Interstellar

[SpaceXray]

I found this leaked and exclusive IMAX trailer. Hold on to your pants, because this one will blow you away, even if it's not of the best quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InD7EE2REMw&list=FLjv4u_0WZFl7SBm_8KH6spA& index=1

[Midnite111]

Well that's going onto my watch list! I hope the film is more like Gravity/2001SO and my fear is it will end up begin more like After Earth but it's got Nolan so it can't be that terrible.

Also from the looks of things the earth is in a future dust bowl scenario. The expedition sounds like it must have been thrown together out what was left of a space race of the future kind of like how Half-life 2 did their rocket stuff? Also I'm almost certain that the Saturn V that was shown was for crew transport/finishing touches cause there is no way that ship went up in one rocket.

[SpaceXray]

Well that's going onto my watch list! I hope the film is more like Gravity/2001SO and my fear is it will end up begin more like After Earth but it's got Nolan so it can't be that terrible.

Also from the looks of things the earth is in a future dust bowl scenario. The expedition sounds like it must have been thrown together out what was left of a space race of the future kind of like how Half-life 2 did their rocket stuff? Also I'm almost certain that the Saturn V that was shown was for crew transport/finishing touches cause there is no way that ship went up in one rocket.

I doubt anything can be worse than AE, but I predict this getting a 9.5 score at least on imdb!

[How2FoldSoup]

I found this leaked and exclusive IMAX trailer. Hold on to your pants, because this one will blow you away, even if it's not of the best quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InD7EE2REMw&list=FLjv4u_0WZFl7SBm_8KH6spA& index=1

That...was...AWESOME.

I've been hyped for this movie but now the hype is way too real

[lajoswinkler]

To be honest, the trailers made me a lot less amazed than back when WB was releasing trailers for "Gravity". There are already several trailers and they are basically made out of the same scenes. I don't think we'll get anything close to Gravity let alone Odyssey. No way. It will probably be a good movie, though, but you simply can't expect Hollywood will all of the sudden start releasing insanely great movies. One movie about astronauts stranded in orbit can't change decades of commercialism and total artistic decline.

[SpaceXray]

To be honest, the trailers made me a lot less amazed than back when WB was releasing trailers for "Gravity". There are already several trailers and they are basically made out of the same scenes. I don't think we'll get anything close to Gravity let alone Odyssey. No way. It will probably be a good movie, though, but you simply can't expect Hollywood will all of the sudden start releasing insanely great movies. One movie about astronauts stranded in orbit can't change decades of commercialism and total artistic decline.

This is Nolan we are talking about here. Cuaron is very talented, he is like Nolan's little brother. They are my new fav Hollywood directors.

[JohntotheBrogan]

It looks like a really good movie I want to see it

[SelectHalfling0]

I was watching one of the trailers and they said "1 hour on the planet is 7 years on Earth", which makes sense considering it orbits a black hole. I then realized they have less than 1 generation on Earth to complete the mission.

S*** just got real, son.

[Duxwing]

If we actually went into full-blown "Oh crap we're screwed" panic mode, you'd be amazed at how quickly we'd probably move forward. Maybe not bending space-time, but you'd see a heck of a lot of advancements. It's already happened a few times, such as during WWII.

I want to see that mode in this film: may humanity defeat extinction with a unified, total effort of reason and resolve!

-Duxwing

[SpaceXray]

A guy on imdb who saw the advanced screening posted the plot.

Matt Damon plays a scientist who is ent thru the wormhole along with ten other scientists to find inhabitable planets. He tries to kill Cooper because he believes there is no way to save all of the people on earth. As a matter of fact. The only one's who believ earth can be saved are Cooper and murph. And Murph is the one talking to Cooper in the beginning of the movie. Also when Anne's character reaches put when they are in the wormhole. She is touching Cooper who is being kicked out of the wormhole. I was just trying to give an early review and trolls just want to ruin everything. Here on Fort Hood we get early screenings all the time. I saw Captain America free, Transformers, GI Joe Retaliation; the list goes on. We get to see them early and free. So.. In your face. I guess when we get fast and furious early I Will not post anything. Have a nice day!

I'm amazed how I copied this without looking at he text. Insane.

[Motokid600]

It's amazing.. South Park already poked fun at this movie and it's not even out yet, lol.

There was one thing that caught my eye... If this movie is shooting for a realism aspect.. the angle of the Saturn V in that one scene during stage sep is WAY OFF. I just hope it's not a "go up to go to space' movie..

[Nibb31]

Of course, interpretation of teaser/trailer like this is pure speculation, but the premise of hauling a Saturn V out a museum to launch a last ditch World-saving interstellar mission is cliché Hollywood-grade stupidity.

I really hope the Saturn V footage is only for a short flashback scene and not part of the actual plot, because it would instantly ruin any attempt of suspension of disbelief.

[Geneborg]

Never underestimate Hollywood stupidity. Never underestimate their arguments either: "we are doing it because the audience doesn't know better and thus we have to put in things they recognize. SaturnV is a recognizable object, so is shuttle, so is a supposed to happen chinese space station and bad russians".

[SpaceXray]

You are all wrong. First of all, in a TV spot during another stage separation the rocket is already horizontal. Secondly, why NOT use a Saturn V as a last resort? If we are talking about humankind fate, humans would probably use the most reliable and the most lift-capable rocket known by many people. In one of the TV spots, the shuttle/command cabin is on top of the rocket fitted into some sort of adaptor ring. I presume it docks with the main shop in Earth orbit later on.

[FishInferno]

You are all wrong. First of all, in a TV spot during another stage separation the rocket is already horizontal. Secondly, why NOT use a Saturn V as a last resort? If we are talking about humankind fate, humans would probably use the most reliable and the most lift-capable rocket known by many people. In one of the TV spots, the shuttle/command cabin is on top of the rocket fitted into some sort of adaptor ring. I presume it docks with the main shop in Earth orbit later on.

i think what Nibb meant was that you couldn't use the Saturn V that has been sitting in a museum for 60+ years

[Geneborg]

@SpaceXray

Thats not how tech works. You can't leave it in a hangar x-years and expect it to work or to be serviced by ppl anymore. Tech Know How (Operation) is as important as the tech-hardware itself. There is no "take it out the hangar for last resort" type of reality, thats pure hollywood scifi, they always rationalize it with the need for the audience to recognize stuff...

[lajoswinkler]

Saturn V is an obsolete piece of technology which can not be resurected anymore.

We had a discussion about this on the forum. The rocket was made in the late sixties with late sixties technology. It would be very stupid to try to bring it back.

[Nibb31]

Simply rebuilding the launch pad and LUT would be more expensive at this point than expediting SLS or sending stuff up on smaller rockets.

[SpaceXray]

Simply rebuilding the launch pad and LUT would be more expensive at this point than expediting SLS or sending stuff up on smaller rockets.

Why couldn't they take the Saturn V blueprints and just use stronger and lighter steel and replace the old engines with new ones?

At least they'd have some sort of idea behind building a big rocket. And once again, don't expect too much from a movie. And once again, way more ppl know what the Saturn V is than the SLS, so I would personally prefer the Saturn V getting some fame.

[Nibb31]

Why couldn't they take the Saturn V blueprints and just use stronger and lighter steel and replace the old engines with new ones?

Because it's a totally stupid idea. There are no "new" F1 engines. Steel isn't "stronger and lighter", but you would use totally different manufacturing techniques, new soldering techniques, different ribbing, 3D printing instead of forging or milling, etc... In the end, you would have to redesign every single part, rebuild half of KSC, modify the crawlers, the LUT, remodel the VAB, etc...

It would be much easier to build a similar rocket using modern off-the-shelf designs and state-of-the-art technology. Which is what they are doing with SLS.

At least they'd have some sort of idea behind building a big rocket. And once again, don't expect too much from a movie. And once again, way more ppl know what the Saturn V is than the SLS.

Which is why most Hollywood movies suck. They lower the bar to the level of a dumb audience instead of making clever movies that might actually raise the average level of knowledge of the audience.

[Motokid600]

I don't understand Hollywood. Imo in this aspect at least, realism makes for BETTER and downright cooler shots. However.. have they shown the upper half of this rocket yet? Or any significant detail at all? How do we know its a SaturnV? I don't know if Nolan is smart enough to realize rebuilding the SV is foolish, but I just watched the trailer... All you see is a similar paint job, tail fin and stage separation.

[RobotsAndSpaceships]

I don't understand Hollywood. Imo in this aspect at least, realism makes for BETTER and downright cooler shots. However.. have they shown the upper half of this rocket yet? Or any significant detail at all? How do we know its a SaturnV? I don't know if Nolan is smart enough to realize rebuilding the SV is foolish, but I just watched the trailer... All you see is a similar paint job, tail fin and stage separation.

When us space nerds watch movies this happens. I can't watch a sci-fi flick anymore without the fact that the ships don't have reaction control systems or heat radiators.

[lajoswinkler]

When us space nerds watch movies this happens. I can't watch a sci-fi flick anymore without the fact that the ships don't have reaction control systems or heat radiators.

And when a lot of reality is respected, some of nerds lift their expectations and s*it all over the movie. Example - Gravity.

[SpaceXray]

And when a lot of reality is respected, some of nerds lift their expectations and s*it all over the movie. Example - Gravity.

Same. Realism is usually very boring to most of the audience. Extremely boring. However, if you spice things up a bit, you tame the angry nerds a bit and give the audience a pleasing experience(Gravity managed to do just that, balancing realism, awesome cinematography and CGI and symbolism).

Nolan pushes realism a bit further, thus he also needs to know how to use that to his advantage. He doesn't want the movie to turn into a 169 minute long lecture on physics and cosmology.

[PakledHostage]

And when a lot of reality is respected, some of nerds lift their expectations and s*it all over the movie. Example - Gravity.

For what it is worth, this proud nerd didn't have a problem with the "realism" (such as it was) in Gravity. I had a problem with the story.