re: Christopher Nolan - Interstellar

One of my favorite movies. Never had an issue hearing any of the dialogue.

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It’s one of my two qualms with the film. I personally think Dr Mann should have been played by Bryan Cranston who can come off as nonthreatening and affable one second to terrifying and horrific on a dime. I don’t buy that Matt Damon could convince 12 other people to go on a suicide mission with him, but I do buy it from Walter White.

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So you buy Ann Hathaway being so in love with Bryan Cranston that she fricks everybody out of years of their lives to be with him?

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Ann Hathaway's lover was on the third planet, not Dr Mann's. What are you talking about?

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Thank you for bringing this up. I don't think they chose her lover's planet. From the dialog I thought it was the other planet not chosen? I'll have to watch again.

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The other is they should have had a better excuse to go down to the water planet first, and it could be just as simple as the scientist down there finding algae and it’s atmosphere was nearly perfectly synced with the Earth of old. Common sense would say first go the Mann’s, then Brandt’s lovers, and the water planet last since that just burns up tons of time.

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you missed something in the movie because that is partly their reasoning for picking it, it had promising data to support human life, and the other planets were much further away which is riskier for their mission. brand and edmund were in love so that threw out scientific objectivity picking that planet and it was the furthest away. I think they miscalculated how close the black hole was or their post tidal wave evacuation caused them to stay on the water planet longer burning more time than they expected.
a quote from the movie.

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Dr Mann's data is promising, but it's gonna take us months to get there, and Edmund's is even further. Miller hasn't sent much, but what she has sent is very promising. It's water, it's organics... And think about the resources including time that would be spent trying to get back here.

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EDIT: Also third qualm: Cooper sending himself there. That creates a paradox. He could still send Murph the codes that she solves later as well as the STAY message, but he could not have given himself the coordinates to NASA since he wouldn’t have been there in the first place. Just have the planned original pilot of the mission die of something and Cooper is now the only guy that can fly the craft.

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this is a tough paradox. the dust was already being influenced to collect forming a message for murph/cooper even before he even got nasa coordinates, they had been studying dust collection 'ghosts' for a while.

I think an explanation involves some timeline frickery... plan B succeeds with the original pilot that cooper replaces and future 5d people advance enough to where they can influence things in the past. they could have been diverting the dust for messages to send the coordinates/messages initially, at least until coop can arrive to send them to himself to allow plan A to succeed. he does also send the coordinates from the tessaract - outside of space-time which probably backdoors the bootstrap paradox.



or I kinda like the response coop himself gave when trying to dock the endurance 'its not possible --- no its necessary'
or that its just love is all powerful thru space-time idk.

I love Inception. Interstellar is great too. I bet Hans Zimmer gets excited every time Nolan gets a new film going. That’s (Hans Zimmer) one of my most played radio stations on Pandora. It helps me concentrate when I’m coding.

Don’t care what anyone says but Interstellar and Inception are two of the greatest achievements in film this century.

It’s top 3 for me. Stupid tesseract scene keeps it out of #1.

I absolutely love everything about it outside of that.

On the other hand, I have never once struggled with Nolan’s dialogue in a single movie. When people complain I never pick up on it.

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Seen Tenet? I didn’t understand a single word Kenneth Branagh said.

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Yep. 0 issues. The worst thing is Hardy’s dialogue in tDKR. Other than that I’ve literally never had a problem with a single word from his movies.

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