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Interstellar |OT| (dir. Christopher Nolan) Whatever can happen will happen

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Pickup up the Australian steelbook. Looks really nice. And the discs are black too, which is better than the bright blue that was used in US promo pics imo.
Was sold out in the first 2 stores I tried, either they got very low stock or it's selling very well.

The lack of an IMAX film cel here in Aus sucks though. I'd really like one. Ah well.
 
Finally watched this. Took me long enough to get around to it. Missed several opportunities to see it in the theater. Liked it overall. Didn't love it. Pretty ambitious movie with some amazing ideas, and some really stupid ones. Some weird pacing issues, and badly in need of some editing IMO, on the sound side as well.

However we rarely, rarely, get big budget hard sci-fi like this set out in space. For that alone it's worth a lot, and it scratched my itch but it also reminded me that I want more. Wormholes, relativity/time dilation, black holes and shit. Come on man. We NEVER see that shit. That shit is so good. Give us more.
 
So I had that epic thread in gaming..
Watched it twice, and pretty much enjoyed it. But there were a few questions or things that felt unexplained (I know, movies..right?)

Murph finds the note and understands the "STAY" message and her Ghost was
from her Father.
In the Tesseract, was
Coop really limited by life support in his suit, or could he have spent infinite time trying to send messages to his daughter for her whole life? When he was saved he had "minutes" left.
And it's nice
that Plan A ended up working out, but what happens with Plan A meets Plan B? If Coop can hop in a ship and go to Brand, why not the whole station too.

And I am guess it was IMAX being the reason the frames went between wide screen and full wide screens?
 
I thought it was good. Not great, but good. I liked Inception more than Interstellar.

One thing that bugged me at the end was
Coop visits his old daughter in the hospital. She's dying, and she tells him no parent should have to see their child die. Coop gets up and leaves. I mean, you haven't seen your daughter in decades. Forget what she said. Stay with the rest of her family. It all felt very clinical when Coop got up and left.
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
I thought it was good. Not great, but good. I liked Inception more than Interstellar.

One thing that bugged me at the end was
Coop visits his old daughter in the hospital. She's dying, and she tells him no parent should have to see their child die. Coop gets up and leaves. I mean, you haven't seen your daughter in decades. Forget what she said. Stay with the rest of her family. It all felt very clinical when Coop got up and left.
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she didn't have a lot of time left, and she hadn't seen her dad in like 100 years. Given the option of spending time with my children, grandchildren etc or a man I haven't seen for 100 years, I'd chose the kids everytime.
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
I thought it was good. Not great, but good. I liked Inception more than Interstellar.

One thing that bugged me at the end was
Coop visits his old daughter in the hospital. She's dying, and she tells him no parent should have to see their child die. Coop gets up and leaves. I mean, you haven't seen your daughter in decades. Forget what she said. Stay with the rest of her family. It all felt very clinical when Coop got up and left.
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I'd like to think that he didn't just leave right away. They cut to him leaving right after that scene just to move the story forward quickly. I'm sure he spent at least some time with her, I can't imagine a 30 second convo would be enough.

That's what I choose to believe anyway lol.
 
terrible said:
I'd like to think that he didn't just leave right away. They cut to him leaving right after that scene just to move the story forward quickly. I'm sure he spent at least some time with her, I can't imagine a 30 second convo would be enough.

That's what I choose to believe anyway lol.
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Actually the film makes clear he stayed longer unless I'm remembering the film wrong from the cinema. After the cut showing him leaving
Murph with her family
the voice over narration for the remaining scenes was
Murph's
wasn't it? If so (that's what I thought watching it in the cinema) they 100% had to have further conversation we just weren't shown.
 
EGM1966 said:
Actually the film makes clear he stayed longer unless I'm remembering the film wrong from the cinema. After the cut showing him leaving
Murph with her family
the voice over narration for the remaining scenes was
Murph's
wasn't it? If so (that's what I thought watching it in the cinema) they 100% had to have further conversation we just weren't shown.
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This is correct. I just watched the blu-ray. I definitely love the movie more than my first watch. But I still thoroughly enjoyed it on the first watch too.
 
Both the beginning and the end of the movie move the plot forward at breakneck speed, but when you're already pushing a three hour running time, that's kinda necessary. I think it's going to help with repeat viewings. You certainly can't say the movie drags.
 
I still feel they should have dedicated another 10 minutes for the resolution, a bit more of world building for this new setting.

It just did a disservice for the rest of the movie.
 
Amazing movie!! Seen it 3 times in theater. And twice since the release(1080p mkv ;) )
Straight away bought it on 31 march. And this wednesday im going for 6th time. This time the bluray version. Best movie for me in a very long time !!
 
EGM1966 said:
Actually the film makes clear he stayed longer unless I'm remembering the film wrong from the cinema. After the cut showing him leaving
Murph with her family
the voice over narration for the remaining scenes was
Murph's
wasn't it? If so (that's what I thought watching it in the cinema) they 100% had to have further conversation we just weren't shown.
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I only remember her talking about their
new planet and Brand being alone or whatever.
I'll pay more attention the next time I watch it though, it wouldn't surprise me if I missed something.

edit: funny enough I got the imax cell from that scene in my blu ray (spoilers, obviously)
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
I thought it was good. Not great, but good. I liked Inception more than Interstellar.

One thing that bugged me at the end was
Coop visits his old daughter in the hospital. She's dying, and she tells him no parent should have to see their child die. Coop gets up and leaves. I mean, you haven't seen your daughter in decades. Forget what she said. Stay with the rest of her family. It all felt very clinical when Coop got up and left.
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How i saw the ending : Cooper saw his wife die and missed most of the life of his daughter. In the end of the movie he's able to do the two things he wanted to accomplish. To see her one last time and to help humanity... but the woman he is now attached is in another planet. He doesn't want to go through the same sort of burden once again.
 
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Hahaha, this is one of the better dickbutt variations.
 
Jason's Ultimatum said:
I thought it was good. Not great, but good. I liked Inception more than Interstellar.

One thing that bugged me at the end was
Coop visits his old daughter in the hospital. She's dying, and she tells him no parent should have to see their child die. Coop gets up and leaves. I mean, you haven't seen your daughter in decades. Forget what she said. Stay with the rest of her family. It all felt very clinical when Coop got up and left.
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Yeah, Nolan's movies are full of emotionally odd notes like that, or at least they seemed to until I realized that his stuff is mostly metaphorical, or dream-like. Regarding the scene that you describe,
in reality it may have been several scenes of them talking, and a few days passing. But ultimately it's a metaphor for the fact that they've missed their life together and the important thing is that they acknowledged their connection of love and that they're in sync once more, in contrast to when Coop left Earth.
I seriously enjoy Nolan works much more this way. The exception is The Prestige, which I feel hits the emotional notes well all on its own, without disclaimers. But it has been a while since I saw it.
 
I still don't quite understand where Cooper Station is headed at the end of the movie. Are they going through the wormhole to Edmunds' planet? Are they just traveling through space in search of their own home? Is there more than one station? Is Cooper going to reunite with Brand? Is the wormhole still open? If not, then where the fuck is he going? I'm going to assume that the wormhole IS still open since the station is headed toward Saturn which is where the wormhole was all along
 
Watched it again on BD tonight... wow amazing.

There needs to be more movies that challenges the human race to not think of just the now and earth but much more beyond.

Technology these days is to make our daily lives easier and faster but what about our lives hundred of years from now.
 
Finally got around to watching the BD and wow what an experience. I think its a flawed movie but a good one. The stuff movie does really freaking well are obviously the visuals and exploring some of the science fiction concepts. Solid acting by the veteran cast helped to make the movie more grounded and real with the sci fi concepts. Now some of the questionable stuff:

1) Why did the Endurance crew had to go visit the planet in order to find out that it was 99% water or 99% frozen wasteland after traveling through the wormhole? I mean we can know from Hubble telescope what the chemical makeup of a distant planet is on earth, for example Venus is completely uninhabitable with poison clouds. They wasted precious fuel by visiting these planets.

2) I never understood why Matt Damon freaked out. Why couldn't he just...continue with the Endurance crew? I understand he was fixated on "the mission", but so was the crew despite Cooper's protestation about Plan B. It was nothing that wasn't gonna be sorted out with words and him trying to kill Coop seemed completely unnecessary. Also, the world famous NASA astronaut doesn't know how to dock and takes risk with faulty docking. Right...

3) Which leads us to Dr. Romlin who was waiting on the ship for 23 years and wasting more fuel. Why didn't he just go into a hypersleep after he found out that there's no way he can send his work back to Earth?

4) It was kind of a stretch that Murph figured out that Coop was sending all the signals, including coded signals in that analog watch. But ok. Why couldn't he have used a computer instead? It's sort of bothersome because to figure out quantum data that TARS wanted to send through an analog clock is impossible, even if it was Super Einstein on the other end. This was the weakest part of the movie for me. I could let everything slide except this.

5) The slingshot around the blackhole maneuver. I was ok when Armageddon crew did it with the moon, but with a blackhole? Come on now...They all would have turned into a nice long spaghetti if they attempted that. Same thing with MM and TARS jumping into it.

But a great ride nonetheless. And easily Hans Zimmer's best work.
 
RustyNails said:
Finally got around to watching the BD and wow what an experience. I think its a flawed movie but a good one. The stuff movie does really freaking well are obviously the visuals and exploring some of the science fiction concepts. Solid acting by the veteran cast helped to make the movie more grounded and real with the sci fi concepts. Now some of the questionable stuff:

1) Why did the Endurance crew had to go visit the planet in order to find out that it was 99% water or 99% frozen wasteland after traveling through the wormhole? I mean we can know from Hubble telescope what the chemical makeup of a distant planet is on earth, for example Venus is completely uninhabitable with poison clouds. They wasted precious fuel by visiting these planets.

2) I never understood why Matt Damon freaked out. Why couldn't he just...continue with the Endurance crew? I understand he was fixated on "the mission", but so was the crew despite Cooper's protestation about Plan B. It was nothing that wasn't gonna be sorted out with words and him trying to kill Coop seemed completely unnecessary. Also, the world famous NASA astronaut doesn't know how to dock and takes risk with faulty docking. Right...

3) Which leads us to Dr. Romlin who was waiting on the ship for 23 years and wasting more fuel. Why didn't he just go into a hypersleep after he found out that there's no way he can send his work back to Earth?

4) It was kind of a stretch that Murph figured out that Coop was sending all the signals, including coded signals in that analog watch. But ok. Why couldn't he have used a computer instead? It's sort of bothersome because to figure out quantum data that TARS wanted to send through an analog clock is impossible, even if it was Super Einstein on the other end. This was the weakest part of the movie for me. I could let everything slide except this.

5) The slingshot around the blackhole maneuver. I was ok when Armageddon crew did it with the moon, but with a blackhole? Come on now...They all would have turned into a nice long spaghetti if they attempted that. Same thing with MM and TARS jumping into it.

But a great ride nonetheless. And easily Hans Zimmer's best work.
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Yes, it is flawed. And I also enjoyed it despite all that. Regarding your specific issues:

1) Only a very specific and low-bandwidth signal could pass through the wormhole, not spectral analyses and the like. Obviously that's a plot device since we don't know anything real about wormholes, and they could've defined it any way they wanted to.

2) I don't think Dr. Mann could have lived with being the person who almost traded the future of humanity for his own individual life. Especially to a scientist, especially to someone who studies the cosmos, that unexpected desire drove him to the brink. He could've told the truth, and one of two things might've happened: either it would've turned out that he screwed them out of the fuel they needed to execute the mission successfully or they could still make it but everyone would know about his failure and lack of moral fortitude. He wasn't willing to accept that. Don't forget that he was quite literally the loneliest human in the universe for 10(?) years or so. There's no predicting how that would affect a person.

As far as docking, I think the computer had to do a digital handshake to complete the lock, and he didn't have the codes.

3) Romley (Romlin?) said he spent some time in hypersleep. We don't know how long. But he had no way of knowing if they would ever come back. Again, imagine you're possibly spending the rest of your life alone and no one's ever coming to get you. It'd feel weird to "dream your life away," as he put it.

4) I don't know how Coop could've used a computer since he could only communicate via gravity -- that's the force that 5D humans "unlocked" for him. Also, the strong sense of love and bonding between them focused in on that room. That was the venue for communication because that's where Coop's thoughts came back to. And it's possible that 3 formulas uncover the secrets to quantum gravity. You don't need a quantum computer -- just a text string or two. That's simple enough to send via Morse code.

5) The slingshotting is quite possible. Read up on gentle singularities. It's possible to escape spaghettification depending on the tidal forces around the horizon, and Gargantua fit the criteria. As far as going through the horizon, that's all sci-fi since we have NO idea what happens there. However, we also don't know when the 5D beings picked them up to enter the "bulk." Again, that's the fiction part.

I'm just happy a big budget movie has got us talking about relativity and quantum mechanics. It's awesome. If it ever comes back to IMAX, go check it out again! It's an even better experience on the ginormous screen.
 
^The big issues I had with the movie was the whole subplot involving

Adult Tom and his family dying of dust lung, the scene where he punched Topher Grace was cringe worthy and felt completely forced. The movie even seemed a little self aware of this when Chastain told him "come on your not that dumb"

My other issue was at the end when

They found Cooper and no one seems to give a shit to debrief him on his mission to find out what happened. You would also think that they would want to analyze Tars data from the mission, so they could maybe learn more about the wormhole and the planets on the other side but instead they take his power source and throw him in a museum. Why did Cooper steal a space ship to look for Anne Hathaway? I'm sure if he had asked then they probably would have given him one and even helped him on the mission.
 
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart...est-selling-blu-ray-of-the-2015-so-far__8928/

Interstellar has become the biggest selling UK Blu-ray of the year so far, OfficialCharts.com can reveal.
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http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/interstellar-space-thriller-tops-home-video-charts-1201469624/

Paramount’s “Interstellar” dominated the home-entertainment charts for the week ended April 5, outperforming a strong slate of returning titles.

The sci-fi epic directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey, which pulled in $188 million at the U.S. box office, topped the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart, which tracks combined DVD and Blu-ray Disc rentals, as well as the dedicated Blu-ray sales chart and Home Media magazine’s rental chart for the week. In addition to its success on disc, “Interstellar” also topped several digital delivery charts.
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Stack on stacks, Guzim. Stacks on stacks.

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Still my favorite exchange of the movie:

"Cooper, you asshole!"
"Sorry, you broke up a little bit there."
 
I don't know what I really expected from this film but I avoided trailers and reviews.

I can't say I enjoyed much of it. Acting to the story itself. Pretty bland.
 
soooo, how did the wormhole actually come to pass? Did cooper's daughter discoveries eventually lead to the creation of the wormhole at some point in time? Is that why the colony exists outside of Saturn, where the wormhole was/is? And were there actual 5 dimensional beings given that all 5 dimensional activities appear to have been related to things Cooper did while in the black hole?

I feel like how the wormhole came about and its purpose is the only thing i never really figured out.
 
I've been thinking about this film a lot lately, I really liked it, it's not perfect, but it's certainly special, particularly if you're fascinated by the themes it explores.
 
Ok, so I'm about to watch this film now, and will be posting impressions once I've finished. Reading this thread today has just convinced me to watch it ASAP lol since it was on my mind for some time, and I did like Inception a lot.

(Sorry for the one month bump btw, I would have made a thread instead of bumping it, but unfortunately I can't as I'm still Junior!)

Anyway, can't wait!
 
Freedom = $1.05 said:
soooo, how did the wormhole actually come to pass? Did cooper's daughter discoveries eventually lead to the creation of the wormhole at some point in time? Is that why the colony exists outside of Saturn, where the wormhole was/is? And were there actual 5 dimensional beings given that all 5 dimensional activities appear to have been related to things Cooper did while in the black hole?

I feel like how the wormhole came about and its purpose is the only thing i never really figured out.
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IIRC, the wormhole was a spontaneous natural phenomena, though it may have been implied that the 5D beings created it to help.
 
Ok I've just watched the film and I'm absolutely blown away and lost for words.

But now, it's like 2am in the morning and need to go to sleep. And my mind is completely fried. I don't even know what just happened in the past 15 minutes, but this film is just amazing. I'm lost for words.
 
Freedom = $1.05 said:
soooo, how did the wormhole actually come to pass? Did cooper's daughter discoveries eventually lead to the creation of the wormhole at some point in time? Is that why the colony exists outside of Saturn, where the wormhole was/is? And were there actual 5 dimensional beings given that all 5 dimensional activities appear to have been related to things Cooper did while in the black hole?

I feel like how the wormhole came about and its purpose is the only thing i never really figured out.
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I believe it was put there by us from the future to get Coop to his final destination which was the black hole to save humanity.

And yes, it's a time paradox.
 
BizzyBum said:
I believe it was put there by us from the future to get Coop to his final destination which was the black hole to save humanity.

And yes, it's a time paradox.
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My theory was always that Coop was one of the original people who went into the worm hole...

So future humans put the worm hole there, NASA sends the 12 people through and nothing useful happens from that.

Future humans mess around with the timeline again and make sure that Coop gets grounded by a 'gravity anomoly' on the mission at the start of the film and flames out of the air force.

Coop ends up on the Plan B mission rather than the scouting mission and everyone goes home happy.
 
Kralamoonard said:
Ok I've just watched the film and I'm absolutely blown away and lost for words.

But now, it's like 2am in the morning and need to go to sleep. And my mind is completely fried. I don't even know what just happened in the past 15 minutes, but this film is just amazing. I'm lost for words.
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Yeah, that's a normal reaction, lol.

The first time I saw it in the theater I was like "yeah that was pretty good but not great". Then I proceeded to think about the movie every minute of every day for a week, I could not get it out of my head. A week later I went to see it again and noticed SOO many things that I either didn't notice or didn't pick up on the first time around. My mental preoccupation with the film only got worse/better/more intense. I saw it a third time in the theater, and bought the blu ray day one, and have watched it twice at home now, and it's now one of my favorite sci fi movies of all time.

It ain't perfect, and it has some issues, but it does something that not many movies do to me nowadays: it makes me think, and wonder, and really just want more.

Yeah, I like it, lol.
 
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