Interstellar

[Tristonwilson12]

I'm really surprised that it didn't get any awards considering all the ones that Gravity got.

I mean, the movie had some flaws, but it was a lot better than Gravity! At least Interstellar had some plot to it, and if you're going to argue that Gravity had better visual effects, then... http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/

there was ALOT OF SCIENCE the went into the move. read kip thornes book

[dryer_lint]

there was ALOT OF SCIENCE the went into the move. read kip thornes book

I purchased his book a month ago. When did I say the movie didn't have science?

Anyways, from what I've seen most people complain about the plot, not the science. But it was still better than Gravity's "astronaut crashes into stuff and makes big mess" plot. And Gravity had a bunch of errors, and-

Geez, I really hate Gravity, don't I

[Robotengineer]

I'd give it 9/10. While some of the science was off, on the most part it was accurate. Compared to Gravity, it's way better. I was saddened that it didn't get an Oscar nod.

[Robotengineer]

Certainly the best movie of 2014 that I saw. and Best recent Sci-Fi, with the recent Star Trek's being 2nd. Gravity as a film was good, as a science film it was crap. They both had good effects, but Interstellar had a better story, and better science.

[Vanamonde]

Duplicate threads merged.

[ouion]

Interstellar is one of the greatest movie I watched. The dimensions concept apparently really easy to understand to me.

So any concepts in that movie confuse you guys?

[Vanamonde]

Merged into the existing thread for this movie.

[benjee10]

Managed to get see Interstellar Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Utterly incredible - the music is pretty much flawless and hearing that church organ in real life is indescribable. Managed to meet Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer and Jessica Chastain beforehand as well along with Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox. Pretty incredible. There was some really interesting discussion about the film in the pre-film talk about the tesseract and such, as well as Nolan's views on whether the resolution is a paradox or not - from what I gather it isn't within the universe of the film since Cooper is a 5-dimensional observer so time no longer really exists for him, there is no past present or future when he is inside the tesseract, just everything happening at once.

[vger]

DVD release is today, folks!

[dryer_lint]

I'm hoping for an Interstellar Honest Trailer.

I like the movie, but I also want to see it get mercilessly torn apart!

[dryer_lint]

I'm hoping for an Interstellar Honest Trailer.

I like the movie, but I also want to see it get mercilessly torn apart!

... aaaaand the Honest Trailer got released a few hours before that post.

What are the chances.

[vger]

... aaaaand the Honest Trailer got released a few hours before that post.

...relatively speaking.

[Accelerando]

...relatively speaking.

Ayyyyyyyy

[Superfluous J]

Just watched it, then poked through this thread to see what everybody said about it over the past 6+ months. Interesting read, actually, though I started reading every other page about halfway through.

I liked the movie. Sure, it got some stuff wrong but who doesn't? The storytelling could have been a bit tighter too, and it would have given them a little more time to explain exactly what happened and why in a couple key scenes.

Like the daughter burning down the son's crops. Really? To keep him away from the house for a few hours? That seems pretty harsh. What was he going to do if she hadn't lured him away by destroying his entire livelihood, and why was she suddenly not afraid of his wrath once she found the watch?

And when the dismantled robot exploded, what exactly happened there? I'm feeling like my DVD was missing a scene where that was explained. Seemed kinda important, too.

And how far exactly did they walk across the ice planet, anyway? Matt Damon was able to get back to the base quickly so it couldn't have been that far, but it seemed like Anne Hathaway flew at LEAST several dozen miles.

[SpaceXray]

Just watched it, then poked through this thread to see what everybody said about it over the past 6+ months. Interesting read, actually, though I started reading every other page about halfway through.

I liked the movie. Sure, it got some stuff wrong but who doesn't? The storytelling could have been a bit tighter too, and it would have given them a little more time to explain exactly what happened and why in a couple key scenes.

Like the daughter burning down the son's crops. Really? To keep him away from the house for a few hours? That seems pretty harsh. What was he going to do if she hadn't lured him away by destroying his entire livelihood, and why was she suddenly not afraid of his wrath once she found the watch?

And when the dismantled robot exploded, what exactly happened there? I'm feeling like my DVD was missing a scene where that was explained. Seemed kinda important, too.

And how far exactly did they walk across the ice planet, anyway? Matt Damon was able to get back to the base quickly so it couldn't have been that far, but it seemed like Anne Hathaway flew at LEAST several dozen miles.

KIPP was booby-trapped, in case someone decided to stick their nose into the fake scientific data.

And yes, burning crops was the solution.

[DaMichel]

The trailer expresses my feelings about the movie pretty well. I went into the theater when it first came out, expecting to see a hard sci-fi movie. But what i found was split between one half Rosamunde Pilcher movie adaptation, about 1/4th hard sci-fi, and another 1/4th space magic.

I mean the rendering of the black hole and all was great and the docking sequence was hilarious. I also liked the design of the robots very much. I think it is very creative. But this is about it.

On the bad side, beside many other things, i didn't like the ending at all. The Room of Spirit and Time looked way too much like some graphics glitch in old video games a.k.a. Hall of Mirrors Effect. At the very end, the movie wants to make us believe that it is easier to grow crops in giant space stations around jupiter than it is to grow them on earth in sealed habitats.

[SpaceXray]

The trailer expresses my feelings about the movie pretty well. I went into the theater when it first came out, expecting to see a hard sci-fi movie. But what i found was split between one half Rosamunde Pilcher movie adaptation, about 1/4th hard sci-fi, and another 1/4th space magic.

I mean the rendering of the black hole and all was great and the docking sequence was hilarious. I also liked the design of the robots very much. I think it is very creative. But this is about it.

On the bad side, beside many other things, i didn't like the ending at all. The Room of Spirit and Time looked way too much like some graphics glitch in old video games a.k.a. Hall of Mirrors Effect. At the very end, the movie wants to make us believe that it is easier to grow crops in giant space stations around jupiter than it is to grow them on earth in sealed habitats.

You do know the Earth has an expiration date, and it is heavily controlled by the beings living on it. By that point even a sealed habitat wouldn't work. Besides, if humanity were just to stay on Earth forever, we would stop being explorers. If an asteroid hit Earth, goodbye humanity.

[Superfluous J]

You do know the Earth has an expiration date, and it is heavily controlled by the beings living on it. By that point even a sealed habitat wouldn't work. Besides, if humanity were just to stay on Earth forever, we would stop being explorers. If an asteroid hit Earth, goodbye humanity.

But surely it'd be okay to stopgap for a few decades by building habitats on Earth with the exact same materials used in Jupiter (Must be perfectly 100% airtight with infinite recyclability)? And if so, then all the "We're all gonna die" is perfectly mitigated? At *least* as much as lifting all those people to Jupiter would be?

[PakledHostage]

I think it is pretty clear that SpaceXray is a really big fan of the movie. Nobody is going to convince him that it is anything lessthan great so it is pointless to try. Similarly, he needs to understand that he'll never convince those of us who don't think Interstellar was much to write home about that it is anything more than a mildly entertaining (but mostly forgettable) movie.

[Bill Phil]

It's good for what it is. But it isn't a scientifically accurate film.

Personally I think 2001 is way better...

[benjee10]

It's a flawed movie. The third act is a mess. Some of the premise doesn't make sense. The ending could (and should) have been a lot simpler. I would have preferred it if the tesseract was not created by future humans but instead was a product of the vast time dilation near the singularity making time effectively stand still - it's not very plausible, but it's a lot more plausible than humans somehow evolving into beings that exist in five-dimensional space. Then it just becomes Cooper looking back over his own timeline and you don't have the questions about why the hell super-advanced beings from the future need a little girl to 'solve gravity' to save themselves.

I feel like they could have cut out a good 15 minutes or so of exposition, especially TARS talking Cooper through the tesseract at the end, left things a bit more ambiguous, and it would be a far better film. Nevertheless one of my favourite movies - just because it's flawed it doesn't mean I find it incredibly entertaining, and some of the sequences are mind-blowing particularly when seen in IMAX. The waves scene is my personal favourite; it perfectly represents how utterly powerless we are in comparison to the forces of nature. I wish the rest of the film were that good.

[DaMichel]

I got the impression that there was some sort of plant eating plaque, but i could be wrong. I would have liked it more if the movie had spent more time explaining what was going on on earth.

The original script was intended for Spielberg, and it was apparently quite different. http://www.slashfilm.com/interstellar-script-differences/

[CelticCossack51]

I just saw Interstellar. I can understand why it was not the Best Picture, since it was not a typical Hollywood film. But I think it is better than a typical Hollywood film. I'm still confused, but Interstellar took over Gravity as my favourite film.

[SpaceXray]

But surely it'd be okay to stopgap for a few decades by building habitats on Earth with the exact same materials used in Jupiter (Must be perfectly 100% airtight with infinite recyclability)? And if so, then all the "We're all gonna die" is perfectly mitigated? At *least* as much as lifting all those people to Jupiter would be?

Closing ourselves up in habitats on Earth is just regression and adaption to changing environments around us. We're that to happen we would be no different from bacteria. Do you want humanity to just regress to that state and completely forget about any progress and space colonization whatsoever?

[Superfluous J]

Closing ourselves up in habitats on Earth is just regression and adaption to changing environments around us. We're that to happen we would be no different from bacteria. Do you want humanity to just regress to that state and completely forget about any progress and space colonization whatsoever?

No. I want them to die out instead.