re: Let’s Discuss Interstellar

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The docking scene in IMAX is an all timer

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Not sure how many times I've rewatched this movie, but the hair on my arms stands on end every time I watch this scene. The music is perfect and everything about the scene is unbelievable.

I'll have to disagree with yall on Dr Mann. I've never hated a character more than Dr Mann. I thought Damon played it perfectly and like another poster said, Damon was WAY better here than he was in The Martian.

I loved it just as much the first time as the 10th time.

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They didn’t think of it as a suicide mission. They thought they were going to find the next habitat for humanity, Much like the crew cooper went with.

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Yeah, but if the plan succeeded, 12 of them would die. They had way higher than 1 in 13 chance of dying. Cooper was planning on returning home.

Interstellar and Inception have taken opposite trajectories for me.

Interstellar I did not care for initially and now I think it may be Nolan's strongest film.

Inception I thought was great on first watch, now I think it's pretty weak.

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I don't think I ever cried more during a movie than that scene, and that was before I had kids. If I re-watched it now after having 2 children, I'd probably get dehydrated.

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Yeah, that scene was powerful. When a I saw it the 1st time I actually did have children—a boy and a girl—and was going through a divorce. Knowing that I was not going to get to see them every day like I had their whole lives, that scene really hit me in the feels. Time goes by—and kids grow up—way too fast anyway, but especially if you’re not with them every day.

Anyway, I loved all the cool science stuff like everybody else (especially their use of the word “tesseract,” which played prominently in my favorite book as a child A Wrinkle in Time) and the cinematography and score were phenomenal, but it was the relationship between Cooper and his daughter that really moved me and is why I like it so much.

That said, I find Contact more accessible, re-watchable, and ultimately, more moving. Perhaps it was the faith angle that drew me more in as as a teenager, I was struggling with that myself and could relate. And I’d put Interstellar way behind The Prestige (one of my favorite films of all time) and Inception in the Nolan pantheon for sure. Probably behind Memento as well. (The Batmans, while certainly well-made and better than almost everything else that finds their ways to theatres these days, just don’t resonate with me like they do a lot of you).



Btw, is this streaming anywhere? I’d like to check it out again. Inception too.

It’s excellent. I hated and still hate the introduction of the time line paradox. It’s stupid. It should have been left open to interpretation. The insistence that Mankind did this is really a stupid thing to do because it twists the plot in on itself for really no reason.

But his best movie and most complete movie is the Prestige, which is practically flawless.

And Arrival is a better film than Interstellar. Just saying.

i still dont understand two things:

1) if the wormhole is closed, how is cooper going to get back to brand's planet?
2) if the wormhole is still open, WTF are the colony ships doing still hanging out around saturn?

if this was explained, i missed it

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The only issues I have with interstellar involve the scene where the immense gravity being applied to the planet so close to a black hole that one hour on that planet = 7 years on earth.

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I'm not sure if there's an equation that can link the amount of gravity to exact time dilation but considering that time stops when you get to the event horizon leaves a pretty big gap there.

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Also, for a gravity of that magnitude to exist on that planet, there's no way you can land a ship and walk around safely. We're talking about a gravity thousands of times that of the earth. They would have been immediately crushed by such a force.

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The gravity was coming from the black hole, not the planet they were on. The gravity was obviously affecting the tides of the water drastically so I'm not really sure what the overall effect on the humans would be.
Great movie imo but with some obvious stretches. Another one is how they found Coop floating in space and his air was about to run out. I can overlook a few things without it ruining the movie.

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they needed a much better excuse to go to the water planet first.

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That was a big mistake that didn't make sense.
Miller touched down in the middle of a two-foot deep ocean, sends the thumbs-up and is killed by a wave < 2 hours later?
You could only assume that she figured the slippage and realized if she spent just a few Miller-Time hours exploring the planet decades would pass on Earth and it could be to late to send the signal.
That said Coop and Brand should have figured that Miller would have been only a few hours into exploration when they arrived and try to contact her to confirm, before risking a decade of Earth-time.
Still - great movie.
"See you on the other side Coop"

It went off the rails for me toward the end with the tesseract and the behind the bookcase wall.

A black hole has such dense crushing force it would stretch and compress you to pieces, not to mention the massive radiation that would turn the tiny spacecraft into flaming meltiness. NASA has filmed black holes ripping large stars and other matter into tiny pieces.

I know, I know what your fingers want to spring to your keyboards to furiously type...

Alternate reality, Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity, his “happiest thought”, the lapse of space and time and the laws of physics that govern our very being beyond the event horizon.

The conflict between Einstein’s theory and quantum mechanics has been the source of a lot of thought and research. The general idea is that one or the other is incomplete, flawed, or (gasp) wrong. Right now, no one knows which one.

True, no one knows...from inside a black hole... what happens to something inside a black hole where space and time are warped beyond our laws of physics. We only know from the outside what happens to something being sucked inside a black hole: it is eviscerated. But from within, well, no one knows.

So, yes, we are free to dream up anything we want and say it’s a possibility, like landing inside a tesseract that was created and left that allows you to peer through a wall into your old house and see your daughter and thereby transmitting across dimension and through code complicated quantum data to her. And then you can be somehow released from the tesseract and after floating around somewhere in space in your little suit you can be picked up by other people.

Possible? Sure.

Just not very damn likely at all.

And let’s forget for a minute that these planets are questionably close to this supermassive black hole. And let’s forget about that manmade or alienmade wormhole and just accept it as is.

I really like Nolan and his movies. I like Interstellar. The time when McConnaughey watched movies of his family, his children...all that he sacrificed...that was wrenchingly poignant and devastatingly emotional to the core. His movies probe difficult and complex issues that affect our humanity. They spur thoughtful, deep discussions. He pushes and he pushes...to the point that I often think he pushes one or two steps too far which has the effect of moving his plot past questionable to borderline silly and thereby unnecessarily reducing the overall strength of his work.

But that’s just like my opinion man.