I haven’t watched this movie yet, and I probably won’t get a chance to for a while but… for those who’ve played it, are there parts of this movie that remind you of the game Policenauts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytuPA9H_GA
ahh man, I slept on this fucking game. had a quick look on youtube and now I feel like something had been ripped out of my life
ahh, haha hideo kojima eh? this is most likely essential reading for mgs fans
Policenauts is dope if you dig point and click adventure games.
Although Rises does have some flaws, it leaves so much more to chew on in terms of story, themes, and characters beyond Bruce Wayne. The best Bruce Wayne movie is Batman Begins, but it is so formulaic in comparison to the sequels. TDKR is unlike any other superhero movie ever made, and for that I am thankful. Plus characters like Bane and Selina Kyle just put Rachel Dawes, Scarecrow (and perhaps maybe Ra’s al Ghul) to shame. Plus, TDKR has a great third act, bigger scope, and the story was told on a larger canvas. But, of course, TDK is a far superior film than these 2.
Ok. Enough with the Batman talk. Since this is your first post here in this thread, have you seen Interstellar yet? And if so, what do you make of it?
Sadly I haven’t it yet. Would really like to tho. I will probably end up missing the theatrical run due to money and housing problems.
edit3: Did they take any animals, pets perhaps, with them?
edit: So to answer an earlier question. I saw it from a 4K Digital Projector. I wonder what a 70mm film viewing is like. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was only at a few locations in the US.
edit2: IMAX the fuck out of this film, locations near you: https://interstellar.withgoogle.com/imax-experience-in-70mm
Well I over heard someone say they didn’t find Interstellar all that interesting. I was surprised for a moment because I walked away affected by it, in true awe of the beauty and the thought of leaving Earth permanently.
So then I went to RT, out of about 90k people who rated it, 88% liked it, 4.2/5.
So I went to the critics:
So Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, wrote, "Christopher Nolan’s 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness."
So I read his article for a few minutes. He got obvious things completely incorrect.
He said he should NOT say more about [details=Spoiler]Matt Damon’s[/details] character, and then spoils what happens.
Meh, terrible review. Don’t read it.
So then James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk, had an original thought.
"nothing if not grandly ambitious, and while that ambition is certainly admirable, especially in an industry choking on increasingly interchangeable big-budget franchises and starving for original ideas, it is also part of the film’s downfall."
He liked 2001 better. He said he didn’t like all the explanation of science (which I loved).
His argument is it’s a love story between father and daughter, and that all of the exploration and science got in the way of that love, making it feel less profound for him. This is partly because Nolan wants to do more of everything, perhaps he stretched the story too thin.
Shoot, I guess that can happen. That is an acceptable argument for why he didn’t like it.
My buddy went home and hugged his daughter.
I guess I’m surprised that people didn’t feel a connection to Cooper and Murph.
Finally, from the “Scotsman”, Siobhan Synnot,
“Chris treats as a profound meditation on juggling our life/work balance”
"He may not return for years – if at all – and it speaks volumes, especially in a film that trundles on for three hours, that Cooper ditches these kids in three seconds flat"
Lol.
Also this, "to fly off with a … sarcastic robot whose ergonomic design could have Terence Conran wolfwhistling in admiration."
Lol this guy is funny. He didn’t like it all that much, I guess.
Here’s his whole review. It’s pretty funny, front to back.
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Star rating: * * *
I FEEL director Christopher Nolan and I should be friends. After all, we both dig spectacular blockbusters with a bit of ambition to them, mourn the way digital effects have supplanted craftsmanship, and love Michael Caine. We may have to differ over Interstellar, however, which Chris treats as a profound meditation on juggling our life/work balance, but I found to be an unsatisfying blend of Gravity, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris and The Collected Poems Of Dylan Thomas.
Interstellar tests not only the boundaries of space and time, but also your inclination to hear movie stars reciting Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. A future Earth is running out of gas, forcing Nasa to approach former astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) to pilot a craft to a wormhole near Saturn, in the hope of finding a new planet, where mankind can decamp and start anew.
The snag is that this means leaving behind his tempestuous daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy, then Jessica Chastain) and more acquiescent son Tom (Timothée Chalamet, then Casey Affleck). He may not return for years – if at all – and it speaks volumes, especially in a film that trundles on for three hours, that Cooper ditches these kids in three seconds flat to fly off with a marmish Amelia (Anne Hathaway), two grim-faced scientists (David Gyasi and Wes Bentley) and a sarcastic robot whose ergonomic design could have Terence Conran wolfwhistling in admiration.
At least this guy knew exactly what was going on in this movie. For a moment I thought, “Earth is running out of gas…” is that right? Oh wait, that’s exactly what’s they said. Probably the average reader would completely misinterpret that, though. In case you missed it, it’s a blight that’s eating into the part of the air we require, making the atmosphere toxic to plants and animals.
Best movie ive seen in years I thought. As a matter of fact, if not for the fact its 3 hours I might be even tempted to watch it again,
Story of Dr. Mann (in a form of a comic). Written by Nolan: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/absolute-zero/
This man quotes truth and would diff re watch with space bass in my face. Shed a tear several times and why the hell did we not get figures for the robots!
I saw it and liked it. I am tempted to use this regal points free ticket to see it again
Okay, there’s one thing I don’t understand.
[details=Spoiler]So there’s this thing called blight. Not sure exactly what kind of disease it is, but it’s pretty obvious it’s affecting lots of crops. Stands to reason that it’s also affecting lots of plants in general, causing massive global climate change. Also stands to reason that the reason we don’t supplement our food intake with increased sea harvesting (eg the only reason we humans don’t eat shitloads of squid is because most humans find eating squid a little gross) is because blight is somehow affecting marine ecosystems and ruining food sources there as well. Basically our food sources are pretty much fucked by this disease.
The plan is to colonize other planets so we can grow food and live in a more stable environment.
So having said all that:
How in the fuck are you going to keep the disease from spreading to the new planet. It’s a disease, it’s probably all over the astronauts landing on this new planet. The ship’s insides, on board food sources, everything. You’re just spreading the disease around.[/details]
Overall, pretty good movie. It seems like most if not all of the scientific inaccuracies were informed decisions, like the part where radiation is never mentioned despite astronauts floating around near a quasar with not nearly enough radiation shielding. Doesn’t ruin the story and they still tried to make it as authentic as possible. I think that we have this generation’s 2001.
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it’s not a disease, it’s a living organism that exists; just not to the scale shown in the film; luckily.
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sorry, i meant it’s not the kind of disease that carries in humans. It’s late my daughter won’t let me sleep T_T it’s 5:40 am
[details=Spoiler]Diseases can easily pass from crop to crop through humans which interact with them daily.
Besides that, if humans were able to quarantine sealed areas from Blight, then they would start farming in glass domes or something rather than building space ships.[/details]
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They might have already been doing that, for all we know it could have started spreading faster than they could act before wiping out a majority of crop-types, before they could quarantine or counter it.
Even without that the blight was causing the oxygen in the atmosphere to deplete, which prompted the scientist to say “the last to not starve will be the first to suffocate”. [/details]
Wow, that log scene fucking got me, it got me hard, holy shit.
Loved it
Saw it on Friday, great film, although some parts were poorly explained and I don’t mean they were intentionally ambiguous no, I mean as in there was too little exposition linking some of the beats.
Finally saw the movie. IMO not for the casual movie goer. Most people in our local cinema didn’t get it.
That space log scene had a lot of feels. Kinda feel bad for NASA astronauts leaving their family behind.
Finale part was like holy shit for me.
Felt like this was a prelude to Gundam universal century because of the colony.
Great movie.
I’m actually more interested in how the sequel will turn out,
There better be a fucking sequel, that was a gnarly cliffhanger.
There are many ways they could go with it that could still keep with the space drama-action theme
like:
[details=Spoiler] Genetically engineered pod people(that irc are set to reach maturity faster) Hathaway set up on the 3rd planet end up dangerously imperfect and she has to deal with them possibly wildlife and her former lover who she thought was dead but is really either crazy or infected with some kind of alien virus that he spreads to the pod people. Hathaway and the robot have to deal with this, and the moral dilemma of having to kill what they (wrongly) know to be the last of the human race. Mcconaughey and TARS get there in the midst of this or the end of it and save the day or at least Hathaway, the end.
Or Hathaway has to defend her base from whatever native horrors lurk on the planet whilst also trying to tend to the pod people and keeping sane(probably throw in delusions of her dead lover or whatever).
We lost you in the crazy former lover, how the hell wouldnt he be dead!?
For the rest of your post, it would be a shitty secuel.
Them fucking ice clouds.