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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 0:52:05 GMT
We both liked it a lot. At almost 3 hours, they packed a lot into it and we had no idea where it was going and how it would end. DH and I talked about it all the way home trying to remember things and how they related to other things in the movie. It was amazing, frightening, sad and poignant with some humor thrown in.
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Post by trollie on Nov 19, 2014 0:54:07 GMT
Well made movie, acting was great, but I hated most of it, I left the theatre ticked...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 1:00:34 GMT
I had a very hard time sitting that long. I'll never sit through a 3 hour movie in a theater again. Anyway, good movie, quite compelling. imo. I have my favorite scenes and comments about some of the character development but I'll refrain so as not to provide spoilers.
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Post by MaryMary on Nov 19, 2014 1:01:31 GMT
That's interesting... The only thing I know about this movie is that my friend HATED it. Like, she was mad for days she hated it so much.
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Post by trollie on Nov 19, 2014 1:07:42 GMT
That's interesting... The only thing I know about this movie is that my friend HATED it. Like, she was mad for days she hated it so much. Pretty much where I'm at with it..... |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 1:08:03 GMT
That's interesting... The only thing I know about this movie is that my friend HATED it. Like, she was mad for days she hated it so much.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 1:08:59 GMT
I had a very hard time sitting that long. I'll never sit through a 3 hour movie in a theater again. Anyway, good movie, quite compelling. imo. I have my favorite scenes and comments about some of the character development but I'll refrain so as not to provide spoilers. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 1:11:32 GMT
Husband and I saw it Saturday night with my sister and her husband. We all liked it. I thought it was very though provoking but I did have some issues with it. I wish we could have been a privy to a little bit more back story on why the earth was turning against us. It was also one of those movies I had to use my app "RunPee" so I didn't miss anything because you definitely have to pay attention.
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Post by trollie on Nov 19, 2014 1:12:35 GMT
It's been a couple weeks since I've seen it, but these were the reasons I hated it: -Dad LEAVES family (with GPA, mom has passed) with no promise of return because he is an engineer and was meant for greater things than "farming." - Selfish, selfish, selfish - IMHO
-Misses out on his daughter's entire life after the age of 10.
-Misses out on meeting his first grandson. (Grandson was born and died while he was gone.)
-When he wakes up after finally getting back and he mistakenly thinks the place he is at is names after him - NARCISSIST! It is named after his genius daughter.
-His daughter is elderly and now dying by the time they are reunited at the end of the movie. Does he stay by her side? NO!!! He is back into space to find Anne Hathaway's character - a character he had ZERO chemistry with. W.T. ACTUAL. F?!!!?!! |
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Post by trollie on Nov 19, 2014 1:25:13 GMT
Great special effects though....
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 1:38:17 GMT
Trollie, if he hadn't gone the entire planet would have been doomed. Didn't HE send her the data so she could save them? And he left her side when she was dying because she told him to go find Brand.
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Post by trollie on Nov 19, 2014 1:45:39 GMT
I would never leave my dying child..... That said, I don't blame her for telling him to leave. He had left her for her entire life anyway.
There was no guarantee that he'd save the planet. He left his motherless children to die on earth alone...
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 1:57:15 GMT
I would never leave my dying child..... That said, I don't blame her for telling him to leave. He had left her for her entire life anyway. There was no guarantee that he'd save the planet. He left his motherless children to die on earth alone...  |
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Post by trollie on Nov 19, 2014 2:04:44 GMT
True.
If the mother had been alive when he went to space, and if he hadn't left his dying daughter at the end, the movie and I would be friends..... I thought the acting, the effects and everything else was fantastic. It was a compelling storyline, but I can't get past those 2 details...
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Post by elaine on Nov 19, 2014 2:44:48 GMT
My husband and I loved it. I didn't know ahead of time that it was 3 hours and was surprised that so much time had passes when we left the theater. It flew by for me. We heard a review on NPR where it was described as a movie that had a conversation with 2001 Space Odyssey, which we found to be a perfect description. I liked TARS much much more than HAL.  |
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Post by hennybutton on Nov 19, 2014 3:21:45 GMT
My husband and I loved it. I didn't know ahead of time that it was 3 hours and was surprised that so much time had passes when we left the theater. It flew by for me. We heard a review on NPR where it was described as a movie that had a conversation with 2001 Space Odyssey, which we found to be a perfect description. I liked TARS much much more than HAL. Well, TARS was a good robot and HAL was a killer computer, so it's understandable that you'd like TARS better.  I enjoyed the movie very much. I liked the bits that were in homage to 2001. I do think Trollie's complaints are valid though. What she left out was the poor son. What was the point of even having him in the story? Cooper clearly favored the daughter so much that the son might as well have not existed. |
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Post by disneyjunkie on Nov 19, 2014 3:26:43 GMT
I really liked but there was a lot going on. I might need to watch it 4 more times to "get" all the science!
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Post by krazykatlady on Nov 19, 2014 3:55:40 GMT
I liked it but it was too long for my attention span. One thing that irritated me was the sound. I guess I'm getting old but I couldn't hear half the dialog!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2014 4:03:02 GMT
What she left out was the poor son. What was the point of even having him in the story? Cooper clearly favored the daughter so much that the son might as well have not existed. So Casey Affleck and Matt Damon could star in ANOTHER movie together I agree with Trollie about the storyline. I just tried to suspend disbelief because they were in a situation that's hard for us today to wrap our heads around. I loved the movie but didn't care for the some of the casting. I would've enjoyed it a lot more with someone other than Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in the lead roles. Neither one of them fit this. And Ellen Burstyn as the elderly Jessica Chastain?? They look absolutely nothing alike. Their face shape, eyes, everything are so different. I read somewhere that this director likes to stack his movies with big names and it seems like he did that here, to the detriment of the movie.   |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 4:03:15 GMT
I was on another message board that has a 65 page discussion going on.  Lots of people trying to explain it to other people. The one that cracked me up was one guy said he understood the movie but what the heck was going on with the books on the shelf. Everyone was making fun of him because he obviously didn't GET the movie. Like Inception, I need to see it again.
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Post by ceepea on Nov 19, 2014 5:41:55 GMT
We saw it Sunday night. At around the hour and a half mark I started hating it. Like- get me out of this theatre-hating it. I also figured out that is was the dad moving the books almost as soon as he took off for space. I'm still mad I wasted that much of my time sitting there. My older son loved it, my husband thought it was pretty good, and my youngest son wanted to run screaming from the theatre he hated it so much.
I think that robot was the stupidest looking thing I have ever seen. Everyone in the movie spoke in a monotone, it was hard to tell who was speaking. The stupid music was much too loud and it would build and build in intensity so you thought something was going to happen.....and then nothing, nothing at all. It had no action, no chemistry. The best actor was the little girl.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Nov 19, 2014 5:44:35 GMT
Different strokes and all that. We loved the robot. Unlike Nolan's Inception, Interstellar had some comedic moments which were needed.
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Post by rainangel on Nov 19, 2014 12:39:55 GMT
Me and my brother have a tradition of seeing Nolan's movies together, as he is my brother's favorite director. We came out of the theatre not too impressed. I mean, it is extremely well-made, and the effects are awesome and impressive. It just felt like there were big chunks of the movie that could have been cut, and made it into a shorter more comprehensible movie. But then again, spacemovies are just not my thing, so that's probably why I found it boring. It's just not my genre I really love Inception, the Batman movies and Memento, so chances are I will like Nolan't next films. He just happened to make a spacemovie, and that doesn't really interest me. But I can see people who do like movies set in space absolutely loving this! |
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Post by peajays on Nov 19, 2014 12:57:00 GMT
Saw it on the weekend. I liked it but I didn't love it. The three hours went pretty quickly for me. I just couldn't get past the idea that he was a pilot, and all of a sudden he's heading up a NASA space flight as if there would be no training required! And what ship needs a rocket to take off from earth, but has no problem launching off of water from the planet they first land on?
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Post by nnnsmom on Nov 19, 2014 13:03:43 GMT
We took 15yo DS and his 3 friends to see it last Friday night. (Well, we originally took them to Dumb and Dumber To, but it was sold out).
When I saw how long it was I thought they were going to be walking out early. Nope - when they came out all four of them were saying it was the best movie they'd ever seen!
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Post by alibama on Nov 19, 2014 13:52:57 GMT
I LOVED LOVED this movie. In fact I would go back and see it again. I would have liked to have seen a couple things go differently but overhaul I just loved it.
I don't like sitting in the theater for three hours but it was well worth it!
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Post by idahomom on Nov 19, 2014 14:27:34 GMT
We paid $34 to see it at Imax with friends and we hated it. Add to a bad movie, it was so loud that I couldn't make out half of what they were saying.
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Post by disneyjunkie on Nov 19, 2014 14:45:59 GMT
Add me to the list of people that loved the robots!
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Post by ~Susan~ on Nov 19, 2014 14:46:45 GMT
I didn't see it, but was in the theatre next to the one showing it and it was *LOUD*. It was making the building vibrate and we couldn't even hear the movie we were seeing. I might have to wait to see this one when it comes out on DVD.
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Post by Yubon Peatlejuice on Nov 19, 2014 15:19:16 GMT
I'm with Trollie on this one. He didn't leave because he felt he had to. He left because he wanted to. He was dying for an adventure - ANY adventure. Kids be dammed. ITA that I would have liked him better if he stayed with Murph at the end while she was dying. But he didn't. He spent 4 minutes with her and then ran off to find Brand. My only wish at that point was for Edmunds to be alive. That would have been awesome.
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