Interstellar -- Trailer (Spoilers!)

I wouldn't say it's the last 15 mins, There are bad parts spread through out.

A saturn 5 being built when they have these awesome ships that can take off from planets anyway.
The constant bawling of almost all characters throughout.
The unnecessary dialogue and musically deafening sections where your looking at not much at all.
Physically beating a doctor who's helping your sick family
Hathaway in almost every scene but particularly in the bit she dribbles on about love
Matt Damon and his physics defying planet in a story supposedly underwritten by a physicist.
The cliche oh I've fallen and something has trapped me, followed by being saved by something that could have done the job in seconds in the first place (a la the eagles)
An old man looking exactly the same 23 years later
The ending
The second ending in the hospital (the I haven't seen you in 80years but ten seconds will do, go away now)
PLanets orbiting a black hole, having light from no suns, blackholes only emit lethal radiation.
The rushed start, oh hi i found this random nasa outpost, Hey why don't you be our pilot. Brilliant I will, bye earth, bye children. Screw you.
The cliche bad guy space madness, who kills the cliche black guy

Thing is none of the above annoyed me all that much, confused me and given time made me think it was an alright film (you can't be to pedantic or you end up being a nob)
Don't say any of that on IMBD forum though, they will literally burn you at the stake.
 
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I had a really interesting conversation with a friend about this film at 6:00 this morning. He didn't enjoy the film (he is a "pedantic knob") and I left the film feeling like it was good but they did cheat on quite a few things and the pace was a little too slow. However, the mere discussion of his irritations and explaining them and my perception of those moments made my enjoyment of the film grow exponentially. So now I feel pretty good about Interstellar.

We should discuss it in here, when I get back I'll write up a few things from my conversation here. It'll be fun to see other people's understanding of certain concepts, what they remember or how they perceived portions of the film.
 
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Saw this tonight at Cineworld. Nothing special like 4k or Imax.. It's Wales after all!

10/10

Love every minute of it.. there were flaws but on the grand scheme of things they were overlooked by the sheer beauty of the film. It must have been absolutely stunning in 4k/Imax.

I cried, I lauged, I smiled. What a film.
 
So there were a few parts that didn't make sense to me and what I like to do is, instead of writing off the film, I prefer to throw around theories or at least ask the questions in hope that I misunderstood or had lapse in memory. This is my favourite part about Nolan films.

Take a look... and join the ride :)
1.) What made Murph come to the conclusion that it was her father in the bookcase?
2.) How did Murph realise that a broken watch was storing a binary signal in a stuck minute hand?
3.) If future humans built the 5th dimension bookcase environment for him to ultimately save humanity, then that's a paradox... they wouldn't have been in existence to initially send Cooper to save themselves.
4.) Why didn't Dr. Cain just eventually reveal the correct formula to Plan A. Matt Damon said the professor had figured out the calculation before he himself left Earth so why would he take that solution to the grave?
5.) Where did the Cooper Station find Cooper? Didn't he just go through a black hole.
6.) Why were Cooper and Hathaway the same age at the end of the film? He'd just travelled through a black hole and so much time had passed that Murph was dying of old age.
7.) If Cooper gave Murphy the mavity solution when she was 38 and then she was dying of old age at the end of the film, that's around 50 years in between. Considering the Cooper Station was already built and ready to go as soon as that mavity equation was solved, then when they traveled through the worm hole why hadn't they already sent a rescue ship to collect Hathaway and the remainder of the original 12 space crew.
8.) Why did Cooper steal a ship to go to Hathaway, he knew she was going to reconnect with her love interest?


Here's my attempt to answer some of these:

1.) Lucky guess maybe but see answer 3.
2.) Meh it's excusable
3.) Matt Damon made the point several times that when we die the last thing we think about are our children and it gives us extra motivation to push harder and survive. It's possible that Cooper died when he ejected from the spaceship in the blackhole and the remainder of the film is a fabrication and hence the hope of saving humanity died with Cooper. What about the bookcase? I initially thought the bookcase could have been the "ghost" of Murph's mother sending her husband to save humanity. Also, it was only an assumption that future human kind had made the wormhole appear and also built the bookcase 5th dimention environment, it could have easily been another lifeform.
4.) I can understand that Plan A was the driving force to give everyone the extra motivation and keep surviving in hope to save their own family and Earth as well as human kind itself. I just don't know why he would have gone to the effort of actually solving the equation (Matt Damon said Dr. Cain had figured out the equation before he himself had left Earth) and yet still sabotage the chance of saving all those people even though Plan B was put into action several years before his own death.
5.) Luck or just a part of the fabrication in answer 3?
6 + 7.) When TARS managed to successfully dock their ship and gain control of the spinning fuel pods, they were sucked towards the black hole and couldn't escape without shedding a few sections. If time on the first planet moved at an accelerated rate due to it's proximity to the black hole, then time must also have moved much faster when Cooper/Hathaway/TARS were being sucked right into it. So that's why I think so much time had passed between Cooper sending the message and being found by Cooper Station, that would also explain why Hathaway and Cooper are the same age at the end while Murphy had aged so much that she was about to die of old age. What I can't figure out is when the Cooper Station arrived, could it possibly have arrived before Hathaway had landed on the other planet?
8.) I don't think he had a love interest with Hathaway but, just as he said earlier in the film, he was born to pilot and travel instead of living as a farmer so jumped back into a stolen spaceship to find his only surviving team mate.
 
It was superb but I can see straight away that a certain point is going to split people right down the middle.

I'd whispered to my wife about an hour in what I believed the "twist" would be and for once hit the nail on the head.

Visually stunning as is most of Nolan's work.

Fubsy said:
Anyone else think it looked muddy and out of focus? My cinema assured me it wasn't out of focus, in the end they offered me complimentary tickets :/ It detracted a lot from my enjoyment if I'm honest.
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I had the same issue but my local Cineworld does this with a lot of films, i've just got used to it.

Only noticed the out of focus shots with the close ups of peoples faces.
 
I enjoyed the film, but I literally facepalmed when
Anne Hathaway's character delivered the monologue about love being a key factor.
I think the film took a massive tangent into the weird, and I wasn't expecting it.
The sciencey part took a back seat and the love/time-travel aspect became the focus.
 
Yer, I enjoy 3D too. It's certainly not a deal breaker, but like it enough that when I replaced my TV a year or so ago I did so with a 3D one.
Now if only XBox One or PS4 would offer 3D BR support then I'd move to the latest generation of consoles too :)
 
stoofa said:
Yer, I enjoy 3D too. It's certainly not a deal breaker, but like it enough that when I replaced my TV a year or so ago I did so with a 3D one.
Now if only XBox One or PS4 would offer 3D BR support then I'd move to the latest generation of consoles too :)
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Sony released an update a few months ago that enabled 3D bluray playback.
 
trentlad said:
So there were a few parts that didn't make sense to me and what I like to do is, instead of writing off the film, I prefer to throw around theories or at least ask the questions in hope that I misunderstood or had lapse in memory. This is my favourite part about Nolan films.

Take a look... and join the ride :)
1.) What made Murph come to the conclusion that it was her father in the bookcase?
2.) How did Murph realise that a broken watch was storing a binary signal in a stuck minute hand?
3.) If future humans built the 5th dimension bookcase environment for him to ultimately save humanity, then that's a paradox... they wouldn't have been in existence to initially send Cooper to save themselves.
4.) Why didn't Dr. Cain just eventually reveal the correct formula to Plan A. Matt Damon said the professor had figured out the calculation before he himself left Earth so why would he take that solution to the grave?
5.) Where did the Cooper Station find Cooper? Didn't he just go through a black hole.
6.) Why were Cooper and Hathaway the same age at the end of the film? He'd just travelled through a black hole and so much time had passed that Murph was dying of old age.
7.) If Cooper gave Murphy the mavity solution when she was 38 and then she was dying of old age at the end of the film, that's around 50 years in between. Considering the Cooper Station was already built and ready to go as soon as that mavity equation was solved, then when they traveled through the worm hole why hadn't they already sent a rescue ship to collect Hathaway and the remainder of the original 12 space crew.
8.) Why did Cooper steal a ship to go to Hathaway, he knew she was going to reconnect with her love interest?


Here's my attempt to answer some of these:

1.) Lucky guess maybe but see answer 3. The usual 'love' and 'connection' malarkey
2.) Meh it's excusable It was morse code she recognised
3.) Matt Damon made the point several times that when we die the last thing we think about are our children and it gives us extra motivation to push harder and survive. It's possible that Cooper died when he ejected from the spaceship in the blackhole and the remainder of the film is a fabrication and hence the hope of saving humanity died with Cooper. What about the bookcase? I initially thought the bookcase could have been the "ghost" of Murph's mother sending her husband to save humanity. Also, it was only an assumption that future human kind had made the wormhole appear and also built the bookcase 5th dimention environment, it could have easily been another lifeform. Yeah, I've got nothing on this one.
4.) I can understand that Plan A was the driving force to give everyone the extra motivation and keep surviving in hope to save their own family and Earth as well as human kind itself. I just don't know why he would have gone to the effort of actually solving the equation (Matt Damon said Dr. Cain had figured out the equation before he himself had left Earth) and yet still sabotage the chance of saving all those people even though Plan B was put into action several years before his own death. He didn't have the solution - he knew that his formula, and therefore plan A, was impossible without the black hole singularity data. That's what he solved.
5.) Luck or just a part of the fabrication in answer 3? He was pushed back through the wormhole, to our solar system's side, by 5D buddies. It was already being orbited by NASA / ?Cooper station
6 + 7.) When TARS managed to successfully dock their ship and gain control of the spinning fuel pods, they were sucked towards the black hole and couldn't escape without shedding a few sections. If time on the first planet moved at an accelerated rate due to it's proximity to the black hole, then time must also have moved much faster when Cooper/Hathaway/TARS were being sucked right into it. So that's why I think so much time had passed between Cooper sending the message and being found by Cooper Station, that would also explain why Hathaway and Cooper are the same age at the end while Murphy had aged so much that she was about to die of old age. What I can't figure out is when the Cooper Station arrived, could it possibly have arrived before Hathaway had landed on the other planet? This is a big plot hole, lots of little time issues like this one. Only answer is the 5D beings somehow dealt with Cooper's time issue.
8.) I don't think he had a love interest with Hathaway but, just as he said earlier in the film, he was born to pilot and travel instead of living as a farmer so jumped back into a stolen spaceship to find his only surviving team mate.Yeah, weird bit. Surely Cooper station and the surviving humans would end up going to that planet anyway, to recolonise and thrive? Cooper should be a hero. He could just set up a group to go and get her, not have to steal a tiny ship that would take a few years to get there!
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Saw it last night at the Metrocentre Imax.

Still thinking about it. I think it was so close to being a masterpiece.
 
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