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Interstellar by Chris Nolan TWR
From: william (WILLIAMA)
17 Sep 2017 23:02
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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In the Scooby Doo cartoons and various crap movies, there's often a scene where the heroes are chasing villains and they come to a fork in the road. After the suspicion of a delay, somebody points and shouts, 'they must have gone this way!'
There's a similar device in other crap movies, particularly the comic ones, where, in order to avoid the necessity of actually resolving all the threads, there's a load of action, plenty of smoke, a bit of magic and somehow all is OK. Nothing is actually explained.
Exactly that happens in Interstellar.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
17 Sep 2017 23:16
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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A lot of recycled material in it, including from
2001
, visuals from Nolan's earlier
Inception
, and premises and plot devices from
The Martian
(hell, it even has Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain).
I did like that Matt turned out to be the bad guy though!
The black hole thing was probably the most interesting and original bit, not really enough to make up for the other shortcomings.
From: william (WILLIAMA)
17 Sep 2017 23:18
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Also, exactly what you said (about the boxy robots)
EDITED: 17 Sep 2017 23:19 by WILLIAMA
From: william (WILLIAMA)
17 Sep 2017 23:28
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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And was the black-hole stuff original and interesting? I thought that was just a bit of 'then the fairy produced a magic black hole and time-stuff and other magic-stuff and the big astronaut clicked his heels and said "there's no place like home" a bit and then it was all OK.'
From: william (WILLIAMA)
17 Sep 2017 23:39
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Also,
Quote:
recycled material in it
Well, yes, maybe, but Interstellar 2014, the Martian 2015
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
18 Sep 2017 10:33
To: william (WILLIAMA)
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He time-travelled into the future to steal those ideas.
;-)
EDITED: 18 Sep 2017 10:34 by DSMITHHFX
From: william (WILLIAMA)
18 Sep 2017 10:50
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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I am so stupid. Of course he did - using the black-hole magic.
From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
18 Sep 2017 13:48
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What I liked about the "black hole" was that it was lit up like a toyota dealership sign at night. Sponsorship deal?
From: milko
18 Sep 2017 13:53
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I liked this film despite many valid (and invalid) criticisms. I think it comes down to that I could listen to McCaughanghangheney talking all day long and then a pompous Hans Zimmer soundtrack as well, there's almost nothing else needed really but they throw in some space things and a bit of imagining other planet surfaces.
From: Voltane
18 Sep 2017 15:40
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I really liked it.
Got the soundtrack on CD and the only annoying thing about it is the volume changes are a little much for me.