Interstellar (2014)
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Frenzied Wombat
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I loved Contact, but didn't like Interstellar that much. The fact that he survived the black hole is fine. The fact that the black hole affected time is fine. The watch/books/library/love/morse code angle was ghey. They had unmatched creative liberty with the introduction of the black hole, and to me turning it into 5th dimension library to communicate with his daughter via morse code (plus the power of love yo) just seemed lazy.
Cad
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I like Contact (like the book more though) and love 2010. I saw this in the theater and liked it at the time. I downloaded this recently and I'll rewatch it. But there's a lot to like here even if some parts were stupid. Both 2010 and Contact had stupid plot devices as well. Those don't ruin the movie for me.
iannis
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I just saw this the other day. Not a bad movie, but the focus of it was a little...
I mean I can see how it would be a GREAT movie for Middle America.
Contact was much better. I'd say that Interstellar was a good movie though. Just not great. "The power of love!" was a bit overdone. And you could tell within 5 minutes that Matt Demon had flipped, so that entire arc felt needlessly drawn out. And some of it didn't make very much sense. But it doesn't really have to, since he was just insane and everything. I think I would have preferred if they dug deeper into the stuff that was actually interesting and spent less time of the dumb bullshit. Imagine.
I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it though. It was purdy decent. But it did hang heavily on the actors. Whoever that woman was that played Murphy was pretty good. And the child murphy was good too.
I mean I can see how it would be a GREAT movie for Middle America.
Contact was much better. I'd say that Interstellar was a good movie though. Just not great. "The power of love!" was a bit overdone. And you could tell within 5 minutes that Matt Demon had flipped, so that entire arc felt needlessly drawn out. And some of it didn't make very much sense. But it doesn't really have to, since he was just insane and everything. I think I would have preferred if they dug deeper into the stuff that was actually interesting and spent less time of the dumb bullshit. Imagine.
I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it though. It was purdy decent. But it did hang heavily on the actors. Whoever that woman was that played Murphy was pretty good. And the child murphy was good too.
Gavinmad
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I also liked the movie until he entered the black hole. And as I posted somewhere earlier in the thread, if a black hole was large enough you could get close to/all the way to the center without being torn apart. It's the smaller black holes where the difference in gravity increases so rapidly that you'll turn into spaghetti.
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I'm sorry, man. I love Contact and was just in general disappointed in Interstellar. The emotional investment the viewer develops is all cheap and nearly 45 minutes of the movie is one big cliche movie trope. I don't have science complaints with the movie really, the plot was just a mess.
Lanx
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agree, plus isn't the whole blackhole a time paradox since it was put there by "don't know" (future humans) but humanity would be extinct w/o it.
Jessica Chastain - 0 dark 30
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No. This is one complaint with the science in the movie that doesn't have a lot of backing. There is one timeline. No paradoxes or multiple universes. We just aren't capable of understanding it and that's what the whole end of the movie is about.
Pharazon
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Contact is an all-time favorite of mine. This movie was ok but Contact was miles better. This movie tried to be more than Contact, and ended up being quite a bit less. Nolan tried to get too fancy with the bullshit plot twists instead of just trying to make a great sci-fi movie.
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Neal DeGrasse Tyson answered some of the science questions way back when the film was released including black holes, time dilation, and the tidal waves
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down 'Interstellar': Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive Waves - The Daily Beast
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down 'Interstellar': Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive Waves - The Daily Beast
Gavinmad
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and he admits they fudged things which is why the water planet isn't traveling near the speed of light, or why a gentle black hole is producing tides so dramatic that it's like an endless pair of tsunamis circling the planet. Also I think there's some conflict because Neil said something about how fast the planet is rotating, but I'm pretty sure the planet is tidally locked to the black hole.
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Jysin
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Furry, the internet's retard or Kip Thorne, renowned physicist and advisor to the film... hmm... who to beleive???
The Science of Interstellar: Kip Thorne, Eric Michael Summerer: 9781494559397: Amazon.com: Books
'Interstellar' Science: Physicist Kip Thorne Writes the Book
Time Travel and Wormholes: Kip Thorne's Wildest Theories