I've figured out one of the reasons I was not knocked out by the movie, BTW --
deus ex machina.
Given the basic plot (which I will not reveal), the real "lesson" being taught
in this film is that humans are pretty much fucked unless some unspecified
someone/something (be it alien or theistic) provides a mystical Woo Woo way to
save us.
I think this is dumb, on pretty much all levels. It's like Nabby, waiting for
Maitreya. It's a belief system that actually *prevents* humans from taking
steps to save themselves.
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From: "Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net [FairfieldLife]"
<FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 7, 2014 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Movie mini-review: "Interstellar"
Having seen the trailer I thought of the film as another one of Warner
Brothers "agenda" movies. This may well not pan out for WB because people are
getting a little sick of being manipulated by such movies. But there may be
enough bored people to get a good turnout at the box office this weekend even
if they don't like the movie.
WB is in deep shit and having to lay off people. But that's
nothing as it is happening to a lot of major corporations. The
foolish elite never learned the lessons that even Henry Ford knew
that if you want to sell product the public better have money to
buy it. The attempt of the global elite to turn the masses into
chickens in coops hopefully will fail miserably. After all who
are they to dictate to us how we should live?
On 11/07/2014 02:20 AM, TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
>I'm still trying to decide whether I liked this movie or not.
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>It was certainly a visual treat, once we got past the visions of Earth As
>Neo-Dustbowl About To Die and out into space. And as I'd heard, it was
>certainly chock full 'o homages to "2001," not the least of which is a
>spaceship-docking scene that really rocked the socks off of "CGI state of the
>art."
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>I guess my main reservation is that Christopher Nolan seems to have spent the
>lion's share of the movie trying to inspire in me a profound emotional
>reaction to the father-daughter story he spent so long developing, and none of
>that effort succeeded. If I was supposed to be all teary-eyed at the end, I
>wasn't. If I was supposed to be all inspired, I wasn't. And I can't really
>tell you why yet...I must ponder the film and think about it further and maybe
>I'll be able to come up with an answer.
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>A minor part of the reason may have been that so many of the actors in the
>film -- Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Matt Damon, and
>others -- seemed to MUMBLE their way through the entire film. I found myself
>constantly having to look at the subtitles (which for me were in Dutch) to
>figure out what they were saying. Go figure.
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>The basic black hole plot was pretty intelligent SciFi, with few completely
>cringeworthy moments, but if I have to make excuses for a SciFi movie that was
>trying so desperately to grab me emotionally by saying that nothing struck me
>as terribly awful scientifically, something is just not quite right. I'll keep
>pondering it and try to come up with some reasons for why I'm as underwhelmed
>as I am...
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>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePbKGoIGAXY
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