My wife went to work and I was bored and decided to put this on. I have to admit, I was mesmerized by this film. Everything about it was incredible. Anyone who says they didn't like this film either didn't understand it or just in spite of Nolan. It was a masterpiece.
shareI especially liked the twist ending from the last 10 minutes. You find out who those old hayseeds being interviewed really are and they're not children of the Great Depression (well, okay, in real life they were).
shareIt was obvious, since they showed all the dust on the tables, that the old people being interviewed were from Cooper's time. You got the connection to the Dust Bowl of the twenties, but it was clearly from a future dust bowl.
shareAnd anyone who says that people who have differing opinions than their own about a movie are wrong is a self absorbed moron.
You should have taken the money. - Robert McCall
It was *beep* overrated
shareMcConaughey's delivery of lines is quite dramatic (self-important) and annoying at the start. The film's middle is good, but the end gets a bit God-loving (spiritual). Fortunately, the Hans Zimmer score carries the film for the last hour - despite Zimmer choosing to steal Philip Glass's music this time (he always steals someone's work). 7/10 - a bloated '2001'.
I think this is close to the consensus - it's not overrated, as critics didn't rate it very high.
Not to suggest that people who didn't like the movie are stupid but I can see where the science behind it makes it a difficult movie to comprehend. For instance if you don't understand the concept of time dilation, then you're scratching your head for a large part of the movie.
shareThat's not the reason why people don't like it.
Time dilation is explained in the movie. They say something like: "One hour on that planet equals seven years on Earth". That's not difficult for anyone to comprehend, unless you can't count.
Everything's not explained though even if it really needs an explanation to make sense in the movie universe. Like how love transcend time and space. Maybe that's the reason why so many people scratch their heads.
Precisely.
shareThe time dilation scene was only hard to understand when you realize, why the fuck would they do what they did, when there are much better options (it's more like THEY didn't understand!), but that wasn't nearly as stupid as even trying to find a place to live in a solar system with a black hole. Meanwhile, none of it meant dick because of the cop out ending.
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