Damn the more I discuss this film with you guys the more I think I really liked it. Gonna have to re-watch and re....uh...opinionate...on it later.
No seriously, I was exactly the same. I walked out of the movie theatre really liking it, but the more I thought about it and discussed it with others I realised I was actually defending and justifying things that I initially disagreed with
My argument has always been whether or not that relationship was resonant enough (and that doesn't mean explicit, or dedicating a lot of screentime) to justify the moral, because if you're making a movie about love transcending space and time, then you probably want instances of love to be powerful or at least convincing.
But who is to say that he went back to her because of any romantic motivation? There's really no one else in the world that Coop would even be able to relate to anymore besides Hathaway's character. Forget love for a second; who is to say he didn't return to her under the simple pretense of companionship? He was all alone back with his people, because they weren't really his people anymore. And she was all alone on a strange planet sowing the seeds for humanity's future
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Album Rating: 5.0
Does Wellington have an IMAX Dev?
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Nah, our main cinema has TITAN. I think it's like diet IMAX
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Actually scratch that. It's more IMAX zero
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At least it tastes like real IMAX
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Album Rating: 3.5
toxin I don't get it, it sounds like you really wanted this to be a love story
and I mean you didn't get into Cooper's/his daughter's relationship? damn bro you've got a heart of steel.
and the thing that's great about the hatthaway/mcconahghgsyg dynamic is that it's completely ambiguous. if you wanted them to have had a thing going, then you could read into it and get that impression. if you didn't want that to be "the reason" he went to the planet at all, well then there's plenty of support for that viewpoint as well. it's as strong or weak as you want it to be. it's all relative maaaaaan.
"Actually scratch that. It's more IMAX zero"
well scratched, better comparison
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Album Rating: 3.5
I think the way they used the term "love" when they were talking about it "transcending dimensions, like gravity", it was more of a general thing, like it stood for just "emotional human relationships", not necessarily romance. Whether or not they get it ooooon (fingers crossed) they still had strong emotional ties to one another, and that's (supposedly) the thing that transcends dimensions.
seriously the more I type the more I think this film is brilliant
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@Dev, @Aids
"Forget love for a second; who is to say he didn't return to her under the simple pretense of companionship?"
Sure, that's a totally valid. And ultimately I think we're getting down to where this becomes a hard line of opinion. I didn't find the connection of Hathaway's character and Cooper strong enough to justify the "love transcends dimensions" thematic statement at all, and it's not because they didn't have romantic moments. They didn't have enough moments of intimate human connection that made me think, "Yeah their companionship should be something that can cross time and dimensions" on any level: friends, colleagues, lovers. You probably disagree there, which is fine. Just trying to explain where my dissatisfaction comes from.
"it sounds like you really wanted"
What I wanted is for the ending theme to be justified by the relationships provided for us. As I wrote above, it didn't really do it for me, even though the Cooper/ daughter stuff helped (which, for all my complaints about it, wasn't bad, just not great). I can respect the message the movie tried to make (which was coherent), but that doesn't mean it actually resonated.
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I thought the Cooper/Murph relationship at the start of the film was absolutely compelling, and one of the strongest types of those relationships in movies in recent memories. Unfortunately it was a bit hackneyed by the end when Murph was old but that was a tiny nitpick. As for Cooper/Brand I agree that the ambiguity of it was what made it great although that's probably more down to the skill of McConaughey and Hathaway than the script.
Good to see you're coming round Aids
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Agreed, I'm starting to think so too
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In case y'all haven't seen this great article http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/11/07/interstellar-plot-explained/
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No, it's just a funny article that points out the logic behind it
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Shhit, I need to watch the movie already. And then listen to this.
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"i'm over how everyone feels the need to explain his films. they're not that fucking difficult"
It's basicly an awnser or interpretation of some of 2001's ideas yeah; flick rules hard best Nolan
hands down
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My friend gave me a limited edition poster of this movie so I feel required to see it although I was already interested. I didn't know Zimmer made the S/T so I'm pumped to finally see and hear this shit.
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Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
I probably wouldn't go as far as to say this is his best film. Need to see it more for me to be the judge on that. That being said, Dark Knight is still No. 1 for me.
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Can anyone explain how he gets back to Hathaway after the wormhole closes?
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The wormhole closed?
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Unfortunately it was a bit hackneyed by the end when Murph was old
how's that Roro?
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"Can anyone explain how he gets back to Hathaway after the wormhole closes?"
It never closed, as Deviant said, the 5D super-future-humans just took him back through space and time to the point where they first passed through the wormhole to shake her hand (why they did that is anyone's guess) before leaving him in a place where he would be saved JUST in the nick of time (even though presumably with their powers they could've just left him on the Saturn space station but whatever)
"how's that Roro?"
I dunno, the final meeting between Cooper and super-old Murph just didn't cut it for me. I don't feel like it did justice to all their other interactions throughout the movie which were superbly written and acted. Don't know how better to say it
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