The Film Thread

[Coney]

I saw it at the IMAX screen at Enfield Cineworld. I think that helped it, their sound system is awlsome (unless you live next door to them). If anything it was a bit too loud at times. It lived up to the hype I'd heard.

Yeah - the sound was too loud in places. Shame because I thought the point of Imax was to make things more 'real' so getting the sound wrong kind of ruins it.

The plot was OK for an SF film for the beginning but when Ann Hathaway does the 'I think love might be a force in the universe' I almost threw up. Some of it seemed to be nicked from Arthur C Clarke - the end sequence owes something to 2001 and there is something from 'Rendezvous with Rama', and Arthur C Clarke novel.

Films are still overloading the effects and CGI atm but I guess they are playing with a new toy. Once they get it out of their system, hopefully we will get some better movies again.

[Coney]

Interstellar

Wow

The physics is awlsome. No space rockety sounds here; it's a vaccum, bitch!
2001-like in places and for my money arguably edges it in that it has a more satisfying end.

Just seen this. More satisfying than 2001? Outrageous comment!!

[Letters]

Just seen this. More satisfying than 2001? Outrageous comment!!

I love 2001, but the end is
I heard it makes more sense in the book?

Agree with the general point about cg but I don't think Interstellar is guilty of it. A colleage told me btw they had to rewrite some of the ray tracing software which normally assumes light travels in straight lines to account for the relativistic effects.

[mr_brighterside]

[mr_brighterside]

[mr_brighterside]

http://www.theguardian.com/books/boo...itical-fantasy

poor misunderstood Smaug

[Niall_Quinn]

Gone Girl - shit - bugged out after 24 mins - unwatchable.

[Syn]

Rubbish, it's very good. Definitely does more than enough to keep your interest for the 2.5 hrs but like with most Hollywood blockbusters it blows its load in the first half and doesn't offer a very satisfying conclusion.

[Syn]

Watch Nightcrawler if you haven't seen it. Cracking film.

[Letters]

Rubbish, it's very good. Definitely does more than enough to keep your interest for the 2.5 hrs but like with most Hollywood blockbusters it blows its load in the first half and doesn't offer a very satisfying conclusion.

To be fair, NQ doesn't actually seem to enjoy anything. At all.
So I wouldn't take too much stock on his movie reviews.


Will probably go to see Paddington next week