Matthew McConaughey sure has become an ugly man. Just watch Dallas Buyers Club. 
INTERSTELLAR - Grading & Discussion
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Given that the movie includes baseball and wormholes, I kept expecting to see a version of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ33e9BK9aU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ33e9BK9aU
I've read quite a few reviews iver the past few days and they're generally positive.
I usually read a number of reviews before seeing a film. And negative reviews won't deter me if I really want to see something unless the general word seems universally bad.
And I often enough (though not always) find myself agreeing overall with reviews written for the Toronto Sun. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/0...pher-nolans-most-daring-space-film-since-2001. And in this case they're quite positive for this film.
So I'll likely see it tomorrow or Saturday.
And I often enough (though not always) find myself agreeing overall with reviews written for the Toronto Sun. http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/0...pher-nolans-most-daring-space-film-since-2001. And in this case they're quite positive for this film.
So I'll likely see it tomorrow or Saturday.
It's usually easier to see a film once it is released and it was only released, in North America at least, today.
Saw the movie last night in 4K digital. In many ways, it feels like Nolan's version of "2001: A Space Odyssey". it is a beautiful space epic with a lot of hard science and some very thought-provoking scifi concepts. One of the big differences with "2001" though, is that this movie has a much more human component. The father-daughter scenes for example are quite beautiful and powerful. It could be argued that the movie gets a bit slow in the middle but the emotionally powerful scenes, the high concepts, the intense danger scenes and the big pay-off in the end, completely make up for any flaws. I would give it a solid A.
This is the general gist I've been getting from many of the reviews I've read. Encourages me even more to see it, later today or tomorrow.
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I loved it. It's not perfect, but it's a thoroughly entertaining film. Despite the heavy handedness with the love angle, I was really invested in the story. When it was over, I wanted more. I thought that Cooper was going to sacrifice himself in the wormhole, but that whole sequence in the black hole that followed blew me away. There was some exposition that I was annoyed by, but then I have to remember that I'm a nerd that's been watching Star Trek and reading hard sci-fi books all my life, and this stuff isn't readily apparent to the casual moviegoer or McConaughey fan.
I was worried that having Matt Damon pop up in the middle of the film was going to be a distraction, but the story was so good at this point, I didn't have time to think "Oh, another A-lister!" Besides the two who really stole the show in this movie were Josh Stewart and Bill Irwin as KIPP and CASE.
This will definitely be one of the movies I pull off the shelf every year and watch with admiration. The music was overbearing at times, but great. The cinematography is the best in the business, and the visuals were low-key but stunning. It's not Nolan's finest film, but it's nothing that's going to fall into obscurity.
And who cares about the Rotten Tomatoes score... it's on par with Godzilla's and this movie is WAY better than Godzilla.
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I loved it. It's not perfect, but it's a thoroughly entertaining film. Despite the heavy handedness with the love angle, I was really invested in the story. When it was over, I wanted more. I thought that Cooper was going to sacrifice himself in the wormhole, but that whole sequence in the black hole that followed blew me away. There was some exposition that I was annoyed by, but then I have to remember that I'm a nerd that's been watching Star Trek and reading hard sci-fi books all my life, and this stuff isn't readily apparent to the casual moviegoer or McConaughey fan.
I was worried that having Matt Damon pop up in the middle of the film was going to be a distraction, but the story was so good at this point, I didn't have time to think "Oh, another A-lister!" Besides the two who really stole the show in this movie were Josh Stewart and Bill Irwin as KIPP and CASE.
This will definitely be one of the movies I pull off the shelf every year and watch with admiration. The music was overbearing at times, but great. The cinematography is the best in the business, and the visuals were low-key but stunning. It's not Nolan's finest film, but it's nothing that's going to fall into obscurity.
And who cares about the Rotten Tomatoes score... it's on par with Godzilla's and this movie is WAY better than Godzilla.
I have mixed feelings. I love some of the science fiction aspects, particularly the first two planets. But there are some plot holes I'm having a hard time with.
There should have been unmanned data that would have prevented the issues on the first and second planet. There is no excuse for that when you have such advanced AIs in the movie's time line and unmanned probes in the real world.
I honestly don't understand the physics of a planet orbiting a black hole. Where is the planet's star? If it doesn't have one, how can it be candidate for colonization?
If the crafts can land and go to orbit on their own power, why did they need a missile to launch from Earth?
How were they going to establish a colony? The endurance can't land (no heat shield)?
One last nitpick: did cooper not bother asking about his son, or did I miss something?
Back to the bright side, I really liked the robots, both the design and personality. I felt at first that they were being set up to become bad later (Cooper mentioned they can go bad and the issue of honesty), but I think that was a subtle red herring, playing with audience expectations, which I liked.
There should have been unmanned data that would have prevented the issues on the first and second planet. There is no excuse for that when you have such advanced AIs in the movie's time line and unmanned probes in the real world.
I honestly don't understand the physics of a planet orbiting a black hole. Where is the planet's star? If it doesn't have one, how can it be candidate for colonization?
If the crafts can land and go to orbit on their own power, why did they need a missile to launch from Earth?
How were they going to establish a colony? The endurance can't land (no heat shield)?
One last nitpick: did cooper not bother asking about his son, or did I miss something?
Back to the bright side, I really liked the robots, both the design and personality. I felt at first that they were being set up to become bad later (Cooper mentioned they can go bad and the issue of honesty), but I think that was a subtle red herring, playing with audience expectations, which I liked.
Black holes are a star. A very, very, very dense one, one so dense that it's created a hole in space-time, sure but a star none-the-less. Without-seeing the movie, though, I suspect there must've been some other star in the system providing the light and heat needed for a habitable planet.
As I understand it, you need to have a black hole in order to create a wormhole (because you need a massive source of gravity to fold the space). So that solar system had to have a black hole or otherwise they never would have been able to get there in the first place. And perhaps it was a binary star with one of the two stars in the system being a black hole. I'm not entirely sure to what extent they actually said something along those lines in the movie, because it was too much information for me to process on the first viewing.
Dunno. Maybe to preserve fuel. They use a rocket to get into Earth’s orbit so that the shuttles' own fuel supply isn't exhausted during the initial launch? At the very least the expedition's limited fuel supply seemed to be an issue during the course of the whole movie.
They transport all the necessary stuff to the surface via the shuttles. I think they were actually in the process of doing that on the ice planet just before they discovered that Matt Damon was lying to them.
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This is, theoretically, how it would work. The two "ends" of the inside of black-hole would need to be connected and then the masses "inside" would need to be removed. Space-time would remain stretched and connected creating the "hole."
But the mass being removed is crucial, because with the mass still inside the black-hole not only would you not be able to pass-through it but the mass would prevent you from escaping the hole.
I doubt that the wormhole creators in Interstellar had much trouble doing that though...
I wondered this as well. The characters do mention a neutron star in the system. So, I am guessing the planets were part of a binary system of a neutron star orbiting the black hole. That type of binary system makes sense. But I was still under the impression that a habitable planet required a main sequence star like our sun. I don't think a planet in a binary system with a neutron star and a black hole would ever be a suitable planet for human colonization.
Yeah, I was wondering about that too. Conserving gas makes sense I suppose.
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How did that one astronaut have enough food for all the time he spent waiting in orbit? He did sleep but he was awake for a while as well.