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Interstellar review

Posted : 6 months ago on 16 October 2023 08:26

Şahana tek kelimeyle başlarken film uzun diye öfflüyodum direk aktı film müzikler allah katında


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...and the "Love" f*cked the movie

Posted : 5 years, 9 months ago on 23 June 2018 03:46

Interstellar is a jumbled mess of complex ideas that don't fit together coherently with a REALLY dumb ending and a dumb-ass cliché message of "love conquers all" that winded up obscuring everything else good about the movie.


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Interstellar review

Posted : 8 years, 4 months ago on 12 December 2015 08:50

I tried twice but never watched this to thee end. It made feel bored' bored ' bored.
It seemed to go on forever. Like i said i never watched the whole thing. I could'nt see any thing developing in this movie that would have justified me wasting any more time watching it.


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Interstellar review

Posted : 8 years, 4 months ago on 21 November 2015 04:10

This is one of the most beautiful, epic and inspiring films ever made! Storytelling is incredible with beautiful shots that compliment with the amazing music.


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A Stellar Mess

Posted : 8 years, 10 months ago on 21 June 2015 07:10

First hour: Interesting premise, but tainted by hokey mysticism driving the plot.

Second hour: Lots of bad editing cutting back and forth between Earth and the space expedition. These cuts are often extremely rapid and have a terrible affect on pacing. Much of the action is high stakes docking maneuvers. Matt Damon shows up just long enough to inject some clumsy dialogue about human survival instinct, completely tipping his hand that he's about to go batshit.

Third hour: A bad Outer Limits episode. The hokey mysticism is explained (with the Christopher Nolan trademark WAY TOO MUCH FUCKING EXPOSITION SO ALL THE IDIOTS KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON) but it doesn't matter how much they try to make it sound scientific, it's still just a deus ex machina channeled through the power of LOVE. The main character and the human race are saved because... plot says so.

On top of those glaring flaws we get the other Nolan trademark, an overbearing soundtrack that rarely, if ever, lets up. It was also amazing how little he was able to coax out of an all-star cast of actors. There's a reason that great sci-fi films tend to have little-known actors, and it's because the material is strong enough to stand on its own without relying on star power. This was clearly not the case for Interstellar.

There is little to nothing under the hood to analyze here. Like Inception, this movie throws lots of concepts at the audience (only this time it's mostly well understood physics instead of hypothetical dream experiments) and many people mistake this for depth.

I'll say it again Nolan: stick to smaller projects like Memento and The Prestige. Whenever you attempt something grand, you accomplish the exact opposite.


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Interstellar review

Posted : 8 years, 10 months ago on 21 June 2015 12:14

I prefer the melodrama in the dusty earth than the space gravity odissey. Tle love above all 5th dimensional metaphisics is plausible thanks to the storng dramatic direction.


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Interstellar review

Posted : 8 years, 10 months ago on 20 June 2015 02:37

"Non andartene docile in quella buona notte, I vecchi dovrebbero bruciare e delirare al serrarsi del giorno; Infuria, infuria, contro il morire della luce."
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Interstellar

Posted : 9 years, 3 months ago on 29 December 2014 10:33

Is Interstellar truly worthy of the high star rating I have given it? Probably not, but goddamn if I didn’t admire its grand ambition, tremendous heart, and stellar acting ensemble enough to forgive its flaws. I happily went along its epic scope and large heart.

Taking place in a future where the present is beginning to look an awful lot like the Dust Bowl on a larger scale, we meet Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a former NASA pilot forced into becoming a farmer. Farming is about all that currently happens on earth, despite massive amounts of crops dying out. Cooper is widowed and lives with his two children and their grandfather (John Lithgow), spending most of his days nurturing his daughter’s scientific curiosity and helping his son learning the farming trade. It’s not exactly a picturesque ideal, but it’s closest thing to a happy portrait of Americana that we’re allowed.

Through a strange series of circumstances, Cooper and his daughter, Murph (Mackenzie Foy as a child, Jessica Chastian as an adult and both fabulous), stumble upon what little remains of NASA and a secret project to find a new hospitable planet for the human race. Cooper must choose between abandoning his family and saving the planet, or sticking things out and watching everything die. Since the movie is three hours in length, and this is but the third act, it’s not a spoiler to say that he takes his chances in space.

It is here at NASA we meet regular Nolan player Michael Caine, this time as Professor Brand, a genius physicist, and his daughter Amelia (Anne Hathaway), a no-less brilliant scientist in her respective field. We will spend a great deal of time with McConaughey and Hathaway, depending on your tolerance for these actors, Interstellar is either going to be rough going or an enjoyable ride. I, clearly, found it quite enjoyable.

It was at some point last year when I turned the corner on McConaughey. It could have been his committed and better-than-the-surrounding-film performance in Dallas Buyers Club or the one-day marathon of True Detective’s first season that did it, probably both, but his work here is no less revelatory. His character is a split between wanting to explore and discover, and a fatherly need to return to those that love and need him. A scene in which he discovers a backlog of video transmissions from home is an emotional gut punch thanks to McConaughey’s smart acting choices.

I’ve long defended Hathaway, and I find much of the criticism against her rooted in some vaguely hinted sexism that demands that actresses not exhibit any kind of manic glee in career-changing milestones or exhibiting intellectualism instead of dumbing down and going for “they’re just like us!” artifice. Her previous work with Nolan resulted in her tremendously fun take on Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, asking her to play a 40s femme fatale and a sardonic grifter with equal weight. Her role here is a little underwritten in parts, but she’s strong enough to give it a gravity and weight that overcomes this obstacle.

The leads find the perfect balance that the rest of the film lacks. That is to say, McConaughey and Hathaway have found a way to make the big ideas and big heart merge into a coherent picture, whereas the rest of Interstellar sometimes dips too far one way or another. But I appreciate that it went for such grand pronouncements, it overreaches often, but I’m a big softie for something that tries and nearly succeeds more often than not and reward tons of points for trying.

Interstellar does however suffer from a similar problem as the rest of Nolan’s work – over explaining and re-explaining things over and over again. At times, this is necessary to understand and grasp the scientific concepts on display here. Most of the time it reintroduces characters and what they’re symbolic of or their position when this is not needed. I think of how Batman Begins played so heavily on repeating “fear” as a subtext and theme that it stopped being both (I still enjoy it greatly), or how The Prestige structured itself as the titular event and ended up being its own undoing. Nolan is a film-maker who likes to treat his films like strange puzzle boxes, explaining to us the rules, sometimes at the detriment to natural sounding dialog, but I don’t mind it. There’s room for all kinds of film-makers. And any director who takes a massive studio budget and crafts something this unique, ambitious, messy, interesting, sweeping, and personal is one that I will follow on any storytelling diversion he chooses.


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Interstellar review

Posted : 9 years, 4 months ago on 6 December 2014 04:30

Christopher and Jonathan Nolan are such powerful storytellers I knew this was something I was going to want to see. Even when the plot was under wraps. The cast is amazing and had a few people I had not expected to see. This is visually remarkable with some amazing shots. I loved how Nolan made it so there was actually no sound in space rather than being able to hear whatever is happening. There was a few quite emotional scenes that really pull you into them. I do think that it was quite long and dragged on a bit for no reason occasionally, but that didn't take away the entertainment. I did kind of figure out the twist in the beginning though, but I thought it was executed in an interesting way. Matthew McConaughey is really improving himself as an actor and I was truly entranced by his performance. I think the robots were interesting even if they looked plain. Mackenzie Foy and McConaughey had some great chemistry in my opinion. All the science dialogue might lose the interest of the casual viewer the rest of this will grab your attention. I love all the aspects this film displays on family, life, death, time, and space. The ending implies there could be a possible sequel, but I don't think one is entirely necessary. There were several points that could have been the end of the film, but it kept trudging along. I did really enjoy this one anyways despite the lengthiness. I however probably won't end up sitting down and watching the whole thing from start to finish again due to the previous statement. It is worth a one time watch at least. On an slightly unrelated note it will be interesting to see Jonathan Nolan do the directing for a change with his future film Westworld next year.


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A very good movie

Posted : 9 years, 5 months ago on 16 November 2014 07:32

Even though I had pretty much enough of the fanatism surrounding Christopher Nolan, I still have to admit that the guy displayed once again an impressive set of balls. Indeed, nowadays, the box-office is pretty much ruled by the super-heros, the young adult book adaptations, the sequels, the remakes, the reboots and you don't see many directors coming up with something really original and without 3D, on top of that. It seemed that Nolan's ambition is pretty much limitless as he decided to tackle this time an epic science-fiction feature reaching out for a seminal masterpiece like '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the guy almost pulled it off. I say almost because even though the whole thing was really entertaining, emotional and gorgeous to look at, the story was actually rather shaky and half of it didn't make much sense whatsoever. Above all, with this movie, you finally got a glimpse of Nolan's actual limitations. By now, we all pretty much agree that he is one of the most talented directors at work today but if you want to go all the way and make a really awesome masterpiece like his example Stanley Kubrick, he has to stop to please the average movie watcher by throwing some random action scenes here and there. It didn’t bother me with 'Inception' but, here, it was really obvious and rather annoying. Still, you get here some rather deep thoughts about life, death, love, the relativity of time and space and it was just exhilariting to see a blockbuster at least trying to tackle such ideas.


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