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krameriffic said:
I feel like the movie could have done a better job at conveying the state of the world. The focus of the earth stuff was so heavily restricted to scope of about 5 characters with only vague reference to what year it was, how many people were still alive, what governments were still around, and who was doing what and where to survive in this world.
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Film was already long as fuck and while interesting to know, it's not vital information. Besides there were good little jokes such as the New York Yankees, that portrayed the state of the world. We also knew from the step-dad's speech that the number of humans is way down.

In fact Cooper states there are million of families depending on him so chances are good that the population total is near or under a billion.

UltimaPooh said:
Cooper station was named after Murphy Cooper. No one knew of the mission, cept Murphy. She was also the only one who learned of the who the ghost was.
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Yes but Cooper himself was famous too. There was also a plaque to the Lazarus mission. Cooper's mission was known.
 
Amazing movie, especially as a fan of space and science.

Visuals were breathtaking, story was complex but explained well enough that people who aren't familiar with the concepts would be able to follow, MM was fucking on it and crushed the role. Going to see it again Friday. :D
 
UltimaPooh said:
Cooper station was named after Murphy Cooper. No one knew of the mission, cept Murphy. She was also the only one who learned of the who the ghost was.
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No one knew of the mission during the time she solved the equation but how do you know NASA didn't give a public statement giving out the information later once they had the solution? Murphy made it very clear to people how important Cooper was to the mission. He was famous, alongside the other explorers by the time Cooper arrives. I mean High school students are writing papers about him.

What nobody believed Murphy of is that Cooper had a direct impact in giving her the data to solve the gravity equation. They believe it just came to her with no data.
 
It would have been cool to have gotten a better idea about when the film was set.

It seemed like ~2060, but there was no way to be sure. Why were the world's militaries disbanded? Why was so much technology lost?

I guess a catastrophic war is implied, but that should have had a larger impact on the story.
 
Valhelm said:
It would have been cool to have gotten a better idea about when the film was set.

It seemed like ~2060, but there was no way to be sure. Why were the world's militaries disbanded? Why was so much technology lost?

I guess a catastrophic war is implied, but that should have had a larger impact on the story.
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can you imagine the rage from those who get angry over exposition if this was delivered to the audience ?
 
krameriffic said:
And why, if 5 dimensional omnipotent future humans were capable of doing it, would they open it near Saturn and not near earf?
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You could make the argument that they were worried they'd mess with Earth Time. The water planet was too close and time moved at an insane rate there.
 
Serious answer: You could say that the future humans put it near Saturn to make it hard for someone to go through but not impossible, that way NASA would be so desperate to put Cooper in the pilot seat. Events in the film were very set up so that Cooper would go into that Tesseract.
Valhelm said:
It would have been cool to have gotten a better idea about when the film was set.

It seemed like ~2060, but there was no way to be sure. Why were the world's militaries disbanded? Why was so much technology lost?

I guess a catastrophic war is implied, but that should have had a larger impact on the story.
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Nolan probably did that on purpose to make the movie more 'timeless'.
 
Valhelm said:
It would have been cool to have gotten a better idea about when the film was set.

It seemed like ~2060, but there was no way to be sure. Why were the world's militaries disbanded? Why was so much technology lost?

I guess a catastrophic war is implied, but that should have had a larger impact on the story.
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they make mention to the "excesses of the 20th century" aka climate change

skylenorman said:
You could make the argument that they were worried they'd mess with Earth Time. The water planet was too close and time moved at an insane rate there.
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that's not how time dilation works.
 
Valhelm said:
It would have been cool to have gotten a better idea about when the film was set.

It seemed like ~2060, but there was no way to be sure. Why were the world's militaries disbanded? Why was so much technology lost?

I guess a catastrophic war is implied, but that should have had a larger impact on the story.
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Upkeeping costs a lot of money, and governments are already having hard times feeding their people.
 
Neil Degrasse Tyson just started tweeting about interstellar

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: There’s a robot named KIPP. One of the Executive Producers, a physicist, is named Kip. I’m just saying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: All leading characters, including McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, & Caine play a scientist or engineer.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: And in the real universe, strong gravitational fields measurably slow passage of time relative to others.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein’s Relativity of Time as no other feature film has shown.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein's Curvature of Space as no other feature film has shown.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: The producers knew exactly how, why, & when you’d achieve zero-G in space.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: You observe great Tidal Waves from great Tidal Forces, of magnitude that orbiting a Black Hole might create

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: You enter a 3-Dimensional portal in space. Yes, you can fall in from any direction. Yes, it’s a Worm Hole.
 
People in other countries don't necessarily call themselves by first names regularly, it's not unlikely a nickname could come up based off your last name. Even if you make the argument of "it's common in America" then it can just be argued that his nickname came from his granddad/family tradition.

edit: I'm really glad Neil DeGrasse Tyson enjoyed the film.
 
Maninthemirror said:
Neil Degrasse Tyson just started tweeting about interstellar

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: There’s a robot named KIPP. One of the Executive Producers, a physicist, is named Kip. I’m just saying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: All leading characters, including McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, & Caine play a scientist or engineer.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: And in the real universe, strong gravitational fields measurably slow passage of time relative to others.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein’s Relativity of Time as no other feature film has shown.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein's Curvature of Space as no other feature film has shown.


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: The producers knew exactly how, why, & when you’d achieve zero-G in space.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: You observe great Tidal Waves from great Tidal Forces, of magnitude that orbiting a Black Hole might create

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: You enter a 3-Dimensional portal in space. Yes, you can fall in from any direction. Yes, it’s a Worm Hole.
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Slate Magazine and random Youtube personalities should tell him why he is wrong about the science in Interstellar.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
People in other countries don't necessarily call themselves by first names regularly, it's not unlikely a nickname could come up based off your last name. Even if you make the argument of "it's common in America" then it can just be argued that his nickname came from his granddad/family tradition.

edit: I'm really glad Neil DeGrasse Tyson enjoyed the film.
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I call people by their last name all the time. i'm american. Its common here.
 
DMczaf said:
Slate and random Youtube personalities should tell him why he is wrong about the science in Interstellar.
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Oh btw the Slate article is partially wong on one thing. There is definitely a sun in the new solar system. There are a couple of shots with the sun in them. The sun looks like a white star though.
 
Wait, the beginning was supposed to be the future? Oh, that's why nothing in the beginning was making sense.

Maninthemirror said:
can you imagine the rage from those who get angry over exposition if this was delivered to the audience ?
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I think they would have preferred understanding the movie to not getting a little exposition.
 
Oh my he dropped the truth bomb against the critics who say women are shown bad in interstellar

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: Of the leading characters (all of whom are scientists or engineers) half are women. Just an FYI.
 
soultron said:
Super-secret underground NASA launches a rocket and nobody notices.
Nobody questions the disappearance of a father of two young children.
There are assumed foot shortages but nobody riots.

I liked the movie, in parts, but there were so many holes in the plot. The bit with Mann was the best part of the whole movie, I thought.
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Your post is basically "All these things weren't explicitly answered therefore they're plot holes. But, if he had answered them explicitly, I would be complaining about exposition"

There's just no winning with some people...I hate when people throw around the term plot hole for things that had no bearing on the actual plot
 
Jarmel said:
Oh btw the Slate article is partially wong on one thing. There is definitely a sun in the new solar system. There are a couple of shots with the sun in them. The sun looks like a white star though.
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Was there? I just assumed that solar system used Gargantua's accretion disc as their "sun". They're know to be an order of magnitude brighter/stronger than most stars.

Atraveller said:
Didn't he feel the same way to Gravity but nitpicked anyway?
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Yep! He's said several times that he enjoyed Gravity immensely despite those qualms. Just because he's critical of it doesn't mean he thinks these films are bad or pointless.
 
Atraveller said:
Didn't he feel the same way to Gravity but nitpicked anyway?
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for all we know he'll nitpick later but the topics in this film are probably closer to his heart haha.

Lothar said:
Wait, the beginning was supposed to be the future? Oh, that's why nothing in the beginning was making sense.



I think they would have preferred understanding the movie to not getting a little exposition.
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1. No. It's a time loop. Just think of the film as traveling through time. The order of the events from start to finish is the order you should care about.

2. Exposition was unnecessary though. We didn't need a textbook explanation as to why the earth is where it is. That was irrelevant to the plot of going to space to find a new planet.

APKmetsfan said:
Why was Matt Damon kept secret in this movie? He wasn't even in the initial credits and only is mentioned in the final actual credit roll.
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Honestly? Probably as a nice little surprise to people. He's a recognized actor and I was all "oh shit it's Matt Damon" haha
 
APKmetsfan said:
Why was Matt Damon kept secret in this movie? He wasn't even in the initial credits and only is mentioned in the final actual credit roll.
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I guess for some element of surprise?

I was shocked when I saw him

But then I realized I had kept my nose pretty clean on this movie.

Refreshing to go in blind
 
The females were painted in a much better light than the males were. Murphy was a hero that saved the world compared to her farmer brother. Female Brand, while overly sentimental at times, cared about others and was portrayed as competent. Compare her to Mann, or her father who did a huge ass lie that would have doomed the planet
 
Aurongel said:
Yep! He's said several times that he enjoyed Gravity immensely despite those qualms. Just because he's critical of it doesn't mean he thinks these films are bad or pointless.
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That's what I mean, maybe the reason he didn't start picking on Interstellar is because he didn't find anything severely wrong with it.
Admiral Woofington said:
for all we know he'll nitpick later but the topics in this film are probably closer to his heart haha.
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Also possible.
 
krameriffic said:
I feel like the movie could have done a better job at conveying the state of the world. The focus of the earth stuff was so heavily restricted in scope to about 5 characters with only vague reference to what year it was, how many people were still alive, what governments were still around, and who was doing what and where to survive in this world.
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That's really a different movie though.
 
Jarmel said:
The females were painted in a much better light than the males were. Murphy was a hero that saved the world compared to her farmer brother. Female Brand, while overly sentimental at times, cared about others and was portrayed as competent. Compare her to Mann, or her father who did a huge ass lie that would have doomed the planet
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Female Brand was very competent but god damn if I didn't have a decent amount of time in the film that I hated her for being so stubborn in the water planet. She redeemed herself later on. But during the discussion of which planet to go to I really wanted Cooper to say something like "you cost me 20 something years of my children's life and your argument is love? No."
 
Maninthemirror said:
Oh my he dropped the truth bomb against the critics who say women are shown bad in interstellar

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar: Of the leading characters (all of whom are scientists or engineers) half are women. Just an FYI.
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Because equality is only measured in numbers.
 
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar, if you didn’t understand the physics, try Kip Thorne’s highly readable Bbook “The Science of Interstellar"


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar, if you didn’t understand the plot, there is no published book to help you.
 
The science in the movie was sound, the visuals stunning, the concepts interesting.

The characters and plot were dumb though.
 
Maninthemirror said:
Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar, if you didn’t understand the physics, try Kip Thorne’s highly readable Bbook “The Science of Interstellar"


Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

In #Interstellar, if you didn’t understand the plot, there is no published book to help you.
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god damn I lol'd.

edit: and to naysayers no this isn't people feeling superior and praising the Nolan God.
 
Admiral Woofington said:
I can't really explain it and the movie doesn't either really outside of continuing the loop of the ghost in the bookcase. Plus I doubt she had a computer in her room. Or many people had a computer at all. The watch he knew for a fact he could affect in one part of the loop and that it would remain intact at a later date due to the emotional significance of it to Murphy plus the durability.
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Nah I'm glad they didn't go into that. It felt more inevitable without an explanation.
 
My only question is what did Edmunds die from?

Crazymoogle said:
(The counterpoint, though, was that Murph was in transit for two years, which wouldn't happen if they could just warp her over. So either there is a way to reuse the wormhole or we're missing something.)
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Her transit was two days. She was in cryo for two years because she was still holding out hope she would see her father before dying.

neshcom said:
I thought MM didn't leave the NASA coordinates? I thought he tried to but couldn't or it was already done by the 5Ds (which wouldn't feed into the closed paradox issue).
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He asked TARS for the coordinates in binary and was manipulating the dust into columns.

krameriffic said:
And why, if 5 dimensional omnipotent future humans were capable of doing it, would they open it near Saturn and not near earf?
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Probably so they would develop the technology necessary to survive the entire trip.
 
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