Didn't know Nolan is doing PBS documentaries

I think this is outstanding. Remember when Teaser trailers could convey the theme of the movie without giving away the whole plot?

Also, this speaks so hard to me thematically. If this is the tone/theme of the movie, how we've lost our exploratory spirit as a society and need to get it back, it could really be an important film culturally.

Bring it Nolan

Here's what I think, Inception is not a movie about ideas. Don't get me wrong, there are ideas in it that are pretty cool, but for the most part, it is about really really fucking cool set pieces and how they fit together. How do you cut a teaser for that? You show really brief glimpses of those kickass set pieces and make people go "How the hell do those fit together?!"

Intersteller (And granted, I only have the teaser to go off of, so this could be totally out in left field) feels like it's ABOUT needed to get our exploration back, it feels like a movie that is going to make everyone in the theater jump up at the end and go FUCK YES LETS GO TO SPACE BITCHES!! And that is exactly what this teaser does. At least for me it did, it built up that emotion, it built up the idea that we want, no, need, to explore, to push boundaries, and reminds me that we've stopped. And then it told me, now we're doing that again (in this movie). And it felt awesome, it made me go yes, I want to go exploring again!!

The simple one line plot encapsulation in the newspaper doesn't do that. It has no emotion, it doesn't make me feel it, it doesn't make me want to go jump out of my seat and into a rocket. This teaser does.

So yes, I think it's an absolutely perfect teaser for what I (hope) this movie will be.

Think you're reading too much into it. That being said, if nothing else, you should give it points for doing something new as a piece of marketing. That Inception teaser you mentioned was the start of the "BRAWWWWM" trend in trailers we've been suffering through for like 3 years since everyone started copying it.

It would be so, so, easy for this teaser to have that same approach "Nolan"...brawm...space ship shot....brawm...."fate of mankind"...brawm....November 2014.

But no, they go completely 180 the other direction and do something original. Market based on the theme, and try to uplift the audience with a positive message instead of bludgeoning them with noise and images.

I have no interest in seeing any more about this film until it's out.

I felt as excited about space as Brian does for a few minutes after watching it and that's never happened before.  I guess that's saying something.  But I don't need a trailer to want to see Chris Nolan's next project anyway, so I guess I don't have to analyze it further.

It stars Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway.

The only way I want to watch either of those two in space is if they're asphyxiating.

That was a good one, but personally I like him even more in U-571.