Interstellar (Nolan)

[dprival78]

here's a picture of matthew mcconaughey wearing orange

[Orpheus]

I enjoyed it, but it definitely has some issues. Late era Nolan has a bad habit of letting his plot strings show in a really obvious way. I had this same issue with The Dark Knight. There are parts where it's just kind of obvious that something was put in just to move the plot forward without a lot of thought as to how it integrates into the movie as a whole. It's kind of maddening too, because he'll have expertly constructed portions of the movie with these weird dips in between. It's most likely just a side effect of trying to to something really ambitious that has to get from point A to Z, but it bothers me nonetheless.

Overall though, I really liked it. Nolan is kind of becoming the George Lucas of the 2000's (in a good way). Big, high concept movies that still have heart behind them. A very hard thing to do.

[Malloy]

i'm sorry i couldn't tell if you really wanted an answer. i kind have this belief that if never punctuate the moments in your life, if you kind of leave it all open and at the same time do what you can to add to the chaos, then it will become more rich and even possibly eventually all come together in some cases. i'm not really at any place where i wanna say "alright, let's start saving up for a house, i just wanna keep throwing things in the pot until it's pretty hard for anyone to tell what we're dealing with. of course i do have revelations about the whole thing but it's never close to enough and wouldn't satisfy really anyone else. chaos theories of some sort. sometimes there aren't casual ways of saying complex things too which doesn't seem so impossible to understand for me

[Alex]

i'm sorry i couldn't tell if you really wanted an answer. i kind have this belief that if never punctuate the moments in your life, if you kind of leave it all open and at the same time do what you can to add to the chaos, then it will become more rich and even possibly eventually all come together in some cases. i'm not really at any place where i wanna say "alright, let's start saving up for a house, i just wanna keep throwing things in the pot until it's pretty hard for anyone to tell what we're dealing with. of course i do have revelations about the whole thing but it's never close to enough and wouldn't satisfy really anyone else. chaos theories of some sort. sometimes there aren't casual ways of saying complex things too which doesn't seem so impossible to understand for me

10/10

[bodysnatcher]

no intelligent lifeforms on distant planets

actually there were

[Jorge]

After finally watching it this morning, I find myself somewhat unsteadily in the pro-Interstellar camp. It's a slog at times, and it clearly lays out Nolan's weaknesses as a craftsman, but also his potential. It's a frustrating film punctuated with moments of true beauty and some stunning Borgesian imagery (I find it surprising that not a lot of reviewers are pointing out the Borges influences-- he's all over this film).

[EJ]

will finally be seeing this on 70 mm IMAX tomorrow.

[Bob Loblaw]

After finally watching it this morning, I find myself somewhat unsteadily in the pro-Interstellar camp. It's a slog at times, and it clearly lays out Nolan's weaknesses as a craftsman, but also his potential. It's a frustrating film punctuated with moments of true beauty and some stunning Borgesian imagery (I find it surprising that not a lot of reviewers are pointing out the Borges influences-- he's all over this film).

He would've loved that physical representation of time.

[Alex]

After finally watching it this morning, I find myself somewhat unsteadily in the pro-Interstellar camp. It's a slog at times, and it clearly lays out Nolan's weaknesses as a craftsman, but also his potential. It's a frustrating film punctuated with moments of true beauty and some stunning Borgesian imagery (I find it surprising that not a lot of reviewers are pointing out the Borges influences-- he's all over this film).

He would've loved that physical representation of time.

how do you know?

[EJ]

I enjoyed it, but it definitely has some issues. Late era Nolan has a bad habit of letting his plot strings show in a really obvious way. I had this same issue with The Dark Knight. There are parts where it's just kind of obvious that something was put in just to move the plot forward without a lot of thought as to how it integrates into the movie as a whole. It's kind of maddening too, because he'll have expertly constructed portions of the movie with these weird dips in between. It's most likely just a side effect of trying to to something really ambitious that has to get from point A to Z, but it bothers me nonetheless.

Overall though, I really liked it. Nolan is kind of becoming the George Lucas of the 2000's (in a good way). Big, high concept movies that still have heart behind them. A very hard thing to do.

This is pretty much where I am after seeing this today. Despite some of the maddening scenes and ideas, overall I did really enjoy it.

Oh, and I coincidentally had corn chowder later on with my lunch. Subliminal message or not?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Sitting in theater waiting for this to start. Sure hope LV is wrong and the slight majority here is right on this one.

[LetMeSleep]

Put your phone away, man. Loathed will be livid.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Doesn't start for another twenty minutes. Putting away now. Don't say anything bad about me for the next three hours, LMS

[LoathedVermin72]

Put your phone away, man. Loathed will be livid.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I give it a C+/B-

Pros:
The cinematography was great. All the vast space scenes, the wormhole, the black hole, and the planets were all beautiful.

Matt McConaghey was excellent. This dude has really grown on me as of late. Great performance.

Matt Damon. Small part but he took advantage of it.

The score. The score itself was really good. I have some issues with the use of it though.

Cons:
Plot timing. More time should have been spent on the transition from farmer to orbiting Saturn and less time on that damn docking sequence.

Anne Hathaway. That love speech was the worst thing I've ever seen in a movie. It really ruined that whole portion of the movie for me because it pissed me off. She's horrible in this movie.

I'm no physicist, but pretty sure boosters from two small craft are not enough to escape the gravitational pull of a black hole.

Also, on some of the vast space scenes it would have been more effective with silence instead of dramatic music.

Aside from Hathaway I enjoyed it.

[LoathedVermin72]

That love speech was the worst thing I've ever seen in a movie. It really ruined that whole portion of the movie for me because it pissed me off. She's horrible in this movie.

[Jorge]

That speech was definitely dumb as a poop.

[@SkitchP]

Given your facebook post about it, Im surprised Mr. Paaks didnt just tell you everything that happens before you saw it.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Given your facebook post about it, Im surprised Mr. Paaks didnt just tell you everything that happens before you saw it.

Ha, yeah. That guy didn't come over to the new board, did he?

[BurtReynolds]

That speech was definitely dumb as a poop.

She sounded like she had a time limit to spout all her lines.


Can we talk about Nolan's bizarre score volume in his movies? I guess he does it on purpose? Wtf? I know none of the dialogue that was drowned out in this one was important, but its still weird. It doesn't seem to add anything.