It started a little slow but soon became an incredible ride. I'm not sure I'm 100% happy with the way the story was resolved because it seemed a bit Deus Ex Machina for me. Matt Damon showing up halfway through the movie and being an enormous **** was fun though. Did not know he was part of the cast beforehand.
The visuals were breathtaking and the soundtrack complimented them nicely. Overall I'd say one of the best movies I've seen in a while.
I saw it this morning at an 11:10am showing. The local theater here was only $5.50 for the ticket.
It was good. Definitely longer than I expected. They did spend a lot more time in Earth than I expected them to given the trailers I had seen previously. I got out of the theater at around 2:20pm. So be prepared for a long show.
I also did not expect Matt in the movie. But I did see the ending coming from the very beginning. Knew it was him trying to talk to her. Not 100% happy with the whole black hole happy ending but... Whatever. The ending sequence there seemed strange but I guess it just shows how a 5th dimensional reality would be interpreted by a three dimensional being. Completely strange and unrealistic in terms of their understood reality. As his character (or was it the robot that said it? I think so.) said It was the beings' attempt at creating a three dimensional space for him to interpret the 5 dimensions and communicate to Earth since they could not do it directly themselves.
I did like the idea there that humans needed to stop thinking as individuals and instead as a species in order to succeed in space travel and evolve.
I found it to be slow, plodding, and incredibly predictable. The second they mentioned the bit about gravity and time, I knew exactly how the movie was going to play out. Then I sat there while it slowly and painfully unfolded exactly as I expected. I'm assuming that all of those people raving about it aren't used to science fiction movies. If they were, they wouldn't have been so impressed by such a second rate story.
Like the space porn & Mcconaughey. Disliked the 5th element stuff. Better than Prometheus, but that isn't saying much.
Edited, Nov 17th 2014 7:38pm by Omegavegeta
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Better than Prometheus, but that isn't saying much.
That really isn't saying much.
I thought it to be better than Gravity and on par with Europa Report and Sunshine. Please don't crucify me for putting these three in one sentence. I know they are very different from one another and in the case of Sunshine, get a lot of flak for some of their elements. But they are (for me) the best space-travel related scifi movies of the last decade or so and I enjoyed each of them. If someone has recommendations of similar-themed movies, that would be very welcome.
(I plan on watching Kubricks 2001 some time soon, so no need to tell me that one)
It was okay. It has the right themes for a hard sci-fi film about space exploration (well, love as a cosmic force aside) but it pulls its punches in the wrong places. The resolution is obviously pretty telegraphed.
The science is really bad in some parts for no real reason.The water planet is probably the most egregious example: time doesn't dialate anywhere near that much in that kind of gravity and the tidal forces on the planet would be obvious beforehand. What are they even doing there? The radiation'd probably sterilise the whole expedition anyway.
It was okay. It has the right themes for a hard sci-fi film about space exploration (well, love as a cosmic force aside) but it pulls its punches in the wrong places. The resolution is obviously pretty telegraphed.
The science is really bad in some parts for no real reason.The water planet is probably the most egregious example: time doesn't dialate anywhere near that much in that kind of gravity and the tidal forces on the planet would be obvious beforehand. What are they even doing there? The radiation'd probably sterilise the whole expedition anyway.
There was much ado made of the fact that the movie peoples hired on a world-renown astrophysicist to help with the science.
I tried my damnedest to get the hubby to go see this with me this weekend, but without success.
It was okay. It has the right themes for a hard sci-fi film about space exploration (well, love as a cosmic force aside) but it pulls its punches in the wrong places. The resolution is obviously pretty telegraphed.
The science is really bad in some parts for no real reason.The water planet is probably the most egregious example: time doesn't dialate anywhere near that much in that kind of gravity and the tidal forces on the planet would be obvious beforehand. What are they even doing there? The radiation'd probably sterilise the whole expedition anyway.
There was much ado made of the fact that the movie peoples hired on a world-renown astrophysicist to help with the science.
It wasn't Michio Kaku, was it?
(He likes to exaggerate things and do the fake science stuff to make things sound cool)
Kip Thorne Physicist Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Wikipedia Born: June 1, 1940 (age 74), Logan, UT Books: Black Holes and Time Warps, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy Education: Princeton University (1965), California Institute of Technology (1962) Awards: Albert Einstein Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Kip Thorne Physicist Kip Stephen Thorne is an American theoretical physicist, known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Wikipedia Born: June 1, 1940 (age 74), Logan, UT Books: Black Holes and Time Warps, Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy Education: Princeton University (1965), California Institute of Technology (1962) Awards: Albert Einstein Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
It's not Nolan's best imo. I liked the movie, enjoyed it even, but it's not memorable at all. It's going to be a very nice boost for the SF movie genre, given that it's pretty successfull and is going to get some Oscars most likely, but it's not groundbreaking in story or visuals.
Matt Damon's character was a great addition. A nice play on the whole 'needing to look at the bigger picture to protect mankind's future'.
But there were a couple of things that did not make that much sense to me. Why rig the robot to explode just to protect the real data? Why not just trash the data? Why didn't he just admit to Cooper that he lied and the planet wasn't viable at all? Damon knew that the ship could go to the next planet, so why the elaborate (relatively speaking) plot?
And how did they get so close to Gargantua after they saved the ship, so that they had to try the manouver that conveniently sent Cooper in the black hole?
The writers of the story knew their SF classics, there wasn't really anything new in this movie. Still, it's not a bad movie. Compared to a lot of other SF movies, this one is still one of the best imo.