Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u

[Gfted1]

 

[Amentep]

  

On 2/4/2025 at 10:49 AM, Gfted1 said:

 

Looking forward to this - I think it looks pretty interesting.  Is Malkovich playing the Red Ghost?  Might be the only way such a cold-war villain might make sense is in a retro-future alternate universe.

[Gfted1]

Ive seen it mentioned that Malkovich could be playing The Red Ghost, The Mole Man or even Franklin Richards.

[Amentep]

Needs Mole Man glasses to be Mole Man. Franklin Richard's could be interesting but time travel ain't the best idea, I think.

[Bartimaeus]

On 1/31/2025 at 9:20 AM, Bartimaeus said:

Interstellar (2014).

I had a pretty similar experience with that 90s Jodie Foster film, Contact...but at least there, you've got Jodie Foster starring instead of Matthew McConaughey, which helped a lot.

Addendum: I was just reading some comments on Interstellar, and someone else compared it to Contact as well while mentioning "McConaughey is in the driver's seat 15 years later", which left me confused. Lo and behold, I'd completely blanked out that Matthew McConaughey also happened to be in Contact as well: he's the greasy gross love interest. Whoops. Honestly, it's just as well, since now that I remember he was in Contact, I mostly just recall being yucked out and annoyed by him.

[LadyCrimson]

I don't think Interstellar was terrible or anything, but I did personally find it kind of a snoozefest.  The best thing about Interstellar was desperate/crazed Matt Damon. Which was funny at the time because then The Martian came out and one was half-expecting Damon to be similar-roled, at first. Ha.  I know it's a different type of film but The Martian was 100x better, imo.

I didn't like Contact either, even on the big-screen. I even bought/tried reading the book wondering if it would make me appreciate it more. I didn't like the book much either. Thus I've come to the conclusion I don't enjoy overly metaphysical/transcendent sci-fi (or whatever the words for such might be) - 2001 and Arrival (2016) bored me to tears too.  Which is fine - just doesn't "speak" to me is all.

[Lexx]

Interstellar was absolutely awesome (except this "god/love" thing in the end), you people are just stinkers.

Also, the TARS robot was amazing and I wish we could have that in realz.

Edited 4 hours ago by Lexx

[LadyCrimson]

2 hours ago, Lexx said:

Interstellar was absolutely awesome (except this "god/love" thing in the end), you people are just stinkers.

Also, the TARS robot was amazing and I wish we could have that in realz.

I don't even remember Interstellar having a robot, probably zoned it out.

 

[Bartimaeus]

12 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

I don't even remember Interstellar having a robot, probably zoned it out.

 

TARS was the comic relief.

He doesn't really have the most distinctive design, so I can understand if this visual aid doesn't help. I actually found him to be the least awful character out of everyone, and when you can say that about the comic relief robot in a serious sci-fi drama film, you probably have a really crummy set of characters that you didn't like and which sunk the movie for you.

Edited 48 minutes ago by Bartimaeus

[LadyCrimson]

^ I do remember the water/time dilation planet (somewhat) but I still don't remember it/robot specifically. I remember the farm start, the daughters "ghost", scattered planet moments, Matt Damon,  the wtf weird ending, Matthew's chr. going off to try to find the other main chr in the final. I think on-ship/flying interactions/exposition or whatever I wouldn't recall at all, without cheating via looking stuff up on YT. Not much of that film stuck in my brain, I guess. Maybe I fell asleep in parts.

Edited 33 minutes ago by LadyCrimson

[Lexx]

Maybe you didn't watch the movie at all if you can't remember the robot.  

[Bartimaeus]

27 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

^ I do remember the water/time dilation planet (somewhat) but I still don't remember it specifically. I remember the farm start, the daughters "ghost", scattered planet moments, Matt Damon,  the wtf weird ending. I think on-ship/flying interactions/exposition or whatever I wouldn't recall at all, without cheating via looking stuff up on YT. Not much of that film stuck in my brain, I guess.

The "WTF weird ending" really just felt like the product of lame storytelling that wasn't able to effectively tie together the grounded reality of the world/universe that the movie had constructed and the simple, relatable human story that it wanted to tell. We have a hard sci-fi story that should have concrete issues and solutions (or lack thereof), but it in the end, it just comes down to...the most base character emotions and beliefs driving us towards a magical resolution that is only the most tenuously connected to the real physical world. Which, hey, if you at least enjoyed the preceding two hours and if you liked and cared about the involved characters, that might just be alright and you'll get into that emotional ending and accept it for what it is, or you'll at least forgive it. I...did not.

Edited 5 minutes ago by Bartimaeus