Interstellar: A brief movie review

[dante]

 

[paicrai]

the trailer was just "LOOK AT THE ACTOR WE GOT" i still dont know what its about

[0100010]

the trailer was just "LOOK AT THE ACTOR WE GOT" i still dont know what its about

This.  Still might see it though.

[dante]

the trailer was just "LOOK AT THE ACTOR WE GOT" i still dont know what its about

Unfortunately the trailer showed more than I wish it did.  That being said, it's almost 3 hours long so there is plenty of stuff not seen yet.

The 35mm version was available locally between Tues-Thurs, Fri+ is digital which I am going to see again.  The music was a bit muffled in 35mm but even so I'm ready to buy the soundtrack which is something I've never done before.  It's good!

[Karura]

the trailer was just "LOOK AT THE ACTOR WE GOT" i still dont know what its about

Unfortunately the trailer showed more than I wish it did.  That being said, it's almost 3 hours long so there is plenty of stuff not seen yet.

The 35mm version was available locally between Tues-Thurs, Fri+ is digital which I am going to see again.  The music was a bit muffled in 35mm but even so I'm ready to buy the soundtrack which is something I've never done before.  It's good!

While I really enjoyed the film, I found the soundtrack to be disruptive and loud in certain scenes (similar to Inception, done by Hans Zimmer as well), and not very memorable as a whole.

That said, I will have to watch it again and pay more attention to it the second time!

[dante]

I'm going to see it again in i-Max in the next few days.  This is my favorite music from the movie - probably the main reason I'm buying the sound track.  I will definitely need to check out more of Hans Zimmer's work:

[Karura]

I'm going to see it again in i-Max in the next few days.  This is my favorite music from the movie - probably the main reason I'm buying the sound track.  I will definitely need to check out more of Hans Zimmer's work:

Have fun with that. Hans Zimmer basically makes everything lol

[billnye]

I really liked this movie. I was a little worried I would fall asleep, but it was really entertaining! 8/8 would recommend.

[jdcarpe]

There were a couple reasons why I was reminded of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it will be regarded as a classic film of our time.

[dante]

Just found out that there will be three versions of the sound track.   

[baldgye]

There were a couple reasons why I was reminded of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it will be regarded as a classic film of our time.

Where those reasons that he couldn't work out if he wanted to try and remake it or not?

Watched it last night, seriously meh movie. I don't and continue not know why people rate Nolan so high. His Batman movies where good but difficult to re-watch due to Batmans silly comedy voice, and really the only good batman movie he made was The Dark Knight. Inception was just desperate to be the next Matrix... And this just seems desperate to be the next 2001.

The plot was silly, over dramatic and it went on for far too long. It's not a bad movie and it had some cool scenes, but seriously meh.


For me Prometheus remains this decades best Sci-fi movie, by a pretty large margin.

[StylinGreymon]

B-but Prometheus was awful...

[dante]

There were a couple reasons why I was reminded of Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it will be regarded as a classic film of our time.

Watched it last night, seriously meh movie. I don't and continue not know why people rate Nolan so high. His Batman movies where good but difficult to re-watch due to Batmans silly comedy voice, and really the only good batman movie he made was The Dark Knight. Inception was just desperate to be the next Matrix... And this just seems desperate to be the next 2001.

Just a couple comments on this - which incidentally a lot of reviewers have brought up.

1. I don't follow Nolan in any sense.  My wife loves Inception but I thought it sucked.  The Batman movies were ok but nothing I would go back and watch.  What sold me on this movie was how hard they tried to make the special effects as accurate as possible - or at least to what we currently understand as the laws of astro/quantum physics.  For example the Worm Hole special effect clocked in at around 850 terabytes of storage just to render the scene; with Kip Thorne signing off on all of it.  I still want to buy the "Science of Interstellar" book that is being sold as it explains that pretty much everything in the movie is theoretically possible (including the last 1/3 of the movie.)

2. Everyone inevitably brings up 2001; I think I've watched it once - maybe 15-20 years ago.  Maybe I need to rewatch it again because everyone is comparing it to this.   Also, don't just automatically assume everyone has seen 2001.

I can understand what some folks are talking about though and won't turn a blind eye - there are some sound mixing issues - and I think the beginning was a little hurried.  Some people got butt hurt by having the astronaut actor explain worm holes and what not in simple terms - it didn't bother me.

[baldgye]

If you've not seen 2001 you should probably do something about that

Tbh my biggest issue with the movie was, why not just move to Mars? They have crazy space ****, why not terraform Mars?
I liked the way the movie looks and its respectable how accurate they tried to make it, but that ddoesn't make it a better film.

[0100010]

B-but Prometheus was awful...

Totally this!  I walked into Prometheus with extremely high hopes, and walked out pissed off.  Terrible, awful movie - only redeeming value was the visuals.

[jdcarpe]

If you've not seen 2001 you should probably do something about that

Tbh my biggest issue with the movie was, why not just move to Mars? They have crazy space ****, why not terraform Mars?
I liked the way the movie looks and its respectable how accurate they tried to make it, but that ddoesn't make it a better film.

If they could terraform Mars, why not just terraform the Earth again? It's never explicitly stated, but the implication is that we humans somehow ****ed up the planet, typical global warming agenda bull****. Although, it's not central to the plot, so it's mostly harmless.

[dorkvader]

If you've not seen 2001 you should probably do something about that

Yeah I watched that movie a few years ago.

Probably my least favourite of kubrick's films. The whole things was trippy and made no sense. I was told that I should have read the book first.

what a cop-out. If I want to read a good book, I'll read a book. I love reading. What if I want to watch a good sci-fi film? Are there any that don't require book beforehand?

[VesperSAINT]

Just watched it. It was pretty damn good. Had more heart than most of Nolan's other movies (or maybe it was just McConaughey's acting). The story overall was pretty good, even though it did get pretty damn convoluted near the end (yes, I understood it while I was watching it), but they tied it up well enough. Overall 9/10.

[baldgye]

If you've not seen 2001 you should probably do something about that

Yeah I watched that movie a few years ago.

Probably my least favourite of kubrick's films. The whole things was trippy and made no sense. I was told that I should have read the book first.

what a cop-out. If I want to read a good book, I'll read a book. I love reading. What if I want to watch a good sci-fi film? Are there any that don't require book beforehand?

I don't think 2001 requires you to read the book before hand, but it is pretty vague and it leaves a lot to your own interpretation. It's also not my fav Kubic movie but it's iconic.

B-but Prometheus was awful...

Totally this!  I walked into Prometheus with extremely high hopes, and walked out pissed off.  Terrible, awful movie - only redeeming value was the visuals.

Everyone is entitled to there own opinions but please explain why you didn't like Promethus lol

[mauri]

I liked it alot.

[StylinGreymon]

The nods to 2001 were lovingly done, as was the score (though I thought it was distractingly similar to David Wingo's score for Take Shelter).
The visuals were spectacular. I loved the physical representation of time, and how they showed the difficulty of trying to successfully dock to something moving in 3 dimensions.
I definitely teared up at some points.

I didn't like how distracting the score was at certain quiet moments, nor how it sometimes overwhelmed the dialog (though that may have been the venue's speaker placement at fault).
Also thought that the movie didn't need an antagonist at all, so certain character arcs could've been done away with entirely.

Favorite movie this year, though I haven't seen very many.

[dante]

[StylinGreymon]

God, those robots were so dumb...
They didn't match the look or the tone of the movie at all.

[baldgye]

Robots imo were one of the best things about the movie

[StylinGreymon]

Romilly: saddest character ever, or the saddest character ever?

I mean, what a story arc...

[baldgye]

Idk I thought his son's story was pretty tragic, in how it was written... And how it is never resolved, or how no one cares about him after his sister works out the watch magic

[Belfong]

I saw it in IMAX and it was a great experience. I like how accurate they portrayed sound in space - none - during the docking or the explosion scene, there was no sound  I also like how the stage was set in the first hour of the show. How the earth was sick and that there was just so much dust. I do have a hard time understanding the main actor's accent have to resort to translated subtitles once a while. Other than that, it was a remarkable movie. I don't get the last part of the show where he was in this time warp from a different dimension or something. How did he get there? What's happening?

[mauri]

I saw it in IMAX and it was a great experience. I like how accurate they portrayed sound in space - none - during the docking or the explosion scene, there was no sound  I also like how the stage was set in the first hour of the show. How the earth was sick and that there was just so much dust. I do have a hard time understanding the main actor's accent have to resort to translated subtitles once a while. Other than that, it was a remarkable movie. I don't get the last part of the show where he was in this time warp from a different dimension or something. How did he get there? What's happening?

spacetime .. something something only gravity can exist in past present and future something humans evolution something ascension to 5th dimension.

[Belfong]

Yeah! That part about gravity transcending the there existences are totally Greek to me. I'm not so smart

[mauri]

Yeah! That part about gravity transcending the there existences are totally Greek to me. I'm not so smart

Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey...Stuff

[Belfong]

I gotta say though, I totally dig that water world. The way the tsunami rise and came towards them - very simple in execution but it's just so mind blowing.

But then, how is it that a trip from the orbit into the planet could have age the other guy by 23 years? He was just at the orbit of the planet. It's like saying people in International Space Station just above us will age faster. Did the movie explain why?

[mauri]

I gotta say though, I totally dig that water world. The way the tsunami rise and came towards them - very simple in execution but it's just so mind blowing.

But then, how is it that a trip from the orbit into the planet could have age the other guy by 23 years? He was just at the orbit of the planet. It's like saying people in International Space Station just above us will age faster. Did the movie explain why?

Time relativity, due to the black hole.

And Romilly wasn't orbiting the planet, he was orbiting the Gargantua aka the black hole. At least that's what I gather from this time line picture.

http://imgur.com/gallery/MgwWMFU

[baldgye]

I gotta say though, I totally dig that water world. The way the tsunami rise and came towards them - very simple in execution but it's just so mind blowing.

But then, how is it that a trip from the orbit into the planet could have age the other guy by 23 years? He was just at the orbit of the planet. It's like saying people in International Space Station just above us will age faster. Did the movie explain why?

Time relativity, due to the black hole. Doubt there are any scientific grounds to that.

Wat

[mauri]

I gotta say though, I totally dig that water world. The way the tsunami rise and came towards them - very simple in execution but it's just so mind blowing.

But then, how is it that a trip from the orbit into the planet could have age the other guy by 23 years? He was just at the orbit of the planet. It's like saying people in International Space Station just above us will age faster. Did the movie explain why?

Time relativity, due to the black hole. Doubt there are any scientific grounds to that.

Wat

We got the science when are we leaving

[baldgye]

I still think the whole idea that the only available planets where, right next to a blackhole... Talk about contrived lol

[p3rhaps]

It's like saying people in International Space Station just above us will age faster. Did the movie explain why?

Actually, Astronauts in the ISS above us age slower. They age 0.007 seconds slower than people on Earth.

http://ideonexus.com/2009/02/17/how-much-does-time-dilate-for-the-iss-astronauts/

[Belfong]

Oh! Romilly was orbiting Gargantua? Ok, I can accept that. But really? How did they dock back? That would waiting years for it to swing in.

[mauri]

I still think the whole idea that the only available planets where, right next to a blackhole... Talk about contrived lol

Well first of all, the wormhole leading to the other galaxy didn't just appear, it was put there by "them aka future us". So there was a reasoning; a black hole that could "age" McConagheys daughter to understand sciency **** and at the same time have his dad be alive to be the puppet master

Love conquers all rabble rabble

But back to topic, the soundtrack was immaculate. Hans Zimmer is a god

[baldgye]

I still think the whole idea that the only available planets where, right next to a blackhole... Talk about contrived lol

Well first of all, the wormhole leading to the other galaxy didn't just appear, it was put there by "them aka future us". So there was a reasoning; a black hole that could "age" McConagheys daughter to understand sciency **** and at the same time have his dad be alive to be the puppet master

Love conquers all rabble rabble

But back to topic, the soundtrack was immaculate. Hans Zimmer is a god

What?
I know future humans put the worm hole there, at a really odd place, probably because Venus looks cooler than Mars, but given that there are more stars in the galaxy than black holes, couldn't they have simply picked a collection of planets, or indeed single planet that better matched earth? Hell given what we know already via Hubble and other space telescopes we have found various planets that seem to be nicer than the ones they found, without a massive black hole next door.
The whole thing was so contrived and silly. It only existed to give Chris a reason to age everyone and include time in the plot. Like his son, he only has a son in the movie so that someone can give him updates about earth etc whole his daughter hates him/refuses to talk to him because she's super emo...

[mauri]

I still think the whole idea that the only available planets where, right next to a blackhole... Talk about contrived lol

Well first of all, the wormhole leading to the other galaxy didn't just appear, it was put there by "them aka future us". So there was a reasoning; a black hole that could "age" McConagheys daughter to understand sciency **** and at the same time have his dad be alive to be the puppet master

Love conquers all rabble rabble

But back to topic, the soundtrack was immaculate. Hans Zimmer is a god

What?
I know future humans put the worm hole there, at a really odd place, probably because Venus looks cooler than Mars, but given that there are more stars in the galaxy than black holes, couldn't they have simply picked a collection of planets, or indeed single planet that better matched earth? Hell given what we know already via Hubble and other space telescopes we have found various planets that seem to be nicer than the ones they found, without a massive black hole next door.
The whole thing was so contrived and silly. It only existed to give Chris a reason to age everyone and include time in the plot. Like his son, he only has a son in the movie so that someone can give him updates about earth etc whole his daughter hates him/refuses to talk to him because she's super emo...

They would've never solved the gravity problem without getting the quantum data? Sure Plan B would've worked if it was just a normal galaxy with a earth-like planet however that wouldn't have been a happy enough ending.

After that it gets pretty tricky.. "they" needed us to teach ourselves how to leave because they couldn't comprehend/exist outside of the 5th dimension or some ****.

Over-analyzing movies takes all the fun out of it imo, especially in scifi just eat that **** up.

[baldgye]

Right, but the only way that future 'us' would have know that flying into a blackhole was totally cool would have been to fly into one?
Maybe I missed something but there just seems to be a bit of a logic loop, they couldn't have ever saved the people on earth, without flying into a blackhole, thus flying into the magical gravity thing, that allows you to manipulate time?
Which then allows him to send morse coded messages to his daughter who can feel him there due to 'love' (which is the most retarded logic thinkable) who then solves the riddle and saves earth?

Like I said, maybe I missed something, but if future humans can do all this, why didn't they simply email someone the ****ing maths to someone before the problem with earth ever came up? Or better yet, why didn't they email them the cure to the plague that was DESTOTYING (idk why that's in all caps, ask iOS auto correct) earth?




I know trying to dissect this stuff is missing the point to some extent, but the movies plot seemed so super dumb and super contrived, especially given how much effort was taken to ground a lot of science in actual science.
The plot reminded me actually of a really terrible movie that came out a year or two ago, it was a love movie about a ginger guy who can time travel, except when he has kids and all the men in his family been able to do it. Both dumb contrived plots that only exist for the sake of telling a meh story.

[dante]

[mauri]

Right, but the only way that future 'us' would have know that flying into a blackhole was totally cool would have been to fly into one?
Maybe I missed something but there just seems to be a bit of a logic loop, they couldn't have ever saved the people on earth, without flying into a blackhole, thus flying into the magical gravity thing, that allows you to manipulate time?
Which then allows him to send morse coded messages to his daughter who can feel him there due to 'love' (which is the most retarded logic thinkable) who then solves the riddle and saves earth?

Like I said, maybe I missed something, but if future humans can do all this, why didn't they simply email someone the ****ing maths to someone before the problem with earth ever came up? Or better yet, why didn't they email them the cure to the plague that was DESTOTYING (idk why that's in all caps, ask iOS auto correct) earth?




I know trying to dissect this stuff is missing the point to some extent, but the movies plot seemed so super dumb and super contrived, especially given how much effort was taken to ground a lot of science in actual science.
The plot reminded me actually of a really terrible movie that came out a year or two ago, it was a love movie about a ginger guy who can time travel, except when he has kids and all the men in his family been able to do it. Both dumb contrived plots that only exist for the sake of telling a meh story.

They way I saw it was that they had ascended beyond this realm and couldn't interfere much. Cooper himself had to figure out the way to communicate with us. Sorta like a proxy of "them" without "them" affecting our decisions and actions. They did open up a wormhole to destination the new galaxy, maybe it had something to do with gravity as it was the only thing that existed outside of time?

Maybe "they" had ran simulations of every and each human beying varying for generations til they found how to save the human race (time paradox of sorts)

I don't think the plague that was the only problem, it was just another symptom of our planet dying. At least that's what I feel like was implied.

There always comes a point in scifi where you simply cannot argue with the storytellers reasoning because he can always make **** up

"yeah but you have to take to account the multiverse translater gravitonial beam syncronizer"

[dorkvader]

but given that there are more stars in the galaxy than black holes, couldn't they have simply picked a collection of planets, or indeed single planet that better matched earth?

Can't give you that as a given. We don't know that there are more stars than black holes, partially because the only evidence we have of black holes is circumstancial: that is: we observe their effect on nearby things to "know" there's a massive object in the vicinity that's not emitting anything. If a black hole is out on its own we can't detect it. We also can't resolve individual planets (usually) unless they're really close, which means there can easily exist black holes with planets orbiting that we have no way of currently knowing about.

Actually, black holes at random is my pet theory explaining the mass curve of the milky way.

[dorkvader]

Maybe I missed something but there just seems to be a bit of a logic loop, they couldn't have ever saved the people on earth, without flying into a blackhole, thus flying into the magical gravity thing, that allows you to manipulate time?

That's what you get when you violate causality.

I do think that after Cooper does hes thing in the black hole, he "magically" gets teleported back to the solar system or wherever he ended up at the end was a bit of a deus-ex machina (and the whole "seconds of oxygen left" certainly was, but it's so common I'll allow them the trope)

so the movie isn't perfect but I quite liked it. I also don't think that the music was too loud, but some of the SFX were. It's tough to hear them talking over the noise of rocket engines (understandably so)

[MOZ]

I thought the movie was okay. Not bad, definitely worth a watch but I think I was expecting more from it.

The scientific inaccuracies were aplenty and the whole "love" is the 5th dimension crap was Bollywood-esque. I liked the first half (Up until Mann shows up), till then things were alright, even with their scientific flaws, post that, it just became terrible. I am starting to think Nolan's reputation preceded his work as far as this movie goes, and many a people are rating the movie highly because it is from Nolan. McConaughey is a great actor and has given some good performances recently (read Dallas Buyers Club, True Detectives) however he wasn't convincing in this movie, certainly not as the best pilot NASA has available. None of the other performances stood out either. The outer space scenes didn't look as good either, perhaps because Gravity was released recently and was brilliant in this department. Hans Zimmer however was the bright star for me, I really liked the background score and it was immersive, specially for the parts of the movie where it was very slow. Yeah, I'm not even going to go into the pacing issues of the movie.

Interesting idea. Great Cast and Crew. High Potential. Much Disappointment.

[dorkvader]

McConaughey is a great actor and has given some good performances recently (read Dallas Buyers Club, True Detectives)

Not to mention those Lincoln commercials.

[VesperSAINT]

Not to mention those Lincoln commercials.

[jacobolus]

Impressions:

1) Special effects were mostly pretty cool.
2) The acting was pretty good, but the actors weren’t given the best material to work with.
3) The writing was spotty. Some of it okay, some of it totally sucked.
4) The plot made no sense; parts were just left entirely unexplained, the rest was pieced together like a post-2000 Simpsons episode. To take the first available example, the whole “the earth is dying and theres’s nothing anyone can do but we didn’t have time to figure out why or explain it to the audience” thing is weak sauce. Having love + an ******* father’s promise reach across time and space to save humanity is an incredibly cheesy plot device.
5) The physics was totally broken (to take a tiny example, as someone pointed out to me, they needed a massive rocket with several booster stages to get off of Earth, but the little dinky landing ship was able to get off a planet with >2x Earth gravity with absolutely no problem. wtf? and things only get worse from there). For a movie that pretends to be semi-hard SF, there’s an awful lot of mystical bull****.

I don’t think the creators of this movie really had anything they were trying to say. Instead, I think they started with 10 completely unrelated scenes with awesome special effects, and then were like “oh ****, how can we fit these into the same movie.” Oh, and someone was clearly a big fan of 2001, and tried to copy as much from that film as they could manage to pack in.

I think this is Nolan’s weakest film yet. Memento is probably one of my top 10 favorites all time, and the Prestige was also an amazing film. Inception and the Batman movies were flashy and fun but weak as stories and very overrated IMO, especially the last Batman movie. And now this mess.

Anyway, I enjoyed myself. Worth watching once in IMAX for the scenery, but this movie will soon be forgotten. Among semi-realistic space movies, this is dramatically overshadowed by Gravity.

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[iri]

The acting was pretty good, but the actors weren’t given the best material to work with.

i like how gently you put it.