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Interstellar |OT| (dir. Christopher Nolan) Whatever can happen will happen

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XShadows69 said:
Guys give me a lowdown on IMAX vs Digital
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my only options are liemax, 35mm, 4k digital, or digital. the last 70mm in the area was recently converted. which of my options is the best?
 
RastaMentality said:
Have people seen Unbroken? It's at the top of so many lists I've seen.
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No one has, but Oscar predictions tend to have films that just "seem" like Oscar movies. And Unbroken, sight unseen, seems tailor-made for the Academy's taste. WW2 true inspirational story, starring Jack O'Connell who's been having a great year with Starred Up and '71, A-list craftsmanship across the board(Coen brothers rewrote script, Deakins cinematography, Desplat supplying the music, Angelina Jolie as the director?), etc.

Who knows if its any good or not, but on paper...!
 
ViewtifulJC said:
No one has, but Oscar predictions tend to have films that just "seem" like Oscar movies. And Unbroken, sight unseen, seems tailor-made for the Academy's taste. WW2 true inspirational story, starring Jack O'Connell who's been having a great year with Starred Up and '71, A-list craftsmanship across the board(Coen brothers rewrote script, Deakins cinematography, Desplat supplying the music, Angelina Jolie as the director?), etc.

Who knows if its any good or not, but on paper...!
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AKA Oscar bait.

I am personally rooting for Boyhood because for all intents and purposes it is truly an ambitious, once in a life time kind of movie.
 
seemingly mixed review from slate but this is interesting:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2014/10/christopher_nolan_s_interstellar_reviewed.html

lots of spoilers but I will show the interesting qoute

The protracted last act of Interstellar
(which contains at least three discrete moments that could easily have been endings but aren’t) ties the outer-space plot up with the meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch one via a development that’s at once metaphysical and sort-of-seemingly scientific.
(The theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was a consultant.) How you feel about the movie may hang on your reaction to this scene—about which I’ll say only that,
like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, it takes place in a space that seems to exist in between the familiar world we know and some strange alternate dimension.
Going back over and over this crucial moment with a fellow critic on the train home, I could make no sense of it—
where was the encounter meant to be taking place? What laws of the universe, or of human relationships, did it purport to disclose?
But the sense of visual and spatial wonder this scene evoked in me lingered long after, accompanied by a begrudging respect for the Nolans’ sheer commitment to their own peculiar brand of visionary hokum.






also first clip from interstellar

http://time.com/3546528/interstellar-movie-clip/
 
Inferno313 said:
That feels a little silly...
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I will admit that as ridiculous as that situation is, the very notion of
public schools/the government endorsing that conspiracy theory bullshit
did raise my ire a little bit. So I guess the scene is succeeding at something.

What I'm really confused about is that
resources are so depleted that hospitals don't have working MRIs anymore?
 
a Master Ninja said:
I will admit that as ridiculous as that situation is, the very notion
public schools/the very government endorsing that conspiracy theory bullshit
did raise my ire a little bit. So I guess the scene is succeeding at something.

What I'm really confused about is that
resources are so depleted that hospitals don't have working MRIs anymore?
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helium is getting less and less and MRI needs helium to function
 
Maninthemirror said:
seemingly mixed review from slate but this is interesting:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2014/10/christopher_nolan_s_interstellar_reviewed.html

lots of spoilers but I will show the interesting qoute

The protracted last act of Interstellar
(which contains at least three discrete moments that could easily have been endings but aren’t) ties the outer-space plot up with the meanwhile-back-at-the-ranch one via a development that’s at once metaphysical and sort-of-seemingly scientific.
(The theoretical physicist Kip Thorne was a consultant.) How you feel about the movie may hang on your reaction to this scene—about which I’ll say only that,
like the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, it takes place in a space that seems to exist in between the familiar world we know and some strange alternate dimension.
Going back over and over this crucial moment with a fellow critic on the train home, I could make no sense of it—
where was the encounter meant to be taking place? What laws of the universe, or of human relationships, did it purport to disclose?
But the sense of visual and spatial wonder this scene evoked in me lingered long after, accompanied by a begrudging respect for the Nolans’ sheer commitment to their own peculiar brand of visionary hokum.






also first clip from interstellar

http://time.com/3546528/interstellar-movie-clip/
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Does your spoiler concern the scene with
Matt Damon from an alternate dimension?
 
Nolan sure loves casting comedic actors for serious roles. The teacher in the above clip is in a bunch of comedy films and TV shows from Jody Hill.
 
Sculli this new review is for you

Kirk Honeycutt
honeycuttshollywood.com October 30, 2014
The most mind-bending movie of 2014 contains a third act that will be pondered and debated for at least as long as the finale of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey.'

Full Review | Original Score: 9
 
Huh, that clip...that was clunky

Why do they talk to him like he's an idiot? He's lived in that world, shouldn't that stuff be common knowledge?
 
Just saw it.

There was a premiere with Nolan live from Paris on screen just before the movie, talking a bit about himself and the movie, was pretty cool.

As for the movie, as my most anticipated movie in a long, long time (maybe ever), a space nut and rather neutral Nolan appreciator...

...Wow. Just fuckin wow. I'm not one to go overboard with hype and praise and all, but it blew me away. It's just, I don't know... I can't spoil anyway, but I'm gonna go see it a second time ASAP (in IMAX this time).

It's just grandiose.
 
Other than being an utterly terrible tedious clip that plays less on the characters and world they are suppose to be living on and more cheap hand outs to the audience - Danny is dead and he should not be appearing in any other visual roles.

Theres radio, but if your going to let yourself get written out of a show so iconicaly - stay dead!
 
It touches upon my favorite subjects related to space travel. It's quite ambitious. More importantly the characters and emotion work.
 
nitoo said:
Just saw it.

There was a premiere with Nolan live from Paris on screen just before the movie, talking a bit about himself and the movie, was pretty cool.

As for the movie, as my most anticipated movie in a long, long time (maybe ever), a space nut and rather neutral Nolan appreciator...

...Wow. Just fuckin wow. I'm not one to go overboard with hype and praise and all, but it blew me away. It's just, I don't know... I can't spoil anyway, but I'm gonna go see it a second time ASAP (in IMAX this time).

It's just grandiose.
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KooopaKid said:
It touches upon my favorite subjects related to space travel. It's quite ambitious. More importantly the characters and emotion work.
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5 more daysssss
 
New york times and associated press: ap is the most syndicated review on the market

http://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/10/30/us/ap-us-film-review-interstellar.html?_r=1&referrer=

"Movie is a sublime knockout "

Review is very spoilery

Since his breakthrough with the backward-running "Memento," Christopher Nolan has made a plaything of time. In "Interstellar," he slips into its very fabric, shaping its flows and exploding its particles. It's an absurd endeavor. And it's one of the most sublime movies of the decade.

As our chief large-canvas illusionist, Nolan's kaleidoscope puzzles have often dazzled more than they have moved, prizing brilliant, hocus-pocus architecture over emotional interiors. But a celestial warmth shines through "Interstellar," which is, at heart, a father-daughter tale grandly spun across a cosmic tapestry.

There is turbulence along the way. "Interstellar" is overly explanatory about its physics, its dialogue can be clunky and you may want to send composer Hans Zimmer's relentless organ into deep space. But if you take these for blips rather than black holes, the majesty of "Interstellar" is something to behold.
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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.
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http://www.villagevoice.com/2014-10-29/film/the-fault-in-his-stars/ negative review from a top critic, she gave the dark knight, rises and inception all negative reviews
 
Pinkman_ABQ said:
Knew it was Stephanie Zacharek when you posted this lol, she hates nolan's films.
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MInd you , this is her most positive review of any Nolan movie but her past 12 months have been interesting

gave rotten marks to Guardians of the Galaxy ,12 Years a Slave,The Grand Budapest Hotel,The Wolf of Wall Street and fresh marks to if I stay and 300 sequel
 
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