re: Saw Interstellar for the first time: blown away SPOILERS

Yep. It sucked.

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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.

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They were in one spot of a giant planet for 3 minutes, she though the other girl had been collecting data for years. Its totally plausible, they can't come back to the planet because of the time dilation.

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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.

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You are questioning the methods of a man who spent years alone on a planet. He saw an opportunity and he took it.


You sound like you are just trying to find something wrong. Your logic is ridiculous, you could do this to any story or movie ever told. Ever.


The score to this movie is amazing. I listen to it to study all the time.

I' m good. Actually watched movie for the first time this weekend. I could not believe how bad it was. We have all been there when you are begging for it to end. That movie just wouldn't end. In the closets behind the books in a 5th dimensional world. Just plain stupid.

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You sound like you are just trying to find something wrong. Your logic is ridiculous, you could do this to any story or movie ever told. Ever.

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Which is why I didn't even bother refuting his nonsense.

WOW.

IKNOWRIGHT.

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In the closets behind the books in a 5th dimensional world. Just plain stupid

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You do realize that the Tesseract (books, etc) was created specifically for Cooper and Murph, right? Not just a random world.

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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

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I'm not referring to the science really. The issues I have with it are far more story related and, I suppose, the manner in which the science was used (mostly Nolan's inexplicable desire to have Cooper insist (and by extension Nolan himself insist) that humans made the tesseract which introduces an unnecessary time travel paradox). And Matt Damon.

But I love the movie. I think it is visionary and grand and one of the most intense movie experiences of my life. Nolan's exploration of love in pretty much all of his films is absolutely gripping. This is one of the greatest SciFi movies of all time, IMO.

But I think most time travel stories inherently have to have a paradox. Take Terminator for example. As Craig Robinson famously muses during Hot Tub Time Machine "If John Connor doesn't send Michael Bein back to meet Sarah Connor, then they never FUUUUUUCK, and John Connor is never born in the first place." BTTF is full of paradoxes. What little I've been able to understand about quantum physics that there is a many universes theory, sort of what is explored in Michael Crichtons Timeline. So basically, there are infinite numbers of universes created instantly based upon probability. So when you "time travel" you are actually going to another universe, not another time. And whatever you change, you're jumping forward based upon that universe. So paradoxes can exist because you've basically left your universe.

Or Perhaps Humanity has evolved past this incident and looks back on its history and existence and decides "We can change our existence with one small nudge." So they create the wormhole, create the tesseract, and select MM because of the relationship he has with his daughter. Remember the concept is 5th dimensional beings can be every time at once, so they see this relationship and decide the love they share will motivate the both of them to succeed.

Either way, it's a fun movie for me. Arguably Hans Zimmer's best work since Black Hawk Down, too.

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You sound like you are just trying to find something wrong. Your logic is ridiculous, you could do this to any story or movie ever told. Ever.

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I watched it on an ipad so I missed out on the visual experience; I'm sure it was awesome.

However, I watched it just as a movie, and the ending was dumb and made no sense. I'm willing to suspend belief on a lot of things, I'm fine with the wormhole and the bookcase and all of that. I'm fine with the time travel paradox (I'll buy that humanity initially survived through some version of Option B to reach the point in the future to send the wormhole back).

Daughter sending McConaughey alone to see Hathaway is absurd and bad storytelling.

The only way the ending makes sense is if Daughter knows (1) that Hathaway is alive, (2) that Hathaway’s boyfriend is dead, and (3) that Hathaway and McConaughey are relatively the same age now and/or when he gets to the planet. Otherwise sending him away is shitty since finding Hathaway alive and alone is less likely than McConaughey ending up alone in another universe or the GOAT third-wheel. If Daughter has no idea about those things and still sends him off, then she is a terrible character and the movie is bad.

On the other hand, if she is aware of those things, then either she is the only person who knows them (nonsensical) or no one has bothered to go through the worm hole in the last 50 years to check out the planet that was basically gifted to the human race by gods, even after finding out that someone is stranded there alone (because anyone else through it would reach Hathaway before he got there so her being alone is moot).

There is no explanation for it that makes any sense. You can't do that for every movie or story, only the ones that make no sense.

I would love an explanation for that trip at the end that doesn't require me to believe that either (a) a Daughter sent her dad off somewhere on the slight chance that maybe a woman who he didn't really get along with was alive and freezing herself at the just right intervals so that she would still be around his age when he got there oh and also hopefully her boyfriend died or (b) humans just stopped caring about a wormhole that takes us to a potential new earth and the astronauts that were sent to explore it.