Christopher Nolan - Interstellar

[jingars]

I am listening to the soundtrack now - quite haunting and powerful. Listening to it "stand alone" brings home just how much the score adds to the film's impact.

Unlike some other posters, I think the film will be a DVD purchase for me when it is released.

[DamienB]

JustinP1 said:

Flat6er said:

http://m.hollywoodreporter.com/entry/view/id/84247...

Nolan talks about the sound and how he intended it to make dialogue difficult to hear in places.

I just came back to the thread to post the same link.

My musings a few pages back that the low dialogue levels in places were so low they must be deliberate seem to be correct:

“There are particular moments in this film where I decided to use dialogue as a sound effect, so sometimes it’s mixed slightly underneath the other sound effects or in the other sound effects to emphasize how loud the surrounding noise is. It’s not that nobody has ever done these things before, but it’s a little unconventional for a Hollywood movie.”

What a crock of st. So the surrounding noise in a dying man's hospital bed is loud enough to drown out his final words? Yeah right. It was always music drowning out the dialogue, not other effects. They screwed up the mix and just can't admit it. It was noticeable that my second viewing of the film 10 days or so after seeing it the first time was better as regards sound - still tricky at a couple of points but nothing was totally inaudible as it was first time out.

[Legend83]

Can someone remind me what the relevance of S.T.A.Y was? Was it because the future MM was already there so there was no need for the past MM to go? Or something confusing like that?

[anonymous-user]

Legend83 said:

Can someone remind me what the relevance of S.T.A.Y was? Was it because the future MM was already there so there was no need for the past MM to go? Or something confusing like that?

I think he (in the future) was telling his daughter to stay in the room so he could 'talk' to her. She took it to mean for him to stay on Earth.

[CharlesAL]

I thought he pretty much broke down and wished he had stayed with her, and was trying to tell his past self to stay, then pulled himself together and realised he had to get the data to her.

[vrsmxtb]

I bet the cinema owners will be charging some free compensatory tickets back to Paramount!

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/17/inters...

[Hackney]

vrsmxtb said:

I bet the cinema owners will be charging some free compensatory tickets back to Paramount!

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/17/inters...

I bet they will. I complained when I came out of the cinema and got a free ticket.
Although the cinema won't mind as they'll expect me to buy popcorn, coke etc.

Anyway, it's a daft idea to mix the sound in this way. If you're not meant to hear the dialogue why have the actors speak it in the first place. Why not make it a silent movie?

As for the cineplex Saturday night audience, does he think they know it's meant to be like that? Does he even think they know who he is? No, they'll just be pissed off that they couldn't hear the dialogue.

FWIW Memento and Inception are two of the best films of the last 20 years, but that doesn't mean a director can't disappear up his own arse.

Plus, I enjoyed the film except for the sound issue and three hours actually flew by. I didn't realise it was a 3 hour film when I went in and was genuinely surprised when I looked at my watch on leaving.

[croyde]

I must have super hearing as the only bit of dialogue that I didn't catch was Michael Caine's last words. Thought the rest of it was clear enough although generally the sound was pretty stty as it always is at my local CineWorld.

ie Far too loud to the point that the speakers sound as if they are gonna blow.

[Eric Mc]

Off to see it tonight.

I hope the mumbles don't annoy me too much.

The full film should be perhaps -

"Interstellar - In Space, No One can Hear You Mumble".

[Marvindodgers]

This dialogue inaudibility thing has been totally overplayed. I would hate for people to avoid going to the cinema to see this incredible, spectacular movie (which is where it needs to be seen) because of a few comments on a car forum.
There are bigger problems of hearing movies in general from people chewing on popcorn/nachos/Christ knows what else, talking to their friends or inability to be removed from social media for a few hours, rather than criticizing the way the finest director/producer/writer currently working in modern mainstream cinema has mixed his movie.

[Abagnale]

Calm down dear. I couldn't hear it at key moments, so it wasn't overplayed for me. And I paid good money to see that movie, so in return, I'm entitled to express my view on that.

[anonymous-user]

Marvindodgers said:

This dialogue inaudibility thing has been totally overplayed.

I agree totally.

[sixspeed]

I, on the other hand, disagree. I saw it on the opening night at the Leicester Square Odeon, and all 4 of us came out and questioned each other as to whether we'd had trouble hearing the dialog at points.

I had pushed the group to pay more to see it at that theatre since it is a premiere venue, but was feeling extremely awkward after the first 20-30 minutes of the film when I was really struggling to understand what was being said by McConaughey.

I emailed the cinema the next day to ask if there was a problem, and got a response that the cinema had been calibrated with Nolan present for the UK premiere only a week before, and that this was a common reported issue with the film. Did some Googling, and found numerous threads from viewings across the world, and as the week progressed more comments kept appearing, including on here.

I have never complained or found such issue in any film I've watched before, and coupled with the reports worldwide, I would say it is there is a problem with the mix in this film! Does it distract from the film at times, yes. Did it ruin it for me overall, no. Am I going to see it for a 2nd time tonight, yes.

[Agoogy]

Didn't have an issue with the mixing, the sentiment was clear, the storyline didn't suffer, I understood what I needed to, to enjoy it (alot), and I have no issue with artists, trying different things to portray their project.
I wonder if those people in the audience who could lip read enjoyed it more or got more out to the film?

Life is full of noise which detracts from what you try and concentrate on....

[supertouring]

went to see this on IMAX last weekend and was blown away.

I tried not to find out too much before I went to see it and I accepted it as the entertainment that it was.

Tempted to go and see it again.

[DeltaTango]

Tried my hardest to like it. Didn't have any issues with sound / understanding what was said. I cannot recall the last time I was so bored however.

[vescaegg]

I asked earlier but no one responded.. Can anyone explain where MM is going at the end of the film seeing as the wormhole is no longer there?

[croyde]

My answer Do we know that the wormhole is no longer there? I thought he had taken one of the little ships, the size of a single person fighter, in order to go and find Ms Hathaway.

The ship would only be any good for a few hours, I presume, therefore I thought that the wormhole was still there. Still, if it is so easy, why are there not others helping Anne with her unpacking on the rocky Planet.

All very Star Wars what with a water world, an ice world and a rocky world.

My take anyway

[anonymous-user]

vescaegg said:

I asked earlier but no one responded.. Can anyone explain where MM is going at the end of the film seeing as the wormhole is no longer there?

Why do you think the wormhole has gone?

[vescaegg]

garyhun said:

vescaegg said:

I asked earlier but no one responded.. Can anyone explain where MM is going at the end of the film seeing as the wormhole is no longer there?

Why do you think the wormhole has gone?

Because Jonathan Nolan who wrote the film said so;


Nolan: By the end of Cooper's journey, the wormhole is gone. It's up to us now to undertake the massive journey of spreading out across the face of our galaxy. Brand is still somewhere out there on the far side of the wormhole. The wormhole has disappeared entirely. It's gone.

IGN: And he has to try and get to Brand in this little ship?

Nolan: That's the idea.

Full interview;

http://uk.ign.com/articles/2014/11/08/jonathan-nol...