Christopher Nolan's Interstellar

[Kibagami]

He didn't give his 'opinion' per se, just stating facts. Look forward to watching this tomorrow. Very excited.

I do like his first tweet though.

 

[RIDDICK]

He didn't give his 'opinion' per se, just stating facts.

Read between the lines. It's pretty obvious what he think about the movie

 

[carbo-fation]

Yeah, that's pretty funny and his tweet about black holes.

 

[carbo-fation]

I can read just fine...he states facts with sarcasm and humor...both good and bad.

 

[rushmore223]

Given what Tyson had to say and the fact that an Astro-physicist was a Producer on the film, I'd say the science, for the most part, holds up pretty well. There might be some exagerration here and there. My only real head scratcher would be someone travelling into a black hole and living, from what I know that shouldnt be possible as all matter would be reduced to microscopic levels at the singularity. In the film they refer to the Black Hole as a "Gentle giant" or something like that, a term I have never heard of in regards to a black hole, so if that exists and changes the rules of physics is not something I am aware of.

I am sure people on here will still argue the facts like they are experts though. Much like Republicans like to argue climate science.

 

[RIDDICK]

Actually there's not enough science to argue.
Obvious stuff is over-explained and serious things are brought abruptly and quickly to pretend that the movie is smarter than it is.

Christopher Nolan had worked on other science fiction scripts but decided to take the Interstellar script and choose amongst the vast array of ideas presented by Jonathan and Kip Thorne, picking what he felt he as a director could get "across to the audience and hopefully not lose them", before he started to rewrite it.

 

[Rorywan]

Yes. And they used the pencil through the folded piece of paper gag. Can't believe they did that again.
Face palm.

 

[Irvy]

The best part is a giant black hole neighbouring a planet with no adverse effects. I must confess I have no Phd though.

 

[slipknotpredator]

The best part is a giant black hole neighbouring a planet with no adverse effects. I must confess I have no Phd though.

I think the huge waves were the effect.

 

[rushmore223]

I think the huge waves were the effect.

Also, I would think that a black hole in such close proximity would eventually suck away the planets atmosphere, making it a really bad choice for colonization.

 

[darthviper107]

They probably should have had something like a big telescope or something to look at the planets before they landed on them.

 

[rushmore223]

Love the movie, or hate the movie, I think everybody can admit that one thing Nolan's films are good for is discussion, albeit heated discussion.

 

[pturtle]

I saw it today and really enjoyed it, I think this will go down as one of Nolan's underrated films similar to the Prestige.

 

[Eli26]

I saw it today and really enjoyed it, I think this will go down as one of Nolan's underrated films similar to the Prestige.

You can add Momento. Most movie fans are aware of the Prestige, unlike Momento.

 

[pturtle]

Really? I usually see Memento on most people's favorite list.

 

[Rorywan]

Really? I usually see Memento on most people's favorite list.

Yes, Memento is the movie that made Nolan famous. Hardly underrated. If fact everything else he has done since (with the exception of Batman Begins) has been highly OVERrated.


By the way Quicksilver in your sig is great. The DOFP interpretation and performance of the character is my cinematic highlight of the year.

 

[Ash Housewares]

Wasn't a great fan of this. Nolans second weakest film after the awful TDKR. Been watching a few Space films this week and this is my least favourite ( Contact being my fave so far)

 

[Snake Plissken]

I honestly would rather watch TDKR than this. Nothing thought provoking or engaging about it. The story is all over the place for you to have any connection to the characters. Not once, did I care about the people of Earth surviving or not. Definitely one of the biggest hyped failures I've ever seen.

 

[jnmx2000]

Spoiler

Can someone explain, I was half asleep at the time might missed it.

From my understanding the whole idea is for those guys to discover a livable planet AND the professor to solve some equation so by the time they come back, he can use the equation to transport people from earth to this planet and humanity survives.

But the crew didn't get back in time.... I get the blackhole secrets were given to the daughter to solve the equation but that won't help if they don't know the planet location to goto.

Then at the end it looks like they just built some space station orbiting Saturn or was it Mars to save humanity, but this has no dependency on solving the equation nor the crew discovering a new planet. They could done that at day 1...So what's the point of the movie as everything they accomplished in the movie was never used to save humanity?


I don't get it?

Spoiler

From my understanding they couldn't get a colony in space because it had to be built on earth, but if it was built on earth they wouldn't have the fuel to launch it into space so they had to solve gravity. But to solve gravity you need to solve time as the two were connected BUT the old man knew he was never going to solve time so the trip was a one way ticket, there was never a plan A. The only option up until the end was to populate another planet, no one from earth was ever going to go there.

That's my take on it anyways, let me know if I'm wrong as it would help me understand this film better lol

 

[Rorywan]

Christopher Nolan is a talent director. His brother is not a talented writer. He writes cheesy pretentious overblown garbage a lot of the time.
But no one in Hollywood has the balls to tell Nolan.

Thus we have movies like Interstellar, TDKR and Inception. Overlong incredibly expensive over written drivel that condescends to their audiences by being oh so intelligent and highbrow. Except they are not, they are just pretentious and actually pretty stupid.

Those that mean they are not entertaining? No. I had a lot of fun watching Interstellar, some of it intentional, some of it unintentional.