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I think Dynamo is a dink, but how are Inception and Interstellar PSEUDO intellectual?
Interstellar was made with the help with Kip Thorne, a real theoretical physicist in gravity and astrophysics. The movie deals with space, relativity, time dilation, wormholes, black holes, and a universe beyond 3 dimensions, all of which are proven scientific facts. Nothing "pseudo" these at all.
Inception is a fantastic multilayered mind-bending story with loads of layer and detail. Of course there is the story of Cobb's mission but there is also a deeper story about Cobb and Mal, and of course, the ultimate mind-fuck at the very last second.
Both movies are in my top 5 favourite movies of all time.
If you get the chance, consider re-watching both of them.
If you think that both movies are "pseudo-intellectual drivel", can I ask you what some of your favourite movies are and why?
Cheers.
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Hey,
IMO those movies are just crap.
I don't like the director at all. Hos movies are much longer than they need to be, have way more action than is necessary (I've tried to explain before, too much action in a movie is just plain boring. The cool thing about action is that the more sparingly it's used, the stronger the effect) and the action scenes go on for way too long. I think his movies are overhyped to get people thinking they are about some deep shit but in reality they are quite the opposite.
Interstellar - Really, I don't care of Einstein himself helped with the plot, it is just silly. The gushy emotional father-daughter thing is just cring worthy. We found a wormhole, we can travel through space, we can now answer thousands of questions that have baffled us for centuries, yet the plot is more concerned with a father faughter relationship that wasn't developed in the first place.
This movie takes something that would dwarf the Apollo lunar missions and turns it into some ridiculous "Plan A/Plan B" tediousness. I suggest instead watching "Through the Wormhole" with Morgan Freeman or re- watching "2001: A Space Odyssey." Even "Contact" with Jodie Foster is more entertaining and imaginative.
haInterstellar is not an intelligent picture, but a pseudo-intelligent one. It seems designed to appeal to the sort of audience who loves to be flattered with cheap shots - a sort of space odyssey version of "who wants to be a millionaire?" Its success resting entirely on the fact that every member of the audience gets to feel intelligent. This technique seems to be trending within the Nolan's filmography.
The film is oddly timed with elliptical cuts that compress the action into some often confusing edits, and only leave in lieu of dialog some awful scenes of trite, contrived exposition, filled with emetic pseudo physics, sure to give an immature modern audience raised on Batman a sense that they are building their cultural ego by agreeing with this farce. Worst of all, it feels long and never ending.
If you saw "sunshine" and thought "wow, good thing they had scientist advisers, this stuff is so plausible", you will like "interstellar".
If you saw "armaggeddon" and thought "what an awesome movie, i just wished they would have dragged the scene where he says goodbye to his daughter out even more", you will like "interstellar".
If you saw "inception" and thought "this movie would be so much better in SPACE!", you will like "interstellar".
And if you liked "2001" or any other intelligent/geeky sci-fi movie, you will hate "interstellar".
Sadly, good science fiction is hard to come by, harder than a good ordinary film even.
I don't want to get into Inception, it was a movie with a cool idea that I really wanted to like but turned out to be one big mess. Too long, too many long ridiculous action sequences thrown in for vood measure. Compared to Interstellar though I thought it was at least watchable.
In hindsight, it makes perfect sense that Nolan's 'tightest' film is Memento, a dis-cognitive story told from the point of view of a man who is unable to string two events together, or to remember where he started.
About my favorite movies.
I consider The Godfather to be the greatest movie ever made. My second favorite is Once Upon a Time in the West. My favorite sci movie is Blade Runner (Alien is a close second). The Usual Suspects is in my top 5. Kubrick is perhaps my favorite director, his best film IMO is Paths of Glory. I absolutely loved The Assassination of Jesse James and think a movie like that is truly deep and intelligent, but most people won't like it, and that's fine.
Ps: A lot of my comments about Interstellar were taken directly from negative reviews on IMDB. They just reflect exactly how I feel and I coukd have added more.