Interstellar: Nolan, McConaughey

Insomnia was a great movie which is why i'm never subjecting myself to Nolan's version of it

does anyone else have the same Nolan experiences that i've had where you see the movie and you have a lot of fun and think "man, that was neat, why are people shitting on this?" and then you see it a second time and realize it actually does totally fucking suck? that's me with every single one of his movies.

yeah, it's uncanny

catching up on this thread and, yeah, that Vulture article is rage-making. i mean, if someone actually got paid real money in 2014 for typing this sentence...

Come on — get in our belly, that movie.

then maybe the death of journalism won't be such a bad thing at all

that's incredible

does anyone else have the same Nolan experiences that i've had where you see the movie and you have a lot of fun and think "man, that was neat, why are people shitting on this?" and then you see it a second time and realize it actually does totally fucking suck? that's me with every single one of his movies.

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absolutely. i think Nolan's films (especially TDK) are very effective and keeping you in such an agitated state that you don't have much mental space to think about the inanities of the plot and characterizations, the frequent limpness of the style, etc. when i saw TDK for the first time, in IMAX, I was shaken up (although my mind kind of bailed at the cross-cutting in the climactic sequence). when I saw it the 2nd time (also in the theater), the thing almost fell completely apart.

an even more drastic example of this was the hurt locker, which was just robbed of all power the 2nd time I saw it, meaning that all it really is, is a vehicle for the easiest sort of suspense. the rest of it is just window dressing.

titanic also had the same effect on me, with an added wrinkle. the 1st and 2nd times i saw it were in the theater, and i the emotion really washed over me. a few years later, i watched it at a friend's apartment on VHS, and the movie just seemed laughable. i chalk that up largely to the relative effects of a big screen + sympathetic audience vs. tiny screen + cynical audience, but I also think it also revealed some basic limitations of the film.

that said, the prestige kind of rewarded a re-viewing. which the plot clearer in mind, i could see how some aspects of the narrative were ingenious. other things just grated a lot more, though.

i just can't get worked up one way or another about Inception. I wasn't terribly bothered by all the exposition, but the visual incoherence of the action scenes toward the end just threw me out of the film entirely.

i kind of think his films would be better if he had lower budgets.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/07/30/interstellar-full-trailer/

I'm a little hesitant

but that opening line is v v good imo

pretty psyched tbqf. i like that the cast is generally not nolan's usual crew, beyond caine and i suppose hathaway to some extent. leah cairns is in this!

it's nolan so there's no way this can be anything but a disappointment right?

he's hit and miss but I dunno he's still interesting. I hated Inception, never saw DKR.

'the dark knight rises' is genuinely worse than inception

i thought 'the dark knight' was pretty incredible and i liked 'inception'

inception was an exquisitely-crafted turd. DKR was pretty much the same except minus the exquisite craft.

i don't want to go over my problems with DKR again but it's amazing what a fully-realized world nolan created in DK and what a half-baked underpopulated movie set-seeming world he crapped out with DKR.

^ OTM. It's like his heart wasn't in it.

I liked Inception and upon subsequent viewings it has held up way better than I thought it would.

My favorite thing he's done is still The Prestige.

looks exhausting

That was along the lines of what I was thinking..."Is this movie six hours long?"

Still, I wanna see it.

it's nolan so there's no way this can be anything but a disappointment right?

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if you accept that he's a terrible filmmaker who makes shitty movies and will never stop making shitty movies you'll never be disappointed you'll just hate yourself after

want to be excited for this but def not in the mood for sentimental testimonies to the indomitable human-spirit/power-of-love these days.

it's nolan so there's no way this can be anything but a disappointment right?

lol almost like being disappointed in Obama

ignoring the all-star cast, the trailer offers nothin but schmaltzy kitsch. armageddon 2

^^^ otm. I'll go see this, but despite the trailer.

yeah hoping the trailer is just doing it's trailer gobbledygook thing.

lol mcconaughey is an idiot

MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY I did not. I was very much, what’s happening on the ground was going to be enough. Until I made “Contact” [the 1997 movie about the search for extraterrestrial life]. That made me actually wonder: “O.K., it’s not just what’s happening here, east, west, in front of us. You can look up. What’s the new frontier to the north?”

Ha, he does seem to be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGhLcVqxf0

he also doesn't have a problem with the washington http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG:

I know a lot of Native Americans don’t have a problem with it, but they’re not going to say, “No, we really want the name.” That’s not how they’re going to use their pulpit. It’s like my feeling about gun control: “I get it. You have the right to have guns. But look, let’s forget that right. Let’s forget the pleasure you get safely on your range, because it’s in the wrong hands in other places.”

i call him hatcat matt

It’s the best introduction of scientific theory into blockbuster cinema since Nolan’s state-of-consciousness thriller, Inception.

Yeah um

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/27/interstellar-first-look-review-matthew-mcconoughey

Inception was indeed about as thrilling as eighth grade earth science class

It wants to awe us into submission, to concede our insignificance in the face of such grand-scale art. It achieves that with ease. Yet on his way to making an epic, Nolan forgot to let us have fun.

who could have foreseen...

ha yeah.

i didn't think i could be as offended by taglines as i am by this movie's. "Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here." "The end of Earth will not be the end of us." just so pompous about humanity's manifest destiny over the galaxy that i feel like agent smith.

i predict some incredible reviews from people on the right re: the supposed "agenda" of this film. i mean lots of folks went after wall-e bc it depicted an earth overrun by trash so i doubt mattcat and co will be safe.

xp the big reveal is that humanity evolves into the xenomorphs from Alien

5/5 from Time Out. they gave Gone Girl 5/5 too so 2 in a month which is.. unusual.

"Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here." "The end of Earth will not be the end of us." This could get turned on its head when future old man mcconaughey witnesses a future draper family picnic. The camera zooms in, and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" plays as a black border encircles old man mcconaughey's anguished face.

It’s the best introduction of scientific theory into blockbuster cinema since Nolan’s state-of-consciousness thriller, Inception.

looooool yes, chris "we purposely avoided learning about the science of dreaming when writing the script for inception" nolan's inception

Just going by the first two Batmans and Inception (all of which I hated; I did like Memento), maybe Nolan would be better off making silent movies, or with a bare minimum of dialogue. If this is an "answer" to 2001 it sure sounds talkier.

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.