So very OTM it ain't even funny. One of the stupidest flicks of recent years but, hey, Nolan's a genius (bro).
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 21 August 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
nolan shoots real good and has never been able to tell a story
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 21 August 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
enjoyed reading over this thread. tears streamed down my eyes as I read all the zings and disses that I'd missed out on in the passing years.
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 August 2017 17:43 (six years ago) link
down my eyes? down my face obv
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), 21. august 2017 19:32 (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Which is why he is the best mainstream movie maker.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 August 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/994/418/48b.jpg
― licking the yellow Toad next to the teleporter (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 August 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
I must have posted this before itt but this film has one of my all-time favourite dumb bad movie dialogue exchanges, where a scientist is explaining the concept of wormholes to another scientist
Actual scientist: Now, think about it. What's a circle in three dimensions?
Other actual scientist: 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔...🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔......a sphere!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Monday, 21 August 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Saw this recently. Didn't follow the plot at all, it's far too long (especially the Damon scenes) but I enjoyed it very much for the music, some of the visuals, family and love stuff.
Not a big fan of Nolan but I find the hate for him completely ridiculous. Hate the overraters not the overrated, I'm sure that's in the Bible somewhere.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 21 August 2017 18:44 (six years ago) link
someone handed the Nolans a list of cool science ideas and they just had a family drama where they drop the concepts in one at a time, with the characters kind of mumbling halfhearted justifications to justify each being incorporated in the plot
― mh, Monday, 21 August 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
I must have posted this before itt but this film has one of my all-time favourite dumb bad movie dialogue exchanges, where a scientist is explaining the concept of wormholes to another scientist Actual scientist: Now, think about it. What's a circle in three dimensions?Other actual scientist: 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔...🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔......a sphere!
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Nolan's tendency to have a character in every scene be a stand-in for the audience reeeeally doesn't work well when everyone in the scene is supposed to be smart
― mh, Monday, 21 August 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
http://blackhistorynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/2258401040_4aa50f9ff7-199x300.jpg
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 August 2017 19:31 (six years ago) link
okay now this is driving me nuts, there is some big obvious precedent for the 'oh god i am the ghost!' twist and i cannot place it. in the one i'm thinking of it's more of a horror moment, guy realizes he was in all these other scenes and he's shouting and no one can hear him, no no no, don't do it... fuck what is this i'm thinking of? i guess it could just be a twilight zone episode or something but i feel like there's a VERY big movie that has this exact same bit and now i just feel like an idiot for not being able to name it.
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
a bruce willis movie, mayhap?
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 01:25 (six years ago) link
Harry Potter 3?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 22 August 2017 01:26 (six years ago) link
"the sixth sense"?
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 01:27 (six years ago) link
thinking specifically of some kinda time travel bit, i think. it was me all along oh god nooooooooo
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 01:31 (six years ago) link
12 Monkeys
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 02:13 (six years ago) link
Looper
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 02:17 (six years ago) link
lol wait what if all Bruce Willis movies are actually this movie but better
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 02:18 (six years ago) link
12 Monkeys is almost certainly what i'm thinking of - thank you.
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
Was hoping you meant Angel Heart.
― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile I want to know what very promising, nearly-human-ready planets the other twelve sucker astronauts ended up on, or how bad the data had to count as a "no" for these guys when time-bending gravity planets covered in tidal waves get a thumbs up. Are the other planets made out of snakes? Quicksand? Vampires? "Look... Coop. I know. A planet where if you land there your hands and feet turn inside out and air turns to acid inside your lungs isn't anybody's first choice. But this could be our last shot at Plan A, and that's a little more important than any of us getting home to our loved ones, such as Murph."
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 04:41 (six years ago) link
least of the movie's problems
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
also i love how Hunger Games guy is in the movie exactly long enough to be the asshole who puts his foot down about going to the gravity planet, and then as soon as they get there he dies. he serves no other function in the film; there's a lot of drama wrung out of him docking two spaceships together, but later it turns out this isn't so hard, because mcconaughey does it under much more extreme conditions and seems confident that should he fail, it's something the robots can do just fine. maybe they should have had the robots do other stuff too, like go check out the fucking death planets. the only person who makes any argument for why they're gathering the most basic first information through staffed missions, rather than sending the rectangle robots or even space probes on fly-bys, is the crazy marooned guy. seems pretty clear nobody at NASA knows wtf they're doing but i guess that at least is consistent with the rightist worldview nolan has laid on the table elsewhere.
― yellow is the color of some raisins (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 04:52 (six years ago) link
yeah, i love that the press around the time this came out leaned so heavily on kip thorne being involved as a consultant in the science of the movie - which is cool, the guy played a key role in the incredible first detection of gravitational waves and anything that gets more scientists in the media is a good thing imo - but what nolan would have benefited from more is someone telling him 'uh chris this is not how humans work, just fyi'
this feels like his stephen king-style 'too big to fail' moment, i think - making billions for warners with the batman movies gave him carte blanche to write whatever he liked and no-one involved in the production had the clout to edit him
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 22 August 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
You remind me of a podcast I listened to sometimes, where one of the hosts was physicist Brian Cox, and the other host regularly laughed at him for being the scientific advisor on Sunshine, 'a film about rebooting the Sun with a big bomb'.
(For the record, I actually liked Sunshine--for all its flaws, it was VERY good on the simultaneous beauty and lethality of space--a hell of a lot more than Interstellar)
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:53 (six years ago) link
it had a lot of interesting setup and then turned into Event Horizon
but not as ott, to its loss
― mh, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:57 (six years ago) link
i'll happily take a comparison to robin ince! xp
sunshine will forever live in my memory as a cinema experience for creating a super-cool persistence-of-vision trick where a the image of a sudden blast of white light with a silhouette in the centre of the frame lingered on my retinas into the next shot
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 08:22 (six years ago) link
Is there not a Sunshine thread? no search on Zing
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 12:34 (six years ago) link
with typical ilx flair, we have What's the best way to discourage people from going to see Danny Boyle's Sunshine?
― frankfurters take on new glamour in this gleaming aspic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 23 August 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
this came up at drinks tonight and i realized i am still pissed off about that stupid gravity planet
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 15 March 2018 03:41 (six years ago) link
it sucked you in
― mh, Thursday, 15 March 2018 04:37 (six years ago) link
and brought you down
― in conclusion, it is good to peel the sheeps (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:35 (six years ago) link
it felt like it went on forever
― StanM, Thursday, 15 March 2018 09:42 (six years ago) link
this was nice
makes u think
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 15 March 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
well, we're plowing through movies during the pandemic, so....
maybe the best example of the nolan thing where if you tell me the macro executive summary idea of the movie i'd say yeah, sure, i'm all in. but then i hate almost every individual choice he makes along the way. this movie takes place in 2060something but everyone is driving well-maintained c. 2004 dodge trucks? the only crop is corn but someone is served a regular-ass sandwich at one point?
nolan's arrogance is basically that he thinks he knows how to make some things important while minimizing other things in a way that he thinks the audience will never notice. that's how you make a move that makes it seem like the dylan thomas poem is some sort of undiscovered masterpiece while presenting a future earth that doesn't make any sense at all if you think about it for 30 seconds.
the slab robots were cool. there were some good exterior space shots. the rest of it was nonsense.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
My wife calls this film Matthew McConaughey in the Closet.
― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
Nolan definitely coasts a lot on elliptical but not quite fully explored Big Ideas disguised by high concepts or time jumps or that sort of thing at the expense of coherence. At the time I did like this movie, but I haven't seen it since opening weekend. I did (completely coincidentally) watch the first 10 or so minutes of Inception with my daughter last night (it was a punchline in an episode of Community we'd just watched, and she said it was a punchline in The Office, too) and I can tell the po-faced hand waving (and furrowed-brow DiCaprio thinking so hard) is going to be a problem when I try to explain what's going on.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
Murph!!!!!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:51 (three years ago) link
I thought the overbearing music was used to give the dialogue an unearned emotional depth. I think if there was a cut of this movie with no music it would be even clearer how comically bad much of the dialogue really is.
― mirostones, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
McConaughey is more orange than Trump
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 19 September 2020 07:00 (three years ago) link
orange man sad
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 19 September 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
I watched Interstellar last night and had the exact same reaction!I also came up with Cypher but that's not quite the same. Maybe Timecrimes
Anyway I actually enjoyed this loads, despite the frustrating bits and dumb things. I think mainly because of the robots.Is there any Nolan film that doesn't basically have the theme "Ahh, but you did it to yourself"?
― kinder, Sunday, 27 June 2021 09:06 (two years ago) link
"Ahh, but you did it to yourself"? is how you feel if you pay for a ticket to one of his movies
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 29 June 2021 00:43 (two years ago) link
I watched this on a plane recently and honestly, what a weird mishmash of a film? I stg I groaned audibly at the ending where it turns out the secret of gravity is love (or some shit). Enjoyed Matt Damon being obviously evil, the whole thing is an occasionally interesting mess and visually stunning ofc but it did kill three hours
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:26 (two years ago) link
And yes. Everyone living on the upside down planet at the end is a load of shit
― mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:28 (two years ago) link
okay now this is driving me nuts, there is some big obvious precedent for the 'oh god i am the ghost!' twist and i cannot place it. in the one i'm thinking of it's more of a horror moment, guy realizes he was in all these other scenes and he's shouting and no one can hear him, no no no, don't do it... fuck what is this i'm thinking of? i guess it could just be a twilight zone episode or something but i feel like there's a VERY big movie that has this exact same bit and now i just feel like an idiot for not being able to name it.I watched Interstellar last night and had the exact same reaction!I also came up with Cypher but that's not quite the same. Maybe Timecrimes
Triangle
― ringworm, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 08:50 (two years ago) link
This is exactly the plot of The Others tbh
Although why I'm putting spoiler tags in for a 20 year old film I don't know.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 09:29 (two years ago) link
I watched Voices today and it has this as the plot twist at the end too except it's the wife who has been seeing the ghosts all the way through, and David Hemmings is adamant it's her mental state (having had EST and attempting suicide after the death of their son). Although it's him that realises they're dead first.
Very much a TV vibe in the way it's shot too.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Wednesday, 9 March 2022 10:30 (two years ago) link