Interstellar

[tazber]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 1:40pm

It's getting raves.

Look at this quote from Variety:

“Interstellar” reaffirms Nolan as the premier big-canvas storyteller of his generation, more than earning its place alongside “The Wizard of Oz,” “2001,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Gravity” in the canon of Hollywood’s visionary sci-fi head trips.

WARNING:

This review has a fair amount of light spoilers.




Link

Updated On: 10/27/14 at 01:40 PM

[GoSmileLaughCryClap]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:10pm

Hollywood Reporter is equally positive. I was sort of hoping that this would help reverse the Anne Hathaway hate. I'm not a great fan of hers, but the whole collapse of her cred with audiences this past year has been sort of surreal.

Unfortunately Variety doesn't spend a single word about her performance, and the Hollywood Reporter describes her as irritating.

The movie's at 72% at Rotten Tomatoes.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:30pm

Gravity?

Ugh.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:34pm

^That was my exact thought.

To mention that... film... in the same breath as "The Wizard of Oz," "2001," and "Close Encounters" is gross, gross, gross.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:50pm

I loved Gravity and I thought it should have won Best Picture. So there! Really looking forward to Interstellar.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 2:52pm

I re-watched GRAVITY last month and was reminded that even on a small screen, it's a superb achievement in filmmaking.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:22pm

^ Agree about GRAVITY-- not a brilliant script or performances but the pure moviemaking craft in GRAVITY upped the bar on how a movie can look and feel and move through space for all time. Just astonishing, particularly if you saw it on a big screen in 3D.

As for INTERSTELLAR, well sure I'll take a look, but I haven't really been a huge Nolan fan since his great early works like MEMENTO and THE PRESTIGE. INCEPTION in particular left me utterly cold.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:25pm

"it's a superb achievement in filmmaking"

Was there actual film involved when the computers that generated 90% of the images were done with the work?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:28pm

Well, I consider TOY STORY 3 to also be a a"superb achievement in filmmaking", and the same could be said for that as what you just asked.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:32pm

The movie was shot digitally (like nearly every movie made today) rather than on film, true, but those images outside the windows of the spacecrafts were all real-time in-camera live shots, NOT green screens. I may mangle the explanation here, but basically the sets were each mounted on gimbals (for rotation) which were then surrounded by 360 degree LED screens that actually displayed the stars, the sun rises, the earth views, etc, so that the celestial sources would properly light the interior scenes. Radically new way to create the CGI-like images you saw in the finished film that weren't CGI at all.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:36pm

Not a fan of the Toy Story movies, but I do agree that Gravity was a superb achievement. I mean, yes, I can see how it not being filmed in actual outer space could be considered something of a let-down, but that had no effect on my enjoyment of the film or its stunning marriage of live action and computer animation/simulation. I was genuinely excited and thrilled for the duration of the film. I even caught myself holding my breath in a couple of places.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:39pm

Were you clutching your pearls? Please say you were also clutching your pearls! :)

[Fantod]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:46pm

Just because I like to read all kinds of reviews, here are some that are less positive:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2014/10/27/review-interstellar-gets-lost-in-space/

http://www.thewrap.com/interstellar-review-christopher-nolan-matthew-mcconaughey-anne-hathaway/

I'm still excited for it because I very much liked The Dark Knight and The Prestige, and I plan on watching Insomnia soon and it looks really good. Didn't love Inception, Memento or the first or last batman movies, but he certainly has made some good movies.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 3:47pm

CLUTCHING! MY! PEARL! NECKLACE!

By the time it was over, I was sweaty and breathin' heavy.

[east side story]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 5:03pm

So p*ucking excited to see this.

And Gravity was outstanding. I was pulling for it to win Best Picture last season.