Christopher Nolan - Interstellar

[trashbat]

No distortion, but not being able to hear the dialogue is a common complaint with this film. I saw it at a very conventional Picturehouse and it was the same there.

[JustinP1]

trashbat said:

No distortion, but not being able to hear the dialogue is a common complaint with this film. I saw it at a very conventional Picturehouse and it was the same there.

Funnily enough, I had no problem hearing the dialogue at all, apart from one single scene which is the recital of the poetry over what was a very loud background.

I thought perhaps that it was intentionally not mixed at the forefront of the mix, as you do hear it a few times anyway.

The thing that made it difficult to pick up was not the lack of volume of it, but the fact that during that scene the audio became distorted due to being rammed into the level limiter!

[croyde]

Just back and have to say a very enjoyable experience. Now to look back at the spoilers

[croyde]

illmonkey said:

Why did the guy who'd been up there for 20 years have the idential space suit as coop? clearly no development in that area!

Come on, his was orange fer chrissakes!

Did wonder about the end as if he could just jump back in a little fighter jet type thing, why were there not loads of humans colonising along with Anne Hathaway?

Also surely dust bowl Earth is still better than trying to start all over again on a barren unforgiving planet made of water or ice or rocks.

Anyhow I really liked it and if anyone likes the idea of trying to colonise planets many light years away because the Earth is dying, Arthur C Clarke did it very well in his book 'The Songs of Distant Earth' published in the 80s but based on one of his short stories from the 50s/60s.

Hang on! funny that! as didn't Arthur also write 2001

PS John Lithgow! does he ever age he does talk of new gadgets being invented everyday when he was a kid so places the beginning of the film about 60 or 70 years from now

Edited by croyde on Tuesday 11th November 15:11

[jingars]

croyde said:

why were there not loads of humans colonising Anne Hathaway?

There's a queue behind me.

[croyde]

jingars said:

There's a queue behind me.

Took me a while but

[s m]

AndyWoodall said:

I thought it was really something, but to be honest I'm still processing it. Needs another watch although I found it perfectly fine to follow.

The comparisons with 2001 and to some extent Sunshine are fair, I particularly enjoyed the experience.

My thoughts too on the film Andy - for me it was great - a hint of Gravity with a bit of Sunshine and Inception sprinkled on.

I watched it Saturday afternoon at my local Cineworld and the sound in there was Ok for me - particularly liked the music buildup with the spinning docking attempt.

[Dakkon]

Saw it last night, I really liked it, I would say if you liked Gravity you will like this, the whole father daughter relationship and bond was done very well.

[lukeyman]

You're only supposed to bore my bloody socks off!

[CrutyRammers]

Pretty much 2014: A Space Oddessy, but somewhat more understandable.
Worth seeing at an IMAX or somewhere with a BIG sound system, things like the wind storms and rocket noise was shaking the seats, really effective.
Definately a good film. Intellegent, it didn't treat you like a moron, and the (few) bits of humour were very well timed.

Especially TARS with his "joke" light. Loved that.
If anything, I think they could have made more of the "peril in space" scenes, particularly the sequence with the disintigrating ship, that all felt a bit rushed, and taken some time out of the begining. But overall, clearly very well put together and paced.

[TEKNOPUG]

PF62 said:

So we need to go through the wormhole, to get the information to save the human race, so the human race can survive so we can then create a wormhole to save the human race.

A pretty big hole.

This still makes no sense to me. If our future selves are able to create a wormhole, then clearly "we" survived dust-bowl Earth, in which case, what was the need for us to go back and save us form Dust-Bowl Earth? Or is it ourselves from a future parallel universe in which we didn't perish from Dust-Bowl Earth and we created the wormhole to save ourselves in this universe? If so, again, why?

I would have been happier with the explanation simply being "Aliens"

[51mes]

Saw this last night,

We went to our local cinema (Ulverston Roxy - old style single screen) - the OH loves it as we still get an interval half way though
- with someone coming to the front selling ice-cream ;-) and therefore is the only way she will watch anything much over 2 hours.

Good film - can see where an IMAX would add to things immensely. technically brilliant and well acted - but I do agree things got a little
weak about 80-90% of the way through, before improving again..


S.

[TEKNOPUG]

JustinP1 said:

trashbat said:

No distortion, but not being able to hear the dialogue is a common complaint with this film. I saw it at a very conventional Picturehouse and it was the same there.

Funnily enough, I had no problem hearing the dialogue at all, apart from one single scene which is the recital of the poetry over what was a very loud background.

I thought perhaps that it was intentionally not mixed at the forefront of the mix, as you do hear it a few times anyway.

The thing that made it difficult to pick up was not the lack of volume of it, but the fact that during that scene the audio became distorted due to being rammed into the level limiter!

I saw it at Cineworld in Middlesborough and there were several scenes where the dialogue was missed because the levels were totally overblown. Sounds like it's not just a local issue.

[honest_delboy]

Saw it at my local Everyman cinema, totally silent throughout, no munching/talking etc.

Very good film, although i kind of feel it would've been better if i hadn't seen Gravity already. There's only so much space peril you can stand !

[anonymous-user]

I'm booked to see it later today......

[Veeayt]

Neil DeGrease Tyson commented on Interstellar, and I have to say he has a point, albeit just being a car-ignorant arse

If you can poke through a tesseract and touch books, why not just write a note & pass it through.
Stars vastly outnumber Black Holes. Why is the best Earthlike planet one that orbits a Black Hole

Who in the universe would ever know the titles of all their books, from behind, on an bookshelf.

How a pickup truck can drive with a flat tire among densely planted corn stalks taller than it.

If wormholes exist among our planets, then why can't one open up near Earth instead of Saturn.

Gotta tell you. Mars (right next door) looks waay safer than those new planets they travelled to.

If you crack your space helmet yet keep fighting, the Planet's air can't be all that bad for you.

Can't imagine a future where escaping Earth via wormhole is a better plan than just fixing Earth.

In this unreal future, they teach unscientific things in science class. Oh, wait. That is real.

[TEKNOPUG]

Veeayt said:

Neil DeGrease Tyson commented on Interstellar, and I have to say he has a point, albeit just being a car-ignorant arse

If you can poke through a tesseract and touch books, why not just write a note & pass it through.
Stars vastly outnumber Black Holes. Why is the best Earthlike planet one that orbits a Black Hole

Who in the universe would ever know the titles of all their books, from behind, on an bookshelf.

How a pickup truck can drive with a flat tire among densely planted corn stalks taller than it. - It had twin-wheels on the rear axle.

If wormholes exist among our planets, then why can't one open up near Earth instead of Saturn.

Gotta tell you. Mars (right next door) looks waay safer than those new planets they travelled to. - Mars has an atmosphere 100 times less dense than Earth and comprising 95% Carbon-Dioxide

If you crack your space helmet yet keep fighting, the Planet's air can't be all that bad for you. - Mann said that you can only survive for a few minutes breathing the air.

Can't imagine a future where escaping Earth via wormhole is a better plan than just fixing Earth. - Fixing Earth - how exactly?

In this unreal future, they teach unscientific things in science class. Oh, wait. That is real.

See Spoiler. Did he actually watch the film? There are more issues than the ones that he has pointed out.

[Pommygranite]

nterstellar - going to be different and say I was severely underwhelmed. It's not terrible and its not amazing, it's just...meh.

I think I was actually a bit bored and never really felt 'in suspense'. Also some of the effects 'lacked polish' but that's more howwe expect pristine CGI now.

I really lost my suspension of disbelief for the final 1/4 as I just kep thinking 'this makes no sense'. Maybe I'm just dumb.

Well filmed, nicely scripted and very well acted but much like Nolans other sci fi mind bender Inception I have no desire to watch again.

Shame as I went in wanting to adore it.

P.s I think I just gave up believing its credibility due to the way in which Cooper gets chosen..

P.p.s 'love is the fifth dimension' oh do fk off.

P.p.p.s to many contrived situations and plot holes.

P.p.p.p.s actually the more I think the more I feel annoyed that a film so up itself that makes so little sense has fooled so many

[Streetrod]

Pommygranite said:

nterstellar - going to be different and say I was severely underwhelmed. It's not terrible and its not amazing, it's just...meh.

I think I was actually a bit bored and never really felt 'in suspense'. Also some of the effects 'lacked polish' but that's more howwe expect pristine CGI now.

I really lost my suspension of disbelief for the final 1/4 as I just kep thinking 'this makes no sense'. Maybe I'm just dumb.

Well filmed, nicely scripted and very well acted but much like Nolans other sci fi mind bender Inception I have no desire to watch again.

Shame as I went in wanting to adore it.

P.s I think I just gave up believing its credibility due to the way in which Cooper gets chosen..

P.p.s 'love is the fifth dimension' oh do fk off.

P.p.p.s to many contrived situations and plot holes.

P.p.p.p.s actually the more I think the more I feel annoyed that a film so up itself that makes so little sense has fooled so many

Apart from space shots virtually all the other set pieces where actually shot in camera, i.e no CGI. They even planted, I think it was 12 acres of corn fields. The space ships on the ground were also built as real sets

[JustinP1]

Something I find very interesting:

Every great film, ever: That film was great because the acting was great, the story was great, the effects were great and it really made me think.

Interstellar: If you really think about one of these facets of the film, it may or may may not be real or possible, so it's st.


Maybe we should start a thread where other films end up with the same level of scrutiny:


Shawshank Redemption: If the prison wall wore away, then so would the utensil he did it with! st!

Star Wars: There's no way that Han Solo can decipher Chewbacca's grunts! wk!

The Matrix: So all these people go into the Matrix to do running and shooting, so why do they all actively choose to wear full length leather coats!!? Poor script!

Gladiator: When you die, you don't see stuff, it's just black! That last scene where he sees his wife is just so unbelievable! Ruined!

Indiana Jones: So the burning spirits come out of the Ark and melt all the Nazis and Indy gets saved by his eyelids being closed! Rubbish! And the Ark doesn't exist!