Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" (2014) - Scifi film about time travel and worm holes - General

[QUOTE=Thom12255;46442426][sp]Even he knew his son was a dick.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]He cried when watching videos of his son, I assume that given he loved his children so much he would at least take five seconds to ask about his son.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Deng;46442444][sp]He cried when watching videos of his son, I assume that given he loved his children so much he would at least take five seconds to ask about his son.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]What was blatant and annoyed me was his son was purely a device to move the plot rather than "his son". The son/brother is Murphy's sole motivation to returning to the farm at the end and therefore giving the ghost room one more chance.[/sp] I really enjoyed it even though there's a few little things about it that made it short of perfect, it's frustrating but considering the shite it's competing with out in the theaters currently it's brilliant. Go see it.

Just got back from seeing this. Pretty good/10. Can someone explain [sp]what the fuck Matt was doing? Did he just go completely nuts? Why fake your data to get a ride back but then claim to "continue the mission"???[/sp]

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46442827]Just got back from seeing this. Pretty good/10. Can someone explain [sp]what the fuck Matt was doing? Did he just go completely nuts? Why fake your data to get a ride back but then claim to "continue the mission"???[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]I think he just got really lonely and wanted to go back, he'd fuck up the mission but it doesn't matter since they can't re-send him lol, that is all[/sp]

[sp]He faked the data because the original plan was only to go to good planets and save astronauts on them. Those that found nothing would be let to die. The whole "the bravest ones" thing was explained by that. And yeah, he went nuts and turned out to be a coward.[/sp]

Right but [sp]after a successful escape why "continue the mission" if all he wanted was to leave? I get that we went nuts an all but still he should've had some clear motivation[/sp] And don't get me wrong, I'm not hating on the film here. Just wondering if there was something I missed.

they were very very clear about how much of a stupid coward he was [sp]Though I'm not entirely sure why he wanted to complete the mission. And why he wanted to kill everyone and do it alone.[/sp]

[QUOTE=thrawn2787;46442947]Right but [sp]after a successful escape why "continue the mission" if all he wanted was to leave? I get that we went nuts an all but still he should've had some clear motivation[/sp] [/QUOTE] [sp]That was just him justifying his bullshit he told the rest of the team over the radio[/sp]

What a great film, seriously. I loved all of it even the [sp] fifth dimension scene which was good though it could have really been terribly made. [/sp] A solid 8.8 out of 10 for sure, also the soundtrack is incredible Hans Zimmer finally does something that doesn't sound like all his other soundtracks.

[sp]I don't get why he turned off the radio. It's not like they could do anything to him through it, and it would be better because he could listen in and hear what they were planning.[/sp]

Because that sequence was badly written.

[sp]hey that guy ripped off the radio on my helmet but i'm sure i can just lay it back on[/sp]

[QUOTE=Deng;46443427][sp]I don't get why he turned off the radio. It's not like they could do anything to him through it, and it would be better because he could listen in and hear what they were planning.[/sp][/QUOTE] Probably because he didn't want to hear them talking incessantly in his ear...

at my parent's house for the weekend, somehow managed to convince them to see this in IMAX tomorrow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SO if the 'anomalie' was [sp]coop behind the bookcase in the 5th dimension, what were all the other anomalies around the world? they stated that there have been others, right? have the future humans tried this with other people around the world??? are there other dudes in other 5th dimensions???[/sp]

[QUOTE=Rusty100;46444691]SO if the 'anomalie' was [sp]coop behind the bookcase in the 5th dimension, what were all the other anomalies around the world? they stated that there have been others, right? have the future humans tried this with other people around the world??? are there other dudes in other 5th dimensions???[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp] Let me break it down. So because this movie uses the time travel theory of Self Continuity, the other anomalies played a key part in the NASA team believing they can do what they can via worm hole. So in the future, be it Mankind or what ever evolutionary path, they manipulated Time to create the things, to, in the past, give the NASA people their "evidence" even though it was evidence of something else. [/sp]

that's really dumb, and you know it. [editline]9th November 2014[/editline] they existed only to propel the plot forward. bad script writing

[QUOTE=Rusty100;46444843]that's really dumb, and you know it. [editline]9th November 2014[/editline] they existed only to propel the plot forward. bad script writing[/QUOTE] You know that it can be said about every other film that features time travel?

the thing i'm talking about right now isn't even a factor of time travel he said that the other [sp]'anomalies' were created by the future humans in order to give nasa compounding evidence to lead them to take on their endevour. if i'm hearing correctly.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Rusty100;46445701]the thing i'm talking about right now isn't even a factor of time travel he said that the other [sp]'anomalies' were created by the future humans in order to give nasa compounding evidence to lead them to take on their endevour. if i'm hearing correctly.[/sp][/QUOTE] Do you mean the [sp] NASA sitting in that room with Cooper at the beginning by "he"? If yes I think they didn't have the theory of future humans - Cooper talked about it in the 5th dimension but the NASA only referred to 'them' creating anomalies, i.e. no one in particular.[/sp]

Saw it today with my brother, we agreed that we both loved it - it was brilliantly scored and the visuals were amazing. 7/10 though, for basically all the reasons gone into over and again in this thread. Honestly, if you took out a lot of the washy "Love across time and space" drama aspects to this and replaced that with a solid hour of hard science, this would be a personal 10/10 for us. Also that whole ending sequence, what? Anyway, too tired to really think straight, will enjoy reading the comments instead I think before I make any kind of judgement in finality.

[QUOTE=Rusty100;46445701]the thing i'm talking about right now isn't even a factor of time travel he said that the other [sp]'anomalies' were created by the future humans in order to give nasa compounding evidence to lead them to take on their endevour. if i'm hearing correctly.[/sp][/QUOTE] If I were to guess I'd say the anomalies [sp]that NASA observed was caused by opening the wormhole, a side effect. That was made by "future humans." The machines on Coop's farm started to freak out because of him messing with the timeline in Murph's bedroom, another side effect.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Rusty100;46444691]SO if the 'anomalie' was [sp]coop behind the bookcase in the 5th dimension, what were all the other anomalies around the world? they stated that there have been others, right? have the future humans tried this with other people around the world??? are there other dudes in other 5th dimensions???[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp] TARS was also in the blackhole. Who knows what he was seeing in his 5th dimension and what he did with it? [/sp]

Saw it last night. Was pretty damn good nearly cried three times.

The wormhole sequence has got to be one of the most visually stunning things I've seen on film. Also the black hole. We really need more movies which portray these anomalies in a realistic (or atleast as realistically as we can understand with our current science) manner.

[QUOTE=Whiplash~;46448524]The wormhole sequence has got to be one of the most visually stunning things I've seen on film. Also the black hole. We really need more movies which portray these anomalies in a realistic (or atleast as realistically as we can understand with our current science) manner.[/QUOTE] Wasn't there something with this movie and the accurate representation of black holes/wormholes. Like visually.

[QUOTE=booster;46448633]Wasn't there something with this movie and the accurate representation of black holes/wormholes. Like visually.[/QUOTE] Johnathan Nolan studied physics/relativity at CalTech for the original script, along with hiring Kip Thorne. I'm pretty sure the visual guys were given a crash course in how the black hole properly bends light, etc.

[QUOTE=booster;46448633]Wasn't there something with this movie and the accurate representation of black holes/wormholes. Like visually.[/QUOTE] [url=http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/?mbid=social_twitter]Yes.[/url] Also, I watched this movie two days ago. Disappointed isn't the right word, but this movie barely produced any lasting reaction in me. The visuals were great, the sound was great and the acting was good, but I feel that it fell short in really exploring [i]any[/i] of the many possible, interesting concepts that exist around space travel and physics. [sp]IMO the most thought-provoking stuff in the film was the entire time-dilation aspect, and the scene where Cooper watches the videos his kids send through those 23 years was powerful, but it felt like it quickly became sidelined. The Mann subplot felt cliched, and when Mann was suiting up along with Cooper I was relieved that for once, there wouldn't be the inevitable team member who lost their mind and endangers the mission. Matt Damon was also pretty comical as Mann, or was that just me? He played him well, though. The whole deal with love being a physical force also felt forced and unnatural, and it feels like Nolan is getting a little too comfortable with taking plot leaps, like how Cooper just got enrolled by NASA for the mission, or how Murph realized that Cooper was the ghost. It was the same in TDKR, what with Bruce finding his way back to Gotham. These plot leaps don't ruin the movie for me (as they apparently do for some), but Nolan doesn't handle it very gracefully. Conversely, the way that the 2008 script handles Cooper getting involved with the NASA mission was much better, felt more natural, and IIRC wouldn't have required Michael Cane to quickly explain why it makes sense so the audience doesn't complain about it. Of course it wouldn't have tied in with the changes that Nolan made to the script, with the ghost providing coordinates instead.[/sp]

Saw the film a few hours ago, loved it from start to finish and thought it was brilliant. If I had to rate it 9/10 losing a point just for a couple of questionable plot decisions.

[QUOTE=LoneWolf_Recon;46448716]Johnathan Nolan studied physics/relativity at CalTech for the original script, along with hiring Kip Thorne. I'm pretty sure the visual guys were given a crash course in how the black hole properly bends light, etc.[/QUOTE] Kip Thorne gave lots of math equations to the vfx team and the software used by them spat out what we saw in the theater. No one knew what it was going to look like until it was made.