Shamrock7r
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You can say that about nearly every sci-fi film that deals with going backwards in time.
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You can say that about nearly every sci-fi film that deals with going backwards in time.
Death Metalist
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Oh god, this track finally leaked. Absolutely beautiful and haunting, it seems the track isn't called "Our destiny lies above us".
A masterwork by Hans Zimmer. Now I just need this pre-order to unlock and get listening to imperfect lock plus the other tracks in pristine quality.
Watched last night, had no idea what it was about. Boyfriend expected action so he was dissapointed.
If I hadnt seen the plot of Bioshock
I would not have understand it much.
Didnt understand what Anne was in love with. The sound mixing was either terrible or just too loud that my ear rang and barely understood what was said.
I would not see it again. Matt Damon what's wrong with your ass
If I hadnt seen the plot of Bioshock
Infinite ending with the lighthouse and Elisabeth being the progressor
Didnt understand what Anne was in love with. The sound mixing was either terrible or just too loud that my ear rang and barely understood what was said.
I would not see it again. Matt Damon what's wrong with your ass
Only if there's popcorn.
Death Metalist
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I had only one person clap in my 3 times of seeing this movie, at the launch scene. However, I heard many gasps, wows or omg lol.
I'm going to pretend that Jonah Nolan never said anything about the wormhole being closed up and feel comfortable in the belief that Coop and Brand find each other. Although if the wormhole is still there then doesn't that mean that Cooper Station will get there as well? The ending is very open ended
Death Metalist
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There are things that lead me to believe the wormhole is closed especially when old Murph talks about Amelia being in a strange galaxy and all that talk about her having the long nap under her sun.etc
So she's going in for the long sleep aka dying?
Death Metalist
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Not necessarily, probably cryosleeping for a set amount of time as she has to take care of the frozen embryos. Another thing is that if they saved cooper, they would have gone to her after getting cooper if the wormhole was still opened, that and well the movie makes no mention of the wormhole again after the pass through it.
EDIT: I don't believe though that Cooper's entire motivation was just getting to her because it clearly showed that quite some time has passed while he was in the station and he looked bored, specifically in the scene where he is out sitting on the porch and drinking beer which was what he used to do back on earth. It could be debated that he wanted to get back to her because she was a person of his time OR that he wanted to explore the galaxy and find a way to get back to her at the same time. It fits with his character that he was always
Cse's quote that mirrors what I feel about the ending.
Death Metalist
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The English Conquistador
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I just came back from seeing it a second time. Still absolutely incredible.
I'm seeing it in IMAX in a couple weeks too! Can't waitttttttt!
The score is now without a doubt in my top 3.
I would say "Stay" is probably my favourite, and "Detach" (mainly because it has the major melody of "Stay")...but the entire score is perfection. The emotion from 4 mins onwards in "Stay"...holy shit. Matthews face on the drive from his home...heart breaking! I couldn't stop humming it on the way home.
"Wormhole", "I'm going home" and "Dust" are so fantasticly eerie.
Gah, too many to mention. What a marvelous film.
I'm seeing it in IMAX in a couple weeks too! Can't waitttttttt!
The score is now without a doubt in my top 3.
I would say "Stay" is probably my favourite, and "Detach" (mainly because it has the major melody of "Stay")...but the entire score is perfection. The emotion from 4 mins onwards in "Stay"...holy shit. Matthews face on the drive from his home...heart breaking! I couldn't stop humming it on the way home.
"Wormhole", "I'm going home" and "Dust" are so fantasticly eerie.
Gah, too many to mention. What a marvelous film.
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So what's your onion on Interstellar DM? Did your senpai make a great movie or what?
I'd prefer to imagine the wormhole open myself. Given the look of the ship that he stole and the fact humans still haven't mastered anything close to FTL travel seemingly (Murph took 2 weeks to travel between stations), he wouldn't explore anything outside of solar system before he was dead. Even if he got somewhere (or multiple somewheres), what would he subsist on? Which direction would he even head?
The wormhole remaining open leaves the question of "why hasn't anybody gone to see/get Brand?" open. But that is preferable to the prospect of Cooper committing suicide.
"Hey, Merv. It's me, Cooper, your father. I am in space, saving humanity. I have a pet robot. It's pretty cool. Make sure you solve that gravity problem. Pick up your room."
Lol thats certainly simplified it for me.
Death Metalist
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It isn't actually committing suicide so much so as Cooper exploring the galaxy. I remember someone mentioning that the book talks about the advanced aircrafts in short detail but I'm not sure, all I know is that the newly made aircrafts were superior then what we had on earth that's for sure since we solved the equation for gravity.
Isn't that was Hathaway was for?
AdventureRacing
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Yeah this is a pretty emotional movie for me. It's just such an amazing ride and even listening to that soundtrack makes me feel like watching it again. Can't remember the last film where i found myself tearing up as much as this one which wasn't really what i expected going in. Planning on seeing it for a 4th time soon.
It really, really didn't read like he was going to explore the galaxy. He didn't even have any supplies with him. Even if his ship could jump anywhere in the universe, chances are he'd be dead within 2 weeks.
Death Metalist
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It seemed to me that he want to go out there because there was nothing for him at the station as well as find a way to reach Amelia. Don't forget that Cooper station is one of the many stations spread around in the galaxy.
Cool movie but kinda lost me at the bookcase dimension. I mean, I understand it, but it's just silly that he had to set these things in motion himself. And that he can control dust by waving his hands around.
I got out thinking I liked it, but the more I think about it the worse it gets.
Also, the baseball joke with the broken window... Was that really needed Nolan?
And no one cared for Matthews return except for Murph? This guy traveled through space for a 100 years.
I got out thinking I liked it, but the more I think about it the worse it gets.
Also, the baseball joke with the broken window... Was that really needed Nolan?
And no one cared for Matthews return except for Murph? This guy traveled through space for a 100 years.
YesNOnoNOYes
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Everyone who knew him passed away already so he's a legend but a stranger to them
Good movie, music was overbearing in quite a few scenes.
Movie should have ended when he used morse code to communicate through the watch and the dimension he was in was falling apart and bright lights were filling up everywhere, every part after that was eye rolling worthy.
I didn't mind the films ending being the definition of Deus ex machina at it's finest up to that point.
Murph on her deathbed telling him to go find Brand really made no sense, how would she know she was still out there, when did he tell her about any of that? And it's been like 120 years how do you know she was alive if there wasn't contact.
Also Cooper was kind of dick to the other kid, wakes up after all these years and is all like is Murph still alive? What about your son jackass.
Also they find a guy who should be dead just floating in space and doctor just stands there and smirks at him when he wakes up, doesn't need any answers.
Here's my Nolan list then:
Great tier:
The Prestige
Batman Begins
Good tier:
Memento
The Dark Knight
Pretty good tier:
Interstellar
Inception
Alight I guess tier:
Following
Insomnia
Meh tier:
The Dark Knight Rises
Movie should have ended when he used morse code to communicate through the watch and the dimension he was in was falling apart and bright lights were filling up everywhere, every part after that was eye rolling worthy.
I didn't mind the films ending being the definition of Deus ex machina at it's finest up to that point.
Murph on her deathbed telling him to go find Brand really made no sense, how would she know she was still out there, when did he tell her about any of that? And it's been like 120 years how do you know she was alive if there wasn't contact.
Also Cooper was kind of dick to the other kid, wakes up after all these years and is all like is Murph still alive? What about your son jackass.
Also they find a guy who should be dead just floating in space and doctor just stands there and smirks at him when he wakes up, doesn't need any answers.
Here's my Nolan list then:
Great tier:
The Prestige
Batman Begins
Good tier:
Memento
The Dark Knight
Pretty good tier:
Interstellar
Inception
Alight I guess tier:
Following
Insomnia
Meh tier:
The Dark Knight Rises
DedalusJoyce
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5/10
worst nolan movie by far. cringe-worthy dialogue and melodrama
worst nolan movie by far. cringe-worthy dialogue and melodrama
Don't you have enough exposition already?
soxinthebox
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Is there a plausible explanation how Cooper and TARS end up in orbit around Saturn out of all the places in the universe? And if there is, why didn't the rest of the contents of the black hole end up there too?
People complain about Nolan explaining too much, but it looks like many people want him to explain every bit like it is 24.
I'm willing to ignore most of the film's problems but the ending was just too much stupidity.
AdventureRacing
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He was sent through the wormhole and that's where it ended, they showed that in the movie. The blackhole and the wormhole had been specially designed by whoever 'they' were, i'm assuming they didn't design it to send whatever else was in the blackhole to go with them. Not sure why you would expect anything else to get sent with them and i don't really think it matters all that much.
I understand the framing. My point is if you want to go explore you actually prepare for it, you don't just steal a moped and blunder off into the Sahara desert with only the clothes you are wearing.
The noble intent is lost in the face of Cooper seeming like a rash fool. So, again, I'd prefer to interpret the film as it came across to me on viewing - that the wormhole hadn't closed and that he was making a b line straight through that to Brand. Nolan confirmation the wormhole was closed be damned! (though somebody was saying earlier in the thread the wormhole closing was only in an earlier version of the script anyway)
Spread around in the galaxy? There was nothing in the film to suggest they had even left the solar system.
AdventureRacing
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I completely disagree with this. The whole film was building to the point where Murph and Coop were reunited. If they had ended the movie there the only thing they would have achieved was a huge backlash from the people watching the movie. I quite enjoyed the stuff that came after that anyway and the audiences i've seen it with seemed to agree.
I'm not saying that couldn't have worked, it would have been an interesting way to end the movie. I prefer what we got in the end.
Cooper had been back for a few weeks and i'm assuming he had told his story of what had happened. How she would have heard it i'm not sure but it doesn't seem that implausible. If she had heard the story then she would know Brand is most likely still alive because so little time has actually passed since Coop left her.
We don't know what he did in those couple of weeks before he saw Murph. I'd presume he would have looked into what happened with his son. Regardless that relationship didn't mean as much at that point. His son had actually sent him messages and he saw much of what happened in his sons life. He also hadn't left his son on the same bad terms that he left his daughter. Then there is the whole connection that they had build through the events of the movie.
It felt natural to me watching the movie. When he got back frankly i didn't even think about his son but i wanted to know what had happened with Murph and see them reunited.
It's one of those things where you need to consider if it was necessary to show. The audience doesn't really care about what had happened to his son at this point, we already know really. Sure Coop would care but i'm not sure it's something that needs to be shown in the movie at that point.
What answer would the doctor have been looking for at that exact time that couldn't wait a little bit? Would that have been information that the audience wanted to or needed to hear? I'm not sure i really understand this complaint.
soxinthebox
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Well I never saw TARS in the black hole, just heard him so presumably they were in different places. Thinking that I thought it was stupid they were selectively pulled out of the black hole and dumped back at Saturn with no other space stuff that made the black hole that massive.
I actually hadn't put together that the inside of the black hole linked directly to the outside of the wormhole since when they traveled through it the opposite hadn't happened.
DiipuSurotu
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They never literally went into the black hole, they went into the tesseract that the bulk beings built. Cooper and TARS were both in the tesseract but TARS doesn't have a connection with Murphy so he wasn't in the exact spot that Cooper was in.
AdventureRacing
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I'm not sure if they were directly connected. You were asking how he ended up at saturn, they showed him traveling through the wormhole which opened at saturn so that's where it was explained.
In terms of the other stuff not traveling through i just assumed that's how 'they' designed it. It's hard for me to explain much more than that considering the theoretical nature of what happened. I don't really know how a 5th dimension would work.
soxinthebox
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Sounds like I've misunderstood what happened with the star.
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. Excellent excellent music. Top tier Zimmer soundwork. There was a lot of hoke in the plot but at it's heart it's science fiction so I didn't mind. I loved the turns on Damon's and Caine's characters both were well acted. Visuals were equally spectacular with the music. Tars and Case steal the show. Was worried they would turn out to be bad but probably had some of the best moments in the show.
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