Chris Nolan's next film: Interstellar

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Seeing this tonight. When is a good time to take a 10/15 minute break to "get refreshments"? I don't care about the story or characters really and would prefer to leave during any scene with heavy melodrama/crying. I just don't want to miss any visuals.

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Evil Matt Damon had me dying brehs

This nikka just pushes Cooper down the hill like a Bully then head butting this nikka :dead:

I was trying my hardest not to laugh because it was silent as hell in the theater but it was :mjlol:
me my bro and lady all started cracking up during that fight scene. shyt was so random and kinda silly. Seemed like the whole theater was middle aged cacs all serious and shyt.
 

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me my bro and lady all started cracking up during that fight scene. shyt was so random and kinda silly. Seemed like the whole theater was middle aged cacs all serious and shyt.

What made it even funnier is that Matt had a serious face on the whole time

Cooper: "There's a 50/50 chance you'll kill yourself too"
Mann: "That's the best odds I've had in years"

*Headbutt*

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One last thing, theoretically Coop could be making it back to Brands relatively quickly in her time frame. Hell if it's anything like the other planet he could be there before the end of her first day.

The real question is it even worth it for them to start a new planet by themselves. He could scoop her up, jet back to the space station he came from and wait till they reach the planet
 

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Seeing this tonight. When is a good time to take a 10/15 minute break to "get refreshments"? I don't care about the story or characters really and would prefer to leave during any scene with heavy melodrama/crying. I just don't want to miss any visuals.
when michael caine charater dies you can walked out after that
 

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Oooo, I finally found someone who has explained perfectly what bugged me about this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/board/thread/236652123

rs_marinoff on IMDb says:

Plot exposition: They told us... and they told us... and they kept on talking... every little detail was explained to the point of becoming painfully obvious. Every time something happened, one of the characters felt the need to explain everything in detail and painstakingly move the plot forward. There was a point where Cooper pulled out a white board and a marker, for *beep* sake. At the end, they had this marvelous sequence where he essentially traveled to a higher plane of existence, something that nobody would be able to explain if it actually happened, he had this terrifying beautiful thing happen to him and instead of reacting to it, the character felt the need to explain everything to TARS in excruciating detail. I'm really not a fan of that kind of storytelling, as it is not very cinematic and takes away from the overall experience. It's what you don't mention in your story that's also so very important. The mind likes to solve puzzles and to wander a little bit, at least. If you explain everything to your audience, what's the point, really? This film gets paralleled with 2001 a lot, so let me give you an example. Imagine the Starchild started to explain what it was at the end. Bottom line, I wanna be mystified sometimes, I don't need to know everything, and Interstellar failed big time for me on that count.

:blessed:

* The Matt Damon subplot was pointless. It added almost nothing to the overall story, except a convenient crisis to move the plot along. That was it. If he had simply told them the truth, they would've rescued him anyway and maybe tried to seed the planet. There was no need for him to lie or whatever. It could've easily been avoided if he had told them he wanted to keep searching for a habitable planet and they had come to some sort of an agreement, where he gets slingshot the last planet, instead of the whole ship.
:sas2:


* Everybody knows exactly what to do, even though they have never seen a black hole before, or piloted a craft that close to it. It just irked me that Cooper had these ridiculous hotshot plans, when he claimed that he hardly ever left the stratosphere in his piloting days.

:usure:
 

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Oooo, I finally found someone who has explained perfectly what bugged me about this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/board/thread/236652123

rs_marinoff on IMDb says:

Plot exposition: They told us... and they told us... and they kept on talking... every little detail was explained to the point of becoming painfully obvious. Every time something happened, one of the characters felt the need to explain everything in detail and painstakingly move the plot forward. There was a point where Cooper pulled out a white board and a marker, for *beep* sake. At the end, they had this marvelous sequence where he essentially traveled to a higher plane of existence, something that nobody would be able to explain if it actually happened, he had this terrifying beautiful thing happen to him and instead of reacting to it, the character felt the need to explain everything to TARS in excruciating detail. I'm really not a fan of that kind of storytelling, as it is not very cinematic and takes away from the overall experience. It's what you don't mention in your story that's also so very important. The mind likes to solve puzzles and to wander a little bit, at least. If you explain everything to your audience, what's the point, really? This film gets paralleled with 2001 a lot, so let me give you an example. Imagine the Starchild started to explain what it was at the end. Bottom line, I wanna be mystified sometimes, I don't need to know everything, and Interstellar failed big time for me on that count.

:blessed:

* The Matt Damon subplot was pointless. It added almost nothing to the overall story, except a convenient crisis to move the plot along. That was it. If he had simply told them the truth, they would've rescued him anyway and maybe tried to seed the planet. There was no need for him to lie or whatever. It could've easily been avoided if he had told them he wanted to keep searching for a habitable planet and they had come to some sort of an agreement, where he gets slingshot the last planet, instead of the whole ship.
:sas2:


* Everybody knows exactly what to do, even though they have never seen a black hole before, or piloted a craft that close to it. It just irked me that Cooper had these ridiculous hotshot plans, when he claimed that he hardly ever left the stratosphere in his piloting days.

:usure:

This, breh turned into a master pilot as soon as he left Earth. Pulling off that crazy docking shyt at the end though :usure:
 

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Okay, help me with this. They had a conventional rocket when they were launched into space. Yet they have this futuristic ship that can leave the planet easily and dock with the endurance. Whats up with that? Why are they building old rockets when they have such technology? Is this part of the Nasa cover up?
Same reason why we use conventional rockets to lift ion/nuclear engine based probes into orbit. Those engines are not capable of providing an adequate thrust/lift to exit a gravity well as strong as the Earth's. The engine power slowly builds over time. So in order for the futuristic ship to reach it's destination, it needs a lift into orbit. Once it breaks free of the Earth's gravity well, the Ion/nuclear engine is free to ignite and increase it's speed exponentially over time.
We will probably continue to need old school chemical rockets to lift things up into orbit for decades to come. The chemical reaction is the most combustible form of propulsion. Combustion equals fast, temporary power. We might have some star trek type ships in 50 years, but if they have to lift off from the ground, they are gonna have to sit on top of a big ass bullet to get into orbit. Until we begin manipulating gravity, there is no way around this.
Unless of course we manage to develop a space elevator. But that's a story for a future thread. :sas2:
 

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Oooo, I finally found someone who has explained perfectly what bugged me about this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/board/thread/236652123

rs_marinoff on IMDb says:

Plot exposition: They told us... and they told us... and they kept on talking... every little detail was explained to the point of becoming painfully obvious. Every time something happened, one of the characters felt the need to explain everything in detail and painstakingly move the plot forward. There was a point where Cooper pulled out a white board and a marker, for *beep* sake. At the end, they had this marvelous sequence where he essentially traveled to a higher plane of existence, something that nobody would be able to explain if it actually happened, he had this terrifying beautiful thing happen to him and instead of reacting to it, the character felt the need to explain everything to TARS in excruciating detail. I'm really not a fan of that kind of storytelling, as it is not very cinematic and takes away from the overall experience. It's what you don't mention in your story that's also so very important. The mind likes to solve puzzles and to wander a little bit, at least. If you explain everything to your audience, what's the point, really? This film gets paralleled with 2001 a lot, so let me give you an example. Imagine the Starchild started to explain what it was at the end. Bottom line, I wanna be mystified sometimes, I don't need to know everything, and Interstellar failed big time for me on that count.

:blessed:

* The Matt Damon subplot was pointless. It added almost nothing to the overall story, except a convenient crisis to move the plot along. That was it. If he had simply told them the truth, they would've rescued him anyway and maybe tried to seed the planet. There was no need for him to lie or whatever. It could've easily been avoided if he had told them he wanted to keep searching for a habitable planet and they had come to some sort of an agreement, where he gets slingshot the last planet, instead of the whole ship.
:sas2:


* Everybody knows exactly what to do, even though they have never seen a black hole before, or piloted a craft that close to it. It just irked me that Cooper had these ridiculous hotshot plans, when he claimed that he hardly ever left the stratosphere in his piloting days.

:usure:
Right.. Why didn't Damon just tell them the truth about just wanted someone to come to him and then leave the planet?
 

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Right.. Why didn't Damon just tell them the truth about just wanted someone to come to him and then leave the planet?

Two reasons:

1. He wants to succeed with the mission of Plan B, and...
2. Cooper already had in his mind that they were flying back home.

And Dr. Mann IS a factor to the theme of the story which type are you Plan A or Plan B? His character parallels with Cooper's son, Tom. Both saw humanity as they knew as a lost cause and with that had zero fuccks about the consequences of mankind. The only difference is while Tom was ready to die under the circumstance, Dr. Mann ended up being a coward and not willing to die for his.
 

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2 years pass when they spend 2 years traveling to Saturn
23 years pass when they spend 3.5 hrs on Miller's planet
68 years pass when they spend a few minutes in close orbit around the black hole before entering it/leaving it


Cooper aged a bit over 2 years and in the same time period Murphy aged more than 90 years. And of course the most mindfukkingly insane thing about it is that it's perfectly realistic.

good film 7.5/10
 
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