Behind the scenes of Interstellar's Machines, TARS and CASE. And done with little CGI - General

[video=youtube;cRmNPE0HwE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmNPE0HwE8[/video] Nolan has done it again. And I love the characters in the movie.

TARS is probably the only reason I want to watch interstellar

I fucking loved Interstellar. Watching it in the theatre with speakers blazing was probably one of the most intense experiences I've had last year. Now, I know most people on Facepunch don't like Interstellar much, but don't hate me for it.

wait people don't like it.?

I bought pre ordered the movie on Blu Ray. And the last movie I bought was 6 years ago. Interstellar is amazing.

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;47407742]wait people don't like it.?[/QUOTE] I think you have to watch the film with the 'correct mindset' to enjoy it. Some people had different expectations and therefore they weren't impressed. Personally it was the most incredible film I've seen.

The design made me think they were uninspired until I saw how they moved and got around. Kinda reminds me of a gorilla when it runs.

I just really want to know how they got rid of that quadbike for the water sequence. That looked really painful to do.

[QUOTE=Croninberg;47407921]I think you have to watch the film with the 'correct mindset' to enjoy it. Some people had different expectations and therefore they weren't impressed. Personally it was the most incredible film I've seen.[/QUOTE] what where they hoping for an alien war move or something.?

[QUOTE=Croninberg;47407921]I think you have to watch the film with the 'correct mindset' to enjoy it. Some people had different expectations and therefore they weren't impressed. Personally it was the most incredible film I've seen.[/QUOTE] That's a nice way to ignore any criticisms, no matter how right or wrong they may be.

[QUOTE=theevilldeadII;47408255]what where they hoping for an alien war move or something.?[/QUOTE] They saw "Christopher Nolan" and expected more action, I think. I'm glad I hadn't seen any other Nolan films beforehand - I went in completely blind, except from my girlfriend saying "it's space-y, you love space." [I][B]You don't believe we went to the Moon? I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda, that the Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines...[/B][/I] This is the point that had me hooked for this film. [B]Edit: [/B][QUOTE=Zuimzado;47408329]That's a nice way to ignore any criticisms, no matter how right or wrong they may be.[/QUOTE] I do respect that people have different opinions of the film, there's bound to be some as film is a subjective medium.

I really enjoyed Interstellar, but for me it wasn't as good as 2001. [B]Edit:[/B] Wow, thanks luverofJ!93 for rating my opinion dumb. But I'm surprised that 3 people disagree, I guess Interstellar is more entertaining and easier to watch/digest.

I've been obsessed with[sp]black holes[/sp]since I was a kid, so this movie was pretty much my wet dream. If I wasn't a mathematical failure I would definetely have studied something related to space.

don't read if you haven't watched the movie: this movie had the most amazing special effects i've ever seen but boy was the writing shitty. what kind of scientist undertaking a mission to save humankind from extinction just stops and explains to another scientist what a wormhole is? this kind of stuff really breaks the immersion because it's clear the characters are not talking to eachother, or wouldn't ever take part in such an 8th grader conversation. they're explaining to the dumb viewer what a wormhole is. breaking the fourth wall is just inexcusable in films like this. the scientist language for dummies also happens more than you'd like to think it does in the movie. just my opinion though. it kind of stopped me from fully enjoying the movie. also i thought the build up to the space mission was super rushed and very badly put together. they could've done a build up in the same amount of time but pieced the whole thing together wayyyy nicer than they did. it's like hollywood thinks viewers are stupid. this is the reason spectacular movies that rely on ambiguity as a tool to HELP DRIVE the narrative like blade runner don't come out anymore.

I found the robot design of TARS/CASE kind of ruined parts of the film Like when TARS is controlling the joystick with his ridiculous arm that doesn't even have motion in all the required axes Or when (CASE?) is zipping through the water. The cartwheel I can almost understand, but when he's carrying the woman? That just looked stupid because the water resistance would have made such a speed impossible. Or when TARS is floating around the ship in zero G with relative ease. There's absolutely no way a robot so heavily constrained to such axes would be able to traverse in that environment. And you didn't see that happen at any point, you just saw it floating through or just moving between the scenes They even say in this video that the puppet version had trouble on anything other than smooth floor. That just goes to show what a ridiculous design the whole thing is I'm not sure why but I'm unnecessarily angry about the whole concept now

Bear in mind it did cater to an Audience with a slightly higher intelligence than the norm so alot of people hated it because they didn't understand it. My girlfriend was the same in this she came out not liking it because she didn't understand it to which i spent the same exact length of the movie explaining it to her on the drive home.......personally i loved it.

[QUOTE=Croninberg;47408337]They saw "Christopher Nolan" and expected more action, I think.[/QUOTE] not at all. The criticism points mostly towards the convoluted plot, the [sp]matt damon[/sp] part (which was weird) and the ending. Nobody expected inception in space.

[QUOTE=KlaseR;47409148]not at all. The criticism points mostly towards the convoluted plot, the [sp]matt damon[/sp] part (which was weird) and the ending. Nobody expected inception in space.[/QUOTE] the plot isn't convoluted inception wasn't hard to understand, either i'm glad they bothered to make an interesting plot instead of pandering to idiots that can understand nothing more than transformers

No expectations, no disappointment. Stupidly high expectations, constant disappointment. People need to lighten up and enjoy movies from time to time.

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I haven't watched the film, but those are two of the most convincing robots I've ever seen, because during war, why would we make something fancy and flimsy when something bulky and sturdy would do the job just as well?

[QUOTE=MenteR;47408511]don't read if you haven't watched the movie: this movie had the most amazing special effects i've ever seen but boy was the writing shitty. what kind of scientist undertaking a mission to save humankind from extinction just stops and explains to another scientist what a wormhole is? this kind of stuff really breaks the immersion because it's clear the characters are not talking to eachother, or wouldn't ever take part in such an 8th grader conversation. they're explaining to the dumb viewer what a wormhole is. breaking the fourth wall is just inexcusable in films like this. the scientist language for dummies also happens more than you'd like to think it does in the movie. just my opinion though. it kind of stopped me from fully enjoying the movie. also i thought the build up to the space mission was super rushed and very badly put together. they could've done a build up in the same amount of time but pieced the whole thing together wayyyy nicer than they did. it's like hollywood thinks viewers are stupid. this is the reason spectacular movies that rely on ambiguity as a tool to HELP DRIVE the narrative like blade runner don't come out anymore.[/QUOTE] All my problems with Interstellar's writing can be found in [url=http://www.the-editing-room.com/interstellar.html]this abridged script.[/url] Like the following exchanges: [quote]TEACHER #2 Look, Matthew, we wanted to sit down with you so we could explain this dystopian future to the audience. Specifically how there was a big war that killed millions of people, and afterwards we threw away all our machines, even the really useful ones, because I guess we were fighting Terminators on Maximum Overdrive. TEACHER #1 Blight is ravaging our crops, meaning there are only three jobs allowed now: farming, teaching about farming, and impersonating the New York Yankees. We think your son should farm. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Why the hell did we sink all our hopes into traditional open-air farming anyway? What about plankton or insects? Is anyone building biodomes? Besides, the only crop that hasn't totally died out is corn! What can we do with nothing but heaps of corn, we can only cram so much into my dialogue! TEACHER #2 Yeah yeah, we know that you're a big-shot engineer, but the world doesn't need any engineers right now. Except to build completely autonomous farming equipment that harvests far more food than we ever could manually. But otherwise fuck off.[/quote] [quote]MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Oh crap, the wormhole... is a SPHERE? I'm supposed to drive us into a SPHERE?!? The fuck guys, I thought spacetime was a flat circle! DAVID GYASI This REALLY seems like a conversation that would have happened back on Earth, but yeah, a three-dimensional hole is a sphere. Anything else I should cover? MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY No, I'd rather people continue to explain things to me just as they happen, instead of us all having been fully briefed beforehand.[/quote] [quote]ANNE HATHAWAY (ignoring him) We need to check it out. One teeny tiny complication is that gravitational forces will make time go slower. An hour there will be like 7 years. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Gosh, I could become my own hero in like, 85 minutes. Let's go! DAVID GYASI Say this works out, what happens when we need to branch out from THAT planet? "Come explore the Galaxy, you'll only age hundreds of times faster than everyone back home!" And we already need to compensate for time discrepancies with Earth satellites, this planet will be a fucking nightmare. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY We can't worry about any of that! Look, I've got a whole zany plan to minimize our exposure to slo-mo-time. Of course we could minimize our exposure right down to zero if we sent hyper-intelligent robots planetside instead of us, but hey we only have TWO OF THOSE.[/quote] [quote]MATT DAMON Thanks! Look, this planet actually sucks, and I sent false information back so that someone would come rescue me. But I'm banking you're decent enough people not to strand me here. (pause) Oh wait, that approach doesn't lead to a cheesy Original-Trek-style fistfight. I mean, everything's great! Super great! No dark secrets here at all! (twirls handlebar moustache)[/quote] And the entire 'you are my ghost' exchange, which probably gets the award for 'biggest logic jump in 2014'. It does amaze me how quick people will tell me I didn't understand the movie or it was too smart for me. No, I understood the science just fine- can't see how anyone wouldn't when they were explaining shit all the time- my problem was with the story itself. Nolan is a great director for setpieces and big grandiose plots, but whenever he gets down to the emotional part of things, everything's either really thin or just a second away from falling into pieces, so for him to actually start using love as a plot point is just crossing that line. Or is anyone going to tell me the best parts of Dark Knight and Inception were the complex and well-developed characters of Rachel Dawes and Dom's wife? Would it surprise anyone, what with the love-focused ending, that this movie was originally in Spielberg's hands?

After watching the trailer my expectations were really low, but I [I]really[/I] enjoyed the film. Yeah, sure the writing had some definite flaws and story didn't make sense all the way through. Normally I'd get really annoyed about stuff like that, but the movie had suspense like a fucker and it was insanely beautiful. My younger brother got most of what was going on, so yeah the movie isn't hard to follow really. I think this was the best movie last year, and probably the Nolan movie I like the most. Sue me.

Interstellar was a great adventure that kept me pumped through whole movie. I want to watch this movie again.

So weird, I just watched the movie and then opened facepunch to this thread. My second time watching, and I enjoyed it twice as much. Admittedly I was able to grasp the movie in its entirety since I knew what I was dealing with. Without a doubt one of the greats.

Why is everyone calling the Matt Damon scene weird?

I was so high watching this, I didn't realise there were 2 robots.

I thought the movie kind of fell apart at the ending personally.

[QUOTE=MenteR;47408511]don't read if you haven't watched the movie: this movie had the most amazing special effects i've ever seen but boy was the writing shitty. what kind of scientist undertaking a mission to save humankind from extinction just stops and explains to another scientist what a wormhole is? this kind of stuff really breaks the immersion because it's clear the characters are not talking to eachother, or wouldn't ever take part in such an 8th grader conversation. they're explaining to the dumb viewer what a wormhole is. breaking the fourth wall is just inexcusable in films like this. the scientist language for dummies also happens more than you'd like to think it does in the movie. just my opinion though. it kind of stopped me from fully enjoying the movie. also i thought the build up to the space mission was super rushed and very badly put together. they could've done a build up in the same amount of time but pieced the whole thing together wayyyy nicer than they did. it's like hollywood thinks viewers are stupid. this is the reason spectacular movies that rely on ambiguity as a tool to HELP DRIVE the narrative like blade runner don't come out anymore.[/QUOTE] Out of all the ways to criticize writing you chose the most trivial example. Like, the whole thing about 'love being a force' would have helped you there but your problem can be boiled down to it's just a movie mate. [editline]28th March 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Zuimzado;47411152] And the entire 'you are my ghost' exchange, which probably gets the award for 'biggest logic jump in 2014'.[/QUOTE] Uh what that was an amazing little piece of film. You think the movie has to be realistic as fuck just because they use the word 'science' in the movie? You obviously don't understand the movie if you have to say "no i understand the science just fine".

[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;47411694] Uh what that was an amazing little piece of film. You think the movie has to be realistic as fuck just because they use the word 'science' in the movie? You obviously don't understand the movie if you have to say "no i understand the science just fine".[/QUOTE] One of my friends literally said that to me. In real life. And not as a joke.