Post: #76

I liked this movie a lot. Sometimes you come across a film at just that right point in your life.

Maybe you're in the right mood, or feeling reflective about one thing or another.

I first saw "Interstellar" in April on my flight from Houston to Rio. I was transfixed. Christopher Nolan does his usual professional directing job, and it's clear that he researched the physics very carefully. I saw the movie again last week on another flight to Brazil.

The scene in the hypercube, for instance, is very well done, and packs an emotional power all its own.

But what makes this film a success is that it doesn't just dwell on physics or space travel: its themes are actually very human.

The themes of the film are profound: the power of love, the unstoppable passage of time, personal loss, and, ultimately, the redemptive power of hope.

It is a great film.

There are some flaws here, of course. The first hour of the film could have been considerably shortened, and some of the plot threads are left without resolution.

But this is a moral tale of enduring value.

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Post: #77

I thought that the movie did an excellent job on illustrating science and sci-fi subjects (TigerMandingo put it well referring to cinematography).

However the plot was SO LAME!!

Examples
The hero was an astronaut and now a farmer. Exactly how old is he?


The "Deus Ex Machina" solution

Post: #78

(08-06-2015 08:07 AM)TheMaleBrain Wrote:  However the plot was SO LAME!!

Examples
The hero was an astronaut and now a farmer. Exactly how old is he?

Not sure what you mean here - why is the change in jobs lame? I can't recall exactly but I thought that was his family's farm. When NASA folded, and food is scarce, that seemed like the thing to do.

Post: #79

(08-06-2015 11:46 AM)Engineer Wrote:  

(08-06-2015 08:07 AM)TheMaleBrain Wrote:  However the plot was SO LAME!!

Examples
The hero was an astronaut and now a farmer. Exactly how old is he?

Not sure what you mean here - why is the change in jobs lame? I can't recall exactly but I thought that was his family's farm. When NASA folded, and food is scarce, that seemed like the thing to do.

It takes years of training to become an astronaut. He was suppose to be one of the best - meaning he had to be there for a long time to be considered one of the best.
Astronauts have to have at least a Master's degree. So that does not make sense (with the kids as well).

Post: #80

People have hobbies and different backgrounds.

Just cause you're an engineer doesn't mean you can't be born as a farm boy.

Post: #81

(03-20-2015 02:06 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:  

(03-20-2015 01:31 AM)dog24 Wrote:  What the fuck did i just watch?
So the wormhole is not the blackhole?
Can planets orbit around a blackhole as if it were a sun? I always assumed the gravity would just pull everything in..
Why is time different for them? Those space ships never get close to the speed of light, if a wormhole bends space so that point A and B become the same point then shouldnt the travel be instantaneous isnt that the whole point?
How did the people of earth got saved? Where did they go, how did they used the knowledge they gained?
In 50 years that guy didnt fucked anne hathaway? Not even once?

The entire movie is mind-numbingly stupid. Warping time planet, but leaving matter peacefully alone. Also even if he is willing to enter the black-hole. It would still take hundreds of years of travel to enter it completely. Those things are massive.

They even justify their crap by saying that they have calculated the mathematics right. Yeah - I wanna see them set foot on that time-warping planet first.

^That is a good point. Regarding the planet they land on where 1 hour there equals 7 years on earth because of the immense gravitational effects of the nearby black hole.

It is true and has been proven, that gravity effects time. However, it seems if there was enough gravitational force on that planet to effect time so profoundly ( 1 planet hour equaling 7 earth years) then, would not the gravity there have effected the astronauts and their craft? It certainly effected the tides on the planet ergo the 20 story waves.

Perhaps the gravity was more of a 'pulling' force on the planet's tides and crust? In the way our moon effects tides here, just much more profound. There is a book called 'The Science of Interstellar' which might explain this seeming paradox but I only perused it briefly while at the bookstore one day.

Also, one would think entering a black hole would simply reduce you and your spacecraft to a tiny compressed ball of matter, completely crushed to the smallest size possible by the insane gravity of the black hole.

Nonetheless, for most movies, a suspension of disbelief must be applied a little here and there and I thought Interstellar was a great movie.

Post: #82

(08-09-2015 08:02 AM)Sourcecode Wrote:  People have hobbies and different backgrounds.

Just cause you're an engineer doesn't mean you can't be born as a farm boy.

I must have been not all that clear. Explaining again:
The guy has to be an astronaut for a decade or so in order to be one of the best (including M.Sc.).
In the movie it seems that he has been on the farm for a long time.
So he has got to be pushing 40, or more.

This does not compute. He has a teenage son (No way Tom was born when Cooper was 20).

So
You have a 40+ years astronaut, in good shape (?) just going back to space.

Post: #83

age 0-17 lived on farm, worked farm during summers, attended high school
18-26 bachelors and masters degrees
27-37 astronaut (son born during this time)
37-45 farmer

Hollywood is full of BS that requires you to suspend imagination, and I'm a harsh critic on details like this, but his age and apparent experience seem credible. I agree other parts of the plot approached lameness (secret NASA base in the middle of nowhere building a huge spacecraft, that no one knows about), but this was not one of them.

Post: #84

Watched this the other day....

Any physics/astrophysics experts want to explain how exactly the tesseract works? From the information I've gathered, it seems to me that it is a 4th dimension in which all of the outcomes on a timeline are present, but I could be oversimplifying this. How does one stumble into a tesseract in outer space...? How was Cooper able to find his daughter specifically when he fell into the tesseract (or was this the whole "I'm guided by love" notion)? Interesting food for thought. Any research on how this could possibly be the key to time travel? If so, how would this impact the butterfly effect?

Thank you to whoever explains this.

Post: #85

(08-09-2015 04:13 PM)the chef Wrote:  Watched this the other day....

Any physics/astrophysics experts want to explain how exactly the tesseract works? From the information I've gathered, it seems to me that it is a 4th dimension in which all of the outcomes on a timeline are present, but I could be oversimplifying this. How does one stumble into a tesseract in outer space...? How was Cooper able to find his daughter specifically when he fell into the tesseract (or was this the whole "I'm guided by love" notion)? Interesting food for thought. Any research on how this could possibly be the key to time travel? If so, how would this impact the butterfly effect?

Thank you to whoever explains this.

This is what I'm wondering as well. And how did Cooper end up back near Saturn after the black hole?

Post: #86

(08-09-2015 11:34 AM)TheMaleBrain Wrote:  I must have been not all that clear. Explaining again:
The guy has to be an astronaut for a decade or so in order to be one of the best (including M.Sc.).
In the movie it seems that he has been on the farm for a long time.
So he has got to be pushing 40, or more.

He wasnt an astronaut, he was just a test pilot.

He was sacked from his job after he crashed (from one of the "gravitational anomalies") and later, when farming was the only job left, he went back to the family farm.

Post: #87

The blight in the movie is explained, it has nothing to do with global warming.

In the movie, a microscopic organism evolved which breathes nitrogen and also feeds off of plants. Since nitrogen is so abundent, there is no way they can effectively kill the organism, hence everyone is fucked. I realize this is kind of thin, but I didn't see it as a jab against global warming issues.