re: Interstellar...

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they were designed for compactness,, let's see I'm on a spaceship, is compartment space an issue? duh..

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Ok? When they are in their little slots like this, no problem.



Not in slot we get this



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all while looking like this



I want my future robots looking like it couldn't be put together today. Tony Stark built something cooler than this in the desert.

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me too, what amazes me is how many people think a black hole and a worm hole are the same thing.

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Wait, maybe the guy was talking about The Gargantuan...that was a black hole. The wormhole was the mechanism that got them to the system that contained The Gargantuan.

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Hmm? They're both informal jargon to describe the phenomenon of warping space-time via whatever device (generally gravity.) Since the far extrusion (such as it is) of a black hole isn't currently known except in mathematical abstractions, and not even really then, the distinction isn't exactly meaningful right now. I'm not sure what you're getting at.

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Yeah, in fact, one popular theory is that black holes are wormholes.

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that part made sense.

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And as an homage to 2001 (monoliths).

I nominate Jagd Tiger for President of Robot Operations going forward. No vote either. Jagd Tiger is the new President of Robots.

Disappointing considering the hype and buildup

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time-movement/travel-paradox movie

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Where was the paradox?

How did future humans create the black hole construct if humanity died in the past?

I wasn't really bothered by this, and I don't really think its a paradox. From what I've read about quantum theory, its possible that time is not perceived linearly in the 5th dimension. The tesseract was a visual representation of non-linear time: he could interact with the bookshelf at any moment simply by perceiving it at a different place.

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One of my favorite film critics wrote something along the lines of: giving Interstellar more than 2 stars or a 5/10 is like saying "I really love pretty lights and sounds". And while that is great for you and 95% of everyone else, it probably also means you have no business reviewing movies.

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This is all over the top and it is mostly due to heightened expectations. Did it hit a homerun? No. Is it one of the best science fiction films of the past 5 or 6 years? Certainly - particularly if you limit it to big budget releases.

"Pretty lights and sounds" - that is Michael Bay/JJ Abrams.

Nolan should get credit for TRYING to do something original, clever, thought-provoking and just coming up short of a homerun - rather than taking fire for not living up to expectations (or at least as much as he's getting - obviously, I do not give the film 4 stars, but would have it at 3, certainly, perhaps 3 1/2 - or about as many stars as I would give the entire Transformers series, combined.)

I just picture Nolan going all Maximus "Are you not entertained?!?!?"

I mean, critics praise something like Bridman which I thought was boring as hell, but shite on something original like Interstellar because it "wasn't good enough".