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Film Interstellar
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I did.
Did you click on the thread though? Or did you search your name and find it?
Second one.
Was never a sci-fi fan per se, but was impressed to find out PKD had written what effectively became Bladerunner, Total Recall and Minority Report etc...Not read all of them Man in the high castle not my cup of tea.
Hell, I'm so behind. Just saw interstellar on a flight the other day. Glad I wasn't the only one to have multiple gripes with it (while admiring it is impressively shot etc...).
You've done it all to death but when the clunkily moving robot kind of cartwheeled through the water was a bit naff.
Just watched this. Thought it was alright. Bit wankery. Some of the science was loose at best. Even if a pop physicist claims it's not impossible, it's only that way because we've not figured out what the right answer actually is yet - it doesn't mean you get to fill in the blanks with whatever shite you feel like and say "hey, it's all possible, so this shit is scientifically sound".
Acting was good. Hathaway's character made me think of Prometheus in that she was the least scientist-y scientist who ever scienced. She spent most of the film getting hysterical and giving cheesy speeches about love (which, horifically, turned out were there to foreshadow the really cringeworthy ending).
It was also insanely predictable. I'm quite good at guessing twists in films, but these were so obvious from the get-go. I guessed he was the ghost early in, I guessed that "they" were humans, either from the future or having ascended somehow in the black hole, I guessed Matt Damon was mental and the exact reasons for his impending and inevitable betrayal, I guessed as soon as Coop went through the black hole that he was in the "physical manfiestation of the fifth dimension". I know I'm not the only one, either - it was all extremely telegraphed.
Meh, it wasn't a bad film, although I'd prefer my 7/10 popcorn flicks not to be nearly three hours long. Still, better than a lot of things, but worse than a lot of others.
Acting was good. Hathaway's character made me think of Prometheus in that she was the least scientist-y scientist who ever scienced. She spent most of the film getting hysterical and giving cheesy speeches about love (which, horifically, turned out were there to foreshadow the really cringeworthy ending).
It was also insanely predictable. I'm quite good at guessing twists in films, but these were so obvious from the get-go. I guessed he was the ghost early in, I guessed that "they" were humans, either from the future or having ascended somehow in the black hole, I guessed Matt Damon was mental and the exact reasons for his impending and inevitable betrayal, I guessed as soon as Coop went through the black hole that he was in the "physical manfiestation of the fifth dimension". I know I'm not the only one, either - it was all extremely telegraphed.
Meh, it wasn't a bad film, although I'd prefer my 7/10 popcorn flicks not to be nearly three hours long. Still, better than a lot of things, but worse than a lot of others.
You sound very brilliant, it has to be said.
No, because this thread is full of people saying they predicted the exact same parts. My point is that there are so many bits of the film that are telegraphed that it all gets a bit tedious when you're then supposed to be surprised by them!
Don't mind Pexbo. Most of the 'big things' on the movie were completely predictable. And yeah, I agree both with your description and rating.
Camera shooting, McConaughey and Chastain were great. Everything else was wank.
Well yeah, but it was so loudly that it made the conversations impossible to hear.
Conversations between the actors in the movie.Well you're not supposed to talk during a film you know?
It was brilliantly directed and a masterpiece in my eyes in terms of that. It was like a work of art, not an amazingly entertaining film though. I don't give it a rating.
Don't think I guessed as many plot points as you but generally felt the same.
This also contains a good summary of the many many "stoopid" elements from the final act that ruined it as a film aka "going full blown Shyamalan"
do you think that will be a sequel ?
I'm not a fan of Luigi Affleck but I thought that one was quite funny I have to say!at Luigi Affleck
thought the baked potato (Matt Damon) was good too!
Hope not, there's no natural progression of the story that seems compelling, either with Coop or the entire human race as a whole.
Got the bluray the other day so re-watched it yesterday, really enjoyed it again. Terrific film.
I really liked this film and its one of my favourites in a while. But at that point in the film I was ready to turn it off if Cooper and the black guy listened to her craziness and went to her boyfriends planet. I'm glad it just ended with "Yeah.....no" from Cooper
I just watched it, unfortunately.
Before they go to the first planet "yeah, so because of time and relativity and all that, every hour we spend here is 7 years of Earth time. Be very wary of that at all times"
And then once they were there "Der, oh yeah, the spaceship before us would actually only have gotten here a few minutes ago. Der didn't think of that before we got here did we. We dumb scientists" I mean seriously? piss off.
It also wouldn't have sent the same signal out repeatedly because if it's only been there a few minutes it would have only sent one signal! The film kept confusing itself like this all the way through!
Also what's inside a black hole? That's right; the power of true love...and a bookcase.
Also, at the end of the film, It was about 100 years into the future, and they were all saved and had built settlements in Space? Using the power of corn crops? What resources had they been using to survive during all this time? Only the woman went to the last planet and she had no way to communicate with them so they wouldn't even have known if it was habitable at all. So they were effectively in the same position as at the start of the film? But now it was all ok because gravity had been solved? But nobody had even been sent to check on the woman during all this time? So nobody had actually done anything?
Why would beings to which time and space is relative need to construct a plan which relies on one person doing a certain thing at a certain point in time?
Nolan shouldn't be allowed near Science Fiction again after this.
Before they go to the first planet "yeah, so because of time and relativity and all that, every hour we spend here is 7 years of Earth time. Be very wary of that at all times"
And then once they were there "Der, oh yeah, the spaceship before us would actually only have gotten here a few minutes ago. Der didn't think of that before we got here did we. We dumb scientists" I mean seriously? piss off.
It also wouldn't have sent the same signal out repeatedly because if it's only been there a few minutes it would have only sent one signal! The film kept confusing itself like this all the way through!
Also what's inside a black hole? That's right; the power of true love...and a bookcase.
Also, at the end of the film, It was about 100 years into the future, and they were all saved and had built settlements in Space? Using the power of corn crops? What resources had they been using to survive during all this time? Only the woman went to the last planet and she had no way to communicate with them so they wouldn't even have known if it was habitable at all. So they were effectively in the same position as at the start of the film? But now it was all ok because gravity had been solved? But nobody had even been sent to check on the woman during all this time? So nobody had actually done anything?
Why would beings to which time and space is relative need to construct a plan which relies on one person doing a certain thing at a certain point in time?
Nolan shouldn't be allowed near Science Fiction again after this.
I can only conclude that people have insanely high standards for films.
If this was so shit, I'm lost for words. Because then 90% of the people in film business all over the world are wasting their lives doing something that can only fail.
It was a spectacular film imo.
If this was so shit, I'm lost for words. Because then 90% of the people in film business all over the world are wasting their lives doing something that can only fail.
It was a spectacular film imo.
You're confusing yourself here, the status echoed repeatedly, it did only get sent once...
The other points you made can also be explained but I'm too busy too ATM. I'm sure someone else will...
As did I. The bonus features were also great, amazing to see how some of the things in it were done.
I think the real question you should be asking is why does McCaugnaghey receive a sandwich from his daughter at around 20 mins in the film when apparently all crops but corn have been destroyed. Including wheat. No Physics can explain that.
Agree with all this. Some very cool scenes but overall it's a ridiculous film
Agreed. I don't understand the need to nitpick so much. I can see why they do it considering Nolan was trying to go for some physics realism. But I don't think it detracts from the overall quality of the film.
I found that scene quite powerful actually, and I thought Hathaway really delivered it without her usual overacting. The idea that love itself is part of the fabric of the universe and not just a human construct is one that most big budget science fiction films don't commit to, or even consider. I don't personally believe that, but a character who longs to see her loved one again trying to convince others of what she clings to in such a manner was a great cinema in my opinion.
Nolan films more than any other tend to get nitpicked to death, The Dark Knight Rises being the biggest example. It's not that the critiques were incorrect, most of them actually were right. It's just that no one then took those same standards and magnifying glass for details and applied them to any other film.
What's weird is that my least favourite films from him (Insomnia and Inception) are the ones that get away relatively unscathed.
Agreed on Anne.
Pretty sure you can make bread from corn...
Do you have a habit of making ridiculous claims without any empirical evidence? I'm sorry but the numbers just don't add up
What are you talking about?
It just felt so out of place. This was meant to be a bloody scientist and the daughter of one of the greatest minds on earth and she came out with that nonsense. I couldn't believe it when I was watching.
He also had Beer, but maybe they saved a few bottles...
My favourite plot hole is why not just send a few robots to these planets to do all the testing? And also, how come they can't just send messages back with the data from the planets if they can send videos?
My favourite plot hole is why not just send a few robots to these planets to do all the testing? And also, how come they can't just send messages back with the data from the planets if they can send videos?