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Interstellar (Christopher Nolan) SPOILERS FROM POST 458 ONWARDS

Sad Professor

His brother has been attached to this for a while. And so was Spielberg, but it seems Nolan has now stepped in. It's a sci-fi film about explorers who travel through a wormhole into an alternate dimension. It's apparently based on real-world science. The original treatment was written by Caltech physicist Kip S. Thorne.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/christopher-nolan-talks-direct-interstellar-410616

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santana75

I saw this when it was released and I have never had a cinematic experience like it before or since. It just moved me to the core of my being and I was telling everyone to go see it, which they did and their responses where very much underwhelming. For whatever reason it seems to be a film that speaks deeply to some but does very little for others(one friend even said he fell asleep after 20 minutes). Its kind of like cloud atlas in that it didnt get a lot of attention at the time but has since started to gain recognition. I mean in years to come nobody will remember Avengers Infinity war or captain marvel, they'll be forgotten and disposed of just like most winners of the x-factor are disposed of and forgotten shortly thereafter. But just like subsequent generations continue to discover the Beetles or led zeppelin, in 10 years time people will still be drawn to Interstellar.

maryjane1970

So it was cooper that sent him-self the coordinates to the base at the start of the film...

SuprSi

Hurrache wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lcGnMhvsA

That right there is the single best cinematic experience I've ever had.

FortuneChip

McDermotX wrote: »

FWIW......the single greatest 'almost ruined by showing it in a trailer beforehand' moment in recent memory.

The Dark Knight Rises showed the football stadium scene. Bizarre inclusion.

At least with Interstellar they kept the full final act out of any trailer.
They also managed Matt Damon's part well, even if he is "visible" in trailers/posters.

Tipsy McSwagger

Sad Professor wrote: »

Yeah though afaik the issue wasn’t rights. Zimmer just didn’t have the final cue since it was largely created in editing without him.

It’s not on the official soundtrack either.

McDermotX

ILikeBoats wrote: »

That wave scares the bejaysus out of me

FWIW......the single greatest 'almost ruined by showing it in a trailer beforehand' moment in recent memory.

Hurrache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3lcGnMhvsA

eviltimeban

Which docking scene, when they first dock with the Endurance, or when Matt Damon is trying to dock?

ILikeBoats

That wave scares the bejaysus out of me

Dempsey

Kirby wrote: »

No. He's alive. It's all real.

I've read that the original script had Cooper die after sending the message back to Murph and the film just end with her eureka moment. Test audiences found it a bit dark so they went and filmed him being found and reuniting with Murph and going to find Brand. But its all real.

Has Nolan stated that?

Sad Professor

Hurrache wrote: »

And from what I can remember is that the music from that scene wasn't on the soundtrack when first released, and not the exact track when it appeared on subsequent releases. Rights issues or something.

Yeah though afaik the issue wasn’t rights. Zimmer just didn’t have the final cue since it was largely created in editing without him.

Hurrache

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's worth noting as well that the music in the docking scene was mostly the creation of Nolan and his editors/mixers who cobbled it together from different cues after Zimmer had finished up. The actual cue Zimmer composed for that scene wasn't nearly as powerful as the one they mashed together.

Not to take anything away from Zimmer but Nolan makes him better.

And from what I can remember is that the music from that scene wasn't on the soundtrack when first released, and not the exact track when it appeared on subsequent releases. Rights issues or something.

Kirby

maryjane1970 wrote: »

So was cooper dead when he went to see his daughter in the hospital?

No. He's alive. It's all real.

I've read that the original script had Cooper die after sending the message back to Murph and the film just end with her eureka moment. Test audiences found it a bit dark so they went and filmed him being found and reuniting with Murph and going to find Brand. But its all real.

maryjane1970

So was cooper dead when he went to see his daughter in the hospital?

Sad Professor

It's worth noting as well that the music in the docking scene was mostly the creation of Nolan and his editors/mixers who cobbled it together from different cues after Zimmer had finished up. The actual cue Zimmer composed for that scene wasn't nearly as powerful as the one they mashed together.

Not to take anything away from Zimmer but Nolan makes him better.

Hurrache

The docking scene and the music is cinematic excellence. Every time I watch the movie I rewind to rewatch the scene.

mikhail

Dades wrote: »

I love this movie, but I can't decide if it's because of, or in spite of the Hans Zimmer score. It's memorable at least. It nearly blew my head in the cinema when I went to see it.

It's certainly used as a blunt instrument, loud and constant, which is probably more a criticism of Nolan and his editors rather than Zimmer. I can't think of a piece of film music from the past few years that's impressed me as forcefully as the docking scene.

Dades

I love this movie, but I can't decide if it's because of, or in spite of the Hans Zimmer score. It's memorable at least. It nearly blew my head in the cinema when I went to see it.

Gwynplaine

Coop whispering for the whole film

Keplar240B

MUUURPPPHHHH

Kirby

pixelburp wrote: »

On reflection, my brain did check-out somewhat after Anna Hathaway's character made her big speech about Love. To be fair, love was the primary theme of this film, head and shoulders above all the other Plot-Polyfilla: that it informs and empowers all our greatest achievements and that it might be our truest superpower, but that speech like the entire narrative ground to a halt just so a hitherto intelligent, rational character could hammer the audience over the head with a clumsy, adolescent metaphor.

As much as I adore this film, that speech always rankles with me. Any scientist worth their salt would never say what she says because its simply incorrect.

"We love people who have died. Where's the social utility in that?"

Sorry, Ann/Brand but that's patently false. We love people we know. People who have lived and are now dead. Nobody cares about their ancestors from two hundred years ago. Why? Because we never met them. We didn't know them and their existence is abstract to us.

But we still feel emotionally connected to people who die within our own lifetimes. Cooper is right in that it still boils down to social utility. She's a scientist. She should know that.

Bowlardo

shamrock55 wrote: »

Ah now it's a good movie but nowhere near the best Sci fi ever made

It is though....it is most certainly near the best sci FI ever made. Name 5 better sci FI movies
Blade runner
Space odyssey
Aliens

shamrock55

Ah now it's a good movie but nowhere near the best Sci fi ever made

tigger123

JuanBerrosa wrote: »

It's probably the best sci fi movie ever made.

Its certainly up there at least.

JuanBerrosa

It's probably the best sci fi movie ever made.

Bowlardo

What a movie

pixelburp

I think the film deserves praise for its scale and vision, I just thought its execution left a lot to be desired: too messy, with too many ideas fighting with each other leaving everything a bit ragged. Not Nolan's best work by a long shot imo.

On reflection, my brain did check-out somewhat after Anna Hathaway's character made her big speech about Love. To be fair, love was the primary theme of this film, head and shoulders above all the other Plot-Polyfilla: that it informs and empowers all our greatest achievements and that it might be our truest superpower, but that speech like the entire narrative ground to a halt just so a hitherto intelligent, rational character could hammer the audience over the head with a clumsy, adolescent metaphor.

homerun_homer

I really wanted this film to have a more emotional kick than it did. If it had that then I would have loved the film but having just seen it the once, it was good. I must watch again some time but I have not been pulled back like other Nolan films.

tigger123

Its Zimmer's best work since he did the theme tune to Going for Gold.

Interstellar is probably in my top 10. Perfectly made, with an amazing storyline. I heard on a science podcast (The Infinite Monkey Cage?) that the aim of the Nolan brothers was to keep the science as hard as possible, and as close to the most up to date scientific thinking on the nature of gravity, space-time etc. So, its more science than fiction, which is to be applauded.

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ktulu123 wrote: »

I am a grown ass man and actually shed a tear watching his face when he was driving away from his family. He was perfect in the role imo

Thought he was perfect in the role myself. The scene with him watching 23 years worth of video messages from his kids who aged that much in the hour he was gone from the ship almost made me shed a tear myself.

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

It's a brilliant film with the best soundtrack since the LOTR trilogy.

The score is a big part of it for me, Zimmer's best since Gladiator.