Life is short and this movie is long
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 November 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
i read the wiki plot summary and a ha ha ha ha ha ha ha dear lord
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 7 November 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
are we sure the nolans didn't ghostwrite prometheus are we sure lindelof didn't ghostwrite this mess
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, 7 November 2014 23:08 (nine years ago) link
I smell lindelof
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Friday, 7 November 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
spoiler: matthew mconaughey turns into a giant space wheel at the end
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 November 2014 03:58 (nine years ago) link
This had a couple of good scenes and I'm not mad I watched it, but my eyes hurt from all the rolling. I hope half the budget went to compensating Dylan Thomas's estate. (Also, did anyone else who saw it have trouble making out at least a third of the dialogue? The mixing was atrocious at my screening.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 November 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
Wow, it sounds like this movie may compete with Prometheus in a dumb off.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 November 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Xpost hah ha, see I am not first to reach that destination.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 November 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
I thought it was just our theater, the music completely drowned out much of the dialogue. Made some scenes tough to follow (not that that mattered a whole lot)
I'm a little surprised to see all the Nolan hate - I get that his films are cloying and often up their own asses but I don't see how you can say he's inept...dude clearly knows what he's doing a lot of the time. Yeah the bits about "love transcends the 5th dimension" were really dumb but for the most part I thought this was pretty cool, I was entertained for a lot of it and some of the plot points struck me as being really clever. I didn't understand the significance of the drone in the beginning nor did I really get what was happening with Topher Grace in the end but the movie basically worked for me. I do give it points for being really, really ambitious.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Sunday, 9 November 2014 05:21 (nine years ago) link
he's not inept just turgid and incapable of telling a story. always a few great shots tho.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 9 November 2014 05:40 (nine years ago) link
I am off the Christopher Nolan bus.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Sunday, 9 November 2014 07:14 (nine years ago) link
Someone made a flowchart that makes this look like Primer.
http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2lrewv/interstellar_explained_massive_spoilers
― StanM, Sunday, 9 November 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
Spoiler, Doyle deserved to die
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
Or whatever he was called. That was pure Prometheus.
― individual meta dater (wins), Sunday, 9 November 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed this movie. Saw it in IMAX and it was the first time I saw a movie in IMAX where the sound was really loud. Especially the blastoff scenes near the beginning.... they were shaking the seats and stuff. Felt like a rocket was taking off in the theater.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 10 November 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
too fucking loud, too much music.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 10 November 2014 02:56 (nine years ago) link
everyone otm about the music and sounds drowning out the dialogue.
― no but seriously im not a dick like that (Spottie), Monday, 10 November 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
apparently big hero 6 is winning the weekend
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 10 November 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link
Big Hero 6 ain't that great, either, but similarly (I guess?) looks awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 November 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Didn't realize Big Hero 6 was an actual title of a movie and not a euphemism for the latest Marvel project.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
Will it still make sense if I didn't see Big Hero 1-5? /dadjokes
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:37 (nine years ago) link
dude clearly knows what he's doing a lot of the time
i hate what he's doing.
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Monday, 10 November 2014 15:47 (nine years ago) link
Intersmellar
― hunangarage, Monday, 10 November 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
I didn't realize that Big Hero 6 was (sort of) a Marvel property itself!
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 November 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
Turns out I skipped going to a movie theater on Saturday and therefore did not pay to see this. The motivation was much smaller than the obstacles (and the obstacles were minimal).
― oh no! must be the season of the rich (Aimless), Monday, 10 November 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
lol paramount projected exactly 50m which was 2.5 more than where it ended up and that's huuuuge. def hoping their stockholders wouldn't notice.
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
i was briefly set on seeing innastella, but now i just don't care
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 10:04 (nine years ago) link
Is Daft Punk in this?
― StanM, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 10:45 (nine years ago) link
they play two famous alien club owners
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
xpost
no, but nile rodgers shows up in the last reel to inspire mcconnahey to sacrifice himself for the benefit of makind
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
this movie suuuuuuuuucked
― augh (Control Z), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 05:09 (nine years ago) link
i have free tix to see this now
so
i guess i am seeing it on saturday
"yay"?
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 05:29 (nine years ago) link
Seeing it in IMAX might have tipped it to "fun," but as it was the severe corniness and clunkiness of the story overshadowed what it offered by way of sci-fi thrills, imo.
― augh (Control Z), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
the science is all legit and well visualized and afaict christopher nolan has never met a human, heard a recording of a human speak, seen a film that might demonstrate the typical grammar of screenwriting, or experienced an emotion
― caek, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 06:12 (nine years ago) link
the dusty apocalyptic feel of the earth scenes in the trailer just made me want to watch the teaser for 'mad max: fury road' again
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
(To be fair, I should add that I somehow ended up seeing Interstellar later on the same day that I saw [the understated-to-the-point-of-dryness] Citizenfour, which sequence of viewing did not improve my receptivity to a fantasy future where humanity transcends time and space through love or whatever)
― augh (Control Z), Wednesday, 12 November 2014 06:16 (nine years ago) link
this was nowhere near as bad as some critics have made out. i think they just wanted to take shots at nolan so just took it all out on this movie, when in fact, the dark knight films were far worse. has nolan watched primer? cos he does seem to like lots of technical jargon. hes trying way too hard to make his films appear smart. but OTOH, i liked that this film was trying to approach some bigger themes, even if it never really wrestles with them enough, theyre just dropped in but not taken as far as they could be. but there were some good emotional scenes in this, and the spectacle (i advise sitting near the front) does make up for a lot. but my main gripes with it are that there is a lot of clunky dialogue, but inception was FAR worse. a lot of actors seem to not be sure what they are saying/doing exactly (again like inception) so they come off looking a bit uncertain. and a lot of the plot points were basically lifted from a dozen previous sci fi movies (alien, moon, 2001, etc) which was dissapointing. but i did feel that nolan was at least trying to do something big here, not just big in terms of visuals, but in concept, and put some broader resonances/meanings into a big blockbuster, which i liked. gravity was more novel in terms of how it made space feel/look though. got quite a bit of spielberg from this too.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:32 (nine years ago) link
the "big ideas" this movie's been lauded for tackling aren't really any more ambitious than yr average episode of Voyager really
― Simon H., Thursday, 13 November 2014 00:47 (nine years ago) link
When someone said McConaughey turns into a wheel, that has me more interested than anything else.
I'm not really into Nolan but I like bits and bobs from his films (quite liked Memento; Scarecrow, Joker and Bane made the Batman films enjoyable) a lot of this sounds like a backlash to the ridiculous hype he gets. I doubt anyone really thinks he's worse than Bay, Emerich and all the other blockbuster guys rolled into one.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
absolutely he is
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 02:18 (nine years ago) link
Haha no way
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 November 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
Other puzzling things I've learned here: Carey Mulligan is pure scum, some comedians I find slightly annoying are actually odious but Dazed And Confused, Poltergeist and Buffy are just plain brilliant.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 03:41 (nine years ago) link
bay and the rest don't work under the pretense that they're good at thinking and communicating actual thoughts
and their movies don't look so fucking dire
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 03:47 (nine years ago) link
they look dire in different ways
― polyphonic, Thursday, 13 November 2014 03:50 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I've ever seen a whole Bay film but Emerich made Independence Day (which admittedly had an amazing alien design), I don't think Nolan comes close to that. Didn't much like his Godzilla either.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:05 (nine years ago) link
i can't tell if you're putting independence day above or below nolan
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:08 (nine years ago) link
stupid fun > anything nolan has ever done
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Who's arguing that Poltergeist and Dazed and Confused aren't brilliant?
― Eric H., Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:10 (nine years ago) link
i don't think i can defend independence day without it looking like nostalgiawank but this is the position you're putting me in
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
some great visuals but the plot is dumb.
Nolan has a problem with telling instead of showing, and with telling too much. "Wouldn't it be neat if HAL went beyond the infinite with Dave so they could have a chat about what's going on?"
― abanana, Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link