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

The soundtrack was absolutely fantastic.

[sp]5th Dimensional Robots saved Humanity so they would have slaves for their Robot Colony.[/sp]

Got my tickets for tomorrow ! Wooo

I found the robots to be fucking cool. [editline]13th November 2014[/editline] I feel more attached to the robots than robots from any other movie.

I just got back from seeing this, and I thought it was pretty good. I can't wait for the sequel to be a buddy cop movie with one if the humans and the sarcastic filing cabinet robot.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46479883]I found the robots to be fucking cool. [editline]13th November 2014[/editline] I feel more attached to the robots than robots from any other movie.[/QUOTE] I like I think most others disliked their design at first. But they redeemed themselves on the water planet. The jokes they told was also oddly funny and well timed. I think this robot takes home the cake as robots you get attached to. (Silent Running) [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/akg89kG.jpg[/IMG]

TARS and CASE (and I guess KIPP) are like the new R2-D2 in my mind

I was genuinely surprised by TARS and CASE. I totally expected them to be like HAL 9000 and be cold and emotionless, but instead they have fleshed out personalities.

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46479883]I found the robots to be fucking cool. [editline]13th November 2014[/editline] I feel more attached to the robots than robots from any other movie.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://jmstevenson.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/gerty-crying.jpg[/IMG]

Went to see this yesterday, really enjoyed it. The best movie I've seen all year and definitely in my top 5 favourites of all time. There wasn't really any problems i had with it either, which was great. [QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;46459715] Stuff that lost points: [sp]Why do you ask this dude to fly your ship ten minutes after he randomly drives up to your gate? How, in an America that teaches kids the moon landings didn't happen, does NASA have money to send people to Saturn? -Why didn't stupid Matt Damon just, I don't know, [I]ask for a ride?[/I] What, were they going to space him when he admitted that he lied about the data? The fuck does he need to kill people for? Also, why doesn't an ASTRONAUT understand the dangers associated with explosive decompression from a shitty docking job? It was a compelling development in the movie, but absolutely nothing he did made sense. It didn't even make "crazy people logic" sense. -Your little shuttle can land and take off from a planet with 130% of Earth's gravity without refueling, but it needs to be shot into Earth orbit on top of a Saturn V? And yes, that was obviously a Saturn V. Perhaps they stole KSC's lawn ornament. -Love is a physical force that transcends all 4 known dimensions? Gag. -We are to believe that far-future evolved humans have expanded themselves into multiple dimensions, which are apparently accessible by throwing your ass into a black hole. Okay. Why didn't they just send him back to Earth in time to see his daughter for more than, like, five minutes? They may be all-powerful, but apparently future humans are also dicks. -Your ship is being swiss-cheesed by a cloud of high-velocity flaming particle things. Why. In the fuck. Do you EJECT!? I don't know how tough your face is, but it ain't tougher than that ship you're riding in. -People in the future apparently leave their spacecraft unlocked and the keys in the ignition. [/sp] [/QUOTE] All these have explanations. [sp]They sent him because he was already fully trained to fly the ship, whereas the people they were planning to send only had simulator training. The first few minutes of the movie show him crashing a ship, so he had flown one before. They already knew who he was, he wasn't just some random person. NASA having so much money was also explained. It was because they were funded in secret after things started to go bad. It seemed to me that Matt Damon was doing it all because he didn't want everything he had gone through to be for nothing. He had been stranded on the planet for a while without any hope of anyone really coming for him, so he tricked them into coming to get him. They wouldn't of left him behind but how was he meant to know that? He had been stranded on the planet by himself and once the first people he meets after so long find out he lied just to be rescued, they wouldn't be too happy with that. They had started to unload things onto the planet because they thought it was safe to set up there, they weren't going to just ignore that when they found out it wasn't true. The shuttle didn't need to be sent up using a rocket. The rocket just meant it didn't use any of the ships fuel to get it into space, which they would need for the rest of the journey. The love thing was just something she said to try to get everyone to go to the other planet, it didn't have anything to do with the ending or the rest of the movie. They didn't send him back in time like that because that just isn't what happened, he could manipulate events but he couldn't actually go back there himself. What he did was what happened in the first place, so he didn't actually change anything. It seemed like the ship was about to explode, it was either stay in the ship where he would definitely die or eject and risk it anyway. Up until that point they had no reason not to trust him, but they did disable the auto-docking anyway. [/sp]

Just went to see this in the cinema. Visuals were awesome. The robots were great. Really liked that they packaged all the pseudo-science differently than the usual tropes. But once they [sp]went into the black hole[/sp] all logic went tits-up. Felt a bit forced to achieve a happy ending.

[QUOTE=nightlord;46482337][sp] The shuttle didn't need to be sent up using a rocket. The rocket just meant it didn't use any of the ships fuel to get it into space, which they would need for the rest of the journey. [/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Rockets are expensive and if they have space planes advanced enough to hop out of a planet like it's nothing, then there's absolutely no need to use one. You could fly fuel to orbit with one of these and just leave it there.[/sp] [editline]a[/editline] [sp]The Damon character turning into a villain is also pretty silly no matter how you look at it, you don't kill a bunch of people and blow up their shit just because you're too embarrassed to tell them the truth.[/sp]

[QUOTE=wheel_user;46483550] [sp]The Damon character turning into a villain is also pretty silly no matter how you look at it, you don't kill a bunch of people and blow up their shit just because you're too embarrassed to tell them the truth.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]He wasn't embarrassed though, he went insane from the loneliness.[/sp]

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;46484272][sp]He wasn't embarrassed though, he went insane from the loneliness.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]Why would he ? all he had to do was to take some readings and then slip back into hibernation, spending most of the time sleeping. He wasn't crazy, just a coward who didn't want to die there.[/sp]

crazy might not be the best term to describe him, but he was surely mentally unstable

Can't wait for the soundtrack. Anyone else preordered?

Just came back from watching this. I very rarely get watery eyes when watching movies but this one made me cry my fucking eyes out. and 70% of the time was because of [I][B]how fucking beautiful the space scene was[/B][/I] [sp] I actually liked the 5th dimensional time travel black hole transition signal ending because I felt like that was when the "fiction" part really stood out[/sp]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46486078]Can't wait for the soundtrack. Anyone else preordered?[/QUOTE] why preorder it when koyaanisqatsi is already out [editline]15th November 2014[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlICjvs0KIs[/media]

Tonight's the night. I finally have the time and money to go see this.

One thing I didn't quite understand in regards to the previous missions [sp]They said that if their planets weren't habitable, they wouldn't get rescued essentially. But with the hibernation thing, couldn't they just continue to sleep until humanity got back on their feet and then go rescue them?[/sp]

Really hate they didn't put this on my local cinema, avoiding spoilers all I can until I can finally see it

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46488181]One thing I didn't quite understand in regards to the previous missions [sp]They said that if their planets weren't habitable, they wouldn't get rescued essentially. But with the hibernation thing, couldn't they just continue to sleep until humanity got back on their feet and then go rescue them?[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]They mentioned some amount of years those pods could keep them alive.[/sp]

Damn man just came home. What a movie. Such a great experience. Time to read through the thread.

[sp]So since time dilation means that time slows down the closer you get to a gravity well like a black hole, does that mean you could use one to put yourself in suspended animation of a sort?[/sp]

[sp]sure. but you should probably bring your means of return with you, or else your rescuers would experience the dilation while coming to get you[/sp]

[QUOTE=GoldenDargon;46490656][sp]So since time dilation means that time slows down the closer you get to a gravity well like a black hole, does that mean you could use one to put yourself in suspended animation of a sort?[/sp][/QUOTE] Dunno why you spoilered that Anyways yes and no. To the outside world you'd live for a very long time. But from your perspective (and everyone at that same dilation) you'd live a normal life.

Watching this film makes me remember a lot of things: [sp] - First about the first docking on Earth. Do they really dock in single orbit? Or it gets fast forwarded? - When Dr Mann botched the docking, it makes me remember my first days in KSP when I tried to dock but I overshoots the docking port and crashs and make thing explodes. - Then Cooper docked with the rotating space station... I'm thinking I could make that as KSP challenge -Then black hole. That was insanely weird, but cool. I want to put Achievement Get: Black Hole Explorer, but unfortunately this type of spoilers couldn't embed image inside it [/sp]

[QUOTE=Ignhelper;46486078]Can't wait for the soundtrack. Anyone else preordered?[/QUOTE] I want the special edition but MyPlayDirect is saying its US only. :(

I saw the movie in a regular theatre yesterday with a friend, though another friend and his roommate wanted to see it tonight. So we went for a show time in an UltraAVX theatre, holy shit it's a lot better. The whole room was just vibrating like crazy in the wormhole scene. Even more than my shitty car with a 12" subwoofer blasting.

[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;46473101]The soundtrack was absolutely fantastic.[/QUOTE] Like 90% of the reason I went back to see it a second time was because I wanted to hear the soundtrack again. I was ASMR-ing for like the last 30 seconds of that docking scene. Those audio systems in theaters are so sweet. On a related note, does anyone know the names/where I could find a high quality version of these two songs? (They are ripped straight from the movie so you may hear spoilers) [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrt-L_9L3FI[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeLAyLm4aM[/media] I love these songs to death but I can't find them anywhere. [editline]14th November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=nightlord;46482337]Went to see this yesterday, really enjoyed it. The best movie I've seen all year and definitely in my top 5 favourites of all time. There wasn't really any problems i had with it either, which was great. All these have explanations. [sp] Up until that point they had no reason not to trust him, but they did disable the auto-docking anyway. [/sp][/QUOTE] That wasn't the part he was referring to, by the way. I believe he meant when [sp]cooper got back to Cooper station and it's heavily implied that he stole a ship to go after Brand.[/sp] [editline]14th November 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Rusty100;46487469]why preorder it when koyaanisqatsi is already out [editline]15th November 2014[/editline] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlICjvs0KIs[/media][/QUOTE] Oh wow, is that Watchmen trailer music? I didn't even realize.