Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" (2014) - Scifi film about time travel and worm holes
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well I needed an excuse to drive up to DC again
First public screening will be on October 31st in Paris. Nolan and McConaughey will be in attendance. So yeah, expect even more reviews then, both critic and user alike.
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Here's more promotional fuckery for the Oculus Rift exhibit with recent trailer footage included:
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Here's a quote from an interview with Jessica Chastain:
[quote]Jessica's work has kept a steady pace and she's about to hit screens in Christopher Nolan's hotly-anticipated Interstellar. The movie is shrouded in mystery, but it's known to tackle the theme of space travel. It boasts an all-star cast, including Matthew McConaughey, Sir Michael Caine and Anne Hathaway, with Jessica warning audiences are likely not ready for how special it is.
"Prepare yourself. It's... epic. I saw it a while ago with Anne Hathaway, and when the lights came up, and Annie was crying and I was crying..." she explained.
"I think it's pretty special. It's so beyond a science-fiction movie to me. It goes way deeper than that, in ways that 2001: A Space Odyssey goes beyond science fiction... There's this thing of, what happens to people when they die? Are they still with you? I think this is a really important film, shockingly so."[/quote]
And here's a BIG FUCKING POSTER
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still have no idea how the planet with the ceiling mountains will work
Does anyone else find the constant arse-licking praise a bit... annoying? They're talking about the movie like it's going to cure cancer and aids and world hunger or something, it seems really over the top. I'm pretty hyped for it and I'm sure it'll be a fantastic sci-fi movie, but probably no more than Dark Knight was a fantastic action / drama / thriller hybrid, you know? Or is it just me.
I don't know. I just don't buy the whole "This will change your life it's so epic omg" schtick.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;46197256]Does anyone else find the constant arse-licking praise a bit... annoying? They're talking about the movie like it's going to cure cancer and aids and world hunger or something, it seems really over the top. I'm pretty hyped for it and I'm sure it'll be a fantastic sci-fi movie, but probably no more than Dark Knight was a fantastic action / drama / thriller hybrid, you know? Or is it just me.
I don't know. I just don't buy the whole "This will change your life it's so epic omg" schtick.[/QUOTE]
Nolan's films tend to awake these sorts of feelings. They are absolutely epic right after watching, but later people find more reasons to hate them. It's the opinion after 5-6 years that counts.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;46197256]Does anyone else find the constant arse-licking praise a bit... annoying? They're talking about the movie like it's going to cure cancer and aids and world hunger or something, it seems really over the top. I'm pretty hyped for it and I'm sure it'll be a fantastic sci-fi movie, but probably no more than Dark Knight was a fantastic action / drama / thriller hybrid, you know? Or is it just me.
I don't know. I just don't buy the whole "This will change your life it's so epic omg" schtick.[/QUOTE]
There's only been ~4 reactions to seeing it so far over the last month, I wouldn't really say it's been that constant. Regardless though, it's all shit that shouldn't be taken too seriously. Actors are almost always telling people in interviews how ~amazing~ the film they did is gonna be. When the film is actually out you'll start getting more credible feedback. I'd take it all with a grain of salt until then.
And that shouldn't be too far off. Word is there's gonna be an LA screening on the 26th now. 16 days until we start hearing from people what the film is like. Though I don't know how private this screening is gonna be. I'd be surprised if it's as open to the public as the 29th Paris screening is, but at the very least they're willing to let a few people in:
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Also, people are claiming this film has the most Academy Award winners in it (5: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Ellen Burstyn and [sp]Matt Damon[/sp]). I can't exactly find a list of films that starred the most Academy Award winners in it, so does anyone know if this is true or not? EDIT: nope, the movie NINE has it beat with 6.
[QUOTE=Sobek-;46197256]Does anyone else find the constant arse-licking praise a bit... annoying? They're talking about the movie like it's going to cure cancer and aids and world hunger or something, it seems really over the top. I'm pretty hyped for it and I'm sure it'll be a fantastic sci-fi movie, but probably no more than Dark Knight was a fantastic action / drama / thriller hybrid, you know? Or is it just me.
I don't know. I just don't buy the whole "This will change your life it's so epic omg" schtick.[/QUOTE]
I don't really buy the hype either, but I'm still looking forward to it. Even if it disappoints, Nolan's weaker films are still enjoyable
Booked tickets to see it at the BFI IMAX, the biggest cinema screen in Britain and one of our only remaining 70mm IMAX screens
Hope its actually a good film now lol
I want to see it in IMAX but I don't know if I can be fucked getting the bus to it when I have a cinema just down the road.
[editline]11th October 2014[/editline]
fuck it booked the one down the road
I'm gonna try and get tickets for my friends and I to see it at the Navy Pier IMAX in Chicago.
The IMAX in the Minnesota Zoo is showing it. Not sure if I wanna drive all the way to the other side of the city though when no one else will go with me
I also don't wanna treat the movie like the second coming of jesus, or I'll end up dissapointed.
Beyond anything I want to see this film for the use of effects.
I support any film that moves a lot further away from CGI. I mean they used actual footage of actual space for some of those shots. That's actual fucking space. I'm sold on this movie for that alone.
space isnt that great its literally nothing
I'm a bit late but Interstellar seems to have gotten its first press screening earlier today. Some super nerds picked up on a number of claims that a screening was going to occur this week, and sure enough when people looked up the movie times for an imax in LA for today, all public showings for the imax Dracula had been cleared until 5:30 pm.
[url]http://www.fandango.com/91608_movietimes?date=10/14/2014&q=91608[/url]
It wasn't like this any other day of the week. Clearly something went down there, and given that it's LA and a Legit Imax, plus the timing to Interstellar's release, I'd say it's a pretty safe bet they got it right.
Not that any of this matters to us since the press is obviously embargoed to hell and back but I guess it's still kinda cool.
Entertainment Weekly has a new article out on the film, plus I assume more that will be in the magazine itself.
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[quote]With Christopher Nolan's forthcoming film Interstellar, the director of The Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception boldly goes into outer space with his most visually spectacular and emotionally resonant movie yet. We can say that because we've seen it. We also watched Nolan make it, and in this week's Entertainment Weekly, we bring you onto the top secret set and take you into editing room to chronicle how the man who made Batman fly to new heights pushed himself creatively and personally to produce his sci-fi epic.
Interstellar opens Nov. 5 and stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Wes Bentley, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck, and John Lithgow, to name a few. (Seriously: There are more.) The plot tracks a quartet of astronauts and scientists—and the most unusual robot to grace the screen in years (meet the fall's breakout star: a mini-monolith of metamorphic Jenga blocks named TARS)—who journey across the universe to search for a new home for mankind: In the near future of the film, Earth is dying, ravaged by blight and environmental ruin.
And yet, Interstellar deliberately veers away from dystopia chic with its depiction of optimistic, adventurous heroism reminiscent of director Philip Kaufmann's adaptation of The Right Stuff, which not only influenced the tone of Nolan's movie but the techniques he used to make it. Informed by the work and theories of renowned astrophysicist Kip Thorne, Interstellar is more akin to the speculative sci-fi of 2001: A Space Odyssey than space opera fantasy like Star Wars, while still remaining accessible pop entertainment. Mind altering substances are not required to appreciate this trip. "Isn't it nice to have a movie that is about all things the movie is about and not feel druggy?" says Hathaway with a laugh.
Nolan challenged himself and his team to fill Interstellar with imagery designed to inspire awe in the audience, not to mention a little terror. Dust storms. Tidal waves. Wormholes. A tiny, fragile spaceship juxtaposed against the monstrous gas planet of Saturn. Everything in the hush-hush final act. "This is the first film I have made where the actual experience of the film is paramount to the audience," Nolan tells EW. "You would think that's the case with Batman movies but it's not; they're more dependent on the reaction of characters on screen. Interstellar is different. It harkens back to the direct experience films of 2001, where you're not just experiencing it through the characters, you are lost in it." (You might want to watch Interstellar on an IMAX screen, especially since Nolan incorporated more than an hour of footage shot using IMAX cameras.)
Nolan also aspired to craft a philosophically thoughtful, deep feeling experience, too. He chased that goal in a number of ways, from an inventive collaboration with composer Hans Zimmer to drawing inspiration from his experience as a father. "The film is about human nature, what it means to be human. It sounds like a very grand statement, but I don't intend it to be. I mean it in the way, say, Treasure of the Sierra Madre is about dramatizing ideas of human nature," says Nolan, who wrote the script with his brother, Jonathan, and produced Interstellar with his wife, Emma Thomas, who has produced all of his movies. "When you take an audience far away from human experience as possible, you wind up focusing very tightly on human nature and how we are connected to each other. What the film tries to do is to be very honest in that appraisal."
The result is Nolan's most personal movie. "Nobody is able to put more scope, scale, awe on screen than Chris," says McConaughey. "But I think he was wanting to take the next step, toward something more intimate. It was an evolution."[/quote]
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SFX magazine also did an article:
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stahp
it's bad enough i keep seeing ads on tv
do not want hype ruined
probs shouldn't be in this thread then
New tv spot
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Yeah the black shirts / turtlenecks against the starry background was a poor choice
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I have the EW in front of me, they just look dead inside. i know the shirts are meant to be in homage to Sagan but they look way silly to me
Look like some 1980s Apple advert
They look too happy
it's getting harder to separate the real reactions from the fakes, but more screenings have been going down and reactions have been slowly coming in bit by bit. Here's the absolute credible ones, that also don't give spoilery reactions to the ending that i wish i didn't read
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[quote]Kevin Morris has written for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Filmmaker Magazine. He is the Co-producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, "The Book of Mormon"[/quote]
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This guy is the son of screenwriter Paul Schrader who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. That's how he got into this screening I guess. Further proof is that he also got his picture taken with Chris Nolan so yeah, kinda hard to dispute this one:
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A screening took place at ford hood as well. This guy did an AMA about his reaction [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2jp174/im_stationed_at_fort_hood_and_matthew_mcconaughey/[/url]
There's also a lot of Ford Hood twitter reactions, all positive, some spoilery, but I can't 100% verify them so fuck it. Nice to hear from people not associated with the film. Before that all we really had was Edgar Wright's reaction, but you can expect to see a lot more over the next week or so.
[editline]20th October 2014[/editline]
Here's the full entertainment weekly article, at a cruel font size just small enough to be readable but still hurt your fucking eyes. It's probably filled with spoilers so read at your own risk:
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"Go see in in 70mm imax!!!"
Easier said than done. They're all fucking digital now
theres a 70mm imax near me but i booked a theatre closer because im really fucking lazy
i can always go see it again
[url]https://twitter.com/Tom_Shone/status/524296313521700864[/url]
Review embargo ends next Monday. As you probably can guess that means we'll have a bunch of reviews start pouring in then.
Movie reels are starting to arrive at theaters now:
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I'm guessing "Flora's Letter" is the code name for Interstellar?
[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;46298071]I'm guessing "Flora's Letter" is the code name for Interstellar?[/QUOTE]
Apparently Nolan uses a code name for his more recent films that involves the names of one of his kids. In this case yeah it's Flora.
On another note when should I reserve tickets and shit like that? Is it something I should be worrying about?
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