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

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Maninthemirror said:
One of Hanz zimmers tracks on interstellar got leaked

https://soundcloud.com/fauzkhan/hanszimmerinterstellardayonedark
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Dont know if this is a good or bad news but David Edelstein of the New Yorker gave it a positive review on RT (top critic on RT)

He rated the The prestige, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises and Inception as rotten on RT
 
Dont know if this is a good or bad news but David Edelstein of the New Yorker gave it a positive review on RT (top critic on RT)

He rated the The prestige, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises and Inception as rotten on RT
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The moment i saw the high review ratings on Rottentomatoes i literally fist pumped the air. Those feckers on there are tough on movies.


Can't wait to see deep space. So fucking hyped for this movie. I have never felt like this for any movie, ever. I'm literally couting the fucking hours here.
Since we dont have IMAX here in Cape Town (fuck you to whoever decided to remove our IMAX cinema) i have to wait till Friday to see it.
Going to book tickets for me and my girlfriend. Its also her birthday on Wednesday so yeah, double celebration.
 
Going to see this Wednesday night, my brother and I can't wait any longer. Very excited to finally see what Nolan has done with this. I'm sure I will enjoy it as anything to do with space intrigues me, the question is how much will I enjoy it?
 
Liftoff: Friday, 9PM with me, my brother and my friend.

Expensive tickets as hell, but I assume it's because of the length. (Also worth every penny because of the director)
 
Reading most of the professional reviews on RT reveals quite a bit about the movie. For example, they all seem to agree it's a visual spectacle but then go on to say the plot is shaky and the pacing plodding. There's quite a bit of, "the plot and acting doesn't match the visual spectacle and special effects."

What I anticipate going into the movie this weekend- a relentlessly serious movie that never lets up with its heavy-handed melodrama.
 
KingofGourds said:
If you look at Nolan's career trajectory it's absolutely clear that the guy had a gameplan to get to the top of the studio system.

After Memento he could have easily spent his entire career making films of that size or slightly bigger, playing entirely with ideas and form and staying firmly outside big-audience filmmaking. In fact, that's just about what everyone thought he would do.

Instead he takes on Insomnia - a remake of a respected Norwegian film whose script everyone liked - he shoots it exactly as it is on the page including the paint-by-numbers third act. It makes good money, he proves to the studios he can work with them and not be an asshole auteur, and from that he's able to leverage himself into Batman Begins......

Say what you want about the guy, he knows how to play the game.
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As far as I remember WB forced him to make Insomnia as a stipulation for getting the keys to Batman. Might be remembering that incorrectly but I don't think Insomnia was his plan. It's also why it's the least "Nolan" movie of all his movies for better or worse.
 
effzee said:
As far as I remember WB forced him to make Insomnia as a stipulation for getting the keys to Batman. Might be remembering that incorrectly but I don't think Insomnia was his plan. It's also why it's the least "Nolan" movie of all his movies for better or worse.
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WB didn't force him to do it, they didn't even want him in the first place. Soderbergh recruited Nolan for the job, and Nolan probably took it on to get some studio clout.
 
I'm going for corporate training to Indy this coming Sunday. Fri and Saturday shows are all booked and sold out at the Lincoln Center IMAX in NYC. I love that theater and don't want to watch it anywhere else.

Waiting an extra week will be torture. Or should I go see it in Indy? Any decent IMAX out there?
 
Blader said:
WB didn't force him to do it, they didn't even want him in the first place. Soderbergh recruited Nolan for the job, and Nolan probably took it on to get some studio clout.
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Based Soderbergh always putting in work to get work for emerging directors with talent.

He tried the same with Shane Carruth to help him get 'A Topiary' made but Carruth is basically the anti-Nolan and completely unwilling to make compromises so it didn't work out.

Probably for the best, although I would like to grab an alternate reality copy of Shane Carruth's Inception once they invent the Sliders remote for real.
 
Should I watch this movie in a regular cinema or should I being looking for the biggest screen in Switzerland?

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Something like this?
 
effzee said:
I'm going for corporate training to Indy this coming Sunday. Fri and Saturday shows are all booked and sold out at the Lincoln Center IMAX in NYC. I love that theater and don't want to watch it anywhere else.

Waiting an extra week will be torture. Or should I go see it in Indy? Any decent IMAX out there?
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Downtown IMAX at the State Museum is 70mm real deal IMAX. Not a LieMAX. Get something to drink at the Fridays across the way then stumble over therefor the movie. Win win
 
Some Major Critics finally weighing in

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...onaughey-shines-but-anne-hathaway-is-miscast/

While “Interstellar” might be slightly predictable and suffer from some head-scratching silly flaws, it is nearly impossible to look away. That is the strength of Nolan’s story and McConaughey’s bristling performance. A masterpiece? No. But in time, “Interstellar” could prove to be a contemporary science fiction classic.
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and Robert Ebert's website

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/interstellar-2014

Christopher Nolan’s "Interstellar," about astronauts traveling to the other end of the galaxy to find a new home to replace humanity’s despoiled home-world, is frantically busy and earsplittingly loud. It uses booming music to jack up the excitement level of scenes that might not otherwise excite. It features characters shoveling exposition at each other for two-and-a-half hours, and a few of those characters have no character to speak of, really; they’re mouthpieces for techno-babble and philosophical debate. And for all of the director’s activism on behalf of shooting on film, the tactile beauty of the movie’s 35mm and 65mm textures aren’t matched by a correspondingly rich sense of composition. The camera rarely tells the story in Nolan’s movies. More often it illustrates the screenplay, and there are points in this one where I felt as if I was watching the most expensive NBC pilot ever made.

And yet "Interstellar" is still an impressive, at times astonishing work, and one of a handful by Nolan that overwhelmed me to the point where my usual objections to his work melted away. I’ve packed the first paragraph of this review with those objections (they could apply to any Nolan picture post "Batman Begins"; he is who he is) so that people know that he’s still doing the things that Nolan always does. Whether you find those things endearing or irritating will depend on your affinity for Nolan's style.
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I feel like my hearing is already bad enough, and super-loud music in movie theaters is a pet peeve, so I'm hoping I'll get lucky and a non-IMAX theater around me will have a more reasonable volume.

I like Hans Zimmer soundtracks! I probably own at least 4, in fact. I just don't like EARSPLITTING loud things. :P
 
kabel said:
So GAF.....I can't decide if I should watch it in IMAX or on 70mm?

IMAX would be in the Berlin SONY Center



70mm would be in the Berliner Zoo Palast


Both cost 12,50€ per person so this is not helping me to make a decision.

Where would you go?
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Unless you are a videophile it makes no difference
 
alatif113 said:
Is it all weekend or only release day? Select IMAX or all IMAX? (I need this)
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They typically have enough for the first few showings at that particular theater. I've gotten posters in the past (Super 8, Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3) at the local digital IMAX, so I would imagine they ship them out to all IMAX theaters.
 
Fuck, I think Houston got rid of the 70mm IMAX projection.

I don't see it on the list :( :( :( :(

Someone tell me I am wrong.
 
whooo seriously the organ work on that leaked interstellar track. i want kanye west and travis scott to sample that for his new album.
 
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