All Things: Directors

[BigBrown]

Here's honesty for you....

The really huge issues it really tackles it telegraphs like a mofo.
The really huge issues it doesn't really tackle would have been a FAR MORE interesting movie.
The special effects were great but it's 2014.... EVERY special effect movie is great so who cares? Plus the special effects that are really REALLY great are on screen for.... mmmmm... ABOUT 90 SECONDS of a THREE HOUR MOVIE so get that nonsense argument outta my face.
For a movie that long it drags out the somewhat meaningless exposition and meanders and drags on the somewhat meaningless "character" "development".
The music was obvious. tick tock tick tock tick tock.

It's Christopher Nolan. It's well made, well cast, well acted, well crafted all the way around. This is a really really really solid 7-11 hotdog. In fact this might be the best 7-11 hotdog of the year.





But it's still a 7-11 hotdog.


Also I'm either REALLY REALLY DUMB or REALLY REALLY SMART because all I heard about this movie was how tough it was to wrap your mind around and how the complicated narrative really made it a tough watch.

Pish Posh.

I ain't mad at this movie. I'm mad at the people who watched it.

I agree the story is not all that tough to wrap your head around, I mean if anything they over-explain things just to make sure the audience is following along.. though I'm sure some people get lost in the tech-babble.

And another thing...

who cares if the science is "legit". It's a movie about spaceships and wormholes. It's magic. I don't care if the "science adds up". Just like I don't care about the details of how I'm able to type my useless thoughts into all of your eyeholes from the comfort of my home.

As far as I'm concerned and for the purposes of my personal narrative it might as well be MAGIC.

And this coming from the one who would not shut up about the waterfalls in Avatar

 

[NastiMarvasti]

Quentin Tarantino Compares 'Interstellar' To Andrei Tarkovsky & Terrence Malick

Link didn't work for me but here's another:

http://www.slashfilm.com/quentin-tarantino-interstellar/

 

[Dr. Naysay]

And this coming from the one who would not shut up about the waterfalls in Avatar

Bup bup bup.......

Waterfalls are something I understand. You can't **** with things we all intuitively understand.

You can tell me that black holes warp transmission signals or that time moves slowly but it speeds up when the story calls for it because these are elements that make the story move the way the story teller wants it to.

Waterfalls from floating rocks don't serve the story OR the background. They're just "artistic ****ery" and I WON'T STAND FOR THEM!

 

[adgy-san]

Interstellar: 15 Huge Differences From the Steven Spielberg-Developed Script to Christopher Nolan’s Movie

Very interesting.

 

[adgy-san]

Park Chan-Wook Lines Up Sci-Fi 'Second Born'

Park Chan-Wook ("Oldboy," "Stoker") has signed on to direct "Second Born," a story set in a futuristic world where consciousness is stored on computer chips and bodies are bought and sold on the black market.

 

[adgy-san]

New Images From Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' Arrive As Film Premieres To Mixed Response

There don't seem to be any official reviews yet -- possibly an embargo still in place? -- but reactions on the Twittersphere and elsewhere vary from acute disappointment to the belief that it's a return to form for Burton.

Mixed indeed. Click through to see some reviews.

 

[jerseydevil]

I think Guy Ritchie rates being in this category, mostly for Lock Stock...and Snatch, but i'll allow the Sherlock flicks

Jude Law in Talks to Play the Villain in Guy Ritchie’s KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE
Read more at http://collider.com/jude-law-king-arthur-movie-guy-ritchie/#m84itMHZBq7EEKgY.99

Don't think 1 movie, much less 6(6??????) King Arthur movies are gonna fly, but news is news.

sadly

Idris Elba was previously in talks to play Arthur’s mentor in the film, but Variety notes that a deal could not be reached and the two sides parted ways.

 

[adgy-san]

Wim Wenders Says Criterion Plans To Release More Of His Films; Big MOMA Retrospective Coming March 2015

While a lot of his early films have been out of circulation, many will be coming back theatrically and some will reach DVD for the first time via the Criterion Collection, which has already released “Wings of Desire” and “Paris, Texas.” “You're going to see a lot of it [come out]," Wenders told The Playlist. "Except for [the detective noir] ‘Hammett,’ I produced all my films myself, so I own them all."

So why has it been so difficult to find many of Wenders' early films on DVD or even more than bare bones versions of more popular ones for so long? In 2002 he was wiped out because the parent company of his production company went bankrupt. "I lost everything I had ever made,” he said. “It was all in the insolvency and that's why a lot of my films weren't in circulation for a long time."

But there's a happy ending to that story. Two years ago Wenders bought back the entire catalogue with the help of the World Cinema Foundation which he is also a member of. Now, 4K digital restorations are in the works, with first ten films now completed, and the others on their way.

Would VERY MUCH like to see Criterion release Until The End Of The World. I haven't seen that since I special ordered the VHS and it cost me like $30!

 

[KingInTheWest]

Saw Interstellar last night. Good to see a 'hard' sci-fi movie and a movie that actually takes its time building. Enjoyed it a lot, but I could not buy the fifth dimensional room at the end and really, why did super-advanced future fifth-dimension society twiddle their thumbs until Cooper went into the black hole? Also, in what would be the original timeline, before the fifth dimensional society evolves, Cooper would die in the black hole, humanity would die on earth, and the fifth dimensional society would never exist. Unless they aren't human, or in the original timeline, they evolved out of Anne Hathaway and Plan B. Well acted, well directed, mostly well written. Enjoyed seeing the fourth crewman get killed because he was too much of a dumbass to hop right back in the landing ship. Not sure blocky robots are the most efficient design, but the robot dialogue may have been the best part. Also, the two landings, even if I saw the betrayal coming the instant the dude started speechifying.

I give Interstellar a B, so that makes it Christopher Nolan's worst movie.

 

[NastiMarvasti]

Saw Interstellar last night. Good to see a 'hard' sci-fi movie and a movie that actually takes its time building. Enjoyed it a lot, but I could not buy the fifth dimensional room at the end and really, why did super-advanced future fifth-dimension society twiddle their thumbs until Cooper went into the black hole? Also, in what would be the original timeline, before the fifth dimensional society evolves, Cooper would die in the black hole, humanity would die on earth, and the fifth dimensional society would never exist. Unless they aren't human, or in the original timeline, they evolved out of Anne Hathaway and Plan B. Well acted, well directed, mostly well written. Enjoyed seeing the fourth crewman get killed because he was too much of a dumbass to hop right back in the landing ship. Not sure blocky robots are the most efficient design, but the robot dialogue may have been the best part. Also, the two landings, even if I saw the betrayal coming the instant the dude started speechifying.

I give Interstellar a B, so that makes it Christopher Nolan's worst movie.

Spoiler alert for those who haven't seen in yet:

I think the point was that in the 5th dimension, things aren't linear. So the paradox that happens in all time travel movies, doesn't apply so much here. I'm seeing it again so hopefully this will be clarified with a second viewing.

 

[jerseydevil]

Paramount and AMC Theaters Want You to See All 169 Minutes of INTERSTELLAR as Many Times as You Want with an “Unlimited Ticket”
Read more at http://collider.com/interstellar-unlimited-ticket/#vWp4xZ74MQbTsekc.99

 

[jerseydevil]

Christopher Nolan Addresses INTERSTELLAR Sound Problems

 

[Dr. Naysay]

Spoiler alert for those who haven't seen in yet:

I think the point was that in the 5th dimension, things aren't linear. So the paradox that happens in all time travel movies, doesn't apply so much here. I'm seeing it again so hopefully this will be clarified with a second viewing.

OR

It just doesn't make sense and they don't care because it's really a paint by numbers heart string tugger with a little bit of science mumbo-jumbo thrown in for good measure.

 

[NastiMarvasti]

OR

It just doesn't make sense and they don't care because it's really a paint by numbers heart string tugger with a little bit of science mumbo-jumbo thrown in for good measure.

Or

It actually does make sense but none of us are physicists so we can't fully comprehend it.

Or

It only makes partial sense but you can give into a thing called verisimilitude because you know...it's a science fiction movie.

From everything I've read, it is the most realistic movie made when it comes to the science and theories of space travel. Far more than Gravity, for example. I don't know why people have a hard time giving it a bit of creative lisence.

 

[NastiMarvasti]

Christopher Nolan Addresses INTERSTELLAR Sound Problems

For some reason I can't click on the link but coming from someone who DID complain about the mix in the opening scene of The Dark Knight Rises, I think this time, people are being a bit anal. It is true that there are moments where you can't fully make out what's being said, but most of that dialogue isn't as important as the visuals and the emotional sensation being created by the music. As an example, people complained about the cornfield scene. Almost all the dialogue in that scene is stuff like, "GO! Turn right! Faster, faster!" I mean do we really need to complain about that when the other stuff we're hearing is far more important?

But then again, I have no credibility because I'm a Nolanista.

 

[jerseydevil]

I just post what I see...still haven't seen it yet. Have no idea if arguments are valid...but if Nolan is gonna go around saying things like 'a real movie wouldn't do that'(in regards to post/during credits stingers) then he damned well better be prepared to have his movie nitpicked.

 

[KingsFan1985]

OR

It just doesn't make sense and they don't care because it's really a paint by numbers heart string tugger with a little bit of science mumbo-jumbo thrown in for good measure.

Well obviously it make sense to the Nolan brothers, but I don't think the science behind the 5'th dimension matters as much as for what the 5'th dimension respresents to overall theme of the film. Just like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

For some reason I can't click on the link but coming from someone who DID complain about the mix in the opening scene of The Dark Knight Rises, I think this time, people are being a bit anal.

I don't think people are being anal here. As someone who didn't complain about the mixing in the Dark Knight Rises, I will say Interstellar went way too far with bass mixing and blasting the Hans Zimmer score way too loudly at some points in the film. I can understand mixing the audio that way during the rocket launch sequence, but to have it mixed that way when you are watching old people getting interviewed!?!

The audio is the only glaring problem I had with the film.

Also what all the Nolan haters feel about Christopher Nolan is what I feel about Hans Zimmer. Not that I had any sort of major problems with the score, I thought it was a serviceable nod to 2001, but I feel people overglorify how good Hans Zimmer really is. Unlike Morricone who makes films better by adding in his score, Christopher Nolan makes Hans Zimmer's score better by adding his visuals to Zimmer's meh music.

I just post what I see...still haven't seen it yet. Have no idea if arguments are valid...but if Nolan is gonna go around saying things like 'a real movie wouldn't do that'(in regards to post/during credits stingers) then he damned well better be prepared to have his movie nitpicked.

People have the right to nitpick his films, but it still doesn't stop the fact that he was right about post credit stingers.

 

[Dr. Naysay]

From everything I've read, it is the most realistic movie made when it comes to the science and theories of space travel. Far more than Gravity, for example. I don't know why people have a hard time giving it a bit of creative lisence.

Which is the biggest macguffin of the whole movie.

Who gives a **** if the theories (of how a magical hole in space lets you boop from one corner of the universe to the next in no time) are realistic? The actual time spent "in travel" in said magic holes is all of like.... 3 minutes of screen time in a three hour movie. It's not even the point of the movie. As for the time dilation..... I get it. It's not complicated. You don't need to be a physicist to understand this movie OR to see it's crass emotional manipulation and gaping plot holes.

As for the tesseract...... I'm pretty sure that's just made up gobbledygook to give the film an emotional (and painfully predictable) payoff/final 2001 homage. IF by homage I mean crass and constant narrative and visual thievery. Which I do.

Oh and the ending is 100% stolen from CastAway because this movie sucks.

Well made suckery.

Also Big Hero 6 is stupid, unimaginative and cruel.

 

[Dr. Naysay]

Well obviously it make sense to the Nolan brothers, but I don't think the science behind the 5'th dimension matters as much as for what the 5'th dimension respresents to overall theme of the film. Just like 2001: A Space Odyssey.

That's my point. The science in this movie DOESN'T matter because it's NOT SCIENCE FICTION. It's a family drama and an allegory about the undying nature of the human spirit.

and the best part is that it's GREATEST CRIME isn't even getting some of it's precious pointless theoretical science wrong... it's that it's completely philosophically pig headed and myopic.

**** THIS MOVIE!!!

 

[NastiMarvasti]

Which is the biggest macguffin of the whole movie.

Who gives a **** if the theories (of how a magical hole in space lets you boop from one corner of the universe to the next in no time) are realistic? The actual time spent "in travel" in said magic holes is all of like.... 3 minutes of screen time in a three hour movie. It's not even the point of the movie. As for the time dilation..... I get it. It's not complicated. You don't need to be a physicist to understand this movie OR to see it's crass emotional manipulation and gaping plot holes.

As for the tesseract...... I'm pretty sure that's just made up gobbledygook to give the film an emotional (and painfully predictable) payoff/final 2001 homage. IF by homage I mean crass and constant narrative and visual thievery. Which I do.

Oh and the ending is 100% stolen from CastAway because this movie sucks.

Well made suckery.

Also Big Hero 6 is stupid, unimaginative and cruel.

Well I was addressing the person bringing up the scientific elements of the film. I agree that it's not the main point of the movie. Unfortunately that's the only thing I agree with.