Interstellar: Nolan, McConaughey

I did like Memento

pls expound

maybe it's more like solaris

...i wish

I liked it in 2000! You'd have to give me time for a rewatch. xp

critical roundup thus far:

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-christopher-nolans-interstellar

best part of memento after a more recent rewatch was the carrie-anne moss character and how she used the situation to her advantage. it was almost a nice short movie within a movie.

i liked it in 2001 when i was 13. i rewatched it 8 years later and realized the former me was dead

but i'm especially confused how you hate "roller coaster" movies but you ride for a movie that's just a puzzle
i really just hate memento and am fascinated by the inner workings of morbsy's opinions pls rewatch and get back to me

I blanket-hate very few genres far as I know

If I like a "roller coaster" movie I guess you could argue it's not exclusively that (eg, Indy & Temple of Doom)

Memento holds up really well.

memento has dated really badly IMO

it's also the kind of movie that diminishes greatly when you see it a second time

"The end of Earth will not be the end of us."

which song on 1989 is this from?

I can't wait to hear McConaughey talking in his enlightened Deputy Dawg accent about how fucking great humanity is, it is precisely what is needed right now.

just imagine he likes people as much as he likes lincolns

can't wait for this movie

sike!

*checks out chris marker from library again* hi chris

*checks apod.nasa.gov for daily pic*

the reason why space is cool is because it doesn't gaf about us

"The end of Earth will not be the end of us."

Professor Backwards, ladies & germs

I bet Memento aint so bad the 2nd time when you've essentially forgotten the whole thing!

Haha yes that's how I felt about it upon rewatch. It's solid, better than most twist-dependent movies.

the ending stays shit. and nolan is so self-serious you're not even allowed to search for gems in his shit.

can't help but compare it to fincher's The Game, whose ending is one of the most ridiculously shitty things i've ever seen but i can at least imagine someone more forgiving than me playing around with it and reading something more interesting into it. but nolan's ineptitude smothers every inch of everything he shits out.

the thing that bothered me most about memento last time i saw it was the near-constant voice-over which i suppose is necessary to communicate the inner state of the character (or at least was deemed such in the nolans' conception) but gets really fucking irritating once you've already seen the film and get the idea

and it's not the voice-over as such that irritates, it's the nature of it. "oh where did i put my keys? i must have forgotten them somewhere. keys, keys, keys, where are they? oh, there they are. wait, who's that knocking at the door?" etc.

Stephanie Zacharek:

"There's so much space in Christopher Nolan's nearly three-hour intergalactic extravaganza Interstellar that there's almost no room for people. This is a gigantosaurus movie entertainment, set partly in outer space and partly in a futuristic dustbowl America where humans are in danger of dying out, and Nolan--who co-wrote the script with his brother, Jonathan--has front-loaded it with big themes and even bigger visuals. Interstellar is supposedly all about what it means to be human, but it's supersized in case we really are so out of touch that we need to have everything blown up IMAX-big. 'We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars,' says Matthew McConaughey's farmer-astronaut-dreamer in one of his many, many proclamations about life, family, and the cosmos. 'Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.' But even the dirt in Interstellar looks spectacularly art-directed. Nolan may be invoking Walker Evans, but Interstellar is really just Jethro Bodine–sized."

http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-10-29/film/the-fault-in-his-stars/

'We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars,' says Matthew McConaughey's farmer-astronaut-dreamer in one of his many, many proclamations about life, family, and the cosmos. 'Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.'

this is literally parody right, not sure I could not crack up @ this

I am corny I guess cuz I really like that line

fully aware I may not like anything else about this movie tho

Counting down till we get a good mashup. "It's all one ghetto, man. A giant gutter in outer space."

'Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.'

the thing is, in "True Detective" he would've been directed to say this line so that you can laugh AND recognize it'st rue.

gonna have to start a vs Armageddon poll after release

i predict some incredible reviews from people on the right re: the supposed "agenda" of this film.

Doubt it. The failure of Earth's ecosystem isn't ever definitively explained and, as evidenced by that "worry about our place in the dirt" line above, seems thematically linked to McC's lamentation that humankind moved away from celebrating pioneers and toward fostering care-givers (e.g. farmers).

Oh, and there's a pretty broad swipe at Common Core education right there front and center in the second or third scene.

nolan is such a dunderhead but i guess i will see this?

after reading the NYT Mag profile of him, i guess i admire his work ethic, energy, and commitment to nondigital projection, and that's about it. Talk about believing your own BS.

he has talent with inventive narrative design, though his brother should take half the credit there. he's kind of fun to teach. but yeah watching his films from moment to moment i find myself more irritated than anything else.

I shall most likely watch this, for the simple and sufficient reason that I would like to see a film in a theater next Saturday night and this is the least bad option I am likely to find in a halfway decent theater within striking distance of my house.

there are a bunch of other pretty good movies out right now

the jack gyllenhaal one

the keanu one

even the nicole kidman one is supposed to be not-terrible

gone girl

etc

My wife's taste must be taken into consideration and that instantly eliminates nightcrawler and gone girl. Also, the number of halfway decent theaters within reasonable striking of my house is fairly low.

"striking distance" are you some kind of assault team

big hero 6 yo

even the nicole kidman one is supposed to be not-terrible

first i've heard!

no, my wife and I are not an assault team. we are snakes.

Yeah that looks/sounds completely horrible xp

Nolan's gimmick of trying to come up with concepts that film can't really convey well reaches some sort of apotheosis at the climax of this one. Wanna see what the fourth, fifth and hell the sixth dimension look/sound/feel like? Too bad.

psyched to skip this

the 5th dimension IIRC

http://www.rocksbackpages.com/public/img/artists/8162.jpg

nolan's films can be good, but sometimes it's like 'hey! have a little fun with it, buddy! lighten up!'

just missingNO's $0.02

Goddamnit. I feel like Charlie Brown and the football - after seeing Interstellar tonight, I have to question if Nolan was ever a good director. File this in between Mission To Mars and Sunshine. A movie that's so enamored with its own high concept that the emotional weight needed as backfill is just glopped on like cheap spackle. 15 minutes in and I'm already rooting for climate change to win. And that's even after the cool drone rustling scene. Visual effects perfunctory but uncompelling.

There's a lot of crying in this movie.

Trope alert...there's an African-American astronaut. How much you wanna bet that he survives the movie?

so i read. more than Hugh Jackman in The Fountain? xp

Lots more crying.

(disclosure: I kinda liked The Fountain)