Posted on 12/26/2014 9:25:57 AM PST by EveningStar
These ten films are not remotely the worst films of 2014, but their respective artistic failures were the most disappointing.
This is arguably the most subjective list of my year-end wrap up, with the caveat that of course all of my "best/worst" lists are as subjective as any critical analysis. None of the films on this list belong anywhere near a "worst-of" rundown, but in some ways they were more explicitly dissatisfying than the actual films I chose as the "worst" or "least favorite" films of 2014. Some were genuinely bad, some were mostly good save for a few key artistic stumbles, and all arguably represented either the tragic letdown of a much-anticipated project or a failure in execution of what looked like a surefire winner on paper. The first nine are in alphabetical order, followed by the so-called "biggest disappointment of 2014." And here we go...
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All of these are better than “Gravity.” What a stinking pile of merde.
The Dr Mann slam as a liar was very subtle, but I asked the question too.
What was remarkable about Interstellar was how realistic it looked. Most of the special effects were done old school with minimal CGI (e.g., back projection). The spacecraft in the movie were actually models built to scale, not CGI. The views just outside the cockpit of Cooper’s craft were mostly actual views of the real sky using an IMAX camera that was bolted to the side of a real airplane.
The whole film was shot analog on 70MM IMAX, not digital. You need to see it in IMAX to really experience it properly.
The only significant CGI was the rendering of the wormhole and the black hole, and those views were computed using real physics that required 10X more computational power than just a straight texel/mesh rendering. In fact the computer models were so accurate that Dr. Kip Thorne of Cal Tech (the technical consultant on the film) recycled the renderings in a couple real physics papers.
“It was Rachel Jenteel stupid.”
Oh, so it’s stupid in English, Haitian Creole, and Ebonics.
“If any of you consider “Star Wars” to be great science fiction...”
Fiction? No, man, Star Wars is real: http://jahtruth.net/starwar.htm
To each his own, right? What’s a Gamer to do, when your Dungeons and Dragons keeps getting hacked by your next door neighbor, and your Mom is so hooked on Candy Crush, she won’t lend you her Laptop at all?
Ironic that we have to go to bat for free speech for this pos movie.
SPOILER ALERT!
But yes they did. That maze thingy at the end allowed him to go back and send the clues to his daughter.
Going back in time, say, on earth, would require that every moment of time is existing in some other dimension. To a non physicist like myself, that would seem to require an infinite number of dimensions
They killed him off? Must have been his last movie ...
And American sign language...
His character....
No, he was experiencing time the way the five dimensional beings do.
I had heard there was little CGI. Thank you for all the details; very informative.
Interstellar is a thinking man’s movie. Nolan tied everything together nicely, unlike Kubrik. I still don’t know what the end of 2001 means.
Fury was good.
Looking forward to Unbreakable as well
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