After finally watching all three hours, I can confidently say that Interstellar is extremely overrated and nowhere near as good a film as 2001: A Space Odyssey. Not even close.
Discussion
Who is comparing the 2 though?
The entire thing is constantly stealing from it.
So Nolan is your answer XD.
I doubt most people who know both movies will prefer interstellar except for some entertainment value. It’s two completely different movie watching experiences.
I like Nolan’s other work much more. Oppenheimer, Inception, Memento, The Prestige. Great films. This one fell flat for me.
not saying much since 2001 sucks donkey dick.
I think you would have thought differently if you had read the original script. They ruined the theatrical version, imo.
In retrospect it wasn’t actually bad, but I had already fallen in love with the story I had originally read a few years prior, and seeing the most important parts of it change when I saw it in the theater made me initially hate it.
Tragic.
The tesseract scene sorta unsuspended my disbelief. Reminded me of going plaid.
Do you often read the scripts of movies?
No, I never have time for that.
No but I worked at Scott Rudin Productions on the Disney studio lot in LA for a while after I left school. It was a mix between utter chaos and then hours sitting around doing nothing. They had a script library with thousands of submitted scripts, and one of the things we were allowed to do was read anything without a red cover (marked for production) and if we found something good we could suggest it to the producers.
The two best I read were from directors/writers I noticed by name, Nolan and Alfonso Cuaron. Interstellar and Gravity. Neither were in production at the time or being considered, but I read probably a hundred scripts while I was there. Actually a number of enjoyable ones.
Gravity had theatrical changes to the core story of the main character’s struggle, but they were actually improvements, imo. Interstellar completely changed its core theme to something completely different and even ruined one of my favorite conversations in the film. The conversation between Damon and Mcconaughey was originally him talking to an Ai humanoid, which made the meaning of their conversation far more impactful. The Ai was explaining to him that humans were still needed because they still had “better programming.”
Not going to explain it all in a Nostr note, but it was far more like a scientific puzzle and contemplation of the future in the script, while the movie was all “we can quantify love!” 😒
That explains why I found the tesseract scene so jarring despite loving the rest of the movie. The "quantifying love" theme really clashed with the rest of the film; it was palpable that some part got mangled on its way off the cutting room floor
Everything about the end of humanity on Earth seemed stupid, like okay we don’t have armies or guns anymore and everyone is just eating corn in-between dust storms but somehow people still drink beer on the porch at night and drive cars to work. What?
If they have enough energy to go space...I dunno, I never put much thought into that. I'm not a stickler for practicality in fiction idk
Coop does some good pilot shit and embodies the tenacity of one (few movies do, and will immediately break the spell, just like when it's obvious an actor has never used a gun), so it resonated with me. One of my top movies.
I actually liked the element that we were technologically advanced but humbled by the fact that we were all going to die if the soil was ruined. And they also didn’t go deep into why, just basically suggesting it was possible (unless I’m remembering the movie wrong I didn’t remember much explanation). But there were plenty of other things I had issues with. That one wasn’t prominent for me, especially since it was just a reality to set the stage and not part of the puzzle of the film itself.
Apart from that, I found the other plot devices to be very unsubtle and heavy-handed. Everything had an explanation. There just wasn’t much left to the imagination.
That sounds cool. Is pre-production script still available somewhere?
Found it (2008 original script)
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Genuine question 🙋🏻♀️
Can you not go in fresh & appreciate a film 🎞️ all on its own merits?
Example: never saw Alien. 👽 went to watch Romulus and Remus but had panic 😱 attack
Had to leave theatre 🎭 from some deep lingering PTSD that hit on screen 📺
Either way it got me out & I saw another movie 🍿
Interstellar was a shitty movie. 2001 is a masterpiece. That’s it.
Thank you! Someone here gets it.
I just watched 2001 a few weeks ago. Sooooo ahead of its time and so brilliant. Kubrick was unrivaled in the analog era of film.
Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange are both top all time films too. RIP to the legend, I still get sad there will never be another Kubrick film.
2001 is definitely one of my favourites of his. It paved the way for so many sci fi movies
Fully analog. The people who made those movies were artisans and it sucks because those skills are lost now. Nobody knows how to do those analog special effects anymore. It would probably take a very capable team a decade to re-figure all that stuff out.
Unpopular opinion: analog special effects >>>> digital fx
Oh definitely. The first two alien movies for example. And prometheus and covenant. Way better in my opinion because the xenomorph is a tall skinny guy wearing a well made suit
Yes, agreed. In 2001 I couldn’t believe how good the apes looked even though they were guys in mechanical suits. But looks way more real and interesting than animations.
Have you seen The Thing? Some of the best analog special effects of all time imo
No I haven’t. I wanna watch it soon. I think ypu mentionned it to me already
It is so good. The music, fx, plot. Love that movie.
It’s downloading as we speak 🫡
Enjoy 👑
Looking forward to it. Thanks 👑
The Thing was so, so ahead of its time. I rewatch it like almost every year.
Yeah it’s a masterpiece. And something that won’t ever be recreated.
Interstellar is one of the best movies of all time. I will not abide this slander. 2001 is a tough comparison they are totally different movies that just happen to take place in space.
I recently watched the last 4 planet of the apes movies and actually enjoyed them quite a bit.
Finally someone has to say it. 🔥
It’s like I insulted someone’s family or something, haha.
Tons of people understandably love the film. Many of them like it because it's cool to like Nolan's works. I enjoyed it while watching it in IMAX, but I had this feeling that something is off about how the story unfold. It's great to know from Guy Swan that they made a horrible change to the original script.
Such a strong statement with a great comment thread.
#siamstr