Did anyone see 'Interstellar'?

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What did you think of the movie?

What did you find hard to follow or implausible?

I totally enjoyed it.
 
I didn’t but it looks really good!

I like that there is a lot of different themes going on in the movie. Ghosts, Event Horizon, Space travel. Looks like a great movie.👍
 
It is one of two movies I plan on seeing before the end of the year; the last Hobbit installment is coming out next month. What a cool double feature at a drive-in! 🍿
 
Catholic1954 said:
It is one of two movies I plan on seeing before the end of the year; the last Hobbit installment is coming out next month. What a cool double feature at a drive-in! 🍿
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They still have drive ins?

Havent been to one in years, decades even.

Gotta go now and find one.

😃
 
My son does that too; he looks at wildly popular, smash hit movies and tears them down as if doing such proves he is a person of more refined taste. I try to tell him that it only makes him look snooty.
 
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My son does that too; he looks at wildly popular, smash hit movies and tears them down as if doing such proves he is a person of more refined taste. I try to tell him that it only makes him look snooty.
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Wildly popular =/= good. Case in point: television. :rolleyes:

Just because it is popular does not mean it is good.( It does not necessarily mean it’s bad, either.)

It may very well be that JherekCarnelian actually did not like the movies, and for the very reasons he states. And it’s a valid opinion. I can see his point re LOTR, although I do not agree with him; I think his criticism is a matter of his personal taste and experience, not pretentiousness.
 
John_Lazarus said:
Wildly popular =/= good. Case in point: television. :rolleyes:

Just because it is popular does not mean it is good.( It does not necessarily mean it’s bad, either.)

It may very well be that JherekCarnelian actually did not like the movies, and for the very reasons he states. And it’s a valid opinion. I can see his point re LOTR, although I do not agree with him; I think his criticism is a matter of his personal taste and experience, not pretentiousness.
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Sure, he has a valid opinion as that is the whole point to discussions on topics where subjectivity reigns.

I guess what I am saying is that if one is discussing how some art is good or bad, popularity should be somewhere in the criteria. Prior to the government financing art and it becoming a rigged market monopolized by a handful of trading houses, popularity was a necessary part of any valuation of art or else the artist starved or played the role of royal sycophant.

But yes, I can evaluate movies by how many times someone makes a reference to Europe and be just as right/justified/accurate as anyone else. But the kind of criteria/evaluation that pans wildly popular movies seems to be of little use to someone with completely plebian tastes like mine.

But no connoisseur am I.
 
Not me. As long s the director/producer team takes the storyline seriously instead of the campy gahbajh that came out in the last century.

The Batman series was solid, through and through and I have liked all the Marvel movies that come to mind, but Superman has always bored me.
 
Just saw yesterday. Wow, mind blown.
It’s the type of movie that makes you think.
 
I saw it, and I liked it, but I must say that it’s quite secular humanist. (test tube babies, United-Nations-esque society, Dr. Mann’s discussion of instinct and genetic love for your children, Cooper’s “WE did everything” realization, etc.)

I thought the plot was really good, but once you know what happens, I suspect the three hour movie might be a bit of a drag to watch for the third or fourth time.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS

The one thing I find really implausible is SPOILER ALERT… people evolving into five-dimensional beings, and everything associated with that. It’s not like there’s such things as two dimensional beings or one-dimensional beings that we three-dimensional beings can interact with and create “wormholes” for, and with the human genome degrading as it is, we would never get there anyway.

One thing I don’t understand about the end is: How is Mr. Cooper going to fly all the way to the other Galaxy where Brad is? The whole movie assumed Relativity is true, and if that’s the case, then nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which would probably make it impossible to travel between galaxies, especially in that tiny little ship Cooper left in. They would have to have developed their own ability to make worm-holes or something of the sort. Maybe they’re just setting it up for a sequel, and will explain how he plans on getting there later.
 
RGCheek said:
What did you think of the movie?

What did you find hard to follow or implausible?

I totally enjoyed it.
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It’s the anti-“Gravity” (pun intended.) Everything a lot of people liked about “Gravity” (the religious aspect, etc.) is exactly what a lot of people WON’T like about “Interstellar.” I thought it was a little too heavy-handed in its “pro-science” message: and I doubt the moon landing (yes, the moon landing really happened) will ever be banned from textbooks.
 
I watched it yesterday and it left me very confused… though the imaging and screen play was very beautiful.
 
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Nogginer said:
I saw it, and I liked it, but I must say that it’s quite secular humanist. (test tube babies, United-Nations-esque society, Dr. Mann’s discussion of instinct and genetic love for your children, Cooper’s “WE did everything” realization, etc.)
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I was happy, at least, that the “test-tube babies” solution was pretty consistently presented as a morally repugnant and unacceptable option. That was practically the theme of the movie. As for Dr. Mann, I hardly think we’re supposed to reflect kindly on anything he says.
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One thing I don’t understand about the end is: How is Mr. Cooper going to fly all the way to the other Galaxy where Brad is? The whole movie assumed Relativity is true, and if that’s the case, then nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which would probably make it impossible to travel between galaxies, especially in that tiny little ship Cooper left in. They would have to have developed their own ability to make worm-holes or something of the sort. Maybe they’re just setting it up for a sequel, and will explain how he plans on getting there later.
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I don’t understand your confusion. At the end, Cooper is on a space station near Jupiter. He’s just going to go through the existing wormhole near saturn to the other galaxy, then make the relatively short flight from there to “Edmunds’ planet” where Brand is.
 
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I was happy, at least, that the “test-tube babies” solution was pretty consistently presented as a morally repugnant and unacceptable option. That was practically the theme of the movie. As for Dr. Mann, I hardly think we’re supposed to reflect kindly on anything he says.

I don’t understand your confusion. At the end, Cooper is on a space station near Jupiter. He’s just going to go through the existing wormhole near saturn to the other galaxy, then make the relatively short flight from there to “Edmunds’ planet” where Brand is.
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SPOLIERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

After bouncing around the bookcase in his daughters room while talking to a robot who is eons away all the while magically transmitting a solution to the worlds problems(a solution we are never privy to ) to a watch.

What a disappointment.
 
Nogginer said:
I saw it, and I liked it, but I must say that it’s quite secular humanist. (test tube babies, United-Nations-esque society, Dr. Mann’s discussion of instinct and genetic love for your children, Cooper’s “WE did everything” realization, etc.)

I thought the plot was really good, but once you know what happens, I suspect the three hour movie might be a bit of a drag to watch for the third or fourth time.

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS SPOILERS

The one thing I find really implausible is SPOILER ALERT… people evolving into five-dimensional beings, and everything associated with that. It’s not like there’s such things as two dimensional beings or one-dimensional beings that we three-dimensional beings can interact with and create “wormholes” for, and with the human genome degrading as it is, we would never get there anyway.

One thing I don’t understand about the end is: How is Mr. Cooper going to fly all the way to the other Galaxy where Brad is? The whole movie assumed Relativity is true, and if that’s the case, then nothing can go faster than the speed of light, which would probably make it impossible to travel between galaxies, especially in that tiny little ship Cooper left in. They would have to have developed their own ability to make worm-holes or something of the sort. Maybe they’re just setting it up for a sequel, and will explain how he plans on getting there later.
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I think the evolution of humans into 5 dimensional beings was assisted by technology in ways that would have made no sense to the audience, so they didn’t explain the how at all.

as to faster than light travel:
techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/
 
estesbob said:
SPOLIERS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

After bouncing around the bookcase in his daughters room while talking to a robot who is eons away all the while magically transmitting a solution to the worlds problems(a solution we are never privy to ) to a watch.

What a disappointment.
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The robot was in the black hole with him.

It wasnt magic that allowed the transmission but gravity waves.

The solution to the gravitational problem was the missing data from the inside of the black hole that Murph realized they needed to finish the equations on her side.

The watch was just a mechanism to use morse code through to transmit the message with gravitational affects on the second hand.

Maybe they should have technical background ratings for movies?
 
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