Interstellar

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Apparently the clip is not spoilery, in case people are worried about that sort of thing, it's more a mood setter. Also, i was worried when i read matthew mcconaughey but he does seem to inhabit the environment without one finding his presence jarring.

i'm trying to imagine him doing dialogue with Michael Caine, "say man you gotta joint? ah man, then let's jet thru that wormhole!"

Am I the only person who is getting tired of these hype trains being set off ridiculously early?

The film is a year away at the earliest. I know this isn't the first film to do it, pretty much every recent Batman film has done it, and countless others too. I'm just getting quite disillusioned regarding the excessive hype that is built up around films like this, and computer games.

This is yet another media item that doesn't need hype to be built up - just the very fact that it is another Christopher Nolan film is hype enough.

Well if you don't do the hype train early and loud you end up with a John Carter type scenario. Good movie, bad publicity. Although the critics were panning that months before it came out, must have been paid a pretty penny to sink it.

  On 12/15/2013 at 12:55 PM, oscillik said:

Am I the only person who is getting tired of these hype trains being set off ridiculously early?

 

The film is a year away at the earliest. I know this isn't the first film to do it, pretty much every recent Batman film has done it, and countless others too. I'm just getting quite disillusioned regarding the excessive hype that is built up around films like this, and computer games.

 

This is yet another media item that doesn't need hype to be built up - just the very fact that it is another Christopher Nolan film is hype enough.

Well... the movie business is... a business.

  On 12/15/2013 at 1:14 PM, delet... said:

Well if you don't do the hype train early and loud you end up with a John Carter type scenario. Good movie, bad publicity. Although the critics were panning that months before it came out, must have been paid a pretty penny to sink it.

I'd say that's a poor comparison really, though - John Carter was directed by a relatively unknown director. Ok, he made Wall-E, but he's not a household name. The household name associated with the films that Andrew Stanton has been recently involved in is Pixar, and that angle wasn't played up at all during the admittedly piss-poor marketing around that film. The rest of the cast are not household names either. The only thing that could've helped sell that film was the Walt Disney Studio angle, but considering the flops that Disney has been putting out in recent years, even Disney's clout has lost it's strength, and that's pretty clear.

With Interstellar, the name Christopher Nolan is absolutely a household name now. that's enough hype by itself, without the need for a year long hype train.

Probably yet another unfocused, hastily cut Nolan film. I don't get him at all. Really hate his style.

Has anyone noticed how the narrator in the trailer sounds a bit like Abe from Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee before the pitch-change?

trailer lacks space, imo.

nolan pwns. the prestige, TDK for proof.

complaining about movie trailers coming out too early is a waste of complaining, imo.

They hype train is necessary to get the investors on board. If they're gonna hook up the film makers with $200 mil to make something, they want some vague teasers out there before the script's even finished to get people interested. That's just how the game is now.

uh, pretty sure this has been shot already. it's not an indie film.

  On 12/15/2013 at 2:26 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 12/15/2013 at 1:14 PM, delet... said:

Well if you don't do the hype train early and loud you end up with a John Carter type scenario. Good movie, bad publicity. Although the critics were panning that months before it came out, must have been paid a pretty penny to sink it.

I'd say that's a poor comparison really, though - John Carter was directed by a relatively unknown director. Ok, he made Wall-E, but he's not a household name. The household name associated with the films that Andrew Stanton has been recently involved in is Pixar, and that angle wasn't played up at all during the admittedly piss-poor marketing around that film. The rest of the cast are not household names either. The only thing that could've helped sell that film was the Walt Disney Studio angle, but considering the flops that Disney has been putting out in recent years, even Disney's clout has lost it's strength, and that's pretty clear.

 

With Interstellar, the name Christopher Nolan is absolutely a household name now. that's enough hype by itself, without the need for a year long hype train.

 

  On 12/15/2013 at 2:28 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

yet another unfocused, hastily written oscillik post.

heh ...

lol. it's true though, he jumps from scene to scene accompanied by the same never ending loop of music for ever and ever with an occasional explosion here and there. It wasn't as bad in Inception (although the movie was a disappointment altogether) but the whole Batman-trilogy is almost unwatchable for me due to that "technique" of his. I hate how he treats the scenes and how his films are paced. There's no attention to detail, no real space for the actors, the budget gets wasted away... He's like the Anti-Polanski. He's not untalented but he'd be making much better films if he only had access to maybe 10% of the money and would allow a single scene to actually build up before he cuts way.

yeah, he's rubbish.

I hope he doesn't fuck this up though, hollywood in this next cycle has transitioned from fantasy to sci-fi, and what we end up with i hope is a reasonable batch of films to look back on.

  On 12/15/2013 at 3:32 PM, delet... said:

 

  On 12/15/2013 at 2:26 PM, oscillik said:

 

  On 12/15/2013 at 1:14 PM, delet... said:

Well if you don't do the hype train early and loud you end up with a John Carter type scenario. Good movie, bad publicity. Although the critics were panning that months before it came out, must have been paid a pretty penny to sink it.

I'd say that's a poor comparison really, though - John Carter was directed by a relatively unknown director. Ok, he made Wall-E, but he's not a household name. The household name associated with the films that Andrew Stanton has been recently involved in is Pixar, and that angle wasn't played up at all during the admittedly piss-poor marketing around that film. The rest of the cast are not household names either. The only thing that could've helped sell that film was the Walt Disney Studio angle, but considering the flops that Disney has been putting out in recent years, even Disney's clout has lost it's strength, and that's pretty clear.

 

With Interstellar, the name Christopher Nolan is absolutely a household name now. that's enough hype by itself, without the need for a year long hype train.

 

 

 

  On 12/15/2013 at 2:28 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

yet another unfocused, hastily written oscillik post.

 

heh ...

 

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  On 12/15/2013 at 3:41 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

I hate how he treats the scenes and how his films are paced. There's no attention to detail, no real space for the actors, the budget gets wasted away...

i see what you mean but i think his style is that way to allow more detail of a different kind. we have an infinite amount of movies with spacious shots, i will take 1 director who utilizes quick shots to make rich stories that require several viewings.

  On 12/15/2013 at 3:19 PM, zaphod said:

uh, pretty sure this has been shot already. it's not an indie film.

Right. I wasn't implying that in this specific case the hype started before the script was written. That was hyperbole. I was merely explaining why teaser trailers and hype in general are so prevalent now. It's because movies are so expensive they feel the need to go overboard with marketing to make the money back (and then some).

i applaud the fact this trailer doesn't spill over the whole movie in 2 minutes but it's just not exciting and overall kinda nothingy,

mcconaughey did a lot of interesting/crazy roles well in recent years (eg:

If Nolan is considered a rubbish Hollywood director...who is left in the big budget Hollywood-style palette to be considered good?

  On 12/15/2013 at 7:12 PM, paranerd said:

If Nolan is considered a rubbish Hollywood director...who is left in the big budget Hollywood-style palette to be considered good?

Joe Dante

  On 12/15/2013 at 4:10 PM, very honest said:

 

  On 12/15/2013 at 3:41 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

I hate how he treats the scenes and how his films are paced. There's no attention to detail, no real space for the actors, the budget gets wasted away...

 

i see what you mean but i think his style is that way to allow more detail of a different kind. we have an infinite amount of movies with spacious shots, i will take 1 director who utilizes quick shots to make rich stories that require several viewings.

 

Interesting approach ... never really seen it that way. Perhaps his style is simply too forward-thinking for me and I just happen to dislike it... but I wonder why nobody else seems to have that problem. I didn't find Inception complicated at all, I followed the plot alright, I just felt pretty detached from it because of this "special" pacing (and the James Bond crap of course) - but like I said it's not as extreme on Inception. I normally like movies that require multiple watchings and reveal further details each time. But I don't know whether Nolan's are those kinds of films. I saw Inception a second time not so long ago because I wanted to give it another chance, but I only found it worse this time round and got bored because I knew the plot and still couldn't connect to it. I'm just finding it hard to care about characters who pop up and disappear in a matter of seconds.

But who knows, maybe this one is totally different. The teaser/trailer would suggest so.

  On 12/15/2013 at 7:12 PM, paranerd said:

If Nolan is considered a rubbish Hollywood director...who is left in the big budget Hollywood-style palette to be considered good?

of the younger ones i'd say pta and aronofsky.

  On 12/15/2013 at 7:19 PM, eugene said:

  On 12/15/2013 at 7:12 PM, paranerd said:

If Nolan is considered a rubbish Hollywood director...who is left in the big budget Hollywood-style palette to be considered good?

of the younger ones i'd say pta and aronofsky.

The last PTA film I saw was Magnolia, so can't really comment on his recent stuff. And the last Aronofsky I saw was The Fountain which I enjoyed. But, yeah, can't really comment either. I'm behind in everything.

those two are their worst films

Tarantino

*farts*

*runs away very fast*