Interstellar Movie 2014 (SPOILERS)

[Renzatic]

I consider that movie visually and atmospherically powerful, to be cinematic art.

That's Ridley Scott doing what he does best. Though his scripts tend to be hit or miss (and here, Prometheus was a mix of both good and bad), you can't deny he's got a knack for visual flare.

 

[Suture]

We saw Interstellar this past weekend and really liked it. This is definitely one I will need to watch again to pick up on everything, but I have always liked all of Nolan's movies. I saw a bunch of articles poking at all the holes, but it seems like a lot of people try to pick apart his movies in the last few years. Holes/flaws/question marks -- regardless, I enjoyed it and look forward to seeing it again.

Pro Tip: Go pee before the movie starts.

 

[sviato]

This film was nothing like Gravity. Filming my **** flushing down the toilet would be a better movie experience than Gravity was for me personally.

What I meant was that it was more realistic at the start with the space scenes and then dove deep into fantasy.

 

[Huntn]

We saw Interstellar this past weekend and really liked it. This is definitely one I will need to watch again to pick up on everything, but I have always liked all of Nolan's movies. I saw a bunch of articles poking at all the holes, but it seems like a lot of people try to pick apart his movies in the last few years. Holes/flaws/question marks -- regardless, I enjoyed it and look forward to seeing it again.

Pro Tip: Go pee before the movie starts.

1. Don't drink a lot before the movie.
2. Don't carry a drink into the movie.
3. Make a strategic pee run before they leave on their mission, lol.

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That's Ridley Scott doing what he does best. Though his scripts tend to be hit or miss (and here, Prometheus was a mix of both good and bad), you can't deny he's got a knack for visual flare.

I agree on the script, however I liked the roles all of the characters played, although as usually occurs in a horror film, someone is bound to do something stupid, while the audience yells "Don't do that, you frick'n idiot!!"

 

[BenTrovato]

1. Don't drink a lot before the movie.
2. Don't carry a drink into the movie.
3. Make a strategic pee run before they leave on their mission, lol.

lol I did #3..

 

[bobob]

Here is a well written article from CinemaBlend on the...

4 Big Reasons Why Interstellar Is A Huge Disaster


(Not counting it's failure at the box office.)

 

[Huntn]

Here is a well written article from CinemaBlend on the...

4 Big Reasons Why Interstellar Is A Huge Disaster


(Not counting it's failure at the box office.)

Can I assume you feel this review is valid? I thought it was number one opening weekend although that in itself does not make a mega hit.

Counter critique:
1. Relationship with daughter: Cooper is distant, but later laments his absense in his daughter's life. After all, he's out to save humanity and his family.
2. IMAX glitch is unfortunate. I saw it on a regular screen.
3. Paradox- apparantly it's tough and limiting sending messages though a Tesseract. NASA base close by filled with former colleagues? Providence or good luck.
4. The author obviously can't go with the flow. In many science fiction movies if you try to pick everything apart you'll lose it. Suspension of disbelief is required to different degrees depending. The story strikes me as save-humanity serious. I won't begrudge Proff Brand saying a poem on his death bed or Dr. Mann being a bad guy and I saw no sparatic attempts at humor.

Of interest might be this boxofficemojo article apparantly Big Heo Six beat out Interstellar for the first weekend/week, these are two movies really directed at different audiences. I would not recommend Interstellar to my 13 year old Grandson, and maybe that is an inditement of limited appeal.

 

[sviato]

1. Don't drink a lot before the movie.
2. Don't carry a drink into the movie.
3. Make a strategic pee run before they leave on their mission, lol. :

Oops I split a pitcher with a friend before the movie, took a pint into the movie, and had to make a run just before they entered the wormhole.

 

[rhett7660]

I liked the fact there was no mention of god or religion that I can recall.

Did they ever mention Coopers and Brands first names? Both me and the wife liked the movie and might need to see it a second time to answer some questions we had.

We put the spin on it, what if it was a parallel universe, when Brands start the colonization of the new planet, that looks a lot like a desert, with all the different people that could be conceived..... could they be the mythical adam and eve for this new planet?

Talk about a mind trip of time and space..

 

[BenTrovato]

Entertaining read for the Interstellars out there. The video was really cool explaining the passage of time.

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/rust-cohle-already-explained-the-ending-of-interstellar/

 

[orestes1984]

I liked the fact there was no mention of god or religion that I can recall.

Wut?

The whole premise of Lazarus was a whole religious agenda to the movie itself. I don't know what you were watching.

 

[obeygiant]

Wut?

The whole premise of Lazarus was a whole religious agenda to the movie itself. I don't know what you were watching.

I don't think the word "Lazarus" was any underlying religious agenda. It just that the explorers would go into hyper sleep with no defined wake up date waiting for others to come and wake them from being "dead".

 

[orestes1984]

I don't think the word "Lazarus" was any underlying religious agenda. It just that the explorers would go into hyper sleep with no defined wake up date waiting for others to come and wake them from being "dead".

And if the whole agenda of Lazarus rising from the dead isn't a religious agenda then what is?

 

[bobob]

Non-religious?!?

A whole school of Christian Symbolism/Themes analysis of Interstellar is already evolving...

<spoilers>

1) Church Organ soundtrack through the whole film.
2) Shots of Coop and Brand with eyes and hands closed praying
3) We have Christian Trinity: Cooper represents the Father and Holy Spirit/Ghost (once he joins with Tesseract). Murph represents the Son a.k.a Jesus the savior (remember she was 10 years old at start and after 23 years time dilation was 33 when she “saves” the world – same age as Jesus dies). They both represent the Holy trinity.
4) We have an otherworldly unknown powerful presence who created the wormhole and tessaract that guide the events of the film – aka Godlike who has have basically interfered with and guided Coop throughout his life going as far as to construct a tesseract for one particular moment in time. God advocates true love and is major theme of film with father and daughter.
5) There were 12 original astronauts sent out onto the planets – There were 12 apostles of Jesus sent out for his gospel.
6) Cooper also spends decades wandering desolate environments,"Lazarus". Dies and is reborn at black hole.
7) Holy Spirit/Ghost Coop reaching out to touch people (including hand shake scene white light)
8) And just like Jesus after his resurrection, he came back (albeit 3 days vs. 70-something years) then left again after a very short period of time.
9) Literal Noah’s Ark with at end with Cooper space station transporting humanity.
10) Adam and Eve with Coop and Brand (embryos for Plan B – start new race).


</spoilers>

 

[rhett7660]

Wut?

The whole premise of Lazarus was a whole religious agenda to the movie itself. I don't know what you were watching.

No there was no mention of God and I didn't take the Lazarus as a religios but like someone else mentioned. Them sleeping and waking. But it very well could be. I didn't take it that way that is all.

 

[localoid]

Non-religious?!?

A whole school of Christian Symbolism/Themes analysis of Interstellar is already evolving...

<spoilers>

1) Church Organ soundtrack through the whole film.
...

And here I thought Zimmer's use (over use?) of the organ was because he couldn't get the iconic sound of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (from "2001 A Space Odyssey") out of his head...

 

[Alimar]

Knowing plus Contact plus 2010 plus Gravity minus the aliens equals Interstellar. The concept of five dimensions makes it plausible. The new folding-space: 'pencil-trough-paper' hole=sphere is brilliant! Totally enjoyable/cerebral EPIC.

 

[localoid]

Knowing plus Contact plus 2010 plus Gravity minus the aliens equals Interstellar. The concept of five dimensions makes it plausible. The new folding-space: 'pencil-trough-paper' hole=sphere is brilliant! Totally enjoyable/cerebral EPIC.

Pbbbt. Kurt Vonnegut's Tralfamadorians, a fatalistic alien race who could experience reality in four dimensions, were part of a much more enjoyable/cerebral/cooler story in "Slaughterhouse-Five", largely because the story was satirical in nature.

 

[Alimar]

Pbbbt. Kurt Vonnegut's Tralfamadorians, a fatalistic alien race who could experience reality in four dimensions, were part of a much more enjoyable/cerebral/cooler story in "Slaughterhouse-Five", largely because the story was satirical in nature.

Not to mention Valerie Perrine's puppies!

 

[obeygiant]

Non-religious?!?

A whole school of Christian Symbolism/Themes analysis of Interstellar is already evolving...

<spoilers>

1) Church Organ soundtrack through the whole film.

Yeah I didn't get a religious vibe at all, at least not like preaching to me or something. But most of those things in that list could be applied to a film like "The Matrix" as well. Most of the story line is basically the hero's journey - the call to adventure, trials and tribulations, rebirth, return with elixer - all that is in there too.

Maybe I haven't been to church in a while but the organ didn't hit me as hymns to the lord and savior.

 

[bobob]

cerebral EPIC.

Personally, I found it just the opposite - - Interstellar is a rather stupid movie about some smart science, and it's about as epic as a soap opera.

 

[Huntn]

Entertaining read for the Interstellars out there. The video was really cool explaining the passage of time.

http://www.nerdist.com/2014/11/rust-cohle-already-explained-the-ending-of-interstellar/

I posted a comment regarding your post in this thread on M Theory.

Wut?

The whole premise of Lazarus was a whole religious agenda to the movie itself. I don't know what you were watching.

And if the whole agenda of Lazarus rising from the dead isn't a religious agenda then what is?

Non-religious?!?

A whole school of Christian Symbolism/Themes analysis of Interstellar is already evolving...

<spoilers>

1) Church Organ soundtrack through the whole film.
2) Shots of Coop and Brand with eyes and hands closed praying
3) We have Christian Trinity: Cooper represents the Father and Holy Spirit/Ghost (once he joins with Tesseract). Murph represents the Son a.k.a Jesus the savior (remember she was 10 years old at start and after 23 years time dilation was 33 when she “saves” the world – same age as Jesus dies). They both represent the Holy trinity.
4) We have an otherworldly unknown powerful presence who created the wormhole and tessaract that guide the events of the film – aka Godlike who has have basically interfered with and guided Coop throughout his life going as far as to construct a tesseract for one particular moment in time. God advocates true love and is major theme of film with father and daughter.
5) There were 12 original astronauts sent out onto the planets – There were 12 apostles of Jesus sent out for his gospel.
6) Cooper also spends decades wandering desolate environments,"Lazarus". Dies and is reborn at black hole.
7) Holy Spirit/Ghost Coop reaching out to touch people (including hand shake scene white light)
8) And just like Jesus after his resurrection, he came back (albeit 3 days vs. 70-something years) then left again after a very short period of time.
9) Literal Noah’s Ark with at end with Cooper space station transporting humanity.
10) Adam and Eve with Coop and Brand (embryos for Plan B – start new race).


</spoilers>

Regarding those who see religious symbolism, I don't see the movie making a case for this, possibly making an argument, there is a scientific substitute for and parallels with religion/faith, even if characters pray in the story.

Knowing plus Contact plus 2010 plus Gravity minus the aliens equals Interstellar. The concept of five dimensions makes it plausible. The new folding-space: 'pencil-trough-paper' hole=sphere is brilliant! Totally enjoyable/cerebral EPIC.

For those who enjoyed this movie, check out Timeline, whose premise is that time curving back on itself causes teleportation experiments (fancy FedExing) to go awry.

 

[bobob]

Here is a rather astute analysis by a recent IMDb reviewer...

Is this a movie for me?

1. I didn't like Inception and got very confused by it.

2. I loved Inception and found it very edgy.

3. I didn't like Inception, I thought it was actually pretty shallow and boring and it failed to impress me.
​

If you're in category 1, you will probably not like this movie, as this is the very same type of movie.

If you're in category 2, you watch one sci-fi movie ever 3 years or so, if your forehead wrinkles when someone utters a concept as basic in sci-fi as "asimov laws" (for instance), if you get easily impressed and proud when you understand a movie that category 1 doesn't, you will love Interstellar.

If you're in category 3, you are more than familiar with sci-fi, whether it's movies, TV shows, literature or even video games. Avoid this movie, it will bore you out of your mind and you will get pretty annoyed by category 2 people acting like you're category 1 just because you didn't like a movie that felt challenging to them, and because they can't fathom the possibility that some people are way past this kind of movies and can't just be impressed by it."​

 

[Huntn]

Here is a rather astute analysis by a recent IMDb reviewer...

Is this a movie for me?

1. I didn't like Inception and got very confused by it.

2. I loved Inception and found it very edgy.

3. I didn't like Inception, I thought it was actually pretty shallow and boring and it failed to impress me.
​

If you're in category 1, you will probably not like this movie, as this is the very same type of movie.

If you're in category 2, you watch one sci-fi movie ever 3 years or so, if your forehead wrinkles when someone utters a concept as basic in sci-fi as "asimov laws" (for instance), if you get easily impressed and proud when you understand a movie that category 1 doesn't, you will love Interstellar.

If you're in category 3, you are more than familiar with sci-fi, whether it's movies, TV shows, literature or even video games. Avoid this movie, it will bore you out of your mind and you will get pretty annoyed by category 2 people acting like you're category 1 just because you didn't like a movie that felt challenging to them, and because they can't fathom the possibility that some people are way past this kind of movies and can't just be impressed by it."​

Actually it amusing the distain the reviewer feels about people who enjoyed the movie and the superiority the reviewer assigned those who did not like the movie. Can I assume you agree about the shallowness of anyone who dared like the movie?

 

[bobob]

Actually it amusing the distain the reviewer feels about people who enjoyed the movie and the superiority the reviewer assigned those who did not like the movie. Can I assume you agree about the shallowness of anyone who dared like the movie?

Of course not!

I only wish I could experience such credulous enjoyment.

Oh, that I was able to regress and somehow be capable of seeing Interstellar through naive eyes, I too might rate it highly!