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Hollywood spectaculars should be.
This one has the usual convoluted plot that is meant to convey gravitas: this IS NOT a delivery vehicle for "wow!" FX!
But it is, isn't it? They're wonderful, perhaps worth the money (though perhaps not the 3 hours….).
I won't bother to get into all the plot inconsistencies, though there are plenty. Or the slightly ridiculous coincidences, i.e. a brilliant scientist (he alone gets to do all that--- there are no others to curb his secrets?) has a brilliant helper that happens to be the daughter of earth's greatest pilot? And on and on…
Matt Damon is the worst casting mistake. He doesn't convey malice very well and, unfortunately, the first thing that springs to mind is, "Bourne!"
Anyhow, no matter the 130-decibel soundtrack, the well-spaced FX fireworks, the "what the hell does that mean?" plot convolutions--- I eventually became bored.
Ghosts in the bookcase. Watches that were so prominently featured in the earlier part that a 7-year old knew would become a key.
Complexity doesn't equal depth.
Is it a good popcorn film?
I'd say so-so. It's length and over-the-top FX repetitions eventually exhaust. There was little suspense, no true villain, nothing really to take away.
Some here and elsewhere are comparing this to "2001."
Please.
I won't dishonor the memory of Kubrick by taking the time to discuss that silliness.
This doesn't bear comparison to "Prometheus," either.
One image that reoccurs does have meaning: this film is corny.
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...than Gravity.
...had to start a new post rather than discuss it with the others below.
That was good and on the money.....when I grow up I want to be like tin and for all my posts to have a long teaser in the subject line.......
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here, on a fucking film bored no less, it just goes on and on and.....
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On the other hand, you make a good point. Maybe I should give it another try, and Steve H has my copy of Tubular Bells SACD, which I'd ask him to return if I thought I'd ever listen to it again.
and made his displeasure known and the other guy actually, gasp, apologized :)
I think the Gorts have stayed out of the Interstellar thread or, more likely, fear of the Gorts have kept posters in line.
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why go around picking fights and being negative?
I retaliate, sometimes, but that's a different animal.
I thought you'd appreciate the loud response because that seems to be the only way Nolans communicate: screaming.
Overly loud music.
Way too many special effects and attendant noise effects.
Over-the-top emotional scenes--- way too many of them.
Hire a physicist, ask him to come up with some possible but highly improbable future events, write a childish human angle to frame it.
Remove all the sturm and drang and what's left?
A pretty hokey Hollywood melodrama.
...get over yourself.
Doesn't matter how much you shout, piss, moan or bitch. Popcorn movies don't have at their critical moment a hugely elevated symbolic event that depicts the space between generations as the father trying desperately to communicate with his daughter at all stages of her life while stuck behind a library of books representing the knowledge of mankind. This isn't an average movie so perhaps the real problem is that you're of popcorn mentality regardless of what is feeding your eyes, ears or soul.
Matt Damon.
Do you think "scientific type," when you see him?
Highly intelligent guy?
Believable as a world-class scientist?
No.
What you think is a guy who's trying to get a "serious" acting career back on track after many disappointments, but who sold out to the Bourne brand and finally found success. Further, you think that in his mad scramble to find legitimacy, he overreached.
With that decision, the Nolans doomed any pretensions to seriousness.
A good popcorn entertainment, no doubt. Like a middle-of-the-road sci-fi book, it can entertain and make you leave your own world for a few hours. Serious film? Not any more than the Batman or Inception. Memento, however, does have greatness. It's not about budgets and BOOM!
It's about thought--- intelligent thought---, good scripting, good acting.
So in other words you brought in your biases of a supporting actor who had a relatively short role in the movie, and allowed that to ruin the whole film for you? Pretty weak, tin.
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stinks so badly that ain't gonna happen.
Monoculture corn during a dry and windswept time.
You'd think a culture brilliant enough to create all that tech would know some simple agriculture.
And with six billion people on the planet, the coincidences of the contrived-to-the-extreme plot make anything Dickens or Hugo came up with seem positively believable.
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The effects served the story, not the other way around, which already puts Interstellar light years beyond Gravity--no pun intended. The "coincidences" weren't really coincidences. When a future version of yourself has solved the issues of time/space travel and alternate dimensions, coincidences turn out to not be coincidences.
The enemy in the story is selfishness, as personified by Caine and Damon. The both turned out to be totally ego-driven and nearly destroyed humanity with their selfish decisions and deception.
The beginning and especially the last act of the film were totally riveting. Everyone in the theater who had been carrying on with little comments or whispers back and forth were totally silenced except for the occasional exlaclamatory reaction to the film's power. The second movement was quite boring but compared to 2001 it was the most exciting thing I've ever seen. Kubrick sucks. Overall, the film is less corny than anything done by Truffaut.
Damon was perfectly cast as a self-obsessed a-hole as in real life he is convinced he is saving the world.
If you think Kubrick sucks, that says it all.
Truffaut's first feature, "400 Blows," hardly is "corny."
Nor is "Shoot the Piano Player" and more than a few others.
If I want a scientific discussion of astrophysics, I sure won't get the Nolan brothers to provide it.
This was pseudo-scientific pablum for the juvenile American masses to slurp; when a general audience applauds, be worried. They loved Forest Gump. This was Forest Gump in Space.
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From the tidal wave incident on the first non-inhabitable planet up until the end, the pace of the film really picked up and the incidents, happening in rapid succession, kept you on the edge of your seat. Everying was packed into the final act.
That's why there was an intermission in Ben Hur and all the other longer movies years ago.
And, Dallas audiences will clap for damn near anything. I thought the second act was the best. The final act bored me.
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No clapping for this kind of film. The entire middle of the movie I thought was very slow. From the time Coop launched into space until his run-in with Mann, it was plodding and cerebral. Then the action kicked in. It actually kicked in a bit earlier with the tidal wave planet but really got going with the Mann-Coop fight, space chase, docking incidents, etc., that culminated with him being recovered and brought to the new home planet and finale. The way this all unfolded and ended kept me on my toes and I really didn't see it ending like that.
w/o seeing it would be Matthew McConaughey. In what I've read of the plot and for the two or three trailers I've seen he doesn't work for me in this role. I believe you on Damon but MM is the main dude right? I'll be waiting for a cable/DVD probably. Unless the IMAX is insane good. What format did you see? I hope it wasn't IMAX as you said nothing of it.
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