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In Reply to: RE: SPOILERS: "Interstellar." Films should be about a lot of showing and a little telling. At least, posted by tinear on November 10, 2014 at 10:46:39
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.
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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.
Edits: 11/10/14
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.
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