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.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Monday, 19 May 2014 07:03 (ten years ago) link
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/07/30/interstellar-full-trailer/
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
I'm a little hesitant
but that opening line is v v good imo
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
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!
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
it's nolan so there's no way this can be anything but a disappointment right?
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:34 (nine years ago) link
he's hit and miss but I dunno he's still interesting. I hated Inception, never saw DKR.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
'the dark knight rises' is genuinely worse than inception
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
i thought 'the dark knight' was pretty incredible and i liked 'inception'
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:38 (nine years ago) link
inception was an exquisitely-crafted turd. DKR was pretty much the same except minus the exquisite craft.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
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.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
^ 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.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
looks exhausting
― Popture, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
That was along the lines of what I was thinking..."Is this movie six hours long?"
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 31 July 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
Still, I wanna see it.
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Wednesday, July 30, 2014 7:34 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 31 July 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
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.
― ryan, Thursday, 31 July 2014 11:40 (nine years ago) link
lol almost like being disappointed in Obama
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 July 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
ignoring the all-star cast, the trailer offers nothin but schmaltzy kitsch. armageddon 2
― ⓢⓗⓘⓣ (am0n), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:27 (nine years ago) link
^^^ otm. I'll go see this, but despite the trailer.
― rockist popist papist (WilliamC), Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:45 (nine years ago) link
yeah hoping the trailer is just doing it's trailer gobbledygook thing.
― ryan, Thursday, 31 July 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
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?”
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:47 (nine years ago) link
Ha, he does seem to be.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:50 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcGhLcVqxf0
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 23 October 2014 04:51 (nine years ago) link
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.”
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:00 (nine years ago) link
i call him hatcat matt
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 October 2014 11:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― DG, Monday, 27 October 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
Inception was indeed about as thrilling as eighth grade earth science class
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 27 October 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
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...
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Monday, 27 October 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
ha yeah.
― piscesx, Monday, 27 October 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Monday, 27 October 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
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.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 27 October 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
xp the big reveal is that humanity evolves into the xenomorphs from Alien
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 October 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
5/5 from Time Out. they gave Gone Girl 5/5 too so 2 in a month which is.. unusual.
― piscesx, Monday, 27 October 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 27 October 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
looooool yes, chris "we purposely avoided learning about the science of dreaming when writing the script for inception" nolan's inception
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 27 October 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
I did like Memento
pls expound
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
maybe it's more like solaris
...i wish
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
i liked it in 2001 when i was 13. i rewatched it 8 years later and realized the former me was dead
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:32 (nine years ago) link
but i'm especially confused how you hate "roller coaster" movies but you ride for a movie that's just a puzzlei really just hate memento and am fascinated by the inner workings of morbsy's opinions pls rewatch and get back to me
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
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)
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 October 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
Memento holds up really well.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 27 October 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
memento has dated really badly IMO
it's also the kind of movie that diminishes greatly when you see it a second time
― I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 27 October 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
"The end of Earth will not be the end of us."
which song on 1989 is this from?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 27 October 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 01:33 (nine years ago) link
just imagine he likes people as much as he likes lincolns
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 28 October 2014 01:56 (nine years ago) link
can't wait for this movie
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 28 October 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
sike!