re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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What I loved about this film the most is that it is the exact opposite from 2001. While Stanley Kubrick takes a fatalistic stance on technology, Christopher Nolan takes the exact opposite approach. Interstellar is an ode to the human spirit. It is that age old, but often forgotten, message that we are indeed limitless beings who, if minds are put together, can achieve anything. The above link is a microcosm of that belief. When TARS tells Cooper that what he is trying to do is impossible, Cooper simply responds: "No. It's necessary."

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Us 2001 takes a very optimistic approach on our future, while Interstellar takes a pessimistic one. Kubrick didn't see it coming that just beating the Russians to the Moon would end it, but Nolan saw that as embarassing, and needed to directly address mankind's neglect on our space program as a whole. He even had a nice parallel that it took as much time to get from here to the Moon Landjng as it did from the Dust Bowl to the Moon Landing. Shows how far we've descended as a species as far as taking ourselves to the next level.

If things were as desperate as they were in Interstellar, I guarantee we could at least have a mission going there within 10 years.

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this movie blows 2001 out of the water.

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No. Just no.

Interstellar is a hallmark card compared 2001.

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2001 is rubbish, IMO.

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To each their own and everything, but that comment really bums me out.

I don't think any movie will be able to come close to what 2001 was. That movie was a masterpiece and something the world never saw at that time. You could easily argue that 2001 is the greatest movie ever made.

I still can't get over the docking scene. I don't think I have ever been that tensed up in a movie. Love this movie or hate it you have to say that scene was perfection.

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I still can't get over the docking scene.


the spinning one?

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Yes.

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I still can't get over the docking scene. I don't think I have ever been that tensed up in a movie. Love this movie or hate it you have to say that scene was perfection

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I mean, you knew it was gonna work, right? The only thing great about that scene was Cooper's dialogue with TARS.

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Cooper was watching the video of his kids growing up.

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I cried like a baby during that scene. I can't imagine how I would have reacted if I had kids at this point in my life.

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I mean, you knew it was gonna work, right? The only thing great about that scene was Cooper's dialogue with TARS.


That's what I'm saying. There's a whole lotta hyperbole about that scene. It was good though.

I'd say the first goodbye with Murph was one of the better scenes as well as when Cooper was watching the video of his kids growing up.

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Yeah, that what I enjoyed about this movie. You have typical action intensity and also the intensity on the emotional scenes. That video scene wrecked me.