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Posted on 2/17/16 at 6:33 pm to abellsujr
The wormhole was still there, why else would they be near Saturn? The original plan was always to find a suitable planet and bring humans there. Otherwise they would have just orbited Earth and waited for the blight to end.
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:30 pm to Scoob
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Yeah, ... no. It touches on things, but only at superficial levels, to make it seem smarter than it is. It's cherry picking only certain elements of physics, and completely ignoring other parts, which the more you know, the worse it becomes.
I'm going to go ahead and call bullshite on your statement. The astrophysicist that was on the production actually worked with the effects company to model the black hole. He then published a paper on his model. What you saw on screen was a scientifically accurate depiction.
Hell, even Neil Degrass Tyson did a Startalk episode on the science of Interstellar and was fairly complementary of its adherence to physics and Relativity.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:34 pm to tWildcat
you might have to decide between seeing your children again, or the future of the human race
This post was edited on 2/17/16 at 7:36 pm
Posted on 2/17/16 at 7:38 pm to SundayFunday
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Did anyone finally understand the part with the last girl set up on the other planet and Matt goes to find her after getting off the space station near Saturn?
You're not thinking 4th dimensionally.
They grazed the event horizon of the black hole. So the hour or two they spent doing all that would've been like 50 years on Earth. Enough time for them to build the ships, load humanity on them, and travel to Saturn. Meanwhile, AH stayed on the Ranger, flew to Millers planet, landed and saw everything was copacetic, and activated the beacon. Someone says they just started detecting it when MM gets picked up. So she's literally just gotten there when MM goes to find her.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:31 pm to Salmon
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I'll just post the docking scene because its one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever and I can watch it over and over
LINK
it loses its power watching on Youtube or at home, but in the theater, when the organs kicked in, holy god
Amen to that. One of the few movies I went back to see more than once at the theater.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:33 pm to Tiger1242
Interstellar was one of those few movies that amazed me. Like seriously, simply, amazed me. Incredible and didn't get the praise it deserved.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:35 pm to Audioman213
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Sometimes I wish people would just realize it's a movie made for general audiences by people who aren't Neil DeGrasse Tyson for the sake of story telling, not a documentary.
You are not allowed to have this mindset when the director and production team went above and beyond in the realism and scientific aspect of the movie with loads and loads of research.
They went sciencey
We also get to go sciencey
That's how science works!
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:41 pm to Pectus
quote:tell me more, Mr. Geology
That's how science works!
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:47 pm to jeff5891
OK, so like...here's the method:
What is it that I am witnessing?
Why is it happening?
Is it happening because of X?
*Makes a test to see if it is happening because of X.*
What are the results of the test?
Did the results point to X causing what happened?
If yes, great! But what other things? How much or little X is needed to allow/not allow it to happen?
If no, what other things may have caused it to happen? Y? Z?
What is it that I am witnessing?
Why is it happening?
Is it happening because of X?
*Makes a test to see if it is happening because of X.*
What are the results of the test?
Did the results point to X causing what happened?
If yes, great! But what other things? How much or little X is needed to allow/not allow it to happen?
If no, what other things may have caused it to happen? Y? Z?
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:57 pm to Pectus
quote:Those confounding variables are a bitch
If no, what other things may have caused it to happen? Y? Z?
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:15 pm to Tiger1242
That docking scene 
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:16 pm to RLDSC FAN
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Loved it. Watching it in IMAX was one of the most satisfying theater experiences I"ve had the last few years.
Agree
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:20 pm to tWildcat
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I actually didn't like it. One of the few on this board that fall into that category it seems.
fist
bump
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:20 pm to Tiger1242
Interstellar is an awesome movie. There were a couple of slapdicks on here knocking it when it came out which was weird. But few movies really stick with me and this one did.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:21 pm to LoveThatMoney
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It's an extremely flawed, extremely satisfying movie.
Well of course making a movie about things we don't have the answer to will be flawed. It was done a well as they could IMO. Movies lik this always amaze me and annoy me in a good way because we will never know the 100% truth to all the theories about space and black holes and all that shite
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:26 pm to studentsect
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didn't see it until recently and I agree. A lot of it didn't make any sense (and I'm not talking about the science part).
SPOILERS AHEAD
First planet:
Ann Hathaway's irrational need for the data or whatever from the prior scientist that gets other guy killed and almost gets all of them killed. What is it that she is trying to get? As I understand it, details about the environment on the surface of the planet. That they are on. She is willing to risk multiple lives including her own to find out details about the conditions of the place where she currently is. That, in addition to her being able to observe in real-time, presumably her ship and robot are also recording. Spoiler alert: Its watery and not great. Source: its literally where you are. It's like jumping into a burning building to save a report on the flammability of the building materials.
Matt Damon:
His motivation in attempting to kill McConaughey the way he does is dumb. What is his end game? He lures him out in hopes of finding suitable habitat, kills him, and then what? Now he's in the same situation as before, just with one less McConaughey and more suspicion. There are so many ways to kill the others that wouldn't involve risky space suit fighting.
Ann Hathaway at the end:
Ignoring any issues about how Anne Hathaway and McConaughey are any where near the same age or how McConaughey's daughter would know their relative ages:
Why would McConaughey's daughter send him to Anne Hathaway? How does she even know they like each other (they don't, as far as I can tell)?
What scenario would create a situation where Anne Hathaway's boyfriend is recently dead but she isn't? Wouldn't he have frozen himself and waited? Is McConaughey supposed to help her with her now moot raising of a shitton of babies. Wouldn't it be better to just tell her that it's cool, we survived?
The implication is that McConaughey is going to make it to Hathaway with both around their current ages, so clearly the trip there isn't expected to take that long - relative to the Hathaway's time or the traveler's time - so why has no one gone to see her? In the prior 50 years, did no one think "Oh right, magic alien portal appearing out of nowhere to save humanity that we sent people through that apparently we have a space station right next to...and that contains the future home of our species...should we check it out and see if those people we sent through survived?" Hell, McConaughey's daughter is like the most famous human alive; did she not at some point say "I wonder if my dad is still on the other side of that magic wormhole that is the most amazing thing to ever happen in human history but that we just we've just been ignoring for decades; maybe we should send a robot or a ship to see what's up"? No, definitely needs to be McConaughey who needs to leave right this minute and can't even spend like 7 extra minutes with his daughter who he allegedly loves so much that their love is the magic force that holds the universe together or whatever.
I mean sure the science aspect may be above some people's IQ, but even a 10 year old can understand the plot. Your gripes aren't even worth refuting.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:26 pm to elprez00
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They grazed the event horizon of the black hole. So the hour or two they spent doing all that would've been like 50 years on Earth. Enough time for them to build the ships, load humanity on them, and travel to Saturn. Meanwhile, AH stayed on the Ranger, flew to Millers planet, landed and saw everything was copacetic, and activated the beacon. Someone says they just started detecting it when MM gets picked up. So she's literally just gotten there when MM goes to find her.
All of this!
We don't really get to know the relative timeline but we can assume when they were so close to the black hole a ton of time passed on earth, like decades and decades.
She could have easily figured out the watch, solved the formula and got everything set to leave in say 10 years. Then the next 40 years are spent traveling on the ships to where MM is floating near the black hole. For Anne Hathaway she could have literally just got to that planet and turned on the beacon, may have been a year or two, or less for her (14 month trip from Matt Damon's planet right?)
So the timeline does possibly work
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:28 pm to studentsect
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His motivation in attempting to kill McConaughey the way he does is dumb. What is his end game? He lures him out in hopes of finding suitable habitat, kills him, and then what? Now he's in the same situation as before, just with one less McConaughey and more suspicion. There are so many ways to kill the others that wouldn't involve risky space suit fighting.
Well that's wrong. Damon wanted to continue the mission. McConaughey wanted to go back him. Damon figures staging his "accidental" death was the best way to continue the mission
Posted on 2/17/16 at 9:40 pm to Tiger1242
Down vote me all day long. If you thought that movie was anywhere near good you need to see more movies. 3 hours I would like back in my life. Awful. Have a great day.
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