I was busy!
About to buy a new TV and speakers, so I guess I’ll have to wait a bit longer
It came out on 2015…you must have been too busy trying to find that elusive “banger” you keep talking about in BDJ 
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Well, that certainly hasn’t helped, I do spend a fair bit of time curating my bangers list.
In reality i probably passed on it as I didn’t think Damon was going to be believable in the role.
Have you found your first one yet 
I thought he was really good in the role.
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Saw it in cinemas. Always thought it was a damn good film. But I do love Gosling and Crowe.
Agreed. But I also always rated Kilmer and RDJ! 
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I’ll give you RDJ every time. Kilmer, meh.
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Kilmer the actor was very good
Kilmer the person on the other hand…
Top Gun, Heat, Tombstone, Willow; was very very good in the supporting actor role.
The trailer for Ali G looks good
Woman: what sort of father do you want to be?
Ali g: absent
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Watching Driving Miss Daisy.
Forgot how good it was.
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I’m flying from Melbourne to Ljubljana via Saigon and Frankfurt. On the way from Melbourne to Saigon I watched Nuremberg and Interstellar.
Russell Crowe was great in Nuremberg, but on the whole it’s a pretty crappy movie.
I watched Interstellar because I didn’t realise I had seen it before. It has a rating of 8.7 on imdb, which is incredibly high. However in my opinion it is a complete load of crap and fails on almost every level.
I think the first thing I noticed was the deafening sound. It’s not as if it’s great music; it’s just noise intended to force the viewer to become excited about what he’s seeing. It failed; the music made me annoyed at how transparently it was trying to manipulate me, but that’s all.
I think the next thing was watching the docking scene, which is supposedly a tour de force. I couldn’t help comparing it with the docking scene in 2001, which has true grace and elegance while being at the same time utterly convincing. The Interstellar scene has none of those. It has nothing.
And then there’s the “science”. Scene after scene of the most ludicrous technobabble that I have ever heard. I was sitting there in my seat watching this rubbish, really quite amazed that quite a lot of people actually took that stuff seriously, without laughing out loud.
Nolan directed Insomnia, which was an excellent film. Success seems to have gone to his head.
On the plus side, after Interstellar I began Crime 101. It has no pretensions to great art. It’s just a good crime thriller. I’m enjoying it a lot more than either of the others.
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Nolan is ridiculously overrated. His bad films are called good and his good films are called masterpieces.
However, I think that Interstellar is good. Just good. It has some memorable stuff in it.
I do appreciate that he’s a proper big budget director who makes an effort with imagery and subtext and themes.
My tiers graph for him would be a lot different to others, I think.
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End of Oak Street was a big disappointment.
I mean other than appreciating Ewan McGregor and Anne Hathaway I don’t know how the studios convinced them to do it.
Half baked time travelling movie with no sense of adventure or decent story telling.
Catch it streaming
C-
wimm we know your tier lists for about everything would be different to most people
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The Dark Knight and Inception would be S Tier for me. And even then I’m putting in the caveat that TDK is for its genre.
Tenet and The Dark Knight Rises would be D.
I don’t think he has an F.
Odyssey B (although I suspect that may slide with time, I have No desire to see it twice), Oppenheimer B, Interstellar I’m comfortable with A, along with Memento.
I feel like I’m being kind.
Dunkirk A.
Prestige and Begins are solid B’s.
Insomnia is a C for mine.
Edit: like Tarantino, though, I am watching some of these films simply because it’s him. Which means I do rate him.
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I may have missed it..but what do your ratings actually mean?
S
D
F
B
A
C
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I watched Steve Martin in ‘Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid’ (1982) last night and, although it’s a one-trick pony of a movie, it’s very well done and laugh out loud in several places. Enjoyable.
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It’s a common way people are ranking things now.
Albums, films.
Here’s one I grabbed for Nolan that I’m posting without looking at, just using it as an example.
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Cheers mate…I’ve not seen that before.
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It was popularised by japanese arcade cabinets and video games in the 90’s. Fighting and racing games that shipped globally.
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