re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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They seemed to be drinking beer on the front porch so they must have had barely and hops.

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Could have made it out of corn.

While possible, I just read it as things were so shitty there wasnt the freedom to have large scale militarized conflict.


Life was so zero sum that they couldnt afford anything else.

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You made that up.


Straight up pulled it out of your arse

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I swear I've read that, and fairly recently. I'll go see if I can find it.

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Amd if you spend a half a minute actually thinking about it, it is doesn't even make sense.

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Found some things, and yes, maybe not all asteroids, but simply the platinum found in an asteroid half a kilometer long is worth $2.2 trillion alone, and that's just the platinum on it, nevertheless the other resources that are found on it. An asteroid being worth 14 figures is not outrageous in the slightest: LINK

Think about what you read sometimes.


Most asteroids are iron.


Exactly how big you think the average asteroid is to be worth more than every good and service made in the US every year?


And if it was that lucatrative, what you think is stopping commercial mining from starting.

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So your choices for dinner were always Okra and Corn and bread.

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I prefer meats anyways. Chickens, cows, pigs, turkeys, they can all live off corn products; all of those meats are better than vegetables anyways.

Plus, fish.

To everyone who has seen it, was it worth it? yay or nay?

up/down vote this post will do.

My review.

frick Matt Damon.

so i don't want to read spoilers, but what is the general consensus in this thread? if this movie amazing, or a little underwhelming?

Sitting through all the trailers right now. Movie hasn't even started and my life is changing as we speak.

Just got back.

That was one of the most beautifully photographed films I have ever seen, and I saw it on a regular screen. The shots as they were crossing over Jupiter relayed an overpowering sense of lonely and desolate desperation. That single, repeated piano note was excruciating in the best of ways. It bit right into the core of my senses and perceptions of infinity.

Intellectually, the film was wildly thought provoking in numerous ways that dealt with our basic biological survival as animals and the philosophical nature and purpose of human existence. Three quarters of the way through the film, I said to myself "this is the 2001 of this generation, one of the greatest Sci Fi movies ever made."

And then, in the last act, THEY TOOK A GIANT shite ALL OVER THE BEAUTIFUL CREATION THEY HAD MADE, and if the convenient tie up and preposterous plot resolution wasnt enough, they did it in a very hurried fashion that basically just vomited information right in my face.

You know what it reminded me of? Those Asian monks who make elaborate, elegantly beautiful designs with colored sand and then, just as they are finished, rub their hands all over it and frick it up forever. Or possibly, when you're dreaming and something bad is about to happen, and you imagine some ridiculous way out of your situation and escape, out of the pure fear in your psyche. It isn't real or logical. It's just an escape mechanism.

This is what happens when high and mighty scientists who are 187 years old serve as consultants to your movie. It's all smiles and theoretical sunshine until their fear of impending death kicks in.

Yes, I'm sure that the ending is based on some established, theoretical scientific masturbation, but that's why it fails. In short, the film fails because it attempts to imagine or, more arrogantly, explain things about which we have no idea in very specific terms.

8.5/10 overall. 10/10 for the first three quarters. That was cinematic, storytelling and dramatic mastery, absolute fricking mastery, but the last act was absurd.