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Post by Pundip on Nov 12, 2014 23:52:15 GMT
Has anyone seen Interstellar yet? I got out of the cinema about an hour ago and the only words I can find right now are holy and shitballs. Honestly, it's the best movie I've seen in a long time. I don't want to spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it yet (you really should see it by the way), but the film is epic, incredible, amazing, fantastic, stunning, brilliant and any other positive adjective you can think of. Seriously, go see it!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 0:02:05 GMT
I've seen it twice. I like it. I think there are some flaws with the storytelling and expositional dialogue but I can forgive it when it's such an overwhelming experience that's chock full of ideas and emotion.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 0:11:55 GMT
The main issues I have... They use a giant rocket to leave earth, but when they're on the water planet which has even higher gravity than earth they just fly off it in the small craft using water-logged engines? Dr. Mann, Matt Damon's character, seems more like a plot device than an actual person. He seemed only to exist purely to cause the explosion which then of course means Cooper has to go through the black hole. There's a few other things involving the time dilation / 23 year long gap and the story shifting back to earth, with the family and Michael Caine's cliched death bed confession (not to mention that Casey Affleck's voice is higher than the teenage boy he's supposed to be an older version of! ) but I'm tired now. Might write them down tomorrow. Still I'd rather see a flawed film that's ambitious and creative than something bland.
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Post by SakiBomb on Nov 13, 2014 1:17:55 GMT
Damn you and all your spoilers... so tempting... must resist.
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Post by iAP3XPRED4TORi on Nov 13, 2014 1:37:47 GMT
Amongst all the rubbish out there these days ... This movie is highly recommended
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Post by iAP3XPRED4TORi on Nov 13, 2014 1:44:11 GMT
Though they could have picked a better lead. Everytime I saw Matthew McConahey, I chuckled at his pathetic Lincoln commercials and the spoofs that followed( Jim Carey). Lol
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Post by OpalescentFalcon on Nov 13, 2014 7:46:42 GMT
I think Matthew McConahey was very good in this movie. I regard him very highly after his True detective performance. I love this movie, a must watch. Has some flaws for sure. I am going a watch it a second time.
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Post by Pundip on Nov 13, 2014 9:17:06 GMT
@driftin I completely agree with your first spoiler points. Before seeing it I read an interview with Nolan discussing the fact that there are plot holes. To sum it up he says that he had a physicist that he could check if the science behind certain things was correct, but there were one or two things that even though he was told would be wrong, had to keep in order for it to work as a film. Because let's also not forget that this is a huge budget hollywood film and Nolan loves a plot hole...his films are always riddled with them iAP3XPRED4TORi I've got to agree with OpalescentFalcon on that one. Matthew McConaughey played this role perfectly. He is an actor that is very much on the up these days. Dallas Buyers Club, True Detective and The Wolf of Wall Street (minor role but played it well) all in the space of one year. How he managed to land these roles after years and years of absolute garbage is beyond me, but he is no longer a joke in hollywood. There was literally nothing about this film that I didn't like. The cast was incredible. The script was great, apart from the anne hathaway love bit, that was just funny. The score was epic (Hans Zimmer...nuff said ) and the cinematography was beautiful! This film worked on every level for me, and not once did I lose any slight bit of interest during the near three hour run time.
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Post by double_s92 on Nov 13, 2014 9:31:50 GMT
Been dying to see this! However my gf is coming back to the UK next week and has specifically requested me to go with her..... !!!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 10:22:21 GMT
One of the funniest sarcastic summaries I've heard about this movie is, “It's about Matthew McConaughey who lives on a dusty farm with his ungrateful daughter, dim-witted son, and Jonathan Lithgow. When he is given the opportunity to go on a suicide mission into space he jumps at the chance.” Usually I dislike Hans Zimmer's scores, but this one is great. It has this wonderful retro-futuristic electronic sheen to it which reminds me of 1970s and 1980s horror and science-fiction scores by the likes of Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, and Goblin. It complements the moments of mind-bending awe really well. To extend what I wrote down last night, and to pick at some more plot holes... the guy who didn't go into hypersleep and stayed awake for 23 years, how did he eat? What about the oxygen levels? Plot holes aside, I also think this element wasn't explained very well, he just appeared, the characters were dumbstruck for 20 seconds, and then they moved on.
Anne Hathaway's monologue about love being an abstract dimension was really silly. From a critical perspective I saw her character more as an attempt by Nolan to be less cold and have a human or emotional element to his stories, but it just came across as a character who was acting irrationally. Cooper immediately shut her down and chose the second option of going to the other planet instead. The payoff of her grief finding the dead Edmonds and burying him later on still ends up feeling cold to me. I also feel the same way with Cooper seeing his old-age daughter. It didn't feel like the emotional climax it could've been.
I also feel like whenever they cut back to earth, the story wasn't that interesting, or certainly nothing that could've been told via messages received on the spaceship. It also detracted a little from the sense of wonder. One moment the audience is getting their mind blown by an absolutely amazing scene of space and time travel with stunning visuals, then it suddenly cuts back to earth. I do really love the realistic, subtle, slow moving end of the world though. I can imagine if the world did end it'd be something like this and I was fascinated by the first hour of the film this way.
As for the expositional dialogue, this was especially obviously in the fifth dimension sequence. Nolan has stated his love of 2001, and in this bookshelf scene where Cooper alters gravity across space and time, he chats with the robot TARS who is also trapped in another realm of existence. It can easily be compared to both the HAL-9000 shutdown sequence and the abstract ending of 2001. The only difference is Kubrick uses visual storytelling to confound and inspire awe, whereas Nolan uses expository dialogue (Cooper talking to the robot) to explain everything before repeating it with visual storytelling. 10/10 for ideas and ambition though and I'm glad that there are modern mega-budget films being made like this. It's intelligent, gorgeous to look at, superbly acted (McConaughey is one of the best working actors today), humanistic and it proves that you don't need to be cynical and borderline pornographic *cough*Transformers*cough* to reel in audiences. Good on you Nolan, keep doing what you're doing
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 10:27:32 GMT
iAP3XPRED4TORi I've got to agree with OpalescentFalcon on that one. Matthew McConaughey played this role perfectly. He is an actor that is very much on the up these days. Dallas Buyers Club, True Detective and The Wolf of Wall Street (minor role but played it well) all in the space of one year. How he managed to land these roles after years and years of absolute garbage is beyond me, but he is no longer a joke in hollywood. I agree too. I think he's always been good, he just chose really bad projects for a long time. He's also really excellent in Mud (terrific little film), Magic Mike and Killer Joe, more modern day performances to add to his “McConaissance”.
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Post by double_s92 on Nov 13, 2014 10:38:54 GMT
Usually I dislike Hans Zimmer's scores Do you even have ears?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2014 11:18:20 GMT
Usually I dislike Hans Zimmer's scores Do you even have ears? Yes. I find his scores really forced, simplistic, and generic. He uses the same motifs across almost all of the films his music appears in. What on earth is 12 Years a Slave doing with The Dark Knight's bombast? Not to mention that Hans Zimmer copycats like Lorne Balfe, John Powell, and Klaus Badelt are appearing all over the place and making the same sounding score for hundreds of other things including video games. Everything from Man of Steel to Transformers to nception to Black Hawk Down all sounds the same. I like The Thin Red Line's score, but as far as I can recall everything else is a relentless bunch of BWOOOMP fog horns, monotonous orchestral melodies, big drums and Lisa Gerrard crooning. He has no subtlety. Sorry
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Post by iAP3XPRED4TORi on Nov 13, 2014 15:54:41 GMT
I picture mayb Micheal Fassbender or Ralph Fienes. McConaugy played practically the same role in Contact(1997.. A Robert Zemeckis film) JMO tho.
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Post by The_Bad_Loser on Nov 13, 2014 16:22:51 GMT
I'm a sucker for space exploration, so I loved it. I didn't even notice any plots holes.
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