Sparky

thanks, and I see your point-judge an action movie foremost on the action.

I agree the first viewing of the alien "normandy" was enticing. I think I may have came in with overly high expectations.

Based off a Japanese novel, I think the film would have been better off embracing the anime stylistic choices-and just going fully animated. I believe I likely would have enjoyed the film if it was Japanese production. The film would have felt less bogged down by tired western sequences with tired western actors, and though equal tropes may have presented at the behest of Japanese audiences, they would have been new to me and aid in the films desire to be comic, and rather amusing narrative.

What I'm saying I guess is the superfluous elements in which I base films off would have been aided tremendously by foreign, literally or otherwise, direction.

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I had no idea it was originally a Japanese novel. I'm a pretty huge fan of Japanese cyberpunk myself and certainly would have preferred seeing the film geared more towards that sort of style. Speaking of Westernizing beautiful Japanese classics, I bet you've heard that a live-action American Ghost in the Shell is in the works.

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I saw interstellar. Non-nerds may not find it interesting as the acting was meh and the story was meh-it felt sort of rushed to me. They could have cut some parts out and spent more time explaining the story honestly.

It was long, like...3 hours, but I was fully entertained for the entire thing. I really liked it when they started explaining extremely technical things like gravitational pulls, the fluidity of time and time distortion...damn, it was a nerds dream.



Also all you need is kill is one of the best books I have ever read. Edge of Tomorrow is not 1/8 as appealing as the novel is.

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No I hadn't but it seems very doable, I'll google it after this post. It will likely be okay, it seem like it's probably one of the more translatable series for American adaption.

I just saw this. The sum of the film is better than it's parts. Very well done, and worth seeing for the experience. Surprised to see Christoper Nolan wrote the screenplay as well.

It has some same spiritual themes as other films like it. Left quite a impression visual and otherwise. Covers a ton of ground. The intro scene was interesting, time in the film was intentionally muddled and blurry while the narrative is actually fairly clear in retrospect.

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Hasn't he written or co-written all or almost all of his movies?

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Ya, him and his younger brother do all of the writing.

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Which is why the screenplay is always the worst part about his movies.

Saw Interstellar last too. It's a visual spectacle, but so deeply flawed and a bit contrived. Nolan doesn't have the smarts or control of Kubrick or the humanity of Malick, so he should stop pretending he's anything more than a good blockbuster director. And he should have someone polish the sh!t out of his clunky scripts. They could've cut probably 10 minutes out of this film just by removing unnecessary exposition and spoonfeeding dialogue (another problem that Inception had).

I'd give it a 7/10. It'd be closer to an 8 if they trimmed out all that painful dialogue.

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I don't understand the Kubrick comparisons. Nolan is great at coming up with novel concepts, and I think this masks what he otherwise lacks as a (recently discovered by me)screenwriter.

The film is more comparable to something like Contact than Kubrick's work. The film has been criticized for perceived vane attempts at imitating Kubrick and I think this is rather presumptuous and self-affirming.

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Yeah the scripts needed some minor tinkering, but not as much tinkering as the robotic acting did.

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Nolan has said himself that Interstellar draws a lot from 2001. I would say his ambitions were on a similar scale too.

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