Interstellar
POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 08:44
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
That ending. I was, WTF!?
I thought about that for a few days and I think most guys, whether or not they were in love/like with Ann's character, would have felt an obligation to "complete the mission." He already blew the timely return, and would have been a man out of place the rest of his life. He HAD to go, I think.
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Thanks, I saw that Jimmy Fallon episode, but good pick up on Super 8 and Elle Fanning. That young lady has Jennifer Lawrence type talent at her young age. So I'm with you on that one - both are very talented (performances are seamless).
SGG
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
EC, just got back from watching Interstellar. Yes, watching. I did not get the feeling that I was experiencing a film, more like watching a series of attempts to tell a story. Oh, it started out well, but after a few minutes it started to become somewhat forced, the emotion I mean. By the way, that little girl who played McConahey's daughter was the best thing going for this film, even Chastain, who's usually solid, seemed a bit off, but she was better than most. Kudos to the actors who voiced the robots CASE and TARS.
SGG
Mackenzie Foy. I enjoyed her in Twilight and The Conjuring. She is a Black Belt, watched her take down Jimmy Fallon before seeing the film. Her performance here reminded me of Elle Fanning in Super8.
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Was it hard to take a second viewing SGG?
I only saw it the one time this past weekend. Onward to Hunger Games.
SGG
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I went to see it again yesterday, so I guess I'm a masochist.
Last week I would have invited my brother-in-law to see it since he is the only one I know who also likes SF movies, books too. But he and my sister were out of town. Then he calls me and asks if I wanted to go, I told him I had already seen it and wouldn't waste more money on it, but he was paying. I couldn't convince him to see Birdman instead, so I'll see that one later on in the week.
He is usually the one who nitpicks things that I like, and yet he was much more impressed with Interstellar than I was. I still admit it has some great visual set pieces, but the story is woefully thin.
I had some vague plan to see it again so I could cement my opinion, but I really don't think I can handle the length. Was it hard to take a second viewing SGG?
I read an article about how they layered the sound differently than most movies, so I am kind of curious about that. I do recall liking the sound. (Yay for a silent explosion in space!) And those visuals were so good. OK, I might get drawn back into the theater if it stays up for a while.
Or... I could just veer into the theater waaaaay upstairs in the Times Square AMC where Guardians is still playing. It was last week, anyway. Hunger Games might bump it out this weekend.
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I thought it was a frakking mess.
Ever see 'MOON', with Sam Rockwell ? Didn't get much play, but that was another movie I enjoyed. Not awesome, but well done. And yes, while there were some ... inconsistencies w/ Interstellar, I liked what the movie TRIED to be. It meant well, at least. And I liked the characters.
Sorry if you were less impressed. Maybe we both agree it COULD have been better.
I didn't regret going.
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I noticed they strongly connect time and gravity, where the gravity singularity is also - or due to - the time singularity, where all time is one, or in the same place. I don't recall other works using this connection in this way - they seemed to stress the time is causing the gravity singularity, thus crushing pressure/gravity is not apparently an issue. Anybody else seen this concept fleshed out in this way before?
Actually no. I thought I was the only one to notice that theory, but I wonder if that's a scientific theory or a movie one. I have not heard of this before this picture. I must say that I could not make the connection, perhaps Nolan bit off more than he could chew on this. I found the theory interesting, but unexplained, at least sufficiently to the understanding of laymen, namely me.
Inception was brilliant because he stated his thesis, explained it so that we could grasp the concept, then went about showing us, all within the realm of the story - pure fantasy that felt so real. Nolan masterfully weaved concept, film and story and made it entertaining to boot. But with Interstellar he failed to present his story in an entertaining and cohesive way. The way in which Cobb convinces his fellow travelers to continue on his journey was truly inspiring to me as a film enthusiast. I did not get that feeling with Cooper as the "hero" of the film.
Maybe I missed something, but I only went for one bathroom break towards the final act of the movie, so I may have misunderstood the "meaning" of Interstellar.
SGG
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I always heard it as "feldercarb"
Just sayin'
SGG
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Just admit it, it's felgercarb!
From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=felgercarb
Felgercarb! A space aged swearword, originally from Battlestar Galactica back in the 70's. I've been saying it since about 1980. I bet we hear it in the new Battlestar Galactica movie.
"Oh Felgercarb! I think another one of those singing cylons is on my 6. No wait, that's Lipps, Inc., singing funkytown!"
From http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Felgercarb_%28TOS%29
(the original series)
Felgercarb is a euphemism for "crap" in the Colonial vernacular. The appeal of the word "felgercarb" would seem to extend across the lines of culture and species, as Lucifer uses the term several times in "The Young Lords."
An alternate spelling is "feldergarb"[1]
From http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Felgercarb_%28RDM%29
(the new series)
Felgercarb is a brand of toothpaste from Tauron. The last remaining tube of it in the known universe is offered as reward by Starbuck to any flight crew that discovers a habitable planet (Someone to Watch Over Me).
-- just so JSFRap's head doesn't explode, as it is wont to do.
From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/wont?s=t
wont [wawnt, wohnt, wuhnt]
adjective
1.accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
noun
2.custom; habit; practice: It was her wont to walk three miles before breakfast.
verb (used with object), wont, wont or wonted, wonting.
3.to accustom (a person), as to a thing: That summer wonted me to a lifetime of early rising.
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
I noticed they strongly connect time and gravity, where the gravity singularity is also - or due to - the time singularity, where all time is one, or in the same place. I don't recall other works using this connection in this way - they seemed to stress the time is causing the gravity singularity, thus crushing pressure/gravity is not apparently an issue. Anybody else seen this concept fleshed out in this way before?
SGG
Saw this the other day...
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/creating-hawking-radiation-in-a
-tabletop-black-hole/
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What was the one big paradox remaining?
I noticed they strongly connect time and gravity, where the gravity singularity is also - or due to - the time singularity, where all time is one, or in the same place. I don't recall other works using this connection in this way - they seemed to stress the time is causing the gravity singularity, thus crushing pressure/gravity is not apparently an issue. Anybody else seen this concept fleshed out in this way before?
SGG may have inadvertently implied this as his post, instead of mine from 13 November.
I had thought most space-time theories included gravity as an integral factor. I just had not seen film show the relationship so much as here, and I felt the assumed cause-effect relationship was reversed for Interstellar.
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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Thanks, I saw that Jimmy Fallon episode, but good pick up on Super 8 and Elle Fanning. That young lady has Jennifer Lawrence type talent at her young age. So I'm with you on that one - both are very talented (performances are seamless).
SGG
I felt that Chloe Grace Morentz stole the show in Kick Ass, but it was of different quality than Elle (Super 8) and Mackenzie (Interstellar).
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Yes, that's what happened. I forgot to put your name under your quote when answering. Mea Culpa!
Space-Time continuum in both movies and TV have, in my travels, always been about time, speed of light, that sort of thing (which they spoke about in Interstellar), but this was the first time I heard mention of gravity being included (well, gravity in a black hole has been mentioned as so dense that it could rip a ship apart) but as part of the equation of time travel, not so much.
That's my experience, but you guys my have come across it in your experience in film.
SGG
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What was the one big paradox remaining?
I noticed they strongly connect time and gravity, where the gravity singularity is also - or due to - the time singularity, where all time is one, or in the same place. I don't recall other works using this connection in this way - they seemed to stress the time is causing the gravity singularity, thus crushing pressure/gravity is not apparently an issue. Anybody else seen this concept fleshed out in this way before?
SGG may have inadvertently implied this as his post, instead of mine from 13 November.
I had thought most space-time theories included gravity as an integral factor. I just had not seen film show the relationship so much as here, and I felt the assumed cause-effect relationship was reversed for Interstellar.
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