I disliked it. I'm a sci-fi junkie.

Loved it. Loved the film score too.

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Originally posted by rusbro:
Saw it in theaters. Watched multiple times at home.

Same. It had some real thought and intelligence in it. So the polar opposite of whatever Transformers, SuperHo, Star Wars bullshit that usually comes out.

And it also has Jessica Chastain in it.

I've watched it twice. I liked it.

Obviously not for everyone.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
should be in liar section I would think.

That’s what I thought

I don't remember the ending but watched it in one sitting. I don't remember it being four hours though.

I loved it.

I can see how the short-attention-span-having, gotta have 100%-shit-blowing-up-for-the-entire-Movie younger generation would hate it.

Issat the one where the Lincoln Lawyer literally bends the universe to his will and fights his way across space and time and space time to keep his promise and see his daughter again, and she's like, "Sorry dad, I'm kind of busy right now"? If so, we did watch the whole thing (I think my wife fell asleep) and I hated it. Right up there with "Contact," but longer.

Never saw it. I like "Dune"

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Originally posted by Dallas239:
Issat the one where the Lincoln Lawyer literally bends the universe to his will and fights his way across space and time and space time to keep his promise and see his daughter again, and she's like, "Sorry dad, I'm kind of busy right now"? If so, we did watch the whole thing (I think my wife fell asleep) and I hated it. Right up there with "Contact," but longer.

I think that's right.

And the guy just randomly happens to view/go to the precise right place and time, repeatedly.

Yes, obviously one does not want to learn physics or science through the addled eyes of Hollywierd. But this went beyond suspending disbelief, to repeated "deus ex machina". Even Gravity - with it's completely idiotic plot item where orbital debris gets accelerated to ridiculous velocity by an accident, which then stays mostly intact and in the same orbital trajectory despite the higher velocity - was more believable than this.

I have a limit of the number of times I will say to myself "NFW" when watching a movie. For Gravity, it was just the one major "NFW" - OK, just accept that some magical event would accelerate debris to orbit the earth in 90 minutes while not obliterating it right then and there, and also keep the undead debris in the original trajectory despite the higher speed - and I could enjoy it. Interstellar went well past my NFW limit even before the miraculous coincidences that got the guy home.

I am not a fan of the superhero genre, and don't need special effects to make a movie. But the flaws in this would have ruined other types of movie as well. Imagine a murder mystery where crimes were solved by a drunk staggering into a room full of evidence. Repeatedly.

It is conceivable that some underlying concept explained in a book (I assume there was a book?) might set up how this was not ridiculously contrived, but semi-plausible.

I enjoyed it, even with some of the science as we know it issues.

Yes and regret it. All this freaking advanced technology of some alien race, but you have to communicate with dust??

Then the main character returns home, daughter is on her death bed, and rather than stay with her in her final moments, runs off after some new pussy? Right......

Did we watch the same movie?

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Originally posted by Southflorida-law:
All this freaking advanced technology of some alien race, but you have to communicate with dust??

That was US from the far future, not "aliens". The human race.

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Then the main character returns home, daughter is on her death bed, and rather than stay with her in her final moments, runs off after some new pussy? Right......

I seem to recall the daughter telling the father to go.

Watched it for the first time last year on Amazon Prime. Liked it enough to break down and buy the Blu-ray disc when it was on discount last Christmas. Watched a couple of times since, though none of the sittings were anywhere close to being four hours long.

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Originally posted by Dallas239:
..... and I hated it. Right up there with "Contact,"...

WTH you say? Contact??? How are we throwing that in the same pool with this? I love Contact, with a bonus of it being on the short list to test the effectiveness of any new home theater setup. Specifically the scene where the first machine is destroyed and pieces are whizzing by you.

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Originally posted by Southflorida-law:
All this freaking advanced technology of some alien race, but you have to communicate with dust??

Newsflash - The aliens are we.

Interstellar is a bunch of pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo that is completely unbelievable from a technical point of view, and illogical from a character-motivational/logical point of view.
But it does have just enough drama in scene-to-scene to make it plausible that maybe if you keep watching it will start to make some sense.
Unfortunately it doesn't, but the time has passed and you have been "entertained".

Yes. Just good enough to get past the execrable Matthew McConaughey.

I watched it 2 or 3 years ago and enjoyed it. Was only 2 to 2 1/2 hrs long.

The Martian was better SiFi OMHO.

We enjoyed it.

Definitely make sure the 'suspension of disbelief' switch is engaged -- but then again I am not an astrophysicist so what do I know...

And of course as far as I know no human has experienced FTL travel so what does ANYONE really know.

Entertaining / thought-provoking sci-fi IMO.

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