#4039639 - 11/23/14 02:52 AM
Re: Interstellar
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My wife and I went to see this a couple of days ago. A morning show on a weekday. We've never done that before. We both thought it was terrific. I'm glad the right team got ahold of this project. The wrong director could have turned this into a special effects fest and easily gone overboard with the CGI. Instead, it was plot and character driven. Very good.
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#4039660 - 11/23/14 04:17 AM
Re: Interstellar
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So I just saw it on 70mm Imax. It was a fun story but so full of holes I don't even know where to begin. The inconsistencies of the Physics varied from small problems to large ones. However, despite it all, it was an entertaining story that managed to highlight a few situations identified within relativity and astrophysics and the dilemma encountered with them, albeit, full of hyperbole, it was still nice to see these broached in a film fit for the general public.
I was saddened by the minimal astrobiology present within it. That would have been neat to see more of but whatever, the film wasn't about intellectual prowess--I'll leave that to Clarke's 2001 for starters; no, the film was about entertainment and more an exposition of the emotional side of interstellar travel.
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#4039763 - 11/23/14 02:11 PM
Re: Interstellar
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no, the film was about entertainment and more an exposition of the emotional side of interstellar travel. When your film has a 165 million dollar budget it has to be. Now had Nolan been making a documentary for either Nova or the Science Channel then things would have been done differently.
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#4039842 - 11/23/14 05:31 PM
Re: Interstellar
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Think it was pitched pretty much perfectly for a big budget film. It introduced a lot of chunky science concepts at a level appropriate for a mainstream movie and didn't completely mangle any of them. Details might have been iffy but context was fine for the story they were telling and it's probably made a lot of kids / adults interested in finding out more about astrophysics. I've certainly been doing a lot of reading this week!
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#4040066 - 11/24/14 02:55 AM
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no, the film was about entertainment and more an exposition of the emotional side of interstellar travel. When your film has a 165 million dollar budget it has to be. Now had Nolan been making a documentary for either Nova or the Science Channel then things would have been done differently. Well, see, I think you can have realistic science and physics along with all the other stuff. But, going into the movie I fully expected the Physics to be so bad I'd roll my eyes at times--and I did. I had zero confidence in Nolan writing a hard sci-fi plot. He's no Asimov or Clarke. But I think you can have a combination of both. I have always enjoyed Contact, for instance. It was a great movie. I know people boo and hiss at the ending, but frankly Sagan painted an incredibly accurate picture while still having a very entertaining movie (even if it was posthumously released). But I'll forever be a critic. I write hard science fiction so everything they discussed in the movie I was already very familiar with and saw right through it. Despite it, I enjoyed it regardless because as Asimov once said in an interview (you can find it on Youtube), to paraphrase, "We write science fiction to entertain and tell good stories." And that, the movie, did just fine.
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#4040260 - 11/24/14 03:07 PM
Re: Interstellar
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Don't forget that wormhole wasn't natural, it was engineered. Therefore its ends were placed deliberately.
Perhaps they thought we'd be smart enough to stay away from the planets next to the black hole, but it could be argued it was weird for them to have the other end anywhere near one in the first place. Like evacuating prisoners from a detention camp onto the frontline of an active battlefield...leave the place where you're slowly dying for one that could kill you in a second?
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#4043894 - 12/01/14 02:35 PM
Re: Interstellar
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Indeed. OT--I went to this link from that page: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=3758&p=.htmTheir prediction from 12/1/13 that for Frozen "a final total north of $250 million seems within reach" is now laughably understated--$401m domestic and over $1.2bn total worldwide. The Jedi Master
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#4044326 - 12/02/14 10:39 AM
Re: Interstellar
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John Carter seems to have been really poorly promoted. I think I became aware of it near the end of its run, and I've spoken to a few people who were fluent, if perhaps not overtly rabid of Burroughs' work, that is to say having read several, and they were completely unaware that the movie had existed. Even if it wasn't a great production, a better promotion ought to have drawn a larger viewership from those familiar with the novels, at least from the "oh, they've made a movie of it, that might be interesting" sort of constituency.
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#4044421 - 12/02/14 03:36 PM
Re: Interstellar
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It's a lot older. I remember my dad talking about Barsoom when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, as books he had read. Not that my dad's reading habits were typical, he enjoyed old SF.
Funny thing is I'm amazed people didn't know about the film. It seemed to me like I was inundated with marketing for it for over a month, the marketing budget must've been massive.
The film itself was ok. It wasn't bad, but it didn't inspire me much either. It sort of lay there. Perhaps the casting was wrong. Maybe the script needed another pass or two. Maybe a hundred things.
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