Interstellar (2014)

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Fadaar said:
I think that's the biggest problem for me when it comes to Arrival and Interstellar. I don't have kids so the endings angered me far more than they should have. I've said it before in these threads just not a big fan of the time travel aspects regarding the past.
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I don't have kids either yet I cried like a little bitch during the remote videos scene. Maybe McC act was perfect, that absolute despair when you see your kids lives rolling in front of you, them missing you, loathing your unkept promise and trying to keep their forsaken lives on. I don't know, as most people I feel the ending was subpar regarding the whole movie, but Interstellat has so epic scenes any Matt Damon couldn't ruin.
 
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They somewhat address that with talk about how the son will be alright without him, but yeah, that's definitely one father that doesn't believe in loving his kids equally. I guess one could argue that when he saw that he got married and had a kid, that he did alright and didn't need worrying about, and Murph flipping her shit about him leaving + the pissed off video would demand his focus. But without the son never really being brought up at all in the last bits, and with how over-the-top his actions were in the last act made the character feel like a punching bag for the father and daughter dynamic.
 
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The son is taught to be stoic, he sacrifices his own dreams to run the family farm as it is what society needs him to do, as an adult he's portrayed as an asshole hick and then he's forgotten about completely by everyone.

Honestly he should have been written out of the story completely. He's entirely vestigal and just adds this little ugly undercurrent to an otherwise decent film.
 
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interstellar is just a meme
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I keep watching this movie (And Fury & Thor: Ragnarok) any time I want to watch something. I don't think I started liking this one until the 3rd time through, but it's great.

Yea, the ending overall is pretty damn meh, but this part gets me every time:


And this is the best scene in the movie, heavily aided by the soundtrack -
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Doing annual watch of this movie. Keeps getting better with every rewatch. That scene is probably one of my favorites in all of filmaking.
 
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We didn’t need to know just how much you two love docking.
 
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The son is Timothee Chalamet, can you blame him for trying to sweep that under the rug?
 
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Arbitrary said:
Does it have a deleted scene where he remembers he had a son?
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Honestly, I think his son was a bit of a disappointment to him for not being academically gifted or a 'dreamer.' It's realistically written in that people are often shitty about stuff like that. The more real a character is written, the more flaws they have.

I rewatched this movie recently and it was way better the second time.
 
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Mist said:
Honestly, I think his son was a bit of a disappointment to him for not being academically gifted or a 'dreamer.' It's realistically written in that people are often shitty about stuff like that.

I rewatched this movie recently and it was way better the second time.
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I really only bring it up at all because I know there are people that were the maligned or forgotten sibling and picked up on it right away whereas I had not a clue. For them the movie is an entirely different experience than it is for someone without siblings or in a different spot in the family hierarchy. That kind of thing with media I think is really interesting. I'm pretty sure those themes are accidental and the people making the film just forgot about little bro but that only adds an additional meta layer to the whole thing. It doesn't get much better than the explanation instead reinforces the theme.

My actual criticism of the film is it does such a great job of reconstructing science fiction themes and story beats and making something new out the familiar to include a pointless segment where Matt Damon has genric seen a hundred times space madness with a generic reveal. Hey, your robot is busted! Want us to look at it? NOPE. You get 2/3rds of the way through and we get some C- work all of a sudden. I'm not mad, Interstellar. I'm just disappointed.
 
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Arbitrary said:
I really only bring it up at all because I know there are people that were the maligned or forgotten sibling and picked up on it right away whereas I had not a clue. For them the movie is an entirely different experience than it is for someone without siblings or in a different spot in the family hierarchy. That kind of thing with media I think is really interesting. I'm pretty sure those themes are accidental and the people making the film just forgot about little bro but that only adds an additional meta layer to the whole thing. It doesn't get much better than the explanation instead reinforces the theme.

My actual criticism of the film is it does such a great job of reconstructing science fiction themes and story beats and making something new out the familiar to include a pointless segment where Matt Damon has genric seen a hundred times space madness with a generic reveal. Hey, your robot is busted! Want us to look at it? NOPE. You get 2/3rds of the way through and we get some C- work all of a sudden. I'm not mad, Interstellar. I'm just disappointed.
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Yeah, I never really got the hate for that part either. Then again, I've watched The Martian >10 times and it's probably my favorite movie.

The robots are SHOCKINGLY well done on a rewatch. Almost prescient.
 
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I actually like the front half of Interstellar better than the back half. The setup is really well done. I would watch a whole movie about a simple robot farmer trying to survive the cornpocalypse.
 
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I loathe this film. I originally saw it in the theater and thought it was okay, but as time has gone by I can't make it through a rewatch.
 
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One of my favorite Mega IMAX experiences. If this is playing near me in that format again its an instabuy.
 
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