Interstellar

Most people kissed Nolan’s ass when Interstellar came out and saying it is a stellar movie but truth be told, it’s his worst movie yet. Well, that’s not saying much cause all his movie are close to perfect. This movie is a spectacle but Nolan’s formula didn’t work here. Nolan usually hides the technical things behind the story but this time, the Story and technical were traveling in parallel.

Interstellar is a science fiction adventure film directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and Michael Caine. It begins with earth in dying state and humanity trying to survive the forthcoming doom. The only option is to look towards space and leave. To explore the space ad go where no man has ever been.

Mathew McConaughey plays Cooper an ex-pilot, now chosen to lead the mission to another Galaxy. The biggest strength of this movie is the emotional bond between Cooper and his daughter, it makes you feel and paralyzes you with the pain characters these characters are in. There are many holy shit moments but overall it leaves you wanting for more and underwhelmed.

 

Several times it felt like different ideas were bind together forcefully, it didn’t felt like a coherent unit. It looked like certain things were decided at the very last moment, which works for a fast paced movie but for a 3-hour movie, everything felt very much different from one another. I don’t understand why Anne Hathaway was in this movie, anyone could have played the character she was playing. To be honest, I don’t even remember what’s her name was in the movie and I saw the movie an hour ago, it was that much forgettable. There is a cameo which I thought will make it awesome but it ended up being the worst part of the movie.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy is directed by James Gunn and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista. It is based on the Marvel Comics superhero team known as Guardians of the Galaxy. This movie has one of the coolest intros ever, and its side effect may include some seat dancing.

After watching this movie, I am just wondering why did Disney acquire Lucasfilm(Star wars) for $4 billion, when they were sitting on a property like this. It’s not like its trying to rip off Star Wars, it’s different but has the same heart.

Although this movie is a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it doesn’t feel like one. It certainly has a different vibe to it. This movie is so witty, there is no “comedian” in this movie, their characters are built a certain way that they bring the comedic element to the screen without being absurd, which is rare. Music is a huge part of this movie, the way they used its soundtrack is commendable.

I would like to applaud Dave Bautista, he is playing the character called Drax the Destroyer and he really stood out, he was genuinely funny but the real star of this movie is Rocket Raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper, he is the brain the behind the muscle(Groot), within 2 minutes you will fell in love with this gun wielding and talking Raccoon.

Although Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana are supposed to be stars of this movie, for me Pratt was good but Zoe didn’t bring anything different to the character, she had her moments but she was least impressive for me in this movie maybe I felt that way because I am a huge fan of her work and I was expecting a lot, she was awesome in Star Trek and Avatar. Regardless I will be waiting for the Guardians to return and maybe they will save Earth this time.

COWBOYS and ALIENS

I went to this movie with much more hope than I had for Iron man. I know Jon Favreau can handle sci-fi adventures, he is the man for the job certainly Iron Man proved that. This movie begins in the middle of nowhere, the basic theme of the movie is the mystery, over which they had a pretty good command, you can never say they let go of that thing off their hand. Craig had no memory of who he is, he is branded as a criminal but he is not sure if he is or not, I enjoyed that aspect.

 

I must compliment the people who looked for the cast, it has a great cast.Only Craig and Sam Rockwell were the only people who looked good in the movie and for some reasons, which I can not understand they were trying to hide Harrison Ford if you have an actor with that much experience and talent give him some screen time not just hide him from everyone.This movie is billed as an “Action Scifi” which is not entirely correct, all they had were 3 sequences which were good but not that of action.

Another thing which I found impressive in this movie is its dialogues they were pretty witty and funny. They tried to give a feel of the old American Wild West and still getting hold of today’s modern people, it could have been better.

 

To summarize,  there are some nice sequences in it but I am telling you again don’t watch this movie for the cast cause you will only end up being disappointed.

Rating-5/10