Yep and they're only on their first season. By mid-season 2 we'll have seen some much more messed up stuff than that.
Interstellar | SPOILERS! | Keep out unless you've seen it
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I wanted to see Squanchie in Interstellar.
And Abradolf Lincler. His moral choices would have been great in that context.
Interesting thing about the wave planet is that to a human (or at least successive humans) on the surface, the entire 13.8bn year history of the universe would've appeared as only 225,000 years-ish relative to someone on Earth (it was one hour=seven years, right?). Trippy.
I loved it. Took its time and did it well, had a good ratio of the mundane to the spectacular, and had some great scenes illustrating relativity in action with regards to the passing of the years, and had some good messages. It's also refreshing to see a protagonist like that. I'm definitely willing to forgive the weirdness with the infinite rooms, though they were a bit fast and loose about certain things. Definitely 3 hrs well spent!
I went into this expecting more than it delivered. Thought it was quite good but nothing more really.
One of those films that get a lot of discussion as it involves a central premise more "complicated" than usual trash blockbusters.
One of those films that get a lot of discussion as it involves a central premise more "complicated" than usual trash blockbusters.
I can't remember Abradolf Lincler. Wasn't he a robot?
You don't remember him?! You fool!
Why are people saying Sunshine is a better film? I liked Sunshine but not so much that I'd like to watch it again. Also that whole nuclear explosion to reignite the sun thing is just hogwash. EDIT: I think Danny Boyle is overrated. I loved Trainspotting and thought Sunshine was alright, but Slumdog was just complete garbage.
Interstellar was very good. I didn't mind its length - I love space travel and I thought the movie was pretty engaging. I disagree with all those who want more personality in the planets, etc. There are different views of the galaxy - one that believes alien life exists and one that believes we're alone in this galaxy at least. Interstellar is in the latter camp and that's perfectly fine. If they were looking for Earth-like planets to begin with, they aren't going to find something radically different. They were desperate to find habitable places and hence their search took them to places that were like our own world.
On a side note, I know someone who said the film was bad because "how can someone age less on one planet". Some people still don't know the first thing about time dilation.
Interstellar was very good. I didn't mind its length - I love space travel and I thought the movie was pretty engaging. I disagree with all those who want more personality in the planets, etc. There are different views of the galaxy - one that believes alien life exists and one that believes we're alone in this galaxy at least. Interstellar is in the latter camp and that's perfectly fine. If they were looking for Earth-like planets to begin with, they aren't going to find something radically different. They were desperate to find habitable places and hence their search took them to places that were like our own world.
On a side note, I know someone who said the film was bad because "how can someone age less on one planet". Some people still don't know the first thing about time dilation.
It's a figure of speech RiP; He's a bureaucrat RiP, I don't respect him!
It was epic.
Utterly fantastically epic, but I don't know if that made it a good film. I was with it and enjoying it hugely up until the bookshelf bit, but even then I felt Coopers pain, hopelessness and sense of loss so maybe I didn't find if as unbelievable and weird as I thought I did.
Utterly fantastically epic, but I don't know if that made it a good film. I was with it and enjoying it hugely up until the bookshelf bit, but even then I felt Coopers pain, hopelessness and sense of loss so maybe I didn't find if as unbelievable and weird as I thought I did.
it was decent but I expected more to be honest - was very slow to start with a lot of focus on the family backstory but then got into gear before going completely WTF near the end
I avoided all the press so knew very little about it and was expecting more og a typical sci fi blockbuster but with a Nolan signature, but really it is more of a melodrama with the characters and relationships being the major themes.
I didnt find it that impressive visually or sonically at all.
Also I dont know if there was a problem in my cinema but there were several times when the music was so loud that I couldnt hear the dialogue at all
Still not sure whether I like the ending or not
7/10
I avoided all the press so knew very little about it and was expecting more og a typical sci fi blockbuster but with a Nolan signature, but really it is more of a melodrama with the characters and relationships being the major themes.
I didnt find it that impressive visually or sonically at all.
Also I dont know if there was a problem in my cinema but there were several times when the music was so loud that I couldnt hear the dialogue at all
Still not sure whether I like the ending or not
7/10
Absolutely stunning film and score, bit slow in areas and plotline but thoroughly enjoyed it.
I do wonder what Coop was telling his daughter that he knew from the inside of the black hole that led to the survival of the Human race?
I do wonder what Coop was telling his daughter that he knew from the inside of the black hole that led to the survival of the Human race?
The equation to solve gravity.
Had another watch earlier, non-imax this time. Still massively enjoyable, stunning spectacle in both sound and imagery. Certainly my favourite in terms of visuals of Nolan's films. The in-space stuff was near-perfectly done.
I've chimed in earlier, but this film's been at the forefront of my mind for a week now, and I feel like fleshing out my two cents.
I loved the structuring of it and everything. The slow start was excellent, portraying a science literate protagonist, who in addition was a good father, but without falling into pitfalls of making him seem like an arrogant know-it-all, or like he's trying real hard to seem smart. I also love the fact that they had such patience in illustrating the procedure of going into space, the cutting of the engines, the utter silence, and the slight nod to 2001 in the zoomed out perspective of the spaceship passing Saturn and its rings.
I also like that they took the time to show a bit of the aftermath, instead of going "we've solved it, and now; who knows!" and cutting out of the film.
Less excited about the weird rambly plea of passion to trust in the universal force of love, which seemed weirder still with it being dismissed straight after. And though I get time constraints, the daughter's instant recognition that daddy talks through a watch and is giving cosmic insights seemed quite premature. Surely if Coop had coached her properly in science, she'd hold off on that.
I'm willing to forgive a few cringey moments for what is visually beautiful, illustrating a very real notion with the way our custody of the planet is panning out, and I'm super-excited that there can be a market for and an interest in making a film where pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps of science is so strongly emphasised. Hopefully it's one of several signs of the zeitgeist turning, though I'm not holding my breath.
I loved the structuring of it and everything. The slow start was excellent, portraying a science literate protagonist, who in addition was a good father, but without falling into pitfalls of making him seem like an arrogant know-it-all, or like he's trying real hard to seem smart. I also love the fact that they had such patience in illustrating the procedure of going into space, the cutting of the engines, the utter silence, and the slight nod to 2001 in the zoomed out perspective of the spaceship passing Saturn and its rings.
I also like that they took the time to show a bit of the aftermath, instead of going "we've solved it, and now; who knows!" and cutting out of the film.
Less excited about the weird rambly plea of passion to trust in the universal force of love, which seemed weirder still with it being dismissed straight after. And though I get time constraints, the daughter's instant recognition that daddy talks through a watch and is giving cosmic insights seemed quite premature. Surely if Coop had coached her properly in science, she'd hold off on that.
I'm willing to forgive a few cringey moments for what is visually beautiful, illustrating a very real notion with the way our custody of the planet is panning out, and I'm super-excited that there can be a market for and an interest in making a film where pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps of science is so strongly emphasised. Hopefully it's one of several signs of the zeitgeist turning, though I'm not holding my breath.
Definitely agreed with that - not often these days you get a big budget film that argues for space travel and does a really good job of showing the realities of it.
Can someone just remind me; did they find out that they had no way of getting back to earth through the worm hole?
It wasn't.
The characters dismissed it, as they should've because its absolute nonsense, but its utterly essential to the film.
Two of the major plot points are based on it e.g. Brand being right about Edmunds planet and Murph knowing that the ghost was her dad. Without either of those things the human race dies out.
Without it being dismissed and them going onto the Damon planet, Coop doesn't go into the black hole/tesseract.
Partial credit, though.
After Mann blew up part of the ship, they didn't have enough life support or fuel to get back to Earth. Prior to that they could've, and Coop was going to do so.
Yes, but thats the characters dismissing it. The film itself never does.
Fair enough.
And surely we can agree that the scene was quite cringe-worthy, and that Hathaway's character seemed to come across as a wishful thinker rather than as a strong-of-mind, science-savvy astronaut?
Ok.. so what they should do is put various space stations through the worm hole and send everyone up in sprints over a few years. When they are finally all there, head to the Water planet and spend 3 months there then head back to Earth where 15'000 years has passed and nature has repaired itself and there's enough vegetation again to feed everyone.
Yes and yes.
To be honest, that segment alone didn't irritate me too much but its later significance to the part in the tesseract does.
I honestly think it would have been a better film if that went unexplained and the last thing we see after Coop ejects is him being picked up again by the Cooperstation. Did we really need to be told who the 'they' were? And if we weren't is the fact that Coop ejected into a blackhole and then was found in Saturn 67 years later actually less believable than just simply arriving there?
The other part that really annoyed me was Millers planet. Supposedly a bunch of scientists who worked out that 1 hour on that planet would equal a decade couldn't work out that she had only been there for 30 minutes and could have had no significant data. (And by that logic, why was she sending the thumbs up in the first place?).
You think the whole tesseract part shouldn't have been in the film? I'm a tad surprised, it was pretty essential to it and it's part of what made me love the film so much personally.
I just felt it was wishy washy and nonsensical. We already knew Murph was going to find the answer in her bedroom (and if you didn't you weren't picking up on the far from subtle clues the film was leaving along the way) and I don't think the film needed to hit you round the head with what is, in my opinion, the weakest part of the film: the sappy 'love can send waves through the galaxy' mambo jambo.
If we'd simply seen Coop falling, Murph in her bedroom solving it by realising the watch was conveying a message in morse code (and no cringey 'eureka' shit either) and then flashed forward to the part on coopers-station leaving what really happened up to your imagination it would have been fundamentally improved.
I thought it was still important in showing how it was gravity (though of course by then we know this) and how Coop manipulated it (visually stunning for me). It was the climax of the film and I'm glad they went through it, I struggle to imagine the film without that part!
This is one part that did irk me a fair bit. There's no real defence for it either, just plain dumb. Could've saved a lot of problems (and time) by spending a few months checking on the planet from afar before committing to the surface.
I guess its each to their own. If you liked that part of the story line then I suppose its brilliant and the crowning moment of the film. I didn't and thought it let down an otherwise excellent film about space exploration, humanity, and survival, by its focus on love being some ridiculous force. It could have done without that and still had all the genuinely touching human moments involving Coop and the loss (effectively) of his family.
I'm going with the love stuff being a bit of a riff on quantum entanglement, just done really awkwardly.
Nah I'm not arguing that it's brilliant, just wanted to share my feeling on that part (and my surprise given how I felt about it and how different your sentiment was).
I loved the film and its ending, but not the three epilogues that followed after the proper ending. Unforunately I watched it at an Odeon where the image quality was horrific and the sound was poor. Yet it was still an engaging movie. For all the talk about Nolan understanding imagery, he knows just as much about suspense as well and the entire time Mann was involved had me on the edge of my seat.
Not his best film but the thing that I love about Nolan is that, in my opinion, he doesn't make bad films.
Not his best film but the thing that I love about Nolan is that, in my opinion, he doesn't make bad films.
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Man oh man. That was TERRIBLE. So disappointed
What did you hate the most about it?
The scene where Hathaway arsed on about love was one of the most soppy and stupid bit of cinema I think I've ever seen. Made my toes curl. You could almost feel the cringe running through the audience.
The last 15 minutes ran it close though.
I did quite enjoy the first hour though. Before it jumped the shark.
Oh. Just came in here to say I loved it.