Interstellar: Nolan, McConaughey

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.

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