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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 ......
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I hear you, but ... Inception: Wow. And if you've never see it, I urge you to check out "The Prestige" if you can stand one more Nolan movie. Not an action movie, but a really clever mindfuck.
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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.
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Mmmmm well yeah maybe kinda yes / no. I loved the movie but have lots of pet peeves about it. The teacher dismissing the apollo program and the school teaching it was all a scam, did not serve the story at all and was pretty stupid. Surely the father would have known about this before it was ever done.
For a girl who is so science-minded and not so young, she is too quick to believe in ghosts. Guessing her age to be around 13 and the daughter of a nasa test pilot, and also judging by all of the science and science-fiction books on the shelf, her poltergeist theory feels out of place for the movie.
Some other things that bug me:
- What time is this movie supposed to be taking place? They have drones with Indian-made solar panels flying around, but they drive current-time pickup trucks.
- Why did he use a paper map to find the Location? Where's his GPS?
- Why would Nasa be underground? And how could they build such a huge facility, let alone a space ship, underground?
I really love the movie and have seen it 4 times already, but puzzle peaces not quite fitting bug me. I also thought they could have used more drama when revealing the time dilation effects. After they come back from the planet, whats his name is 7 years older. "Oh, hi, you're 7 years older now.. well anyway, blah blah blah". It should have been a kick in the head.
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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.
2001 is awesome of course, and Contact is one of my favourite movies of all time.
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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.
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Tell you what - I'll meet you half way on this. I think its a pretty smart movie, that could have and should have been much smarter. I love to be challenged when watching a good sci-fi movie, and this one didn't challenge me. (But I still loved it)
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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.
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I'll meet you part way on this. I thought the editing was great, however, I hated the voice-over of the people in the beginning of the movie, talking about the dusty days. The movie seems to start from their point of view, but then never returns to it. Yes I know you see the same people at the end on the TV's in front of the farm, but to me it feels like a part of the movie is not wrapped up. (Still over it though)
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If you saw "sunshine" and thought "wow, good thing they had scientist advisers, this stuff is so plausible", you will like "interstellar".
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I saw it, but didn't really like it much.
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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".
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I used to like the movie, but not really anymore. Michael Bay has come a long way.
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If you saw "inception" and thought "this movie would be so much better in SPACE!", you will like "interstellar".
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No, no no.... lol!
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And if you liked "2001" or any other intelligent/geeky sci-fi movie, you will hate "interstellar".
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Let's clarify: The short story it is based on ("The Sentinel") is good, and the book 2001 was great. The movie itself is... interesting. I find it hard to watch.