Don't waste your time on this nearly 3-hour long, big named filled, big budget turkey.

The film is dead boring. It's hard to figure out what's going on. An hour into the movie, you still don't know much. If you watch closely, you'll figure out that all the animals and just about all the plants (except corn) have died off due to some kind of blight. It's hinted at that technology and machines are pretty much a no-no. For about half an hour, you get Matthew McCaughnehey or whatever his name is, driving around in his big Ram 3500 series truck (there must still be gas?) in cornfields and whining about how, as an engineer, he has nothing to do and hates being a farmer. Life's hard, it's unfair to him and his kids, oh woe is me...

Enter a ghost or poltergeist or something diddling with the books in his ultra-smart daughter's bedroom, and you end up with coordinates formed in the dust by some kind of gravitational anomaly.

To make a long boring story short, they find the remnants of NASA underground, hiding. There was a mission to a wormhole that appeared near Saturn. You think the force that put it there might have put it a bit closer to Earth?! Go through the wormhole, find the missing mission leaders that went before, and find a new planet to live on. bla bla bla. The first is too wet, the 2nd is too cold, the 3rd is just right? Goldilocks, anyone?

Go to the concession stand and have a snack. Go pee. Insure a pass-out and go have a smoke. Go out to dinner somewhere. Come back.

You didn't miss anything. They're still fighting over what to do: plan A or plan B. More like Plan 9 From Outer Space. It was a better movie.

Relativistic time dilation, long distance sleeper travel in space, drama, loud music, special effects...at least the music wakes you up.

Then enter the Deus Ex Machina, and we all live happily ever after, after the evil plans of NASA have been thwarted.

MAJOR SPOILER: The ghost was the girl's dad from the future trying to change the past. It didn't work, I think, since he was trying to do it from the inside of a black hole in another galaxy.

In a word, LAME.

Save your money.

Steal it off Pirate Bay when it comes out on DVD.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson loves it and has a whole twitter festival of good things to say about it.

http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/10/7186 ... terstellar

There will be several technical papers from the very detailed simulation of the black hole in the movie. The calculations on what happens just outside of a black hole were never done in this detail and the image on the screen is supposed to be an amazing wonder.

It's still too long a sit in a theater for me.

Sooo... movie? or wait for torrent edition and go for Hobbit now (how in the world did they make a small book into 3 part movie????)?

fhunter wrote: Tue Nov 11, 2014 4:19 pm Sooo... movie? or wait for torrent edition and go for Hobbit now (how in the world did they make a small book into 3 part movie????)?

By filling it with nonsense, focusing on Thorin Oakenshield's dwarvish diaspora, and changing a nice little book about a comfortable underachiever learning to take risks and turning it into a lame allegory about national homelands. It demonstrates conclusively that Peter Jackson neither understands nor appreciates Tolkien.

Couldn't tell ya.

I refuse to watch the Hobbit films.

I remember reading the Hobbit about 40 years ago or give or take, and I don't remember anything like what the movies are portraying, somewhere it got lost in the translation and the three movie deal.

Having said that the second movie with the dragon WOW this is some of the best animation I think I have seen, the dragon is much better then any before it. Truly a masterpiece of film, please don't confuse what I am saying with story line, don't go there, but from a purely viewers point of view, its all about the dragon and worth seeing the movie, not to be confused with the book.

fhunter you are right, there is way way way more in the movies then what was ever in the book, so much so if you read the book put it on the shelf and enjoy it for the books sake, Then forget the book and everything it said, and go watch the movie, its a good movie but you must first totally disengage yourself from Tolkien. They are not even on the same page as it were.

But still worth watching the movie at least the second one was good in its own right as a movie only the names were changed to protect the guilty.

River

After reading the reviews and after having been told by people seeing it that it was good, I expected I would disagree with Paolo about the movie Interstellar, but I can't. The movie was too long and too boring. I really considered walking out on it at times, but stuck around to see if it wowed at the end. It didn't.

I'm looking forward to the third Hobbit movie. I thought the second was much better than the first, and I don't care if it stays true to the book. I've read the book, and if I want, I can read it again. Movies and books are two different mediums. It's hard to compare the two, and I'm not sure one should try.

Those damn racing rabbits pulling the sled in the first one did me in.

Slammr (imported) wrote: Thu Nov 13, 2014 11:51 am After reading the reviews and after having been told by people seeing it that it was good, I expected I would disagree with Paolo about the movie Interstellar, but I can't. The movie was too long and too boring. I really considered walking out on it at times, but stuck around to see if it wowed at the end. It didn't.

I'm looking forward to the third Hobbit movie. I thought the second was much better than the first, and I don't care if it stays true to the book. I've read the book, and if I want, I can read it again. Movies and books are two different mediums. It's hard to compare the two, and I'm not sure one should try.

I think we see movies and books the same way, don't try to match them because they don't and never will. As for the second movie which I really enjoyed, what did you think of the dragon?

River

The movies vs. books things never turns out well.

That's the main reason I refuse to watch Ender's Game.

I enjoyed the first Harry Potter film because I had not read the book.

However, I have to admit that I did not enjoy the rest of the films, because I read the books first.

The same with the works of Stephen King, with perhaps, the exception being The Stand.