Interstellar: Nolan, McConaughey

Didn't realize Big Hero 6 was an actual title of a movie and not a euphemism for the latest Marvel project.

Will it still make sense if I didn't see Big Hero 1-5? /dadjokes

dude clearly knows what he's doing a lot of the time

i hate what he's doing.

Intersmellar

Didn't realize Big Hero 6 was an actual title of a movie and not a euphemism for the latest Marvel project.

I didn't realize that Big Hero 6 was (sort of) a Marvel property itself!

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).

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.

i was briefly set on seeing innastella, but now i just don't care

Is Daft Punk in this?

they play two famous alien club owners

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no, but nile rodgers shows up in the last reel to inspire mcconnahey to sacrifice himself for the benefit of makind

this movie suuuuuuuuucked

i have free tix to see this now

so

i guess i am seeing it on saturday

"yay"?

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.

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

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

(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)

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.

the "big ideas" this movie's been lauded for tackling aren't really any more ambitious than yr average episode of Voyager really

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.

absolutely he is

Haha no way

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.

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

they look dire in different ways

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.

i can't tell if you're putting independence day above or below nolan

stupid fun > anything nolan has ever done

Who's arguing that Poltergeist and Dazed and Confused aren't brilliant?

i don't think i can defend independence day without it looking like nostalgiawank but this is the position you're putting me in

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?"

nolan is expert at juggling intimidatingly/seemingly complex sounding jargon to make sure he looks smart, while also sticking in tons of exposition in case anyone might be worried they dont know WTFs going on. the main flaw with the plot is that it doesnt really explore the layers of its concept enough - and it didnt really hammer its moral message home strongly enough either (trying not to use spoilers, though this thread is less active than i thought it would be). actually, after thinking about it, i think it was the score and the visuals that made me *feel* more than any part of the story or anyone in it.

i thought this was better made than some of his other recent movies. he also had a few cheesy one liners as if to show he can do hollywood humour a bit too. but the biggest dissapointment is that its nice to have a big sci fi movie around, but i dont think this one did anything that we havent seen before. it didnt really take us anywhere we havent been already.

basically, its a bit tree of life, a bit the fountain, 2001, all smashed together. i think nolan should just go back to doing some smaller movies like memento. not sure he works as a blockbuster director.

Can anyone explain why they didn't just use robots for the whole Lazarus mission? TARS was capable of doing way more than any of the human characters and even had a better sense of humor to boot. I don't see why humans had to be involved at all.

i can't tell if you're putting independence day above or below nolan

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014 04:08 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

stupid fun > anything nolan has ever done

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 13 November 2014

I'm putting Indepedence Day way below Nolan. I don't think it's remotely fun. But again, the alien designs really need to be applauded.

Who's arguing that Poltergeist and Dazed and Confused aren't brilliant?

― Eric H., Thursday, 13 November 2014

ME! I think they're just okay. We went over Poltergeist quite a bit in the old horror film thread.

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

These are all things I didn't understand why people hated or loved so much.

Yeah, just because Nolan has made blockbusters does not make him a good blockbuster maker. His small films- Memento, the Prestige - have been his best, probably because his big ideas do not work well when everything around them is big, too."Dark Knight" maybe excepted, though Joker makes it, not the big ideas, as such. first and third Batman movies actively dumb.

at the risk of seeming challopsy, i think following could be his best film.

but he might actually be the most awkward blockbuster-maker ever, which deserves some sort of credit, if not 'nolan is so subversive', which i think is what most people seem to like him for ('smuggling big ideas into tentpole releases' etc)

i don't wanna see any big ideas he's smuggling under his tentpole.

Again, I think the problem is one of scale: his big ideas don't seem so big when he seems so set on making everything else bigger.

nolan is expert at juggling intimidatingly/seemingly complex sounding jargon to make sure he looks smart, while also sticking in tons of exposition in case anyone might be worried they dont know WTFs going on. the main flaw with the plot is that it doesnt really explore the layers of its concept enough - and it didnt really hammer its moral message home strongly enough either (trying not to use spoilers, though this thread is less active than i thought it would be). actually, after thinking about it, i think it was the score and the visuals that made me *feel* more than any part of the story or anyone in it.

Lol he's expert at being inept?

Zimmer sucks shit in this movie btw, actively annoying

i saw the cover of TIME and damn, post-disaster earth sure is sending nice-looking people into space

send the grizzly man into space to make friends with alien monsters

jessica chastain is astonishingly beautiful, mcconaheyhey is looking pretty leathery lately.

saw this in imax last night, liked it a lot more than i expected to but it definitely suffers from the classic nolan syndrome of being exciting while you're watching it and then falling apart under later examination.

how long is it supposed to be between matt and his daughter finding the lazarus station and then him jetting off into space? seems like it basically happens overnight.

poor casey affleck tho - his dad returns to civilisation after 100 years in space and he doesn't even ask how his son is doing before he fucks off again? that's cold, man.

The ending was hilariously dumb even by nolan's and this film's standards. "Oh btw that scientist is still stuck on that planet, you should prob go rescue her since apparently none of us give a fuck"

yeah, it was really odd. murph is so old and infirm that she's advised against making the trip to see cooper near saturn, but she does it anyway. then when she arrives she sees her dad for the first time in decades, says hi for 30 seconds, then she's like 'cool, good talk, now go away so i can die with my kids around me'. for a movie which posits the idea that love is the strongest force in the universe it's awfully cavalier about actual human realtionships.

he doesnt really 'do' relationships though, does he?

the whole thing is better if you avoid the dialogue/plot/premise and just focus on the visuals/sound. he should have made a silent space movie really. a sci-fi the artist.