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INTERSTELLAR - Grading & Discussion

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If Plan B was really the plan all along, shouldn't they have sent a second woman along on the trip? Assuming all had gone well, kinda tough spot for her to be in alone, no? And wouldn't have changed anything if one of the other two guys was female instead.

And if there some sort of artificial womb setup going on with the population bomb, or is Brand in for a long string of pregnancies? And only selecting female embryos for a while so THEY can all carry too? Seems a rough way to go, logistically, with a single female. Not that two is much better, but at least ups your odds so the whole race doesn't die with a single birth gone wrong...
 
Brand says the first generation will be gestated by machines.

But the Plan B route has plenty of its own problems. Let us assume that that the first generation is allowed to gestate in the machinery. Well, they're still going to need to be removed from the machinery at some point and actually be raised. Even with the four adults of original crew it's an awful burden to ask them to care-for, raise and educate dozens of children! On top of setting up the colony, beginning farming, water collection and filtration, construction of habitats and so-forth.

And let's say they throw all social constructs out the window. Once the female children are able to they're tasked with having to carry the next generation of children, conceived by the incubated embryos. That's still the better part of 16 years before anything can happen to start on the second native generation of the new planet.

It seems like an overwhelming task and, really, they probably could've used a whole army of the monolith robots to help them out other than just TARS and CASE.

"Plan B" strikes me as the more desperate and long-shot way of saving the human race than the idea of evacuating enough people to colonize the new planet.
 
Deckerd said:
Also 'hard sci fi' is much misused here. Just because the setting is more or less contemporaneous and without aliens and stuff doesn't make the development of the theme any less fantastical.
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Obviously it doesn't fit under that label for novels. But I think for movies there needs to be a sort of differentiation because so many movies, especially contemporary movies, and especially blockbuster contemporary movies, are all just fantasy fluff. I mean, when people start calling stuff like Star Wars science fiction, how then do you differentiate a movie like this? It's hard as far as popular movies go, or at least not super squishy like most. What should we call that, firm sci-fi?
 
How does Cooper know for sure it was highly-evolved humans who created the wormhole? There doesn't seem to be any evidence to either confirm or deny whether it was humans or aliens, or robots. But Cooper goes on his schpeel about it being highly evolved humans as if it were 100% fact.
 
"The Earth's atmosphere is 80% Nitrogen, we don't even breathe Nitrogen, Blight does; as it thrives our air gets less and less Oxygen."

If there's one big "flaw" in this movie it's that I don't think the underlining premise of what's happening on Earth makes any sense.

First of all, if Blight "breathes" Nitrogen then what does it exhale? That exhalant could pose a greater danger to humanity, and all lfie on Earth, than anything else. Though, most of the animal life on this planet exhales Carbon-Dioxide and CO2 doesn't make up a meaningful percentage of our atmosphere -though, granted, plants take that CO2 and makes it into Oxygen.

So if Blight breathes Nitrogen what on the planet is producing more Nitrogen for it to breathe?

We'll go ahead and assume this "Blight" is some-kind of pathogen that somehow came to Earth. Whether the unintended consequences of biological warfare or am extraterrestrial pathogen that arrived via an asteroid or something.

Still, doesn't make a whole lot of sense. As good as Nolan's movies can be, "technical issues" tend to muddy things up a bit. The "microwave reactor" in "Batman Begins" is a problem because it ignores that people's bodies are made up of water and they'd boil along with the water in pipes. And microwaves aren't terribly great, efficient or mostly fast at turning water into steam. Sure, it's how microwave ovens work, but it takes a lot of power and a couple minutes to get a glass of water to reach a boil in a microwave. It'd take incredible levels to get it to turn instantly into steam. Microwaves are also very "directional." The casing of a microwave aided by a fan helps to agitate and deflect the microwaves to ensure some level of complete coverage inside the oven.

"Inception" is a great movie but it suffers from similar technichal problems in that the "dream machine" isn't too fully realized or made to look like it makes sense. An IV to a few people lined to a suitcase and people can... share... dreams? With no connections to the brain?

Same thing here with "Interstellar" which I find to be a fantastic movie but the "Blight" doesn't make much sense when analyzed for more than a moment. It would've made more sense to simply say that the sun was in a period of increased solar activity that was predicted to only grow more and more intense. The solar activity having greatly impacted the climate on Earth meaning a dryer climate and problems with feeding a huge population, only certain crops being able to survive the harsher conditions.
 
Yesterday I watched all of the special features for this film and I'm even more impressed. I didn't realize the amount of practical effects that went into this movie. Furthermore, the amount of scientific thought that went into it is jus phenominal. By watching the special features, I began to understand the plot even more. I suggest that anyone who likes this movie or who is still confused, watch the special features. I'm starting to think more and more that this one of the greatest SCIFI films in decades. I really love this movie more and more. I'm watching it for the third time and discovering much more.
 
Sgt. Pepper said:
Yesterday I watched all of the special features for this film and I'm even more impressed. I didn't realize the amount of practical effects that went into this movie. Furthermore, the amount of scientific thought that went into it is jus phenominal. By watching the special features, I began to understand the plot even more. I suggest that anyone who likes this movie or who is still confused, watch the special features. I'm starting to think more and more that this one of the greatest SCIFI films in decades. I really love this movie more and more. I'm watching it for the third time and discovering much more.
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I agree. I watched all of the special features too and came to the same conclusion. I too was impressed by the amount of practical effects used. I think Nolan gets it, he recognized what I've been saying for years, CGI is a tool in the toolbox and shouldn't be used exclusively. He recognizes that CGI should be used as well as practical effects and other tricks of the trade to make things more believeable.
 
Sgt. Pepper said:
Yesterday I watched all of the special features for this film and I'm even more impressed. I didn't realize the amount of practical effects that went into this movie. Furthermore, the amount of scientific thought that went into it is jus phenominal. By watching the special features, I began to understand the plot even more. I suggest that anyone who likes this movie or who is still confused, watch the special features. I'm starting to think more and more that this one of the greatest SCIFI films in decades. I really love this movie more and more. I'm watching it for the third time and discovering much more.
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Oops, I just replied to my own post. Derp.
 
Sgt. Pepper said:
Sgt. Pepper said:
Yesterday I watched all of the special features for this film and I'm even more impressed. I didn't realize the amount of practical effects that went into this movie. Furthermore, the amount of scientific thought that went into it is jus phenominal. By watching the special features, I began to understand the plot even more. I suggest that anyone who likes this movie or who is still confused, watch the special features. I'm starting to think more and more that this one of the greatest SCIFI films in decades. I really love this movie more and more. I'm watching it for the third time and discovering much more.
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Oops, I just replied to my own post. Derp.
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You'd better finish talking to yourself. The Tesseract is closing.

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It would have been funnier if you had disagreed with yourself.

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I voted B+.
Definitely a quality science fiction film (not just a movie, but a film).

Maybe I'm cynical, but the whole deal with the human emotion of love being such a transcending bond across time and space took the whole thing down a notch for me, in what otherwise would have been an A+ production.

Also, I kind of thought the ending wrapped things up a little too neatly. I would have preferred something that made you question the whole thing, like in Inception.

Kor
 
I usually love all of Christopher Nolan's films until the final act when everything supposedly comes together. It's almost always some far-fetched twist that requires way too much suspension of disbelief.

I absolutely loved Interstellar until what's-his-face apparently survived being sucked into a black hole, only to discover some crazy doorway in time that allowed him to communicate with his daughter, and that the magic time travel aliens were actually us all along! Everything leading up to that point was awesome.
 
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