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[Mischief Maker]

I think Aliens and Terminator 2 are both special films in that they are profit-motivated unnecessary sequels that arguably betray their progenitor, but nonetheless manage to be awesome.

They are also EXCEPTIONS to the rule!

[emphatic]

I love Alien 3. I prefer it to Aliens even. I guess I'm a Fincher fanboy.

[nasty_wolverine]

Nolan has pretty much said that the time dilation is very skewed. If they lost 23 years or whatever on the water planet, he'd have been exponentially hurled into the future while he was in the tesseract. Well, probably. So yeah, you have to suspend some belief but it's indeed pretty ambitious and entertaining.

I did enjoy the movie. But to be honest, those were things they could have fixed. especially, with a physicist working with the team. With a little bit of tweaking, it really could have been the 2001 of this generation, and i honestly expected it to be, but was disappointed. it even slightly pales in comparison to contact, visual effects aside.

But i am probably biased, because of the fact that I have watched 2001 and contact before, and read a lot of hard sci fi. If i had never seen 2001 or contact before, interstellar would have been an Epic.

*sigh* I think its a good movie, but not as epic as some have been claiming it to be, that pedestal is still retained by 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[Necronopticous]

I watched The Guest with the wife last night. We were lukewarm on You're Next so we weren't sure what to expect, but we ended up enjoying it quite a bit. Did any of you guys catch this?

[spadgy]

Watched a bunch of stuff over the weekend, but one stood out...

Glen or Glenda

A 1953 Ed Wood film shot in four days and apparently infamous as one of the worst films ever made.

None of which I realised on watching it (Ok - the date and Ed Wood came up as I selected it).

It's about transsexuality and in particular transvestitism, and in many, many ways, it's amazingly progressive for its time. That side of things feels really exciting to see. It's ultimately a drama, but in part a documentary, and seems to me to be a plea for acceptance of diversity in society.

But it also occasionally demonstrates some weird, very dated ideas that are at a stark contrast to its largely progressive nature (for the time!). It talks briefly about 'curing' transsexuality through what I understand to be Freudian psychoanalysis, for example (though it does in the same breath highlight that many don't 'want' to be cured.). But as the film's about spotlighting prejudice in society it's hard to tell if it's dismissing ideas about 'curing', or supporting them. I'm not really smart enough to know, but its push for acceptance might be through a focus on reassuring the audience, even if that means saying conflicting things. I need to watch it again before I remotely know what I'm talking about.

It's semi-autobiographical (Wood was transsexual, I've read), and Ed Wood's first film. It's referred to as an exploitation movie too. Perhaps it does exploit a real life issue for shock value (for the time!) on occasion.

The editing and over production quality is awful, and it is eccentric, erratic, and strangely charming.

It seems to be both awful and strangely brilliant (occasional dated views aside); it's mainly progressive, but strangely confused too, from what I can tell. Whatever it is, it's fascinating, and well worth a watch.

Anybody else seen it?

[Skykid]

Can just say, out of respect for Stanley Kubrick and the arts in general, that uttering Interstellar and 2001 even in the same breath is a remarkable insult.

Why would anyone expect Christopher Nolan, a director of proven limited capacity, to even come close to one of film's greatest contributions? Some things are simply impossible.

I said to one of my party when entering the theatre for Interstellar "If it's even 25% as good as 2001, I'll be knocked for six".

I don't even think it qualified for 10.

[JBC]

It's uncool to like new things so Interstellar sucks until it's at least 10 if not 20 years old. Then it'll be a classic masterpiece with posters on whatever constitutes for a hipster's walls at that time.

Let's get real, the movie was a pretty great ride & a provacative work of fiction. It's not like Matthew McConaughey did anything super scientifically accurate like wake up in a white room & have some tea as an old dude at the climax. You can tell it was a labor of love & a lot of hard work went into it's production.

Spoiler

If I had one complaint about believability it would be Murphy figuring out her 'ghost' was trying to communicate with her through morse code or binary or whatever. Not so much because there's no way a little girl or anyone would really notice that or that it wasn't visually represented accurately, but because morse code & binary are a way overused trope in film. I don't really care though, because it made enough sense after he's in the black hole & it's a fun movie anyway.

[Skykid]

It's uncool to like new things so Interstellar sucks until it's at least 10 if not 20 years old. Then it'll be a classic masterpiece

[Lord Satori]

It's uncool to like new things so Interstellar sucks until it's at least 10 if not 20 years old. Then it'll be a classic masterpiece with posters on whatever constitutes for a hipster's walls at that time.

I think I love you.

[Skykid]

I think when Satori Kun backs you up you instantly know you're wrong.

[trap15]

I think when Satori Kun backs you up you instantly know you're wrong.

[emphatic]

I think when Satori Kun backs you up you instantly know you're wrong.

[JBC]

*scoff*
*sneer*
*wheeze of disapproval*

[Ed Oscuro]

Funny, you guys talking about Interstellar. I skipped watching that film. I skipped watching the Terminator reboot trailer. I thought to myself, "When is this blueblack shit ever gonna be respected? How could it be?"

"Do you know a guy named Fat Ed?"
"No comprende."

Geoffrey Lewis and William Devane - easy to mistake these two actors, especially when they're both making serious faces. Very different voices though.
Especially with all the similar dialogue and even backstory bits going around:
"Daddy was a master sergeant in the Army - still is. See, he wanted a boy and got three girls."
"My real mom hung around until my dad came back from Vietnam, then she split. So it's been mostly me and Sam and Dad and the 3rd special forces. Smoke Bomb Hill. Fort Bragg. But then around about
sixth or seventh grade, it became real obvious that we weren't boys, that we were never going to go to ranger school. So I guess Dad figured there was nothing more to offer us."

Speaking of scripts, can anybody beat this? Open! No! Please! Someone kills her OH GAWED

[Skykid]

Colour me surprised, but there's a thread on Gamefaqs called "Interstellar was just stupid...", in which the majority of criticisms are completely level-headed and entirely appropriate. Not to degrade the forum that I love, but I don't think I've ever witnessed this thread's contributors so uniformly and accurately break down a movie's shortcomings, meaning gamefaqs has some kind of score on the board for film appraisal. That said in terms of appreciation everyone got on board for Dredd, so it isn't the end of the world just yet.

Although no-one managed to twig on the entire list of Interstellar errors I documented several pages back, meaning I'm long overdue a high paid job as a script editor/revisor, there's a direct prizewinner from the gamefaqs thread worth reciting:

A producer and director meet over a beer to try and decide what to do for their next movie. The guy on the next bar stool has read three or four sci-fi novels, and he spits out a few ideas they might build a movie around. The director jots them down on a cocktail napkin, brings it to Hollywood and they crank it through the movie-making machine. What plops out the other end is called Interstellar.

[Ed Oscuro]

Ehh, enough about Interstellar. Why aren't you guys watching Gordon's War or Across 110th Street?

[JBC]

Across 110th Street

Good flick, great song

[DEL]

Nightcrawler with Gyllenhaal and Renee Russo. He plays the creepy guy very well. The film isn't too bad, almost watchable.

[system11]

http://splitsider.com/2014/12/leaked-so ... ore-value/

[BIL]

[Plasmo]

Just watched Interstellar and it reminded me very harshly why I hate modern cinema. I can't even seem to enjoy it as a forgettable, trashy action flick (and this is probably what it wants to be?). I should add that I don't care about "errors" at all. I'm ok with storytelling and logic in movies that makes absolutely no sense at all.

Maybe the comparison is more than inappropriate, but 2001 - Didn't they at least watch that movie once before doing stuff like this?

[JBC]

My God, it's not the incomparable 2001 A Space Odyssey. If you want to watch that go get the Beta or Laser Disc or ancient stone tablet version that makes you feel hip & watch it as many times as you want. How can you possibly confuse Interstellar for a trashy action flick? Was it the scene where Jason Statham as Space Dave ramps his spaceship upside down to detach the bomb Dwayne 'The Hal' Johnson planted on the underside by catching it on an exploding space hook? Now given, I got up to go to the bathroom a few times so there's some scenes I missed but I'm piecing it all together through hearsay.

[lilmanjs]

A Fish Called Wanda.
A classic comedy for sure. I'm sure most everyone has seen this! Revenge!

[drauch]

My God, it's not the incomparable 2001 A Space Odyssey. If you want to watch that go get the Beta or Laser Disc or ancient stone tablet version that makes you feel hip & watch it as many times as you want.

I don't think those formats other than Laserdisc retain the original aspect ratio.

[JBC]

Ernest Scared Stupid, Laser Disc of course.

Spoiler

It's not 'Authentic Bulgarian MIAK', it's 'MILK'. The book was faded.

[Skykid]

My God, it's not the incomparable 2001 A Space Odyssey. If you want to watch that go get the Beta or Laser Disc or ancient stone tablet version that makes you feel hip & watch it as many times as you want. How can you possibly confuse Interstellar for a trashy action flick?

How can you possibly mistake it for a masterpiece of cinema?

Or is it that you mistake actual masterpieces of cinema for winning retrospective praise on the basis of being 'hip'.

Education. Such a fanciful word.

[JBC]

I didn't, refer to my first post on the matter.

Education. Such a fanciful word.

Educate yourself, look up the word 'pretension'.

[Lord Satori]

Education. Such a fanciful word.

Educate yourself, look up the word 'pretension'.

Seriously. I think it's about time someone other than "that dumbass Satori" says something like this.

This forum is full of nostalgic old men passed out in the filth that is their childhood; occasionally waking up to spout out something about Cave or their latest high score.

Though I do like 2001. The book was fantastic and virtually flawless, and the movie was iconic, but pretty slow at times. The ending sequence was different from the one in the book, too.

[drauch]

spout out something about Cave or their latest high score.

Shame someone would write that in the shmups forum.

[Lord Satori]

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