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Interstellar (2014)
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No, it's just about being intelligent enough to know a shitty movie when you see it. The only positive remarks I've seen anyone make about this movie is "wow, fancy special effects!" and "ooh, my seat was shaking from the sound!" I'm glad you're so easily amused. Simple minded people usually are.
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The biggest issue I had was the one others have mentioned about launching from earth with solid rocket boosters and then casually flying around and off of a 1.3g planet just with the engines on one of the rangers. Well that and the two years they take to get to Saturn and then apparently just cruise around the new system like they are going on errands around town.
I was about to get angry about the time dilation with the water world and her supposed signal that had been received for years, but then they handled it when they got to the surface and realized, but yeah they should have taken a peep from nearby and/or realized that they had just gotten a couple hours worth of signal at most.
I was about to get angry about the time dilation with the water world and her supposed signal that had been received for years, but then they handled it when they got to the surface and realized, but yeah they should have taken a peep from nearby and/or realized that they had just gotten a couple hours worth of signal at most.
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They basically use all their fuel leaving waterworld. Hence why they can only go to one of the other two planets. They use a multipart rocket from Earth because on Earth they have access to a shit ton of fuel so it's more cost effective to use the good stuff on planets. Derp.
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Actually, shouldn't they have noticed something was up with the signal? It should have beenextremelyred shifted.
yeah a movie about interstellar travel with shades of relativity, superdimensional beings, and a global microbiological disaster certainly is simple minded. or maybe you are just a cunt?
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While the movies does clearly says it could have been humans that build the teserac, i don't think this is the case. If the human race evolved to a point that they became 5th dimension creatures, it means that the first loop, meant human death. So what is the point?
For example, first loop, humans experienced massive famine, where never able to figure out the way of leaving earth. So after death + time, they somehow evolve to become 5th dimensions, or at least one guy evolves, or technologically evolves. So this future humans now are able to be outside of the time stream, not look back at their own history and say.. "gee, right here at this junction of history, if they had this data about the black hole (really what the movie was about) they would have able to figure out a way to leave earth." So the 5th dim humans, built a black hole (with everything inside) , yes they built it as the black hole was described as "quite unusually calmed, or special", they built the worm hole, and place it on Saturn, so now the movie skips over the second loop of how Cooper found the place to begin with without help from the future. I guess the plane data would have lead him there eventually.
Aliens would have been a much better solution. Along the lines of:
An alien civilization finds a desolated earth. Aliens go through the planets history and says oh "they almost had it right here, lets help them"!!. then the aliens built everything to allow humans to continue living. I guess is more cleaner but less dramatic than OMG is US saving us from ourselves, even though it wasn't need to!!!!
For example, first loop, humans experienced massive famine, where never able to figure out the way of leaving earth. So after death + time, they somehow evolve to become 5th dimensions, or at least one guy evolves, or technologically evolves. So this future humans now are able to be outside of the time stream, not look back at their own history and say.. "gee, right here at this junction of history, if they had this data about the black hole (really what the movie was about) they would have able to figure out a way to leave earth." So the 5th dim humans, built a black hole (with everything inside) , yes they built it as the black hole was described as "quite unusually calmed, or special", they built the worm hole, and place it on Saturn, so now the movie skips over the second loop of how Cooper found the place to begin with without help from the future. I guess the plane data would have lead him there eventually.
Aliens would have been a much better solution. Along the lines of:
An alien civilization finds a desolated earth. Aliens go through the planets history and says oh "they almost had it right here, lets help them"!!. then the aliens built everything to allow humans to continue living. I guess is more cleaner but less dramatic than OMG is US saving us from ourselves, even though it wasn't need to!!!!
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I liked it. Will need to watch again.
I do feel like Nolan pushed too hard to wrap everything up with a nice bow. All it was missing was Matthew McConaughey running along the last planet's surface to embrace Anne Hathaway.
Also got heavy Sunshine vibes from the Matt Damon scenes
Also got heavy Sunshine vibes from the Matt Damon scenes
And after all that he ends the movie with "love is the greatest power in the universe!" That's an ending that only a cunt would enjoy.
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I just saw the movie and I'll let you all debate the minute details. I just want to say that I love Chris Nolan movies.
He is a fearless filmmaker that does grandiose like no other. He will overcome smart people, and dumb people alike, with wonder and amazement. He gets great performances out of his actors. I also like that he generally ends his movies on a hopeful/happy note.
Interstellar might not be his best movie or the best movie of 2014, but it is still a great one.
He is a fearless filmmaker that does grandiose like no other. He will overcome smart people, and dumb people alike, with wonder and amazement. He gets great performances out of his actors. I also like that he generally ends his movies on a hopeful/happy note.
Interstellar might not be his best movie or the best movie of 2014, but it is still a great one.
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Just saw it. Will need to see it again because sometimes it takes me a while to warm to Nolan's movies, such as the Prestige. Hated it at first and now it's one of my favourite movies.
My initial feelings are that most of the movie was fairly dull, and I loved the ending. Which seems contrary to a lot of my friend's opinions who liked most of it but thought the ending was weird. I found the first 3/4 just really ... predictable with some bad acting and scripting (and I like my sci fi slow!). And this isn't me trying to be a hipster or whatever, I just thought it was fairly obvious that they were gonna travel to a few planets, lose some people along the way, have various problems then everything was gonna be ok. And that's exactly what happened, coupled with the star trek plot about the planet
I also thought the script in particular was pretty bad and so was some of the acting, I rolled my eyes an awful lot. The scene where the dad is leaving and the daughter was crying was not well done (but ok she's a child actor), anne hathaway
Anyway, Ill see it again when its out on bluray, and maybe Ill warm more to it, but yeah I didn't feel any connection to the characters at all. I'd like to compare this to another kind of weird sci-fi movie I watched recently, 'predestination' (there's rips out for this one). While this movie is far from perfect, there is a long sequence where one of the character tells 'a story'. It only lasts about twenty minutes but I got more emotion and was more invested in these twenty minutes than anything I watched in Interstellar, and I think that's why I'm kind of disappointed by it.
EDIT: Just realised that sounded pretty negative, its definitely worth the money and overall I did enjoy it. Its worth seeing.
My initial feelings are that most of the movie was fairly dull, and I loved the ending. Which seems contrary to a lot of my friend's opinions who liked most of it but thought the ending was weird. I found the first 3/4 just really ... predictable with some bad acting and scripting (and I like my sci fi slow!). And this isn't me trying to be a hipster or whatever, I just thought it was fairly obvious that they were gonna travel to a few planets, lose some people along the way, have various problems then everything was gonna be ok. And that's exactly what happened, coupled with the star trek plot about the planet
where time goes much slower, and the ghost (which I didn't guess was the dad)
wanting to go the planet for 'love', the whole thing with Matt Damon .. like did anyone see them landing on that igloo planet and NOT know he was going rogue? The speech at the end .. 'but my dad promised to come back' or whatever it was. Michael Caine's deathbed speech was terrible, ugh. Anyway, I enjoyed the scenes at the end because they were so different, though I don't quite understand how if they all died then humans ended up making that thing .. Im sure there's an explanation that makes it all fit together, but regardless I enjoyed it.
Anyway, Ill see it again when its out on bluray, and maybe Ill warm more to it, but yeah I didn't feel any connection to the characters at all. I'd like to compare this to another kind of weird sci-fi movie I watched recently, 'predestination' (there's rips out for this one). While this movie is far from perfect, there is a long sequence where one of the character tells 'a story'. It only lasts about twenty minutes but I got more emotion and was more invested in these twenty minutes than anything I watched in Interstellar, and I think that's why I'm kind of disappointed by it.
EDIT: Just realised that sounded pretty negative, its definitely worth the money and overall I did enjoy it. Its worth seeing.
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*Loved*the movie. Will definately see it again. IMAX sound system was awsome. Sure the visuals and the shots of the black holes gave me a hard on but the music, holy shit. When the organs were going full DuuuuuuunDun duuun i was glued to my seat. Epic.
The one point that keeps eluding me: If the wormhole was actually placed by futur humans to save the human race so they can do plan A, how was plan B ever succesful? How could the past humans make it out to another galaxy without that wormhole in the first place.
Am a diehard trekky. The idea of an advanced civilisation giving us the tool to save ourselves because they deems we're ''worthy'' is less confusing in that scenario. Kinda like, ok , we managed to have warp speed, we can now make contact with you. In this movie scenario itd be like, you guys are this close to solving the gravity issue, you made it far enough (saturn) to prove you have the brain to be worthy, heres the final clue. BAM , worhome, space travel, money.
The one point that keeps eluding me: If the wormhole was actually placed by futur humans to save the human race so they can do plan A, how was plan B ever succesful? How could the past humans make it out to another galaxy without that wormhole in the first place.
Am a diehard trekky. The idea of an advanced civilisation giving us the tool to save ourselves because they deems we're ''worthy'' is less confusing in that scenario. Kinda like, ok , we managed to have warp speed, we can now make contact with you. In this movie scenario itd be like, you guys are this close to solving the gravity issue, you made it far enough (saturn) to prove you have the brain to be worthy, heres the final clue. BAM , worhome, space travel, money.
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Well there is the theory that black holes are wormholes to other universes, whether its parallel universes (the Sliders/Fringe "infinite number of you" scenario) or side-by-side universes where different laws of physics can apply. So one possibility is that someone like Walter from Fringe observed our universe after figuring out how to observe through a black hole, found humans, saw we were kinda fucked, and tried to help out.
If you only want to take the single universe view, you can still work out a future human possibility. With no wormhole humans basically come close to an extinction event, but like cockroaches we are fairly resilient. So 99% of the population dies but given 1 billion years anything is possible, we could re-climb the technology ladder, learn from our mistakes, and go up in the stars far far far in the future. Future us learns to manipulate black holes, gravity, time, etc and set in motion the events of the movie by reaching back into the past. Why future us decide Tex / Murph are the best options, why the period when the Earth is dying is the best time, why send us to the shittiest solar system in the galaxy, etc are all questions for the viewer to decide.
If you didn't read it earlier the original script had the ice or water planet have a native primitive species that was under threat of extinction, maybe from the black hole or something. The entire wormhole and tesseract construct was created by an advanced alien species so humans can come and "rescue" the primitives, they didn't really give a fuck about us. The alien species thrives on the fucked up blight-Earth, so essentially the advanced aliens viewed us as animal control with a nice home for the good simple aliens. I thought that was a beautiful concept and idea, but it basically would be anathema to 90% of the movie viewing public as not human centric enough.
If you only want to take the single universe view, you can still work out a future human possibility. With no wormhole humans basically come close to an extinction event, but like cockroaches we are fairly resilient. So 99% of the population dies but given 1 billion years anything is possible, we could re-climb the technology ladder, learn from our mistakes, and go up in the stars far far far in the future. Future us learns to manipulate black holes, gravity, time, etc and set in motion the events of the movie by reaching back into the past. Why future us decide Tex / Murph are the best options, why the period when the Earth is dying is the best time, why send us to the shittiest solar system in the galaxy, etc are all questions for the viewer to decide.
If you didn't read it earlier the original script had the ice or water planet have a native primitive species that was under threat of extinction, maybe from the black hole or something. The entire wormhole and tesseract construct was created by an advanced alien species so humans can come and "rescue" the primitives, they didn't really give a fuck about us. The alien species thrives on the fucked up blight-Earth, so essentially the advanced aliens viewed us as animal control with a nice home for the good simple aliens. I thought that was a beautiful concept and idea, but it basically would be anathema to 90% of the movie viewing public as not human centric enough.
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Im assuming you read my spoiler. If you remove the idea of an outside agent giving the humans the means to save themselves, then the extension is that "the human race as a whole, was able to survive the present ordeal(lack of food) and naturally evolve to be a 5th dim, or with technology they became a 5th dim". Now human race can be many people, or just one people.
So the first iteration is along the lines of: bunch of people dies, no wormhole exists. Then by "x" means, "x" been a mystery, someone or more than one human became 5th, and were able to be god like. Him, she, they, looked back and in time and provided assistance by creating the wormhole and the black hole (second iteration of the loop). On this iteration Cooper finds the base by himself, probably from the drone data. Then he travels to gargantuan and all stuff happened.
It is important to understand that the movies shows the third and stable iteration loop. Where the actions of the future already happened in the past, in a matter they don't contradict the actions of the past.
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Not Interstellar related at all...Good little short film.
Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist on Vimeo
Wanderers - a short film by Erik Wernquist on Vimeo
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