a paper thin role he persuaded Nolan to expand as a condition to coming on to this film. And to me, it shows. I cared more about Cillian Murphy and his parental anxiety than I did Cobb's. Because Murphy's part was a part of the script from the start and not an artificially inflated part.

Interstellar is a different story. The father-daughter story is the heart of the film and it in its current form would not work without it. And Nolan/Matthew pulled it off swimmingly.

For this reason above all Interstellar is the better film.

This. 100% this.

 

[BatLobster]

I do agree with Tacit about Interstellar being more organic with its emotional angle. That said, I wouldn't go as far as to say that Inception came to a screeching halt when it delved into Cobb's issues. The scene where Cobb is pleading with Mal not to jump is pretty devastating, and I had more sympathy for Cobb after that scene. The kids were a plot device, but I did root for Cobb to get back home to them. Not as strongly as I rooted for Cooper to get back home, but Inception was definitely more emotionally gripping than most heist/action films so I'm glad for whatever contributions Leo may have made there.

Overall though, I'm leaning towards Interstellar being the better film at the moment.