Interstellar (Nov. 2014)

[Samwise]

But the special effects were based on SCIENCE!!!!   

[HaemishM]

Directors (editors, producers, studios, whoever) who are convinced that their audience are dumb shits who need to have everything neatly explained are a waste of oxygen IMO. Try crediting your viewers with a drop of intelligence for once.

Considering that much of the criticism of the movie was that people didn't understand it, never underestimate the stupidity of the movie-going audience.

[apocrypha]

Really? Wow, it's as if a constant stream of stupid films and TV has turned everyone's brains to mush. 

I mean... really? They word for word explained everything that happened. It was like an ELI5 for literal 5 year olds ffs.

[HaemishM]

You do realize most audiences do not understand how magnets work, right?

[apocrypha]

Wait... how do they work? 

[HaemishM]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmvxAcT_Yc

[apocrypha]

Haha 

This thread has now entertained me more than the film.

[Tannhauser]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmvxAcT_Yc

Oh WELL done sir.  (still chuckling)

[lamaros]

Sorry, haven't read the rest of the thread so apologies if this has all been said before.

Thought this was hugely disappointing. The first 1/4 of the film was very good, the depiction of a dying Earth was believable and troubling. After that there was nothing that hasn't already been done, and done better, in 2001: A Space Odyessy.

Directors (editors, producers, studios, whoever) who are convinced that their audience are dumb shits who need to have everything neatly explained are a waste of oxygen IMO. Try crediting your viewers with a drop of intelligence for once.

Also, OK, so you've got a woman in a decent role, a scientist, and you've even deigned to give her a few lines here and there. So why, at the crucial part of her story arc, reduce her to just a love-struck puppy dog who's opinion is then automatically discounted purely because of that? Pathetic.

4/10 and that's entirely for the first quarter of the film.

I agree with you, except the first quarter is also stupid. What's the answer to too much dust and disease. Give up and get another planet... that doesn't even have food to be diseased. Plus all the other stuff that earth still has that makes it the best place in the universe for human beings to live.

[UnSub]

After that there was nothing that hasn't already been done, and done better, in 2001: A Space Odyessy.

Yeah, it wanted to be "2001" so very badly.

At least it was pretty.

[Shannow]

I enjoyed it. I'll give credit to Nolan for attempting something more than 'shooting aliens in space'. Soundtrack was awesome.

[schild]

Finally got around to watching this, posting this without having read any of this thread.

So, COINCIDENTALLY, I totally legally downloaded a pile of movies. One of them was Cube²: Hypercube. Having just watched that yesterday, and now watching Interstellar, I'm actually bummed out by the theoretical timeline of success leading to future humans building a hypercube/tesseract to allow him to send the messages required back in time to the pre-evolved humans in order to save those humans in order to become the evolved humans to

yeah

Great movie, hypercube is worse than time travel, but great movie in terms of watchability.

Edit: Biggest waste of Matt Damon in movie history.

Edit 2: Ok, now I've read a few pages of the thread:

• Yes, this movie had to be explained to a lot of if not most people. Fuck ya'll for thinking f13 (or even the lot of you) is some kind of bastion of intelligence that's representative of your average human. Most people can't naviagate an automated phone system.
• This movie was flawed to hell and back, but it also wasn't the droning narcissistic adventures of a Kubrick character. Though, admittedly, they treaded dangerously close to that in the last 20 minutes. Fortunately, Sunshine is still vivid enough in my mind as a complete fuckup that I can excuse the ending of this one in light of how bad that one was.
• This movie probably doesn't crack my top 100, but it's not really a cinematic crime. It's a fairly mundane, but brilliantly shot and more-than-decently acted story about time and space on a human level. It's been done, but not really - at least not like this.

[MahrinSkel]

Hypercube was probably the weakest of the Cube series, just because it leaned too heavily on the "Technology like Magic" and lost the focus on the human psychology and struggle. Not a bad movie in itself, but....

I think Interstellar may be that rare case of a recent movie that didn't have enough exposition. All that is necessary to resolve the paradox (a wormhole is opened by beings that can only exist because the wormhole was opened) is any other possible means for those 5D beings to have evolved, and some terrible tragedy that they wish to avert by opening the wormhole.

And conveniently, almost coincident with the paradoxical wormhole, we have another Mcguffin, the Blight. So....imagine a timeline where neither the Blight nor the Wormhole exist, and humanity evolves into 5D beings in a natural, non-paradox manner. Imagine the problem of trying to kill a 5D being that exists outside of causality and time, with one narrow exception.

--Dave

[schild]

Cube 2 was terrible compared to the first one, and just as a movie in general, I just thought it was merely coincidence that I watched what may be two of the only movies that involve this particular science bullshit in a 24 hour period.

[Ghambit]

For the millionth time, there is no paradox in this movie; but the reasons why are only apparent for not even a few minutes.  That, to me, was this movie's biggest flaw... as it eventually plays into the emotion required to make the movie have a happy ending.  Basically, the point of the movie is sort of lost until the average Joe trolls the net for an explanation...  wherein most explanations don't even come.

[lamaros]

How bad would the earth have to get that the basic premise of interstellar would make any sense at all (let's not get in to the actual plot details - one woman no failsafe to rebirth a species crap)? A lot lot lot worse than the movie depicts...

Why did I read this thread again, golly this movie shits me. Give me big and dumb, or just dumb, over psuedo-romantic-intellectual any day.