That doesn't mean that people want to hear about them in a movie called Interstellar.
Interstellar (trailer)
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That doesn't mean that people want to hear about them in a movie called Interstellar.
Fast Learner
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I'm suggesting no such thing, of course. Just that "oversentimental" and "overwrought" might not be the right words for the circumstance.
(Separately, I'm perfectly glad for them to tackle such things in a movie called "Interstellar", just like I was enjoyed Jodie Foster's character struggle with her relationship with her father in Contact.)
Yes, but her relationship with her father was not the main plot of the movie and thus not mentioned in the trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc
Going by the trailers, Contact is a movie about receiving an message from aliens with blueprints to build something while Interstellar is a move about father daughter issues on a corn farm in the midwest.
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The_Silversword
Explorer
Wow, you guys will argue over the most stupidest things, feels like home.
Fast Learner
First Post
You've expressed your view repeatedly. Definitely got it. Some may differ, doesn't make you wrong.
tomBitonti
Hero
The trailer seems well made, and the drama comes across very well.
One could point out that interstellar travel is, more or less, fantasy, at our current level of understanding, or that a civilization which has the energy resources to launch spacecraft should have a decent amount to throw at food cultivation.
Also, and perhaps more worthy of a discussion, these sorts of dynamics, while present to a degree anywhere, seem stronger in western culture than, say, in asian cultures. Folks may have responsibilities which surpass their family obligations, and these might pull families apart avoidably. A father and daughter would see their duties as honorable burdens and accept them with both sadness and gladness.
There is more that I could say gleaned from hints in the trailer. Speculation, at this point, but, enough that I'll reserve comment.
Thx!
TomB
One could point out that interstellar travel is, more or less, fantasy, at our current level of understanding, or that a civilization which has the energy resources to launch spacecraft should have a decent amount to throw at food cultivation.
Also, and perhaps more worthy of a discussion, these sorts of dynamics, while present to a degree anywhere, seem stronger in western culture than, say, in asian cultures. Folks may have responsibilities which surpass their family obligations, and these might pull families apart avoidably. A father and daughter would see their duties as honorable burdens and accept them with both sadness and gladness.
There is more that I could say gleaned from hints in the trailer. Speculation, at this point, but, enough that I'll reserve comment.
Thx!
TomB
MarkB
Legend
Certainly, and I'd never belittle the feelings of any real person going through such a situation.
But when it's a fictional group of people, in a story custom-designed to maximise the tragic elements and deliberately milk them for every last drop of grief, then it can be overwrought and oversentimental.
WayneLigon
Adventurer
Cautiously optimistic. I very much want a film about us opening up interstellar space to the human race, and making that first great adventurous voyage - I hope I get that.
I have no problem with the 'food running out' subplot - necessity is the mother of invention, and it might take a global disaster of that sort to get us to get off our butts and develop the tech to leave the solar system. And it might be that there is no tech, here; the end of the trailer makes it look vaguely like we've discovered a wormhole terminus out in the outer system or something like that.
I have no problem with the 'food running out' subplot - necessity is the mother of invention, and it might take a global disaster of that sort to get us to get off our butts and develop the tech to leave the solar system. And it might be that there is no tech, here; the end of the trailer makes it look vaguely like we've discovered a wormhole terminus out in the outer system or something like that.
That was one of the first facts published about the movie.
So it is more like:
Scientist 1: "We have discovered a wormhole which enables us to travel to other stars!"
Scientist 2: "Nah, thats boring. I'm going to watch Spongebob"
Scientist 3 (from the kitchen): "Dude, the food is out"
Scientist 2: "What the hell. Lets go then."
