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dryer_lint

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You know, the one thing that bugged me throughout the movie was the whole idea of the Lazarus missions. This was supposed to be the epic tale of humanity's first-ever step beyond our solar system into the unknown. Instead it's more like, "oh hey, welcome to NASA, we already sent a bunch of missions through this wormhole, but you guys can go get their data back!" :P

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It's the POWER OF LOOOOOVE!!!!

yeah I thought that was dumb too. I was grateful they didn't take it too much farther than that though.

Just wait till the film gets released. There's going to be a billion and one AMV's of this film set to Enya's "Gravity of Love."

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One thing i don't get is when the guy that lied about his planet being habitable tried to dock to the mothership, went ahead to open the airlock. He was a trained astronaut and would have known about explosive depressurization but he went ahead despite the warnings *imperfect docking* and the constant alarms and the warning from the other two characters. You could say he was in a rush but he surely would have known what would happen and it can't have been to hard for him to back up half a meter and try dock again.

Also why did they visit the planet close to the black hole first. Why didn't they go to the others first and then the one close to the black hole. Then they wouldn't have had to deal with the time slow down unless every other planet couldn't support life.

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SpaceXray

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Not just that, but
Why did they push it out of orbit instead of circularizing?

ATM they didn't have time to calculate how much thrust would be needed, so they basically burned a tad bit too much and ended up with escape velocity.

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KerbMav

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I like(d) it and I have not read anything that could change that. It is a movie, a story, sometimes things must be accepted for a story to continue.

For many things the movie even gives an explanation: Murphy's law, everything that can happen, will happen. (Rewriting history, going for intensive farming instead of asteroid farming etc.)

At least the reaction is not as bad as with Gravity. Another movie I like(d) and many people cry out as being uber-flawed - many "errors"/plot necessities even being added towards the "unscientific-wrong-physics-counter", which mostly really revolves (hah!) around one scene.

Has this been linked already?

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Sanguine

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Okay, um... how do the rangers fly?

I mean, yeah, they have your standard engines, chemical rockets and plasma and whatever, I know that.

However, from what I can see, they have no control surfaces whatsoever. When the Ranger enters the atmosphere of Miller's planet, it doesn't use it engines - it only uses it's vtol engines for landing. So how can it fly? The only surface I see that could be potentially used are those metal wing... things... but they seem to be completely stiff.

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SpaceXray

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Okay, um... how do the rangers fly?

I mean, yeah, they have your standard engines, chemical rockets and plasma and whatever, I know that.

However, from what I can see, they have no control surfaces whatsoever. When the Ranger enters the atmosphere of Miller's planet, it doesn't use it engines - it only uses it's vtol engines for landing. So how can it fly? The only surface I see that could be potentially used are those metal wing... things... but they seem to be completely stiff.

Probably the same hydrazine thrusters. Imagine a control surface getting jammed, it would render the whole thing useless and kill the crew. At least RCS can be switched off if necessary, unlikea broken elevator/aileron.

The fewer moving parts, the better reliability.

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SpaceXray

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Well, am I? If you have seen it, where does it come on a scale of one to ten - one being the worst movie ever and ten being the best movie ever. I want to see it. I just need to persuade my parents to let me go to a late screening on a school night. :D

10/10

Show them imdb.com

It is currently #13 in the rankings of all the movies ever made.

Best movie of the year definitely. This is one of those movies you absolutely HAVE to see in a cinema.

Funnily, I dragged my friends and my parents to Interstellar, and everyone was amazed and thanked me.

Mrs. and Mr. X, if you are reading this, please take your son to see Interstellar. It is one of these movies which make you think and can inspire the young generation to reach further and aim higher. If you are a parent, I am sure you will enjoy the non-cheesy family theme too.

One night isn't important, but inspiring the next generation is.

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PakledHostage

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Show them imdb.com

It is currently #13 in the rankings of all the movies ever made.

[Citation Needed]

On Rotten Tomatoes, Interstellar gets an aggregate score of 73% among professional critics and 87% among general audience members. Compare that to even Guardians of the Galaxy which achieves 90% among professional critics and 94% among general audience members.

I have seen it. It was entertaining. I'd give it a 7/10. I think it is too early to call it a classic. You can't claim that title. You have to earn it through the test of time.

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I haven't seen it, and am not planning to. Anything that uses 'the power of lurve!' as a serious plot point isn't worth anybody's time.

If that's your objection, go see it!

it was taken out of context. It never was explored as a serious plot point, despite what the trailer made it seem like. It was simply a desperate justification for a character to see one of their loved ones again (and it was ignored).

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Superfluous J

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10/10

Show them imdb.com

It is currently #13 in the rankings of all the movies ever made.

[Citation Needed]

Okay I gotta call you out on this one. He didn't give an actual link but come on. Here's the link to the very popular page on IMDB where it's currently #14 but there's no reason to suspect it wasn't 1 rank higher earlier.

I personally haven't seen it and won't until I can rent it, probably from Redbox. I'm not going to risk the need to pee some time in the approximately 3 hours this movie will require me to sit still. A 15 minute intermission wouldn't have killed them.

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PakledHostage

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Okay I gotta call you out on this one. He didn't give an actual link but come on. Here's the link to the very popular page on IMDB where it's currently #14 but there's no reason to suspect it wasn't 1 rank higher earlier.

What's there to call out? SpaceXray made a significant claim without providing a link. I am sorry if I offended you with my tounge in cheek reference to Wikipedia. Thank you for posting the link.

It must be said, though, that something smells fishy about this rating. What is IMDB's criteria? Can it be manipulated? Why has it dropped by one point in as little as a few hours between when SpaceXray and you checked it? Interstellar is the only recent movie in that list. Could it be there only as a result of some campaign to vote it up? I will make it a point to check back in a year or so. If it is still in the top 20 then, I'll have my crow barbecued.

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