re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

I can usually ask my wife if I did not hear something. She did not know either. I might have heard 1 word of Cain's dying speech.

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when Matt Damon blew up, that scared the shite out of me

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How? Did you NOT see that coming?

That was probably my favorite scene as well and I don't think I took a breath the entire time.

How did Damon not see it coming

I had no problem hearing the dialogue

I think the only dialogue I had trouble understanding was Michael Cain when he was dying

I can't recall a time when the sound drowned out the dialogue.

Anyone talk about Cooper's yell when the wave hit them on the water planet?!

"Yeeearrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhuuuurrrrrr!!!"

Funniest movie yell I've heard in years

It was about 15 seconds long

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Technically the "physical world" but yeah. My point was, ultimately, their knowledge allowed them to escape and survive the world (literally) below. Their incomplete journey of knowledge was, at its core, the worst offense. At humanity's core, this who still acted by natural instincts (Mann) were evil.

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Yeah I didn't get that.

I saw Mann's issues not in the fact that he was only acting by his natural instincts where were a part of it, but rather he was acting selfishly only looking out for his own existence instead of the existence of others. This selfishness blinded him to things

Again I need to go back and watch more. I think Nolan has a philosophical world view that rubs off in his movies. I don't think he goes in there and says I'm going to be gnostic or something like that. Rather his philosophical world view comes out in his movies.

I think there are a lot of philosophical underpinnings that come out in the movie.

1) Loves role in our lives and in the survival of man kind
2) a survivalist reductionism.
3) problems of educating a world view instead of the truth.

other problems

but I didn't see a very gnostic understanding of the movie.

I guess I saw the movie more in a survival only world view (dr. mann) vs concern for one's fellow man. (Dr. Cooper.)

This was at-least the most basic and fundamental conflict that happened between Dr. Cooper and Dr. Mann. Well at-least on the intellectual level. The same conflict happened between Dr. Brand, and Dr. Cooper.

Also from what I could tell there was a large unpinning of this idea of love and it's impact in our lives I guess you could say. Dr. Cooper wanted to go home out of love to keep the promise he kept. Dr. Cooper sacrificed himself for the sake of man kind. That is an act of love at-least how I define it. Dr. Mann had no apparent love displayed and was selfish and only concerned about his needs. Another way to explain Dr. Mann was that he lied to be rescued, not considering that his actions could put the fate of the human race at risk.

here is a summary of the original script if anyone is interested

glad Nolan made the changes he made

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