Interstellar
POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 08:44
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I don't read many other reviewers, but there is one who I think is consistently spot-on with his comments. I avoid his column until I've written my own though.
http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2014/11/2014-a-grand-ole-odyssey-a-rev
iew-of-interstellar/
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One thing said by a reviewer was that this movie was constructed for a theater experience, to wait for the DVD means missing out on a lot.
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Quote:Your guy at Locus, Gary Westfahl, wrote, "One could devote an entire review to listing the many things about this film that make very little sense."
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I don't read many other reviewers, but there is one who I think is consistently spot-on with his comments. I avoid his column until I've written my own though.
http://www.locusmag.com/Reviews/2014/11/2014-a-grand-ole-odyssey-a-rev
iew-of-interstellar/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by second:
Your guy at Locus, Gary Westfahl, wrote, "One could devote an entire review to listing the many things about this film that make very little sense."
And he did mostly that.
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I sat through the entire movie w/ out a litter box break. It's a long flick , but it held my attention, so it didn't SEEM very long.
Though, it may have been the big comfy reclining chairs that helped , IDK.
As for 'back story ' issues, just go w/ it. Things are bad. Why ? It just is. Trust 'em.
I was caught up in the characters though, and some decent acting. There may be tears ? Well, I must have had some dust in my eye...yeah, that's it.
I get the 2001 Space Odyssey comparisons. I really do. But this , imo, is far more satisfying.
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Quote:The Nolan Brothers also wrote and directed The Prestige, which has a 19th Century teleportation machine from Star Trek. Be amazed & thrilled as Hugh Jackman sparkles realistically when teleported in Victorian London! As David Bowie, the inventor of the teleporter, said about his amazing machine, "These things never quite work as you expect them to. That's one of the principle beauties of science." That science is just as solid as the science in Interstellar. Even though it is being sold as realistic, Interstellar is fantasy, no matter how many PhDs in physics got paid for making it. Be thankful the Nolan Brothers could not plausibly use a teleporter in the Nolan version of NASA's space program. Except they did do that very thing to Matthew McConaughey to get him back to Earth.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
As for 'back story ' issues, just go w/ it. Things are bad. Why ? It just is. Trust 'em. . . . I get the 2001 Space Odyssey comparisons. I really do. But this , imo, is far more satisfying.
The Nolan Brothers' "science" teleports anxious Hugh Jackman in The Prestige (2006).
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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I generally need two viewings of a decent film to cement my opinion of it. This, I think, was a decent film. But I've only had one viewing.
So far, I think:
1. Beautiful presentation of space travel.
2. Beautiful presentation of black holes and time dilation.
3. Very loooooong movie. It was good enough that I could handle it the first time around. I might have a hard time dealing with all those slow scenes again.
4. Too much Matthew Mcconaughey. Please. I can't take this guy for 3 hours.
5. This really wanted to be the new Kubrick's 2001. It tried. It got there... maybe 1/2 way? I haven't decided yet.
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The thing that bothered me most was that the humans set up the time loop. I have a fan-wank that helps a little, maybe. In my mind, the first time around only plan B happened, as established by the Matt Damon guy. The humans in plan B were guided only by science, and not by the social/political rules they would have learned if they had living humans to teach them. They mastered relativity while living in the shadow of a Black Hole. They knew the history. At some point they decided to rescue their flawed and short-sighted fore-fathers and -mothers. They set up the wormhole and the strangeness inside the event horizon.
That doesn't solve all the paradoxes. In fact, a big one remains.
Still, this was a major milestone in presenting the laws of physics to the average audience.
If only there wasn't so much fucking annoying Matthew. Please, make a secondary character more important so I get a break from this guy.
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In .. Through .. and Beyond!
Dr. Hans Reinhardt, The Black Hole
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My showing was about 2:50 before the credits.
Anybody know when the time frame was, for the original scenes, Murphy age 10 or so? I didn't find any clear references, other than at least 10 years in the future.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:The Nolan Brothers also wrote and directed The Prestige, which has a 19th Century teleportation machine from Star Trek. Be amazed & thrilled as Hugh Jackman sparkles realistically when teleported in Victorian London! As David Bowie, the inventor of the teleporter, said about his amazing machine, "These things never quite work as you expect them to. That's one of the principle beauties of science."
Originally posted by AURaptor:
As for 'back story ' issues, just go w/ it. Things are bad. Why ? It just is. Trust 'em. . . . I get the 2001 Space Odyssey comparisons. I really do. But this , imo, is far more satisfying.
Did you intentionally leave out the part where this was was Nikolai Tesla? Most of your revered current "scientists" or "physicists" or "PhDs" cannot even fathom the science than Tesla knew more than a century ago.
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That science is just as solid as the science in Interstellar. Even though it is being sold as realistic, Interstellar is fantasy, no matter how many PhDs in physics got paid for making it. Be thankful the Nolan Brothers could not plausibly use a teleporter in the Nolan version of NASA's space program. Except they did do that very thing to Matthew McConaughey to get him back to Earth.
I assume you are using literary license. Are you claiming the Ranger or whichever craft as his "teleporter" here?
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incorrect. This was Tesla's science.
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"science" teleports anxious Hugh Jackman in The Prestige (2006).
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I was at first repelled by the whole love connection thing which Hathaway's character ranted about. But then I thought about it in regards to current knowledge of love in space and time, and I knew that I could not discount the concept, it is actually very valid.
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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
I generally need two viewings of a decent film to cement my opinion of it. This, I think, was a decent film. But I've only had one viewing.
So far, I think:
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The thing that bothered me most was that the humans set up the time loop. I have a fan-wank that helps a little, maybe. In my mind, the first time around only plan B happened, as established by the Matt Damon guy.
Established by Mann's plan (Damon), but with Edmonds planet, right?
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The humans in plan B were guided only by science, and not by the social/political rules they would have learned if they had living humans to teach them. They mastered relativity while living in the shadow of a Black Hole. They knew the history. At some point they decided to rescue their flawed and short-sighted fore-fathers and -mothers.
Perhaps they needed the fore-fathers to survive, they were dying out on Edmond's planet, maybe like the invaders in Signs or War of the Worlds (Cruise).
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They set up the wormhole and the strangeness inside the event horizon.
That doesn't solve all the paradoxes. In fact, a big one remains.
What big one?
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Still, this was a major milestone in presenting the laws of physics to the average audience.
If only there wasn't so much fucking annoying Matthew. Please, make a secondary character more important so I get a break from this guy.
All the other characters were working to fail. His character was the only one making it work.
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