Interstellar

[JensenBakura]

Saw Interstellar today. Enjoyed it.

It's pacing and feel is similar to 2001, Gravity, Moon, Contagion, etc. Very compelling sci-fi, but not much action.

The last quarter is not as good as the rest.

Massive spoilers:

There is a plot point crucial to the ending that really annoys me - basically, humanity only survives because of a time loop, but there is no way the time loop could have logically begun, unless I am seriously misunderstanding some key aspect of the movie.

4/5. I really want to talk about the end with someone who has seen it.

[Pewps]

I just saw it, it was definitely an emotional rollercoaster.

Kinda wish Nolan would have just made a movie about a guy traveling through space looking at cool shit, the visuals were really the best part in my opinion.

I was surprised to see Matt Damon, was completely unsurprised when he turned out to be crazy. I thought Coop surviving going through a black hole and ending up at Saturn was kind of hokey, but I'm a sucker for happy endings.

[JensenBakura]

I didn't mind the happy ending, I did mind the Tesseract. How did humanity survive the first time this happened, before they'd had a chance to build it and the wormhole in the far future? It just seemed lazy.

Also, the mega waves planet confused me. The only idea I had was that the massive waves were due to how close the black hole was, and the ocean floor being super shallow and level was due to the erosion from the constant massive waves?

Apparently there was a lot cut form the beginning explaining what happened before, but I can't verify this.

[Pewps]

I guess it's shallow because all of the water on the planet is massed into the giant waves? That was kind of weird

[JensenBakura]

I guess it's shallow because all of the water on the planet is massed into the giant waves? That was kind of weird

I was wondering more why the ocean floor was so uniformly flat.

[Grommok]

Haven't seen it. But I did see Moon. Moon is gud.

[Darth Snuggles]

Saw this today. All in all I thought it was pretty good.

There are a lot of things that I could get nit-picky over, but generally I'm pretty forgiving with Sci-Fi because for me the underlying themes are more important than scientific accuracy (within reason of course).

I also thought the pacing was pretty good. For a long film there was no point where I actually felt like it was being pointlessly dragged out.

The moment I saw that busted up robot, I knew Matt Damon's character was shifty and had lied about his planet. I was a little disappointed at the predictability of this plot point, but it made sense in the scheme of things so it wasn't a huge deal.

Oh and a classic case of robots out-acting humans again

[isgrelindisguise]

Well I finally saw it. Thought it was good, pacing was a little off because they took time to explain some of their science in relative detail while glossing over other bits. Apparently the black hole model they made is actually being used by scientists and stuff as a representation of black holes, so thats pretty cool.

Water planet was weird. Waves caused by tidal forces so maybe from black hole? RIP bearded geographer, we hardly knew ye. Smoothness could be due to fluvial weathering and a lack of volcanic or tectonic activity. I'm just pulling things out of my ass but atmospheric circulation would have to have little to no variance and the rotational axis would have to be lined up with the black hole perfectly.

Frozen clouds would fall.

Time travel always weird. It's a paradox in 3 dimensions but I guess in 5 you can create a semi-open loop?

dunno.

I do not envy Anne Hathaway's character.