Guardians of the Galaxy - I'm a bit late to this one, as I missed it in theaters. It was pretty much exactly what I expected. A fun, funny space opera with tons of action and great characters. James Gunn was a perfect director for this franchise. His dumb but enjoyable form of comedy suits these characters perfectly, and the music was an excellent fit. I loved when Pratt challenges Ronin to a dance-off. Amazing stuff.
9/10
If you enjoy space opera style sci-fi and/or Marvel movies, you'll like this one.
I can only classify this as an art movie- not a comedy or a horror. The performances of John Malcovic and william DAfoe was really good, but the movie itself did not offer any sort of intensity or excitement. I loved the concept - What if the Nosferatu movie was made with "a real vampire" ? The premise sadly was better than the direction.
interstellar wasn't great for me. Nolan doesn't do a good job of making you give a shit about the characters, but this was his best effort to date.
The twists were good and the movie got better and better, but the severity of a couple things should have been more of a focal point (losing time, before and while it happened rather than communicated in a one liner, the destruction of the world).
Too much of a movie to be done well. I liked the ending. Should have been a series instead
I dont recall ever walking out of a Christopher Nolan movie with a WTF expression. This one aint going to get him an Oscar for sure. The positives - The acting for sure, The background score, visuals(Gravity was better though) and the pace.
The premise - Earth is too polluted with dust storms becoming too prevalent and crops are failing to grow. Matty Mc is part of a last ditch effort to fly to space and to a different galaxy via a wormhole to check out 3 planets that NASA has identified as potentially habitable. The rest of the story is about their mission to explore those planets.
My issues with the movie are -
1. It is way too long although it does maintains pace.
2.
You cant escape a BlackHole and the way they showed the whole thing was just not believable.
3.
The singularity concept as shown in the movie. While it is cool to perceive time as a navigable dimension, the way McConnaghay was able to make the books fall and the watch seconds tick differently was not believable.
4.
He gets out of the blackhole to fall right outside the wormhole near Saturn ? Again Happy Hollywood ending. It would have been more believable if TARS had relayed the info and somehow that got relayed to earth and then his daughter would have solved it.
I feel like Nolan tried to bite more than he can chew with this plot.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Pretty similar to the original. Not the most intelligent film out there, but it does a good job of making you care about the characters (be they human or CGI primates) and the action is solid, if a bit ridiculous at times. But I mean, this is a movie about hyper-intelligent apes waging war on the remnants of humanity after a massive viral outbreak, so I'm able to forgive a bit of ridiculousness in the name of fun.
The trailers kind of made this movie out to be something it wasn't, though. They portrayed Gary Oldman as some major villain, but that really wasn't the case at all. Most of his actions seemed pretty practical given the circumstances. He got a bit crazy at the end, but he was more Jim Gordon in an impossible situation than Stansfield in this one.
Overall, I'd give it an 8/10. I was engaged the entire time and enjoyed the film. I know gouri raged against some of the absurdities in the film, but come on...it's a movie about CGI super smart apes taking over the world. The whole premise is totally absurd. It's schlock sci-fi that takes itself a bit too seriously, but does a good job of it.
I know gouri raged against some of the absurdities in the film, but come on...it's a movie about CGI super smart apes taking over the world. The whole premise is totally absurd. It's schlock sci-fi that takes itself a bit too seriously, but does a good job of it.
I don't remember reading Gouri's rant, but to me, there's a difference between accepting a fantasy/sf element, and having plot holes that exist even after you accept that element. To me, that was too much money and too significant a franchise to become just a schlock movie. Army of Darkness or something (which apparently is being turned into a series) yeah, gimme some schlock, baby.
But fixing some pretty obvious plot holes/inconsistencies would have made Dawn much better than just schlock, and wouldn't have cost a penny more. It's the missed potential that bugged me.
I must say, I saw this movie with no expectation and was pleasantly surprised. It is a fun fast paced movie - Good deal of violence, no nudity and a lot of expletives.. Mel Gibson is running from the cops and is caught by the mexican police in mexico with a bulk load of cash. The mexican cops take the money and lock up Mel in a prison. This though is a unique prison where it has a small town feel to it - No cells only a large area with shops and families. Mel must figure out how to live there without getting himself killed. Meanwhile, the guys whom he stole the money from track the money to MEl Gibsons prison.
You cannot escape, as far as we know, a non-rotating Schwarzschild singularity. This represents the first discovered black hole solution to General Relativity and most commonly thought of singularity, but in nature; these objects would be rare if not simply non-existent.
Almost all singularities in nature are thought to have spin/rotation and are thus Kerr black holes that do not have single, fixed-point singularities, but instead have rings or 2D singularities. These black holes have 2 event horizons, not one and could be traversable if one could survive tidal forces (explained in the movie) and the blue shifting (not explained).
The ring singularity, many physicists postulate, would act as a wormhole. The wormhole at Saturn is likely a "naked singularity," having no event horizon.
The singularity concept as shown in the movie. While it is cool to perceive time as a navigable dimension, the way McConnaghay was able to make the books fall and the watch seconds tick differently was not believable.
When you cross-over the event horizon the first time, time and space vectors are swapped; meaning time becomes a 3-dimensional area and space becomes a single dimensional point (the singularity you are moving towards). Thus, you are always moving towards the singularity no matter what you do (even if you could travel faster than light, it wouldn't matter).
The books and stuff like that is more metaphysical, not scientific. Nolan is trying to say that reality is perception and love is our way of understanding reality in a deeper more meaningful way.
He gets out of the blackhole to fall right outside the wormhole near Saturn ? Again Happy Hollywood ending. It would have been more believable if TARS had relayed the info and somehow that got relayed to earth and then his daughter would have solved it.
He returned through the mouth of the wormhole that he left from. This is not only believable but scientifically plausible given the wormhole dynamics described in the movie.
The mouths of wormholes connect and different points in spacetime. There is no reason the wormhole at Saturn cannot have two bifurcated channels to Gargantuan and the exit wormhole in the distant galaxy.
The movie is no more presumptuous (far less so) than Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey which demonstrates the birth/evolution of a God from man.
Literally, the movies are almost identical in their meaning; but 2001 is less scientific in it's final act than Interstellar (I love both movies btw).
Saw Dumb and Dumber To last night. Went in with the lowest expectations ever. I'd say it was a 6/10. It had some forced laughs but then some lines and scenes were really funny. A lot of what you see in the trailer was the first part of the movie. It doesn't come close to topping the first but I don't think it ruined it either.
Older movie, but Glory happened to be on last night again so I watched it for about the 20th time.
If you haven't seen it, you've missed out on a extraordinary film. Denzel in an Academy-Award winning role, Morgan Freeman, and a truly great story with a fantastic soundtrack by the Harlem Boys Choir. Get tears every time during the climactic battle scene.
You cannot escape, as far as we know, a non-rotating Schwarzschild singularity. This represents the first discovered black hole solution to General Relativity and most commonly thought of singularity, but in nature; these objects would be rare if not simply non-existent.
Almost all singularities in nature are thought to have spin/rotation and are thus Kerr black holes that do not have single, fixed-point singularities, but instead have rings or 2D singularities. These black holes have 2 event horizons, not one and could be traversable if one could survive tidal forces (explained in the movie) and the blue shifting (not explained).
The ring singularity, many physicists postulate, would act as a wormhole. The wormhole at Saturn is likely a "naked singularity," having no event horizon.
When you cross-over the event horizon the first time, time and space vectors are swapped; meaning time becomes a 3-dimensional area and space becomes a single dimensional point (the singularity you are moving towards). Thus, you are always moving towards the singularity no matter what you do (even if you could travel faster than light, it wouldn't matter).
The books and stuff like that is more metaphysical, not scientific. Nolan is trying to say that reality is perception and love is our way of understanding reality in a deeper more meaningful way.
He returned through the mouth of the wormhole that he left from. This is not only believable but scientifically plausible given the wormhole dynamics described in the movie.
The mouths of wormholes connect and different points in spacetime. There is no reason the wormhole at Saturn cannot have two bifurcated channels to Gargantuan and the exit wormhole in the distant galaxy.
The movie is no more presumptuous (far less so) than Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey which demonstrates the birth/evolution of a God from man.
Literally, the movies are almost identical in their meaning; but 2001 is less scientific in it's final act than Interstellar (I love both movies btw).
I also saw Interstellar last night. My wife really wanted to see it, so she lied to me and said Dumb and Dumber To doesn't come out until Thanksgiving. All trust is lost with her.
Anyways, I agree with the importance of not giving away spoilers. If I knew the cliffs notes beforehand, I would have fallen asleep at one point. The film relies on stunning special effects that are the best I've ever seen and the science keeping the viewer a little off balance. It reminded me of a good Michael Crichton book where you get bombarded with scientifically sound facts, then when the fiction gets weaved in you can forget to fact check in order to buy in. I don't get too caught up because, again, you can shoot logistical holes through any science fiction piece if you go over it long enough.
I will say this and shut it: What a great extended metaphor for the human condition.
I saw interstellar last night with the gf. I was absolutely shocked that she wanted to see this. I had to beg her to watch the cosmos with me and then she fell asleep.
We both really loved this movie. I feel like people are grading this on a different scale because it is a Nolan film. I'm a huge fan of both Nolan and anything to do with astronomy, so I was super hyped.
Sure the movie I guess has its issues. I think most people complain about pace. I for one didn't ever feel bored or antsy and felt just about everything that was in the film was necessary for the final act. I'm not sure how to add a spoiler tag here on my phone, so I will refrain from mentioning the problems I had with the family dynamic.
I totally agree with gouri about 2001. This movie was giving me flash backs of 2001 with some of the themes of this movie and also parts of this soundtrack were clearly inspired by that score.
That said, 2001 had some issues too that people seem to completely overlook. Kubrick left most of everything up to the viewer to figure out on their own.
@TyGuy touched on it - Hanz Zimmer is on his freaking 'A' game in Interstellar.... just wow. I felt like some of his scores were starting to blur together (especially with Nolan films), but man did he deliver in this film.
The movie was great, for all the reasons previously mentioned. Don't be scared off by the running time, this one is worth the viewing and worth the price of a theater trip.
Yes, the film score was amazing, Zimmer has been on a roll for awhile now, and this might be his best work yet.
You know what I find absolutely hilarious? There are a lot of critics docking points off this movie for what they feel is illogical or bad science, yet all I have read from actual physicists is how accurate this movie is.
If you don't know enough about astro physics, (which is going to be most people, including me) you shouldn't be touching on that in your review.
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