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I like to think that after the credits Cooper goes "....eh....fuck Brand and her space babies." and we get a TARS and Cooper space buddy adventure sequel.
 
I want to see this movie again goddamnit. I liked it even more than Sunshine my favourite movie of the millennium ;_;
 
ghost77 said:
All sense of danger is taken away after they simply ride the swell of that first wave. They build it up as this awe inspiring danger that ultimately is not threatening so long as they're in the ship. Idk maybe subsequent waves would hit them right and destroy their ship but that just sucked the danger out of it for me.
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The danger isn't from the ship being destroyed. The first wave flooded their engines and it took almost an hour to purge and lost them decades in Earth time. The danger was that happening again.
 
Divvy said:
The danger isn't from the ship being destroyed. The first wave flooded their engines and it took almost an hour to purge and lost them decades in Earth time. The danger was that happening again.
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Of course. I guess echoing my overall criticism after theirs no danger, at that point it's just a race against time and the planet itself is just boring. Just as the next planet is quite grey and dull. But when you first see that wave it's quite fear inducing. For them to just negate that danger with "oh we just rode the wave" is a letdown.

That did feed into one of the best parts of the movie, which is mccs family growing up before his eyes though. Once again mccs performance really highlights the emotional toll of missing all that.
 
Cloud Strife said:
Not me, the first act was way too long.
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yup

actually the only time i didn't feel restless was the trip thru the black hole

and then not again until the 2001 sequence

i like the way contact built up "the trip" throughout the movie.. this movie it just seemed like they were in space 20 minutes in no big deal
 
ghost77 said:
Of course. I guess echoing my overall criticism after theirs no danger, at that point it's just a race against time and the planet itself is just boring. Just as the next planet is quite grey and dull. But when you first see that wave it's quite fear inducing. For them to just negate that danger with "oh we just rode the wave" is a letdown.

That did feed into one of the best parts of the movie, which is mccs family growing up before his eyes though. Once again mccs performance really highlights the emotional toll of missing all that.
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well one of their main crew members did die and they lost 23 years of relative time.
 
I wish they explained the actual issue earth is facing way clearer and earlier in the movie. I was constantly wondering if I overheard something important.
 
ghost77 said:
Of course. I guess echoing my overall criticism after theirs no danger, at that point it's just a race against time and the planet itself is just boring. Just as the next planet is quite grey and dull. But when you first see that wave it's quite fear inducing. For them to just negate that danger with "oh we just rode the wave" is a letdown.
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Well I actually like that death isn't the worst danger they could face. Time passing too fast and everyone on Earth dying before they could go back and help them is a lot more potent of a threat IMO than just the ship getting smashed.
 
NaDannMaGoGo said:
I wish they explained the actual issue earth is facing way clearer and earlier in the movie. I was constantly wondering if I overheard something important.
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I thought it was pretty obvious when the guy says, "We didn't run out of TVs. We ran out of food." The push for Coop's son to be a farmer, the discussion about blight taking over the crops (wheat before and kale at that moment). Like, there was plenty of opportunity for your to figure out that the Earth couldn't make enough food.
 
WARP10CK said:
Given the confusing mindfuck nature of the third act, the first act is what made it confusing for you ???
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It honestly isn't even that confusing if you disregard how illogical it is in the first place.

Black hole dimension thingy made by surviving humans, Brand's colony.

They help Coop save Earth by giving him the data through Tars, and then constructing the tesseract thing allowing Coop to manipulate gravity.

Gravity apparently transcends dimensions or some shit and he gets the message out.

By the time he exits the Black Hole thing, Murph had grown up, perfecting the spaceship and helping everyone to leave earth.

Brand still lives, and makes it to the last planet in the system to start the colony.

So basically, whether Coop survives or not is irrelevant because Brand does, and the humans she helps to foster evolve enough in time to make the Black Hole thingy.
 
Maninthemirror said:
did the you miss the part where he ONLY wanted to get back to his daughter once after he found out there seemed no plausible way to colonise other planets? The ending is pretty simple. he wasnt from this time. he got back but she had moved on after being 100 years old or so. she just wanted to see him once but didnt want him to see her die. it was right there in the movie, she wanted him to be with the people from his time, hathaways generation
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So basically I know you love me dad, but you need to go chill with people your age! LOL
 
The first 45 minutes or so, right up until they come out of the wormhole, is where Nolan had me. It was all gravy up until that point.
 
Scullibundo said:
The first 45 minutes or so, right up until they come out of the wormhole, is where Nolan had me. It was all gravy up until that point.
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The biggest problem in the film was the second act with the Matt Damon subplot. This movie really didn't need the crazed human antagonist in space cliche. The movie is at its most stupid with that fist fight.

The third act redeemed this for me a bit. It wasn't as out-of-the blue and ballsy as many people were claiming before (predictable really) but I liked how it tied to the first act of the movie.
 
NaDannMaGoGo said:
I wish they explained the actual issue earth is facing way clearer and earlier in the movie. I was constantly wondering if I overheard something important.
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Probably fucked up the climate irreversibly. The sandstorms is something that did infact happen to a couple of states in USA at the early 1900s. Can't remember the name of those events though.
 
presenting the ending theory itself sent to me by someone

What if in the original timeline Cooper goes into the black hole and dies there. Murph never receives any message. They do not solve gravity. Plan A fails. Everyone on Earth dies. Brand (Anne Hathaway) is the last member of mankind still alive. On Edmunds' planet she grows the fertilized eggs they had brought with them on the Endurance. She succeeds with plan B. The new humans live on that planet. Eventually they become more technologically advanced than we were back on Earth, and at some point in the future they attain such a deep understanding of the universe that they evolve to live in a higher dimension, the bulk. There they perceive love physically, love has a tangible existence in this higher dimension. They perceive the love that linked humans back on Earth a long, long time ago. And then out of love they devise a way to allow these humans to keep living too, some of whom were their ancestors, their great-great-...-great-grand-parents. They perceive the strong love that linked Cooper and his daughter. They realize they can save the humans who lived on Earth by enabling Cooper to communicate with his daughter from inside that black hole, through the link that bound them together. Once Cooper succeeds they send him back near Saturn through a wormhole, to allow him to see his daughter one last time. Brand allowed the future humans to live, Cooper allowed the humans back on Earth to live. In the end Cooper leaves to reunite with Brand, in a sense reuniting humanity together: the future humans who couldn't have lived without Brand, and Earth's humans who couldn't have lived without Cooper. It was love that had brought Brand to Edmunds' planet and allowed future humans to live, and it was love that allowed Cooper to save Earth's humans
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This goes hand in hand with the theory Presented by me earlier of BEFORE the wormhole

The Wormhole is created by the future humanity where Dr Brand solves the equation, there is no plan A or B as there is no wormhole, only death, there is just 1 plan to get as many off this planet as we can. they go into space and many futures pass and the future generations realise, they create a wormhole to the new area of planets where humans should live for a better future, but to get both humanities to surivive, the one on the ship and the one on earth. first man has to populate the planet which would create the black hole and fifth dimension to then send the message back to coop because by creating the wormhole the future earth see the anomoly that Dr Brand doesnt believe in plan A he only believes in Plan B whereas for their OWN future, plan A is also needed for their OWN survival..
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Scullibundo said:
LOL @ the fake moonlanding curriculum. Way to be subtle Nolan. God that was dumb.
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We have people in present day trying to replace Evolution in textbooks with Intelligent Design and Creationism. It's really not that much of a stretch to think that desperate people would try to change their education material to fit an agenda.
 
thewaffles said:
You have people in present day trying to replace Evolution in textbooks with Intelligent Design and Creationism. It's really not that much of a stretch to think that desperate people would try to change education to fit an agenda.
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thats what I think as well. it had been probably 80 years since moon and 50 years since manned flight as per the movie. people created realities to justify people to farm rather than explore and instead stay on earth, stop looking up.. this is why it seems NASA was officially disbaned
 
Salvadora said:
it blew my mind too... but not really in a good way because i couldn't figure out what was going on until the robot told me.
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I thought he was gonna get stretched like a noodle or something. Leaned a meter out of my seat in anticipation and accidental sweated on the first 4 rows in front of me.
 
Saw it Wednesday night in 70mm IMAX but didn't realize the theatre was going to be a dome theatre and it completely ruined the visual presentation of the movie. I was pretty pissed considering I'd put a bunch of effort into trying to see it as originally intended and just ended up with a distorted picture and a sore neck.

However, I really really liked the movie, and there were certain parts that were just stellar (like the water planet).

Two confusing things remain for me though, one is how the wormhole got there in the first place (seems necessary to become future humans) and the other is why they couldn't send video messages back to Earth yet they could receive the messages (like the 23 years worth, and the one from Chastain that talks about Caine's lie).

Other than that it was one hell of an entertaining 3 hours
 
Appleman said:
Saw it Wednesday night in 70mm IMAX but didn't realize the theatre was going to be a dome theatre and it completely ruined the visual presentation of the movie. I was pretty pissed considering I'd put a bunch of effort into trying to see it as originally intended and just ended up with a distorted picture and a sore neck.

However, I really really liked the movie, and there were certain parts that were just stellar (like the water planet).

Two confusing things remain for me though, one is how the wormhole got there in the first place (seems necessary to become future humans) and the other is why they couldn't send video messages back to Earth yet they could receive the messages (like the 23 years worth, and the one from Chastain that talks about Caine's lie).

Other than that it was one hell of an entertaining 3 hours
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look above at my last post

for the messages, the video and audio were a one way street to the wormhole but to pass messages from other side of wormhole you could send binaries for location only
 
Quite liked it, but a part of me wishes we would have gotten the "Chinese went there first, no human antagonist, 10.000 year space station managed by TARS" 2nd and 3rd act.
Also: That Indian drone (which is Chinese in the 2009 draft) felt like a leftover plot thread from the 2009 draft. It did not serve any plot purpose beyond world and Coop character exposition anymore or did I miss something?

From a projection POV, the movie (especially the space scenes) seemed a bit underexposed for me. Stars and most space shots felt a bit heavy on sepia two-tone spectrum. Almost felt dimmed like watching it through crappy 3d glasses.
 
Guy.brush said:
Quite liked it, but a part of me wishes we would have gotten the "Chinese went there first, no human antagonist, 10.000 year space station managed by TARS" 2nd and 3rd act.
Also: That Indian drone (which is Chinese in the 2009 draft) did not serve a plot purpose beyond world and Coop character exposition anymore or did I miss something?

From a projection POV, the movie (especially the space scenes) seemed a bit underexposed for me. Stars and most space shots felt a bit heavy on sepia two-tone spectrum. Almost felt dimmed like watching it through crappy 3d glasses.
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Yeah, gotta admit, from a sci-fi perspective, the original script sounded better.

And yup, the Indian drone was just world-building, for better or worse.
 
Cloud Strife said:
It honestly isn't even that confusing if you disregard how illogical it is in the first place.

Black hole dimension thingy made by surviving humans, Brand's colony.

They help Coop save Earth by giving him the data through Tars, and then constructing the tesseract thing allowing Coop to manipulate gravity.

Gravity apparently transcends dimensions or some shit and he gets the message out.

By the time he exits the Black Hole thing, Murph had grown up, perfecting the spaceship and helping everyone to leave earth.

Brand still lives, and makes it to the last planet in the system to start the colony.

So basically, whether Coop survives or not is irrelevant because Brand does, and the humans she helps to foster evolve enough in time to make the Black Hole thingy.
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Wait what. There is no evidence that Brands colony does any of that.

Murph finalized Unified Field Theory, she was not a ship designer.

I think the alien life encounters in the 09 script were too much, as was Chinese-American conflict part. I much prefer the lonely aspect of it being just them.
 
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