Interstellar - Review Thread

Once you are done, I'll feel just a little more alone in this world...

Yea you're right, the female wants to watch it. And I'm sure there will be another one coming out I will want to see (a 3 hour movie that is). After I watch it again I will report on my level of hatred for young Murph's acting abilities.

I'm so glad that even in the smallest of corners on the Internet we're still not allowed to speak freely.

We can't scare the advertisers away.

So, I know most people are going crazy for the WalMart edition of the Blu Ray, but I opted for the Target steelbook instead.

I went Wal-Mart. I died a little inside.

Deep breath...

On Monday night I saw this live at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Hans Zimmer and the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed the score live whilst the movie played. Zimmer was just on keyboard/synth but he gave massive props to the conductor and organist at the end, which consisted of at least 5 minutes of standing applause.

They nailed every last track to a tee.

Only once throughout the film did the audience applause and you can see that exact, beautiful fucking moment right here:



Prior to the movie Stephen Hawking was wheeled on to introduce Zimmer, Nolan, Kip Thorne (scientific advisor on Interstellar) and Brian Cox - a professor of physics on whom the character of Capa in Sunshine was partly based - a point he referred to during the panel discussion that ensued.

Nolan expressed his interest in Carl Sagan and Cosmos, and the fact that his generation aspired to be astronauts and that the modern world is too obsessed with micro-science, phones, gadgets rather than the external realm.

Kip Thorne was fascinating to listen to and even had several slides to explain the science behind it - he also explained how he was convinced that orbiting a black hole on a planet where 7 earth years equaled 1 hour was impossible - Nolan's response? "Sleep on it." And, behold, after sleeping on it he figured out an equation that would allow such an occurrence to exist. He was so complimentary to Chris and Jonah because their creativity forced him to think about certain equations from perspectives that he never had before - and Nolan in turn explained how if Kip gave him a realistic situation to base a scene around, Kip would also go away to research in depth and ensure that contemporary calculations still correlated with his workings. Kip probably got the greatest laughs - he and Chris' banter was heartfelt and genuine. Brian Cox mentioned how unique it is that someone could base a Hollywood movie around these questions that cover all the major physics elements - relativity, quantum mechanics and M-brane theory - and approach them all in one overarching story.

The delicacy of this is easily ignored by detractors.

After the panel Michael Caine came out and told the classic Batman story about Nolan arriving at his house and making him read Batman Begins. "I'm not playing the lead, then?", was his first comment when Nolan told him what it was about. Nolan drank tea with Mrs Caine while MC read it and Caine immediately agreed. He said that that was the biggest change in the history of his acting career. And that he'd never made 6 blockbusters in a row before that. He then invited Nolan and Zimmer on to the stage and it was a joy to see how much respect and adoration the three all felt for one another. Both Caine and Zimmer ran out of words to describe how much they loved working with CN. I know Neverending gives Zimmer stick for his "team" but you can tell that the music he makes for Nolan films is very personal - he wrote the melody for Interstellar before Nolan had even explained the plot and he wrote it about him and his son. Then Nolan told him what the plot was and Zimmer was like "but I've written this intricate, minimal piece about me and my son" and Nolan told him how that father/child relationship was the crux of the story.

Nolan also explained how this is as big as subject matter gets in film, so that's why they had to use an organ. The orgnanist playing live was unreal.

Nolan was very dry and when asked if he purposefully made the film to be inspirational to a new generation of scientists/astronauts he said you should never set out with that kind of goal because it will drive you crazy - but as they advanced with the film the realised that they had to make hope the defining factor because they saw how important the chance was for them to make this point and reach out to people - old and new.

It worked with me. I've ran out of the number of people I've told how good this film is. And I think that goes for everyone on here who loves it. We can't stop talking about it. That is rare indeed for a simple movie these days.

My favourite part was when Nolan wasn't being dry with his answers about the film's production, but when he had banter with Kip or Hans. He just came across as a classic English, laid-back guy who is most comfortable laughing and taking the piss out of his friends. It was a tiny glimpse into the man behind the world-creating mask.

Pictures to come.

Damn Deexan, consider me jealous.

Deex... work on your picture taking mate. Blurry as fuck!

Ah, my beautiful new steelbook has arrived in the mail.

Next to How Stella Got Her Groove Back, right?