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Interstellar
Christopher Nolan's next project has been announced.
Interstellar is a sci-fi film where explorers travel through time and dimensions as they pass through a wormhole.
Interstellar is a sci-fi film where explorers travel through time and dimensions as they pass through a wormhole.
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Can we Misery Christopher Nolan?
I pray to all the gods and Jesus' and other major and minor deities' that because of this, it starts a new space race, that we put every ounce of our planet's being and will towards the single goal of being more than the sum of our planet. Movies like this hopefully can put the thoughts into the right people.
Ok just being hard cuz I ain't ate yet.
What I meant earlier was not whether it was a movie about China on the moon, but if they synced up the trailer launch to coincide with moon landings being in the news because it's a nice synergy (from a company called Syncopy)
But yes, I mean I got from the thread that there was mention of it involving multiple universes or time travel and/or both: and that's cool! But that doesn't mean it doesn't also involve spaaaaaaaaace. Which is logical: if we were doing things involving multiple dimensions you don't wanna do that in a call box in London, you wanna do it out past the Moon or something in case shit goes horribad.
Also who knows if the plot is even the same now since when it was discussed in January? Maybe he decided to incorporate more space into the movie cuz it is important
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Also it's pretty much a perfect movie. It's a once in a generation type film.
Now when you say not about time travel, is it due to the 5th dimension stuff? I have a tiny inkling of knowledge of this stuff and was planning on reading more about it.
I don't hate what he was trying to do, but I think he was reaching far too high and trying to say a message, rather than just tell a story similar to Inception or The Prestige. Also, whoever did the sound editing/mixing should be fired. Too often did the score become so Sturm and Drang that made it hard to understand some of the characters.
I actually think the best part of the movie is the stuff relating to the Earth, because it's a very fascinating situation. I don't think divulge into Earth's situation enough though. How far are we into the future? What happened to urban areas or the government as a whole? Even though we've developed new technology to assist space travel/terraforming, how come we couldn't use similar technology on Earth?
Ro: if you're going to pick one thing the movie is "about", I would say Humans more than time travel. But that's just me.
If you couldn't tell, I come down closer to Andrew on this one. Well, since Inception at least anyway ^_~
The more I think about it, the more I feel the message of theme Nolan was going for was "love". I mainly refer to Anne Hathaway's love speech about her wanting to skip the ice planet and go to the planet where the person she loved is. “Love isn’t something we invented — it’s observable, powerful, it has to mean something... Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.” However, it's mainly the love between Cooper and his daughter. I think in the end no matter how complex or scientific something can be, from basic physics to astrophysics, love is powerful force even in comparison to the force of Gargantua.
This was my take on it. It does sound a bit cheesy, but that's the chord that struck to me.
I also, in regards do your sci-fi vs. hard science: Neil deGrasse Tyson seemed to enjoy 'Interstellar,' according to his Twitter analysis.
The Prestige does it in a really clear-cut way at the ending explaining how the whole thing worked and the outcome of it, only leaving one question open at the end. Inception does ask a lot of the audience of accepting the idea and how far it goes, but isn't trying to force a statement from it. You can still look at Inception as a good story and I even support what more you can find out about it. Interstellar has loftier aspirations to make the story about love and you have to submit to that message to enjoy it. If it doesn't matter, then it shouldn't add enough information to make you question it. There's very limited technology shown and they even mention things like "Those well done pieces of propaganda known as the Moon Landings" that make you question it. The atmosphere was good in the sense of the cinematography, special effects, the look of space, the design of the planets...all visual. The sound editing/mixing on the other hand was awful as Hans Zimmer's score was pounding you in the head to point out the tension. And he was doing it like a faux-Phillip Glass playing too hard on the incredibly high pitches.
I saw the movie in 35mm and I could count 8 times when the music became so loud that it was hard to hear what they were saying. My brother was saying this was done as a stylistic choice to suggest that what the characters were saying was unnecessary and they should just save their breath, but it came off as really poor worksmanship. (And if there's any agreed bad spot in this movie, people do point at the score)
I do think that's my biggest problem with the movie is that for being sold as a scientific space epic and then to be really all about a story about humanity. If you want to do that, the balance could have been so much better because the first two-thirds are almost oppressive with the bleakness and then have that turn up. Plus we have the Matt Damon subplot that doesn't go anywhere and there's the time jump from the climax to the ending. It's a familiar theme, but I find it's corny that the movie was all about that at the end. (I was cringing when Anne Hathaway was giving that speech, but if it worked for you, all power to ya.)
Picture it with the fantasy/magic genre: "Love is the magical power that saves us from evil and transcends through everything!"
Interstellar is saying the same message, but as: "There is quantum, empirical evidence showing that love and the human spirit is a successful force."