Interstellar (7th Nov)

I saw this tonight, absolutely loved it. The visuals and soundtrack were just insanely good and the movie itself was great IMO. Can see why people don't like it though, it might be a bit too sciencey for some.

Also thought the TARS robots were incredible, what an amazing design for a robot

9/10

Oh, so good! So Fantastic! Interstellar is a proper movie with meat on it, it's actually about something.

Gravity was an example of a movie with a lot of hype, but ultimately just fluff, and I didn't love the Nolan Dark Knight films. But with this, besides one trailer I saw at the cinema I deliberately avoided everything! From interviews, articles, features, Graham Norton, everything. I'm so glad I did.

It started so slow on the farm but then it really began to kick in. I loved that it wasn't a traditional Hollywood structure movie, I just didn't know anything about it and didn't know where it would go or take them or take me. So much about it was the phenomenal sense of mood created, mood at Earth's darkest hour, mood in the journey into the unknown, mood of where they go. Nolan's success here is letting us be there and feel it too - so few movies actually draw the audience into the world on the screen. But there was substance to, about this great sense of adventure and exploration. The score was perfect, like something you'd expect from a late 60s/70s dark and serious sci-fi movie. Those heavy pounding organ/synth sounds perhaps harkening back to the days of ocean exploration actually reminded me a bit of the Mass Effect score. Yes it goes deep into the science but the core mechanic of the special theory of relativity is explained so anyone should understand what it means for the movie. My only criticism of the movie is about Cooper wanting to get home to his daughter so when the moment happened it should have been more emotional, I would have thought he'd have been crying. There also seemed to be no reaction to him from Murphy's children who ultimately were his grandchildren and family!

I think this is one of those movies that will stay with me.

Watched this yesterday. Enjoyed it but wasn't a big fan of the 'love' explanations or the behind-the-bookcase 5D 'tesseract' scene. Not up there with Inception for me but certainly well worth watching!

using the Chromcast free rental deal, watched this again over the weekend and it's such a superb movie. There is very little I would have cut out or thought it was over done! The score was extremely well done. Still think the music for inception is better. When's Nolan next film out?

Preezy wrote:I saw this tonight, absolutely loved it. The visuals and soundtrack were just insanely good and the movie itself was great IMO. Can see why people don't like it though, it might be a bit too sciencey for some.

Also thought the TARS robots were incredible, what an amazing design for a robot

9/10

wat. Wasn't nearly sciencey enough for me and most things were explained away with "space magic"

Someone pointed out something funny about the ending that I never noticed before.

Fatal Exception wrote:

Preezy wrote:I saw this tonight, absolutely loved it. The visuals and soundtrack were just insanely good and the movie itself was great IMO. Can see why people don't like it though, it might be a bit too sciencey for some.

Also thought the TARS robots were incredible, what an amazing design for a robot

9/10

wat. Wasn't nearly sciencey enough for me and most things were explained away with "space magic"

The film is based on theoretical science, are you complaining that those theories haven't been proven yet?

Skippy wrote:

Fatal Exception wrote:

Preezy wrote:I saw this tonight, absolutely loved it. The visuals and soundtrack were just insanely good and the movie itself was great IMO. Can see why people don't like it though, it might be a bit too sciencey for some.

Also thought the TARS robots were incredible, what an amazing design for a robot

9/10

wat. Wasn't nearly sciencey enough for me and most things were explained away with "space magic"

The film is based on theoretical science, are you complaining that those theories haven't been proven yet?

I wasn't aware love conquering all was a scientific theory

Saw this a week or so back, admittedly on bluray and not in the cinematic experience it was designed for, and ultimately felt a bit disappointed with it.

That's the thing seeing a film on the small screen for the first time, its weaknesses can't hide as well behind noise and spectacle. I could tell the impressive sequences were impressive but I just didn't buy into the film overall.

Bit of a mess really, but then so was TDKR. I want Nolan to have better scripts to work with.

Fatal Exception wrote:

Skippy wrote:

Fatal Exception wrote:

Preezy wrote:I saw this tonight, absolutely loved it. The visuals and soundtrack were just insanely good and the movie itself was great IMO. Can see why people don't like it though, it might be a bit too sciencey for some.

Also thought the TARS robots were incredible, what an amazing design for a robot

9/10

wat. Wasn't nearly sciencey enough for me and most things were explained away with "space magic"

The film is based on theoretical science, are you complaining that those theories haven't been proven yet?

I wasn't aware love conquering all was a scientific theory

That wasn't about the science of what was happening on the mission, that was the characters' motivations. If anything I thought the script was a little too eager to explain the science

Skippy wrote:

Fatal Exception wrote:

Skippy wrote:

Fatal Exception wrote:

Preezy wrote:I saw this tonight, absolutely loved it. The visuals and soundtrack were just insanely good and the movie itself was great IMO. Can see why people don't like it though, it might be a bit too sciencey for some.

Also thought the TARS robots were incredible, what an amazing design for a robot

9/10

wat. Wasn't nearly sciencey enough for me and most things were explained away with "space magic"

The film is based on theoretical science, are you complaining that those theories haven't been proven yet?

I wasn't aware love conquering all was a scientific theory

That wasn't about the science of what was happening on the mission, that was the characters' motivations. If anything I thought the script was a little too eager to explain the science

If you're going to half arse it, half arse it. I don't mind magic sci-fi science. But they seemed to try to be realistic to the point were plot happens and they feel like they can ignore the science, and that's where it falls over.

I guess I was extra let down because elements of it reminded me of The Expanse series (books). In Expanse they take the science extra seriously and it really works.

The ending was gooseberry fool. A bookcase blackhole? Really? I think it is better just assuming that was all in his imagination. Remember that crazy astronaut said you think about your family before you die?
Apart from that, fabulous movie. The music was incredible.

Also I can't quite figure out the time travel thing. If you hopped in your near light speed car and sped around the Earth, apparently it would seem like seconds to you but hours for anyone sitting in your garage waiting for your return? We can even observe this today, with the clocks in the ISS going slightly faster than the ones on Earth. Wat.
None of the other things I read really make too much sense either, I don't think anyone has a good explanation apart from maths.

Finally watched this earlier. First full film I've watched on the projector. Those IMAX scenes!

(Ending chat:)



Jessica Chastain is phenomenal

Murph?

I didn't get the time dilation thing, I understand the principle that the nearer to lightspeed you get the slower time passes but that doesn't explain the phenomenon that occurs in the film as everyone is on the same 'side' of the singularity.

Also the ship needed massive booster rockets to leave earth yet somehow doesn't need them to take-off from a planet with 2x earth gravity.

Ironhide wrote:Also the ship needed massive booster rockets to leave earth yet somehow doesn't need them to take-off from a planet with 2x earth gravity.

It didn't need booster rockets to leave earth. I think it was just more efficient to use booster rockets to save every single drop of fuel for the mission. Which I think makes sense, regardless of the huge cost of burning up a big rocket.

Ironhide wrote:I didn't get the time dilation thing, I understand the principle that the nearer to lightspeed you get the slower time passes but that doesn't explain the phenomenon that occurs in the film as everyone is on the same 'side' of the singularity.

There is such a thing as..

Gravitational time dilation , though I think that the specific effects they see aren't mathematically correct