Interstellar rant

lawrence281

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Just watched Interstellar., the best movie in sense of direction ive seen in a while since django unchained. I have so many questions about though, most of it mind boggiling.

I guess time and space for the simple minds is hard to understand, but was the movie accurate in terms on what happened and the physics applied? I don't have much knowledge here, but is there an answer to the ending, which a sequel will be leading upto?

ALL HAIL movies that involve space.
 
Yes, the science is solid as far as current science theory goes.

There was a live showing a couple weeks ago at the Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra playing the music. Before the movie they had an introduction presentation almost an hour long with the director, composer, Dr Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and some scienctist who did the science on the movie doing a talk, backed up by PowerPoint slides presentation.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Yes, the science is solid as far as current science theory goes.

There was a live showing a couple weeks ago at the Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra playing the music. Before the movie they had an introduction presentation almost an hour long with the director, composer, Dr Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and some scienctist who did the science on the movie doing a talk, backed up by PowerPoint slides presentation.
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That's interesting, so you think there will be a sequeal, Ive checked online and people are unsure..but with an ending like that..how could they not.
 
But is it possible to explain the beggining and the near end? When he went through the dark whole into another dimension where he was being her "ghost". Like..how/what made the message.. at the present...as he did it in the future aswell?
 
lawrence281 said:
That's interesting, so you think there will be a sequeal, Ive checked online and people are unsure..but with an ending like that..how could they not.
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You're the first person I've seen mentioning a sequel. I don't think it will happen and there's no reason for it to, the films stands perfectly fine on its own and I didn't feel like I wanted more when it ended. None of Nolans previous films, other than Batman (which I assume always was going to be more than one film) had sequels and I don't expect that to change.

Even if there was a sequel it would probably be nothing like the original.
 
Eliot said:
Actually the science isn't solid is it, Time dilation yes but anything involving a black hole, no.
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this, and ignore brian cox - most of what he says is unproved ideas (the old 'there isn't anything in the laws of physics that says it couldn't happen').
 
Reeve said:
You're the first person I've seen mentioning a sequel. I don't think it will happen and there's no reason for it to, the films stands perfectly fine on its own and I didn't feel like I wanted more when it ended. None of Nolans previous films, other than Batman (which I assume always was going to be more than one film) had sequels and I don't expect that to change.

Even if there was a sequel it would probably be nothing like the original.
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I'm just curious to where he ended up after he woke up/daughter, what planet was that? and what about the woman that inhabited and had tents set up on a diff planet...thats what i need to know! He even stared through the glass asking to find out where he is and what to do next...I know its not nolans style..but..you cant just leave it there
 
lawrence281 said:
I'm just curious to where he ended up after he woke up/daughter, what planet was that? and what about the woman that inhabited and had tents set up on a diff planet...thats what i need to know! He even stared through the glass asking to find out where he is and what to do next...I know its not nolans style..but..you cant just leave it there
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He woke up on the space station that was built around the original rocket that sent him into space in the first place. The entire point of Cooper relaying the quantum data back to his daughter through the tesseract was so that she could harness mavity in order to get that space station into space with everyone on it and save humanity (Plan A). This most likely took many, many years to achieve as shown by the fact that his daughter was about to died of, I assume, old age.

Cooper then sets course for Edmund's planet so that he can reunite with Brand and begin populating it (Plan B). How he gets there though, I have no idea since the wormhole had apparently been closed.
 
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G-MAN2004 said:
He woke up on the space station that was built around the original rocket that sent him into space in the first place. The entire point of Cooper relaying the quantum data back to his daughter through the tesseract was so that she could harness mavity in order to get that space station into space with everyone on it and save humanity (Plan A). This most likely took many, many years to achieve as shown by the fact that his daughter was about to died of, I assume, old age.

Cooper then sets course for Edmund's planet so that he can reunite with Brand and begin populating it (Plan B). How he gets there though, I have no idea since the wormhole had apparently been closed.
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I don't believe the wormhole does close, if it had there would be no reason for Cooper station and others like it to be where they are unless you assume the wormhole closes as Cooper is brought back. If that was the case there would be a lot of panicking as they just built a load of giant space stations that can't go anywhere.

The tesseract disappears within the black hole, but I don't think you're meant to assume anything else happens at the same time. The wormhole was not linked to Gargantua, the wormhole just happened to lead there as it had at least one planet suitable for sustaining life.
 
The wormhole was setup purely for them to go to gargantua as they needed the quantum data from inside it to solve the formula. The planets were what we thought was the mission, but the black hole was the end game.
 
MooMoo444 said:
The film was excellent all the way until they went inside the black hole. Then it nosedived completely.
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2001 a Space Odyssey was an excellent film all the way until they went inside the black hole (the through the obelisk, travelled faster than light to the hotel thing where Bowman transcended his humanity).

Interstellar was great sci-fy. But aren't we missing the fiction aspect here?

The best bit about the 'suspension of disbelief' is not picking so many holes in someone else's imagination that the light of reality shines through, ultimately leaving us with more boring answers than intriguing questions.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Yes, the science is solid as far as current science theory goes.

There was a live showing a couple weeks ago at the Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra playing the music. Before the movie they had an introduction presentation almost an hour long with the director, composer, Dr Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and some scienctist who did the science on the movie doing a talk, backed up by PowerPoint slides presentation.
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The black hole bit is completely impossible though, you can't get anywhere near a black hole without being ripped apart by the mavity, let alone pass through to the centre
 
Phoenix211 said:
The wormhole was setup purely for them to go to gargantua as they needed the quantum data from inside it to solve the formula. The planets were what we thought was the mission, but the black hole was the end game.
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The opposite could also be argued, the human race would have endured without the black hole data through Plan B. Being able to manipulate mavity without being able to go to another planet in a reasonable timescale is useless. You could argue that the data would eventually allow them to make their own wormholes but creating their own wormholes wasn't suggested in the film.

The wormhole probably led there for both reasons.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Yes, the science is solid as far as current science theory goes.

There was a live showing a couple weeks ago at the Royal Albert Hall with a live orchestra playing the music. Before the movie they had an introduction presentation almost an hour long with the director, composer, Dr Brian Cox, Stephen Hawking and some scienctist who did the science on the movie doing a talk, backed up by PowerPoint slides presentation.
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How come i kept missing these things!!!!!!

There was one for 2001 last year too and i didn't know about it until after! :(
 
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