Just peeped Interstellar... Fukkin Nolan. The man is just a genius

[Tony D'Amato]

I envy his intellect

 

[duncanthetall]

Lol @ the black hole scene. Good movie. Extremely overrated though

 

[ORDER_66]

The docking scene was my shyt!!!!

 

[jdubnyce]

Bookshelf

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Got silly quick.

 

[Starman]

Bookshelf

That was one of the things that took away from this movie. I wanted to love this movie and walked away hating it.

 

[HipHopStan]

I've said this before and I'll say it again, if I heard that Nolan was making a movie about the invention of the trash bag, I'd be like and be there opening day with no fukks given.

 

[GzUp]

I still don't get it


It's been explained to me but I just don't get it, in real life conversations I pretend I do

 

[wire28]

pos rep to OP

Nolan is one of the most intelligent directors to ever stand behind the camera. and his ability to evoke emotion (several levels) in the viewer is unrivaled. every time i watch one of his events (calling it just a film is disrespectful at this point) i feel like im watching jordan in his prime. the vast gap of talent between Nolan and his peers is mindblowing and every time i see a new Nolan event is coming i quiver in anticipation

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

Movie was excellent, IMO...

 

[Monoblock]

Great movie, great soundtrack, and overall just amazing work. I stay watching this movie. I love this movie. He made a machine believe man...a fukking machine

"Come on Tars"

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

pos rep to OP

Nolan is one of the most intelligent directors to ever stand behind the camera. and his ability to invoke emotion (several levels) in the viewer is unrivaled. every time i watch one of his events (calling it just a film is disrespectful at this point) i feel like im watching jordan in his prime. the vast gap of talent between Nolan and his peers is mindblowing and every time i see a new Nolan event is coming i quiver in anticipation

I won't argue about him being a genius (in the theoretical sense), but he can't evoke emotion to save his life. You're completely off the mark on that one.

Interstellar makes me feel as though Chris Nolan reads Kip Thorne Physics Theory to his kids as a bedtime story – but then, his cold, cerebral filmmaking approach is something that has long been called out by his critics. The issue with a director who places so many cerebral concerns over emotional beats is that it tends to result in movies that never breach our emotional walls, or are so concerned with telling information that they become heavy with exposition dumps.

To be fair, in movies like Memento, Dark Knight or Inception, it made sense to have a cold, calculating, brainy cinematic style that went hand in hand with protagonists who were themselves cold, calculating, analytically intelligent or emotionally stunted as a matter of policy (being investigators and/or strategists). In Interstellar, that cold clinical style is wholly at odds with a story about the powerful emotional connections of love and parentage.

Amelia Brand’s (Anne Hathaway) monologue in Interstellar about the power and pull of love is probably one of the least arousing speeches on the subject I’ve personally ever heard, and is a perfect example of Nolan’s emotional disconnect. Even attempts to actually show emotional resonance in his films – instead of telling us to feel it (such as Coop meeting an elderly Murph, Cobb reuniting with his kids, or Alfred and Bruce’s silent farewell) – don’t feel as powerful as they should.

Once you peel back the layers of Nolan-brand theorizing and impeccably technical visual spectacle, you’ll also find major supporting characters entirely missing from the story’s emotional blueprint.

(Does anybody really feel for Marion Cotillard’s Mal in Inception? How about Coop’s son Tom (Casey Affleck) in Interstellar? Or Boden’s wife Sarah (Rebecca Hall) in The Prestige? Leonard Shelby’s wife (Jorja Fox) in Memento? Step back an ask yourself, were these fully-formed characters, or just plot devices purposed to create contrived emotional impact? Then step back further and ask that same question about similar examples you will find in every Nolan film…)

Brains are a great thing to have when offering audiences the grand wonder of cinema and spectacle, but what truly makes a story last is how it connects to our hearts. Four levels of dreaming and all the big-budget financing in the world can’t affect a viewer even half as much as your average animated short film – and there’s a lesson to be learned in that, Mr. Nolan.

 

[wire28]

I won't argue about him being a genius (in the theoretical sense), but he can't evoke emotion to save his life. You're completely off the mark on that one.

edited for you

but
wrong

and at 3:15 where it really picks up Murph distraught crying out for her father

Cooper looks under the blanket, hoping maybe his daughter is there

Tears streaming as the music builds and Cooper literally leaves everything he loves in the dust

Thank you, Nolan

 

[Monoblock]

I won't argue about him being a genius (in the theoretical sense), but he can't evoke emotion to save his life. You're completely off the mark on that one.

You trippin. When he was only gone a few hours but 30+ years passed and he realized he missed all those messages from Murph and she thought he lied and didnt keep his promise



And then him finally seeing Murph at the end being 100+ years old.



"Because my Dad promised me"

 

[Disgustya Stallone]