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So, This is going to be a pretty interesting review. First off, I'm going to have spoilers, there's really no way I can get around that. This movie is a really weird and extremely enigmatic puzzle that I feel I haven't quite solved, or i'm missing pieces.
That being said I'm going to just plunge into the review. no sense in trying to solve the movie before I start reviewing it.
Review:
I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into when I walked into the theatre. I knew it was a Christopher Nolan film, and I knew it was a sci-fi. other than that I basically knew nothing.
The first half of the movie I feel I got pretty well. I groaned at the use of a 'mystical being' giving them the random binary coordinates to NASA, but OK, sure, I'll bite. The dustbowl setting was interesting and I liked the ambiguous time period. I got that it was in the future but I wasn't sure when. It made for an intriguing earth and a good reason to leave.
Now the whole 'leaving earth' felt very abrupt. I know the whole point of the movie was to leave earth and show the beautiful images of space, but I needed a bit more time on earth to really care about the people there.
Moving off the earth. As I mentioned, Space was gorgeous. I was mesmerized by the very unique images all around and the alien worlds were Cool, though I'm pretty sure they were just Iceland and a desert, and a wet sound stage. The exploration was pretty cool.
McConaughey was great, as he's been lately, and Anne Hathaway was pretty impressive. the rest, blended right into the scenery.
Now onto the bad, or at least the things I didn't get. First, the Robots. Who the hell designed Tars and Case? they are a couple ugly ass robots, did the CGI team just give up on making a realistic robot? It was like a moving Rubik's cube that could just happen to do anything. at least make them somehow continuous.
OK, next up, the 'science'. I assume that most of the technological Mumbo-Jumbo is true, like needing to lose weight to escape a black hole or the slow down in time thing. I'll try to set aside my moronic brain, but when you say he survived by falling into an infinite area of Her room, I'm calling Bull. Total Bull. The writers just jumped a shark, or Nuked a fridge. and I know a lot of you Nolanites are going to attack me for this but this makes no damn sense at all. Maybe it makes sense to the highbrow scientists but no one understands this.
How did he make the books move?
How does gravity make stuff lightyears away move?
Who made the original Wormhole?
When he started Morse-ing the Watch did he he do it for 20 years so she could see it? or did it just infinitely loop forever. did it continue morse-ing even after she left the room? How did she understand the first 20 years of the data. What is this magical 'Data'? Was Tars a genius?
And finally, how the living hell was he found floating in space?
Ok, I've been picking this apart a bit too much. Overall I enjoyed the film. There were pretty visuals and some pretty damn emotional scenes, but it just fell apart as the characters tried to explain what was happening, none of it made sense in the long run. which ultimately makes it a beautiful but unenjoyable movie. I need to understand what's happening to appreciate it.
Final Verdict: 52
Gorgeous visuals and good acting but it's ultimately a total mess of hypotheticals with no solid idea.
so I'm really conflicted about this movie. I might come back and alter this a bit.
So, This is going to be a pretty interesting review. First off, I'm going to have spoilers, there's really no way I can get around that. This movie is a really weird and extremely enigmatic puzzle that I feel I haven't quite solved, or i'm missing pieces.
That being said I'm going to just plunge into the review. no sense in trying to solve the movie before I start reviewing it.
Movie Review: Interstellar
I honestly had no idea what I was getting myself into when I walked into the theatre. I knew it was a Christopher Nolan film, and I knew it was a sci-fi. other than that I basically knew nothing.
The first half of the movie I feel I got pretty well. I groaned at the use of a 'mystical being' giving them the random binary coordinates to NASA, but OK, sure, I'll bite. The dustbowl setting was interesting and I liked the ambiguous time period. I got that it was in the future but I wasn't sure when. It made for an intriguing earth and a good reason to leave.
Now the whole 'leaving earth' felt very abrupt. I know the whole point of the movie was to leave earth and show the beautiful images of space, but I needed a bit more time on earth to really care about the people there.
Moving off the earth. As I mentioned, Space was gorgeous. I was mesmerized by the very unique images all around and the alien worlds were Cool, though I'm pretty sure they were just Iceland and a desert, and a wet sound stage. The exploration was pretty cool.
McConaughey was great, as he's been lately, and Anne Hathaway was pretty impressive. the rest, blended right into the scenery.
Now onto the bad, or at least the things I didn't get. First, the Robots. Who the hell designed Tars and Case? they are a couple ugly ass robots, did the CGI team just give up on making a realistic robot? It was like a moving Rubik's cube that could just happen to do anything. at least make them somehow continuous.
OK, next up, the 'science'. I assume that most of the technological Mumbo-Jumbo is true, like needing to lose weight to escape a black hole or the slow down in time thing. I'll try to set aside my moronic brain, but when you say he survived by falling into an infinite area of Her room, I'm calling Bull. Total Bull. The writers just jumped a shark, or Nuked a fridge. and I know a lot of you Nolanites are going to attack me for this but this makes no damn sense at all. Maybe it makes sense to the highbrow scientists but no one understands this.
How did he make the books move?
How does gravity make stuff lightyears away move?
Who made the original Wormhole?
When he started Morse-ing the Watch did he he do it for 20 years so she could see it? or did it just infinitely loop forever. did it continue morse-ing even after she left the room? How did she understand the first 20 years of the data. What is this magical 'Data'? Was Tars a genius?
And finally, how the living hell was he found floating in space?
Ok, I've been picking this apart a bit too much. Overall I enjoyed the film. There were pretty visuals and some pretty damn emotional scenes, but it just fell apart as the characters tried to explain what was happening, none of it made sense in the long run. which ultimately makes it a beautiful but unenjoyable movie. I need to understand what's happening to appreciate it.
Final Verdict: 52
Gorgeous visuals and good acting but it's ultimately a total mess of hypotheticals with no solid idea.
so I'm really conflicted about this movie. I might come back and alter this a bit.
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