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Interstellar - Christopher Nolan Directing - Nov 2014

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I love Dark Knight Rises. I know it's another film that people have daggers out for, but for me it's a great end to the trilogy. Like Interstellar it gets better with repeat viewings. Plus, like Inception, I think it has impeccable pacing.

Here's controversy for you, I think DKR is the best of the 3 films, I love all of them, but DKR just nudges it for me.

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Yep. As I said earlier I really like the pacing. It's a real slow burn which crescendos marvellously in the last hour. I also felt that it had a lot more heart and emotion then the previous films. Don't get me wrong, I love the first two, but on repeat viewing I find that DKR moves and excites me more.

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Had my Blu-Ray copy delivered this week, not had the 3 hours to spend watching it all, but gave it a quick spin. Jesus the first 5 minutes are a surround subwoofer demo workout! :)

I found the dialogue miiles better and clearer than when I saw this at in IMAX. Of course if you have a 5.1 system you could always up the volume on the centre speaker, if your amp allows you to raise the db level.

If you are watching this via a soundbar, or worse through actual TV speakers though, you have no chance or hope for the dialogue I reckon. The southern drawl is qute difficult to unpick at times.

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englishbob

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Well thats great news then.

Nolan does appear to mix his vocal track lower than most though for some reason, so its not a complaint over nothing really. I think an element of re-balancing happens when it goes out on disc/digital anyway, but certainly in all the Nolan films I have watched at the cinema, IMAX or not, its fairly low in the mix.

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I think it's a really exciting, gripping and innovative film that trips over some of its own ideas and is flawed by some pretty clunky dialogue.

But I'd much rather it actually took a few risks than be vanilla. At least it bloody tries and the science is well-researched, if not a bit of a leap too far.

The soundtrack and cinematography are to die for. 9/10 stuff.

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I was at the Interstellar live screening at the Royal Albert Hall the other week, with a 75-piece orchestra playing, erm, live. I had no trouble with the dialogue at all.

Crowd went a bit crazy happy during the docking sequence. Quite emotional really!

I totally didn't know about that screening! Normally those things are for older films - that this was for a film only months old, would have had me getting tickets.

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Just finally gotten around to re-watch this on Blu-Ray - happy to say the dialogue was much clearer in the mix than it was at the IMAX showing I went to.

It is certainly a sub-woofer demo disk, I thought it was going to rip apart in some scenes!

Repeat viewing also revealed a lot more of a clearer definition of the story and events. I still got confused about the amount of space craft in use though, especially when

Matt Damon makes his escape

as I thought there where only two visable lander craft available

As it turns out after that sequence, it becomes clear that there are (a) hunters and (b) landers! So there are 2 of each. Its not very clear at all in the film. Sometimes when they land on a planet they use hunters, but then they also use landers too.

This helps...

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/2014/11/interstellar/interstellar.html

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Sarlaccfood

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Just finally gotten around to re-watch this on Blu-Ray - happy to say the dialogue was much clearer in the mix than it was at the IMAX showing I went to.

It is certainly a sub-woofer demo disk, I thought it was going to rip apart in some scenes!

Repeat viewing also revealed a lot more of a clearer definition of the story and events. I still got confused about the amount of space craft in use though, especially when

Matt Damon makes his escape

as I thought there where only two visable lander craft available

As it turns out after that sequence, it becomes clear that there are (a) hunters and (b) landers! So there are 2 of each. Its not very clear at all in the film. Sometimes when they land on a planet they use hunters, but then they also use landers too.

This helps...

http://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/2014/11/interstellar/interstellar.html

2 rangers and 2 landers in the middle. With labs and other compartments spinning round.

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Spacehost

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I feel like a different movie would've ended earlier than this did- a straight SF film that didn't focus also on his family and the Earth left behind- but as far as elaborate SF endings go this was no worse than any other. It's still a masterpiece of science fiction in the 60s-70s idealist mould, and I hope to watch it at an IMAX some time.

Kinda wish they'd filmed it in Planetariumoscope mind. Lying back watching it unravel on a giant hemispherical screen.

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Steely

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Why didnt I watch this sooner! And in the cinema! Missed out. I thought it was brilliant, the trailer really (from what I remember of it) doesnt give much away at all, it turned into a film I really wasnt expecting.

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I didn't even clock that there were two robots until near the end :lol:

The (possible mild spoiler for Moon also)

videocall emotional bits

didn't get me which is weird as the one in Moon gets me every time I watch it

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El Geet

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Watched this the other night. Wife hated it and, whilst I enjoyed it, I just wasn't sure. It felt like it was striving for something big but wasn't quite achieving it. The obvious homage to 2001 was, well, obvious which I feel undermines the importance of any sort of message the film was striving for. Unless it wasn't striving for anything?

The plot holes were glaring which I can get past when a film is a romp that isn't taking itself so seriously and I think that's the difficulty I have with the film. It's deadly serious yet is also a bit pulpy - maybe that was the intention but I struggle with the combination.

Saying all of that I did enjoy it and haven't spent a couple of days thinking about a film for a long time.

I hope Nolan is allowed to continue with his big budget stuff. I thought DNK was dreadful, I mean I really didn't enjoy it. But I loved inception and most of his other stuff to be honest.

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