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Old 11-09-2014, 06:04 PM
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Just saw this movie at Brownwood. It's 3 hours - omg! And feels every minute worth. The writers and script throws so many over-the-top scientific, mathematical, and physics terms...to attempt a 'viable' storyline. A lot of 'give me a break' moments. If you saw Inception (by same writer/director) and put the storyline into an end-of-earth Space travel to find a new planet for humans to inhabit - .... same type of movie.

If you don't like organ music, a fully make-upped Ann Hathaway as a space venturer, Matthew McConaughey southern accent in full splendor - the word "Murph" in the script 172 times, and a dumb-looking robot, skip the movie. On the plus side the visuals are splendid, acting quite good, and the storyline could have been excellent if it was a 2 hour flick.

The 2:30pm movie was full, no applause afterward - most folks filed right out not waiting to read the credits. OH - Matt Damon was in the movie and had a relatively worthy part.

I'd give the movie a C+. BTW I think the guy next to me fell asleep a few times - heard some snorts...
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I have a tough time with two hours movies. I will wait until this comes out on NetFlix so I can watch it at intervals.

Thanks for the heads up!!!

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It didn't get good reviews.
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Just saw this movie at Brownwood. It's 3 hours - omg! And feels every minute worth. The writers and script throws so many over-the-top scientific, mathematical, and physics terms...to attempt a 'viable' storyline. A lot of 'give me a break' moments. If you saw Inception (by same writer/director) and put the storyline into an end-of-earth Space travel to find a new planet for humans to inhabit - .... same type of movie.

If you don't like organ music, a fully make-upped Ann Hathaway as a space venturer, Matthew McConaughey southern accent in full splendor - the word "Murph" in the script 172 times, and a dumb-looking robot, skip the movie. On the plus side the visuals are splendid, acting quite good, and the storyline could have been excellent if it was a 2 hour flick.

The 2:30pm movie was full, no applause afterward - most folks filed right out not waiting to read the credits. OH - Matt Damon was in the movie and had a relatively worthy part.

I'd give the movie a C+. BTW I think the guy next to me fell asleep a few times - heard some snorts...
That's a great review. Thank-you
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Too bad. I really enjoyed it. But, then, I hated Gravity and everyone loved it.
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I loved this movie and even though I had a large drink and needed to "go", I hung in there not wanting to miss any of it. There was a few times I jumped and the story held me right up to the end.

On a side note, astro physicist Neil deGrass Tyson liked lots about this movie as so much of it was plausible/accurate, scientifically speaking.

I could have used an intermission and there were a few times I couldn't hear the dialog because of the music.
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Saw Interstellar yesterday. Sitting through a 2 1/2 hour movie is usually hard - you come to a point where you go is this never going o end? but not in this case. Every moment was relevant and nothing wasted. There was not a lot of super-technical stuff that I couldn't grasp. There was plenty of human-ness. Matthew and Anne were wonderful, Matt Damon playing against character was interesting. There were references to 200l.

Hated Gravity. Loved Interstellar.
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It didn't get good reviews.
73% favorable is pretty good.



Interstellar - Rotten Tomatoes
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Liked it but my bladder did not!
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Sci-fi is not usually my favorite movie genre, but I am a big Matthew McConaughey fan, so I was looking forward to "Interstellar." The visuals were stunning, but the pace in the first 1 hour of the movie was slow. At times the dialogue was way too technical; I felt like I was in a physics lecture. I didn't entirely buy Anne Hathaway as a scientist. Matthew was good, but not great. If you want great, rent "Dallas Buyer's Club" or "Lincoln Lawyer." I would give "Interstellar" 2.75 stars out of 4.
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Saw it - disappointed in the last 30 minutes - way too far fetched and not believable.
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I saw it in Brownwood about two weeks ago, to me it was much too loud and way too long and kind of boring. However the friends that I was with liked it.
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just saw it yesterday....agree wayyy to long...also how many of you could actually follow the dialogue...between M.M.'s mumbling and southern drawl ....many movies now a days are hard to understand....could use closed captioning at the bottom to follow
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I liked it also. Didn't love it, and I was very glad I was in the really comfy seats in Brownwood because I could have been happier with a shorter movie, and some simpler technical dialog, but I was happy with the movie. I don't think there was any part of it that I looked at my watch to see if it was almost over.
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DH usually does not like long movies or space movies, but he loved this one. He said he would pay to go see it again. His son loved it, too. And a friend saw it twice. So I am thinking it must be pretty good.
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