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My one big issue with the film was the whole bull about "gravity being the only thing that can travel through time". Unique concept but all-in-all kinda re ed.
I felt the same. It was a good movie and I'd recommend it but one will definitely come away feeling like Nolan tried a little too hard to fit a big, complicated idea on a screen that just wasn't quite big enough.Completely agree.
I think it's been downhill since Memento. His editing and issues with continuity are almost embarrassing, and his characters are usually off in terms of emotion and their relationships with others.... like you said. Overly complicated scripts.
Mentioning the concepts... He seems to get more ambitious every time which is cool and all, but ultimately magnifies his weaknesses more and more.
My one big issue with the film was the whole bull about "gravity being the only thing that can travel through time". Unique concept but all-in-all kinda re ed.
man, that ending
Too obtuse for the populous. Takes too damn long to prove it's point and by the time you get there you're exhausted and upset you waited(and paid) for it. I love Nolan but he tends to get too cutesy with his mindgame antics.
The first two were damn near flawless tbh. The Prestige was pretty underrated thou. Loved that movie.
Agreed. Prestige was great.
Waiting for this movie to come on stream...maybe i'll fork out the dinero to catch it live.
It's worth going to IMAX just for the kick ass visuals.
Hopefully I'll be able to do that--IMAX has a way of triggering my migraines so maybe i'll have to try it out.
Btw, what is the deal with the IMAX at the Rivercenter? You have to accidentally stumble upon it to find it.
I thought it was excellent... all the gripes I heard were just nitpicking ... thanks again Nolan
Favourite Nolan films (in order):
Memento
The Dark Knight
Interstellar
Inception
Batman Begins
Insomnia
.... The Dark Knight Rises
Haven't seen Prestige or Following
I liked it. I'm sure it will get nominated for some Oscars. I thought Jessica Chastain was cute in it. Matt Damon was a bad choice for crazy astronaut. Not convincing at all. The movie is long but you get that when you see a Nolan film. I wish there had been some stuff about them training to go into outer space. I saw it in IMAX and certain parts were intense especially the black hole scene. I liked this better than Gravity. That movie was overrated and shouldn't have been in the Best Picture field. I would have swapped it out for Rush. Rush was far superior than Gravity.
Pass.jeebus knows how to do a movie review, and a sci fi at that. See Oblivion review.going to see a movie for the graphics
For those of you who have seen it, does this thing even have a story or is it all just visuals with McCongnohe being an airhead?
Nolans other stuff, primarily Batman was just blow up, rinse and repeat.
I thought it was great, saw it on 70mm so visually it was awesome; it was also well written and thought out, imo. I know he's not the say all for every sci-fi movie, but Neil DeGrassi said every aspect of it was scientifically on par.
How so? Her character was the staple that proved both plan A and plan B could be completed.
1. Memento, nothing had ever left me jaw dropping like the "Do I lie to myself to be happy?" part.
2. Prestige
3. 2008 Batman
4. Inception
5. Insomnia (weak plot compared to other Nolans but Robin Williams made it worth watching.)
So many different formats for the movie. I saw it in IMAX. I think there is 35MM, 70MM, digital, and IMAX and a couple other formats that the movie is in. I have no idea what the differences are. I was a little mad that there were black bars when I saw it on the IMAX screen. I want the movie on the whole screen.
Did you see Edge of Tomorrow? That was really damn good too. Cruise with the rare back to back sci fi hits.
Decent film, but far from great. I see where Nolan was trying to go with the whole metaphysical aspect of life, and science, but even a film of nearly three hours would have been impossible to cover the points he's chasing. The editing in this film was ty... too many scenes where the music drowned out the characters voice. The first 30 minutes of the film was a waste a time. At no point did I feel the world was in danger of ending... other than them actually just saying it. He should have started the film off in space and then cut back just to fill in the gaps about the issues on earth. Damon flopped and did a poor job from his opening scene. Basically, I left the film with the feeling Nolan turned in his first draft of an essay.
isnt memento a korean remake?
Great movie. Scientifically speaking, it was scientifically accurate, and I like how Nolan visualized time from a different dimension as well as traveling through a blackhole. It's a great movie if you're a science nerd, but if you're not, you'll have trouble appreciating some concepts. I give props to Nolan for even attempting to make a movie about relativity, blackholes, and human extinction.
This is a spoiler alert question.
When McConnaughey was drifting in outer space after he saved the day, can someone explain how he was saved? Was it because he had changed the past or because of the time difference? All of that had been discovered and invented when he woke up. Was the time he spent floating in space after figuring it out like a lifetime in time on Earth or did he change the past? Because the only way he could have been saved is if he had changed the past or if so much time has passed on earth that there were people in space that could save him.
No. The trailers looked like more mindless blow up stuff.
jeebus has spoken. I will watch.
He ended up about 80-90 years in the future after his stint in that higher dimension .
I agree with a pretty much all of this. Nolan has always been ty at editing.
It was overly sentimental, the plot was disorganized, and way too much ing exposition.
Okay so in the end Cooper can only send the message to Murph because of the technology of the Tesseract, but the technology is only obtained by his message, so it's a chicken or the egg sort of paradox as to what came first. So there were two timelines. What we see in the movie are the events that happen in the second timeline. The first timeline takes place off screen.
First Timeline:
Much of what happens in the second timeline also happens in the first timeline. The wormhole opens. Mann, Brand and Cooper work on the Lazarus Project. Just as it happened in the second timeline, Brand and Cooper are in the same position after visiting Mann's ice planet, and so Cooper sacrifices himself in Gargantua so that Brand can escape to the desert planet to start the colony. Brand ins utes Plan B on the desert world. Those people go on to evolve into Humanity's future, with a stable Black Hole to guide their sciences. They evolve to work in the 5th dimension, and decide they want to save their ancestors. THEY find Cooper in Gargantua and create the Tesseract for him. Remember at the beginning of the movie where Cooper is dreaming about his doomed training mission that caused him to leave NASA? Well in the first timeline he never crashes. He never leaves NASA, thus he never gets married and starts a family. He goes on the Lazarus Project without any familial attachments. They initiate their original gravity burst to down Cooper's training flight for the original Lazarus mission. This leads Cooper to leave the program, marry someone, and have children. This change creates a second timeline, and creates Murph, key to their plan.
Second Timeline:
This is what we see in the movie. THEY cannot interact with Murph, because she did not exist in their original timeline, so they use Cooper in the Tesseract to communicate with her, via love and gravity. His purpose here is two-fold: to guide himself back to Lazarus after THEY diverted him and to bring Murph into Lazarus, to fulfill the promise of Brand's Plan A. The message with the coordinates leading to the secret NASA facility leads to Cooper rejoining Lazarus just as before and in the process it realigns his second timeline with his first. Once in the Tesseract again (or the same original time due to 5th dimension mechanics) he relays the TARS data to Murph and she makes Plan A a reality. Cooper Station lifts off as a sort of galactic Noah's Ark, and begins it's slow trek towards the Wormhole.
Cooper is released from the Tesseract, and recovered on Cooper Station just outside Saturn for a final reunion with Murph before she dies. He then leaves in a ship to rejoin Brand on the desert planet, knowing that because of time dilation not nearly as much time has passed for her locally. Cooper and Brand create the second age of Humanity, those that will become THEY as they wait for the survivors of Earth to reach them in their slow gravity ship that is Cooper Station.
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