Interstellar - Part 9

[georgec]

It seems to be owning the weekdays while being usurped over the weekend. It was ahead of Dumb and Dumber To and Big Hero 6 all week. It even won Tuesday.

3, 4 years ago Interstellar goes over 200 million domestic rather easily. North Americans are spending less and less on the cinema experience while people overseas seem to be spending more.

Good points - I forgot about the better weekday performances of Interstellar.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Them foreign markets kicking our ass. Good for them.

 

[redfirebird2008]

Hoping for $650m worldwide. Something like $170m domestic and $480m overseas is very possible at this point. Could have made north of $750m with 3D. Wonder how much pressure Nolan will have from the studios to release his next movie in 3D.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

Do you guys see Nolan doing Bond? According to himself he has met with the Broccoli's several times, but nothing has come of it. Maybe they do not want him like Cubby didn't want Spielberg back in the 80's?

 

[georgec]

I think Nolan will do a Bond film eventually. According to IMDb Mendes is rumored to direct Bond 25 as well. Maybe Nolan can do 26, but that would be something like 5-6 years from now.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Nolan is pretty young. There's still plenty of time. Barring some unforeseen complications.

He seems the type of guy who'd want a clean slate though instead of inheriting someone else's cast. Or maybe that's just my wishful thinking.

 

[craigdbfan]

Nolan should make a George Washington biopic.

 

[Travesty]

Do you guys see Nolan doing Bond?

Yeah, it's called the TDKT.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

You could've just said Inception.

 

[rashad]

Box Office Mojo ‏@boxofficemojo 'Interstellar's biggest markets are China ($82.3 million) and South Korea ($50.5 million, #1 all-time for WB): http://bit.ly/159g2OX

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[A Necessary Evil]

Do you guys see Nolan doing Bond? According to himself he has met with the Broccoli's several times, but nothing has come of it. Maybe they do not want him like Cubby didn't want Spielberg back in the 80's?

I have no issues with him doing Bond.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Do you guys see Nolan doing Bond?

I don't think Bond swings that way.


However it is Nolan

 

[The Guard]

I finally saw this.

I enjoyed it for the most part. A well-made, well-acted, beautifully shot, if somewhat messy and inconsistent film. Visually, it's occassionally really nice to look at and the effects were very good, but I didn't get blown away by the space sequences as some apparently were.

The cast was solid, with a couple of really impressive moments for each actor/actress. This is largely a case of Nolan casting actors who overcame a lot of conceptual/script weaknesses and elevated a fairly average product to something more special. Because the script really isn't that greats. Sort of a hodgepodge of interesting ideas and lots of cheap melodrama with very basic connective tissue. There's almost no character development to speak of and the conflicts and their resolutions are incredibly predictable for the most part. Still, the overall concept is an interesting one, and while a lot of the story points (come on, they stumble onto NASA's secret lair/space station?) are hard to swallow, it holds together fairly well despite this. The space elements are handled fairly well, and its nice to see some real science show up in the telling of the story. I'm not sure how I feel about the scientific "twist" at the end of the film. Felt a little forced and convenient, though powerfully executed.

This might be the best and most genuine "emotional" work Nolan has done. This isn't the cold, clinical film people always accuse him of making, and that's nice to see, though the film does suffer from a tendency toward melodrama as a result.

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I actually liked Mann's inclusion, but his character turn was forced as hell. Did we really need a villain shoved into this movie, given the stakes of everything and the inherent human weakness on display? I'm fine with him lying to get them to come find him, but does he really need to have the cliché "goes crazy and tries to kill the other astronaut" moment? It didn't make any sense. Those scenes and the inane "obsessed scientist ignores all common sense and advice" sequence just ate up time that could have been better-served and the payoff for it all simply wasn't worth it. I would much have preferred to see Mann provide them with a much needed boost of morale, etc. Pacingwise, the movie would have benefited having more time to devote earlier to say, the lead character's choice/decision to leave Earth rather than this stuff.

Could have done without TARS, honestly. Just wasn't all that relevant to the story or its overarching concepts. I figured there'd be some kind of exploration of the robot's role in things but nope, just a funny robot for comic relief/expository purposes. Meh.

Why was Topher Grace in his movie? I looked up and there he was. Just sort of...there.

It's a good movie It has some interesting ideas, and a lot of them are handled effectively. Its just too bad that it gets bogged down in being a big movie, and suffers from so much on point melodrama.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Still, the overall concept is an interesting one, and while a lot of the story points (come on, they stumble onto NASA's secret lair/space station?)

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]

 

[antsman41]

Nolan should make a George Washington biopic.

Just imagine the crossing of The Potomac River in IMAX...

 

[Phallic]

Seeing it again right now, solo. I sometimes like to solo watch a movie to totally immerse myself - should be interesting.

 

[Tacit Ronin]

I enjoyed it for the most part. A well-made, well-acted, beautifully shot, if somewhat messy and inconsistent film. Visually, it's occassionally really nice to look at and the effects were very good, but I didn't get blown away by the space sequences as some apparently were.

What format did you see this in? The images loses a lot of scale in non-Imax aspect ratio.

 

[Apollo]

Nolan should make a George Washington biopic.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Nolan should make a George Washington biopic.

The movie ends with no dialogue and Washington in Spain sipping a latte

 

[AnneFan]

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]

Indeed.

One of the best moments in the film for me is Cooper behind the bookshelf. Bashing away and pleading for himself not to go. Particularly the moment his past self turns around one last time, looking in his direction before heading off. A small but powerful moment which stuck with me.

 

[Nemeres]

I'd like to see Nolan taking a crack at a trilogy of his own creation. His own Nolan-y Avatar. If he can get that amount of support and hype behind one original high concept movie at a time, creating a franchise from scratch for a studio shouldn't be that hard. I don't know how well that jibes with his "No thinking of sequels, one movie at a time!" philosophy, though.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I think Interstellar could be made into a series. Maybe just loosely based off one another.

It's not like it's called "Escape From Earth" or "Cooper's Journey" or something. The movie is about surmounting space and time for the sake of humanity and for the sake of love. It could easily be continued in a sequel.

Think of the sequels to 2001 (the book obviously).

 

[TheGuy]

So I finally saw the movie last night, after almost a week of anticipation. I had the best seat of my theater experience in my life, in front of the screen and eye is almost horizontally level with the screen. Though I didn’t get to see it in IMAX, the quality of the picture was awesome. The bass level was 100%.

Nolan can’t see to do no wrong any longer. Interstellar is without a doubt amongst his best. I can never fathom how people think this is one his lesser films. We all have our opinions, but just from my perspective, I simply don’t get where the criticisms are coming from. The many criticisms placed upon the film are just trivial and unwarranted. For example, the plot has been attacked because they thought it was jumbled but as a matter of fact the plotting is linear and the heavy exposition allowed us to understand the flow of the plot. How the film is plotted barely matters to me. I don’t concern myself with the thoughts of what happened here, plot holes, and stuffs like that. The only important aspects I care about in the narrative are the themes and the character development. The ending pretty much resolved the events which unfolded.

Now, I like to break the quality of the film into elements. This is how I approach when reviewing a film.
-The sound mixing was not a problem. At times it gets really loud, especially during action scenes, and in some scenes where the music could have been removed and just let the dialogue take over, but it never came to a point where the sound drowned the film out with noise. In fact, I think the silence in sections of the movie equalized the loudness. The score was very good. The film had a main theme. What was it?
-The cinematography is nuts. The film’s colors just look wonderful. Wide shots should have been utilized more. For a film as large as Interstellar, it felt small at times. But overall it was great. The cinematography when they entered the wormhole, the endurance travelling near Saturn, Cooper travelling inside the black hole and his time in the 5th dimension are jaw dropping.
-The editing is the weakest link in the overall direction. Nolan should have bathe on some shots more instead of cutting too much. This is my only real complain as of now.
-Academy award for best visual effects on lock? From the wormhole, to gargantua, TARS and CASE, tidal waves, etc. Damn. Glorious.
-Production design looks epic, thanks to Nolan choosing actual places to shoot his film.
-Interstellar elicited emotions I never felt in a theater before. Cooper realizing 23 years have passed in Miller’s planet nearly made me cry. The father daughter relationship is the most important storyline and Nolan never failed to make us feel for both characters. The mission he undertook was for his daughter, family, and the entire humane race, and the narrative attacked this direction flawlessly. Even though it is a sci-fi film, what lies underneath it all and ties it together is the love we have for each other. The character development was organic and natural, never melodramatic, although there were scenes which nearly came to that point. The dialogue was fine. The heavy exposition is needed to explain how the film would progress.
-The acting is stellar, especially from McConaughey. He stands out from everyone.

I need to see this for the 2nd time around, but financial constraint won’t allow me. Sigh. I’ll have to wait for the DVD then. As for Interstellar’s place among Nolan’s filmography
1-2. TDKR, Inception
3-4. Interstellar, TDK
5. The Prestige
6. Batman Begins
7. Insomnia
8. Memento

 

[redhawk23]

What format did you see this in? The images loses a lot of scale in non-Imax aspect ratio.

Man is this ever true. I saw it in 35 mm and liked the film well enough the first time but thought it sold the space setting a bit short.

I saw it in digital IMAX the second time and goddamn does the extra image area really sell the impact of this film.

 

[TheGuy]

Man is this ever true. I saw it in 35 mm and liked the film well enough the first time but thought it sold the space setting a bit short.

I saw it in digital IMAX the second time and goddamn does the extra image area really sell the impact of this film.

This is probably an issue for me. I too saw Interstellar in 35mm.