 
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
|
|
Audio Asylum Thread Printer Get a view of an entire thread on one page |
For Sale Ads |
70.162.135.70
...but in fact I loved it. It's a HUGE story that I thought is very well done; it was NOT too 'wordy' for me. McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, Foy (young Murph), Caine...all the actors, in fact, were excellent. The film (I saw a digital, Panavision-ratio version) looked plenty OK but not spectacular. One negative thing for me--the music and effects were a bit too loud.
Of Nolan's previous movies (directed), I've seen only 'Memento', 'Insomnia', and 'Inception', and they certainly didn't prepare me for the huge scale of 'Interstellar'.
The Phoenix metropolitan area has not only a couple really premium theaters (two 'Cine Capris') but also an IMAX; I expect I'll see it at least twice more.
----------
Tin-eared audiofool, large-scale-Classical music lover, and damned-amateur fotografer.
William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
Follow Ups:
cost me $30, counting parking!
I enjoyed it, but….I'm easy. However, I still have red marks on my shoulders from my disbelief suspenders.
The physics mumbo jumbo was unconvincing, even if a lot of it was supposedly real science, probably because that's not how the discussions or the events would really go in 'real science land'.
The loudness overwhelmed the dialogue for me, which I thought was just me, but I see others had the same complaint.
Then there were the sappy scenes, like when Hathaway tried to sway the team to head to the other planet to see her boyfriend, etc. Sheesh.
it seemed like a combo of 2001, Contact and a few other sci-fi's.
Cool visuals tho. And an interesting scenario of future fucked up earth, which did seem fairly real, other than with all the dust storms etc, I couldn't see how people at that stage of the game would be growing any corn, drinking any beer on the porch, or finding gas for the long pick up rides.
Although I found "Interstellar" not too bad (if only because of its aspirations and the beauty of some of its visuals), I'm afraid I have to agree pretty heavily with tin and the other naysayers. I found some of the plot twists preposterous, despite all the wordy explanations (and I even like to feel that I can willingly suspend disbelief more than most!). As one critic said regarding the geek-speak, ". . . this sort of thing was done with more wit and panache in the “Star Trek” of William Shatner vintage than in either “Gravity” or “Interstellar”."
Someone on the production team also appeared to have the genius idea that if you turned up the music LOUD enough, it would somehow seem PROFOUND. (I found it funny that one of the subwoofers at the theater where my wife and I saw the movie appeared to blow out during the showing, and produced a sorry rattling noise instead of more floor shaking! No worries however - there were at least 12 more subs still blasting!) And yet, other parts of Hans Zimmer's score seemed like watered down Philip Glass (and that's pretty watered down!).
The motivations of some characters also seemed lame: I guess Matt Damon woke up on the wrong side of his suspension chamber, so he takes out his ill humor on Cooper and crew - that whole episode was a mess. And Michael Caine's motivations come from. . . where exactly? Oh yeah, he cares more about his theory than about humanity? Well, I guess it takes all kinds.
Overall, my problem with this flick was the opposite of the one faced by Cooper and his crew on the tsunami planet. There, one hour equaled seven years in earth time. But in watching this relentless trudge of a movie, I thought I'd been in my seat for days when it finally ended. But then I looked at my watch and found that only 3 hours had elapsed!
BTW, I enjoyed "Inception" (it was fun), so nothing against Nolan in particular.
...who can stay awake and interested to long classical music programs.
You may not agree with it, but it's thoughtful.
Actually I don't find Interstellar a whole lot more ambitious than Inception. It just points outward where the prior film delves inward into dreams within dreams to plan a thought. Both films end with the parent and children reunited. Frankly, dreams have infinite space every bit as much as the cosmos as well as total freedom of gravity and time, so the whole idea that Nolan reached further here than he did in the past is a load of kaka.
article. Try not to find an easy excuse to refuse to have your opinions challenged.
Why would I want to spend more than 10 seconds reading an article that trashes a film I thoroughly enjoyed?
Post a Followup:
| FAQ |
Post a Message! |
Forgot Password? |
|
||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Top of Page ]
[ Contact Us ]
[ Support/Wish List ]
[ Copyright © 2025, Audio Asylum, all rights reserved ]
