Interstellar: Nolan, McConaughey

please do xp lol

this is pretty dumb but not in a bad way. i was happy and engaged for most of the three hours.

max! we all expected that post.

is it just me or do ppl now equate humorless scifi with hard scifi

i have not much desire to see this. especially if ppl are like oh it's gravity for smart ppl (and still completely nonsensical) *snore*

most important question to my mind is: would roman from party down like it?

no he would hate it

then i'm in

"For all its aspiration to the sublime, Interstellar can’t escape the ridiculous. The characters, and consequently the acting, rarely transcend comic-strip simplicity; Cooper’s family inhabit their own belt of purest corn somewhere between Field of Dreams and Ray Bradbury at his folksiest. Admittedly, there’s something boldly simple about proposing to represent our apocalyptic near future and only showing us a rural patch of America, rather than cutting to the gasping multitudes from Canberra to Kolkata, as Roland Emmerich would have done. Yet my Brit sensibility recoils at the idea of an English director so wholeheartedly embracing American myth that he can cheerfully present us with the idea that the destiny of our entire species is being forged in a Midwestern cornfield."

http://filmcomment.com/entry/film-of-the-week-interstellar-christopher-nolan

Last month, during a talk at the New York Film Festival, Paul Thomas Anderson called Nolan's film "beautiful," urging audiences to " go see it in IMAX." And now Quentin Tarantino has put his very vocal support behind the picture too.

“It’s been a while since somebody has come out with such a big vision to things,” Tarantino told The Guardian. “Even the elements, the fact that dust is everywhere, and they’re living in this dust bowl that is just completely enveloping this area of the world. That’s almost something you expect from Tarkovsky or Malick, not a science fiction adventure movie.”

eh, the old boys of 'murican filmmaking always have nice things to say about one another's movies even when they suck

not that this one necessarily sucks

Doesn't suck, but it does mostly blow.

if it sucks, it's a jet i guess

the fucking thing sucks like a solar powered jet i tell u

the more I read about this movie the more it sounds like shymalan gussied up in HD

eh, the old boys of 'murican filmmaking always have nice things to say about one another's movies even when they suck

not that i think they're being disingenuous per se, but if you want hollywood to fund your indulgent 3-hour intellectual big budget epic, you'd gain nothing by telling hollywood they made a mistake by funding someone else's

and just in case a genuine brainiac takes offense i'm using "intellectual" as very loose shorthand

oh yeah, i agree 100% -- just saying that "tarantino said it was a masterpiece" should be taken with several grains of kosher salt

yeah i was just embellishing the point

huh i didn't realize nolan had dual citizenship until i looked it up just now. i guess we have to take some credit.

Tarantino said Woody Allen's Jason Biggs/Cristina Ricci movie was a masterpiece iirc

i do appreciate that when prodded tarantino (like scorsese when he was doing those reviews for directv) will focus on some novel detail that you can genuinely believe he got off on - that the idiosyncrasies of their lists are due to some personal fixations, not that they're actually trying to make some Top Ten everyone would agree on.

sadly it doesn't look like scorsese's thumbs up to spanglish (which really stuck out surrounded by more predictable tcm recommendations in his column) is online

I think that for most directors getting a film greenlit and then completed w/o studio meddling, talent meltdowns, budget overruns, and at least 33% of your original vision intact is grounds for a "masterpiece" label.

http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/.a/6a0168ea36d6b2970c01b7c7004919970b-pi

is that hoth

Tarantino said Woody Allen's Jason Biggs/Cristina Ricci movie was a masterpiece iirc

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I don't think this is risible necessarily...? My thoughts about this thing aside, I'm all for some college kid NOT writing another essay about watching Manhattan for the first time.

ok just got back the ol' multiples and this is my revised poster for this flick:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/A_Goofy_Movie.png

that was supposed to read "just got back from the ol' multiplex"

annnnnnyway this was very very silly (nolan doesn't really have any command of tone) but i didn't dislike it. some cool ideas/visuals and a wisecracking robot, can't really hate that.

holy fuck humor in a nolan movie??

relatively speaking

Nolan should only make batman movies, maybe. I can't get excited about going to see this.

x-post

I think McConaughey was a wise choice for the lead, he makes all the portentousness go down easy and smooth

are there aliens in this movie? i know there's dust.

the twist is that the aliens are the dust

(no spoilers)

his batman movies are probably his worst!

xpost

batman begins and the dark knight are incred, dark knight rises is a genuine disaster. yeah i don't know, i guess i tend to enjoy nolan's films on a lot of levels except that one.

(Spoiler) this is a batman movie

(Spoiler) at the end the ship keeps spinning

(Spoiler) and it's a pred ship

I wish he'd revert to making comparitively unsentimental/"cold" narrative exercices like Prestige and Memento but I guess that's just not in the cards

tthe first 2 Batmans and Inception are possibly the worst big-budget films i've ever seen.

Inception was bad, but bad with a barely passing grade: a D+ or C-. Not walk out of the theater in disgust bad.

a D within a D

a D in block letters

morbs i assume TDKR doesn't make that list only because you haven't seen it?

the robots are great in this but not as funny as bane

TDKR might be the worst movie I've ever seen, wd pay to watch Morbs watch it tho

You need to see more bad movies imago.