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Interstellar - Christopher Nolan Directing - Nov 2014

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Smitty

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Yep - that's WB's "oh crap, what if people don't get it? SHOW MORE FOOTAGE!" trailer.

I might be wrong but that appeared to me, to be about 80% new footage.

80%!

That is shocking. There was loads of new stuff in the last trailer, a lot of stuff I wish I hadn't seen. Before trailer 3 the film had a lot sense of mystery.

After watching I know of, vaguely, quite a lot of stuff that is going to happen. I haven't this new one and I won't.

I know one can just exercise self control and not watch these trailers but I have terrible self control. Still, i am slowly getting better. Last year I pledged not to watch anymore trailers for Gravity after the initial one. I was sold on that and I didn't need to see anymore. I'm really glad I didn't watch all the stuff people were going 'WOW' at in here because it was unexpected in the cinema and had a huge impact on me.

I'm going to try to do that more with films, but it is an uphill struggle.

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Nick R

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The same applies to the actual trailers themselves as well as the number and variety of them. Generally trailers just show you too much nowadays and they're too long. You get to see a whole spread of scenes from across the film and many of the most memorable parts. This 'spectrum' is particularly bad - when you get moments from across the whole film meaning that every act of the film has something you can see coming up.

I long for 1 teaser and 1 trailer, with a trailer that doesn't ruin so many aspects of the film in terms of plot, locations, and set pieces. Again not picking on this but it's a shit trend that's been getting worse for years.

Last year I pledged not to watch anymore trailers for Gravity after the initial one. I was sold on that and I didn't need to see anymore.

I completely agree that many trailers show too much, and that once you've decided that you intend to see a film, it's usually best to avoid subsequent marketing as much as possible. (On the other hand, it can be fun to read up about a movie in advance, letting yourself get swept along in the hype - it can make finally getting to see it at long last more exciting!)

The sheer amount of marketing material released by the studios and seen by the average viewer is probably higher now than ever, and we now have the luxury of being able to rewatch and analyse trailers to our hearts' content.

However, I don't think that individual trailers showing too much from throughout a film is really a new trend. Often, when watching a DVD that includes the film's original theatrical trailer, I'm surprised by how complete the scenes are.

Here are two examples from 1964 - one a blockbuster with the full weight of the studio's marketing behind it, the other a cheap foreign import:

If we were James Bond fans awaiting the third film in the series, I wonder if we'd be complaining that this trailer showed too much?

This one for A Fistful of Dollars doesn't explicitly spell out the story, but it does show some lengthy scenes, and a lot of moments whose context will be clear when you watch the film afterwards:

(I notice that this trailer stops the clip just before revealing the bulletproof vest... leaving it to Back to the Future 2 to spoil it instead many years later! :D)

Anyway the only reason I'm talking about trailers for old films is because I have nothing at all to say about Interstellar. There's no way I'm watching these trailers that everyone agrees show too much!

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RaoulSilva

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I'd argue that the nature of trailers has changed since 1964, back then I guess you'd probably see the trailer a couple of times in the cinema. before the film was out, (maybe a shorter version on TV or radio adverts?)probably with the idea of throwing as much out there and seeing what sticks.

Nowadays, trailers are available in so many media with people analysing every frame via websites, magazines, Youtube channels etc, together with the ability to pause, rewind and watch again, oversaturation is much easier.

Anyway, I'm not watching the latest Interstellar trailer, I'd decided to see it after the first one.

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Space Renegade Ulala

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Saw a couple of posts elsewhere earlier moaning about the planets in the trailer for a film about people desperately searching for an inhabitable, Earth-like world looked like they were Earth-like worlds instead of mad swirling sentient lightning storm gas giant planets with bright purple tri-headed elerhinos and forests made out of crystal like something off the cover of a bad 80s sci-fi novel.

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V3zna

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Reviews for this are a bit mixed. Pretty much all point out that it is technically brilliant. However, a number also add that it falls flat when it veers into emotion and sentimentality.

15 currently listed on Metacritic:

11 positive

3 mixed

1 negative

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Not long back from an IMAX screening. I'm with the 11 positive reviews.

(not a spoiler per se, more an observation but hidden all the same)

Suspect the final half hour will be what polarises opinions the most. That said, each time I go to the cinema my single hope is that I come away with the same sense of awe for the silver screen as I did when I first strode out of Richmond's Odeon back as a child in the 80s. Interstellar won't be the best film I see this year, but it is the one that will remind me of that childlike fascination the most.

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Sabreman

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I thought it was excellent very good* but didn't have that special something that gives me a buzz afterwards. All the pieces are in place, and they're all done very competently, but it's not quite the defining sci-fi film I still hope for. It's bold and conservative at the same time, has wonderful speculative ideas yet still manages some boneheaded moments. Also feels like it wraps up in a hurry, despite not feeling overlong. Absolutely merits a second watch day one on home release though.

By the way, I hadn't seen anything of it since the very first teaser, didn't read about it, discuss it or look up reviews. I didn't even really know what it was about. Threw some good surprises at me.

*On overnight reflection

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Sir DangerM

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I just saw it at the BFI IMAX. If I hadn't seen it there I think I'd be much more disappointed with it.

Visually it's pretty great throughout, but the plot is so drab and drawn out that I don't really know if I found it enjoyable. I guessed the 'twist' very early, and from that point on was really hoping that I was wrong because it seemed such a predictable way to take the story.

The silence of space was a welcome rest from the almost constant drone of the impending doom soundtrack, which seemed to be trying to force every scene to feel poignant and epic. It just made me feel drained by the end of it.

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Whilst there were some individual moments I liked, overall I thought this was pretty disappointing. It was like someone watched 2001 and decided that what it really needed was less sense of wonder and lots and lots of dry technobabble exposition instead.

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sandman

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Blimey, may have to choose another film to watch on my birthday then. The wife wasn't keen on this anyway.

If it's the anti-Gravity then I may still be in. If it's the next over hyped sci fi film that's actually a bit naff then I'm definitely not going to bother

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There's a particular monologue in this that is so awful that it made me think George Lucas might have snuck into the studio one night and slipped a page into the script.

The one from Catwoman?

Going to see this in IMAX tonight. I am excite!

Is spectacular. Gonna go see again in 35mm next week I think, but saw it in (lie)MAX last night and it was an astonishing experience.

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I thought this was a bit rubs. The space stuff is very impressive, but the characters are so weak and the tone is so sentimental that I wasn't really that engaged with it.

The end was particularly irritating, with it revealing that crossing the event horizon of a black hole allows you to hide behind a bookcase and shake it a bit, and also to make a watch go all funny. Even Disney's The Black Hole was a bit more sensible than that.

The whole thing reminded me of Sunshine; partly because of the story (i.e. the survivor of a previous mission turning up and becoming a psychopath for no reason) and partly because of the mix of hard science and weird nonsense. It reminded me of 2001, especially with the trip beyond time and space at the end. The problem for me was that 2001 used that bit to portray something terrifying and totally beyond human understanding, while Interstellar used it to portray something a bit trite and parochial.

It's like the film's saying that in all of infinite time and space, with all the wonders of the cosmos to see and to gape at, the most important thing in all of that is that Matthew McConaughey is reconciled with his daughter. The future transcendent humans really seem to go out of their way to make that happen, which is a bit weird because frankly I couldn't give a fuck.

I started to drift off the from the story by about the half way mark, and start to compile lists of plot holes and inconsistencies in my head,

like if the dropship thing can just take off from the surface of a planet and thrust into space under its own power, why did it need that multi-stage booster to get off earth at the start? How could you have a star system containing a supermassive black hole, a neutron star, and three habitable worlds? There'd be so much radiation that the astronauts would have been cooked in minutes. And why did Matt Damon programme his robot to blow up if anyone tried to access its memory? Surely it would have been easier to just chuck it off the side of one of the frozen clouds. (Also, frozen clouds, wtf. We have those on earth, they're called glaciers.)

None of that is a problem really - I've enjoyed films with much bigger plot holes than that in the past - it's just a symptom of me not really enjoying the film very much.

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Mr Ben

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Went to see this last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It did go a bit 2001 at the end, but I still thought it was great. The robots in this are also very unique, and it was refreshing that

they turn out to be very much the hero's, saving Brand, and finishing the calculation at the end. Hate how robots usually turn out to be villainous in most sci-fi films

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Fantastic film all in all. Would see again.

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Bit of a curate's egg this, some really quite impressive aspects dragged down by overdone , overlong sections of emoting and sentimentality which bored and irritated in equal measure. Performance from McConaughy (sp?)was decent and the echos of 2001 were there, albeit in a half arsed manner. Its not a short movie and would probably benefit from an edit. I admired the ambition of it but it's reach exceeded it's grasp, worth a watch regardless.

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