Interstellar (trailer)

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

Saw it. It is 2001: A Space Odessey, but with a grand exposition during the entire film so people can understand.

I just saw it. I like it. It did feel like half the people in the audience was too stupid to understand what was going on.

The theatre was packed, not sure a lot of people liked it from comments that came after the film and the few people who left before the end. A pit too sciency and philosophical maybe? At the same time, stuff was added to the film to please the general public and it just made it longer (Matt Damon is a baddy? So obvious). The power of love? That again?

Yeah, it had a lot of stuff that was predictable. Also, Anne Hathaway was wearing way too much the entire movie.

Very Inception-like too. A dream within a dream within a dream? We send ourselves into space to send ourselves into space? That "we created ourselves" tropes became obvious right from the start. Buzz words are repeated a lot, like relativity(!) and gravity(!). You expect to hear paradoxe(!) and then inception(!) *braaaam* at some point.

Not a lot of original material here. 2001: A Space Odessey, Tree of Life, Gravity, Ring World, Star Wars all come to mind. But who is original, right? Still, for two hours and 45 minutes, I wasn't bored.

It wasn't very original, but I enjoyed it. Some parts did feel like they were taking too long to get to the point, even though the point was made obvious.Still, it was enjoyable.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Saw it. It is 2001: A Space Odessey, but with a grand exposition during the entire film so people can understand. The theatre was packed, not sure a lot of people liked it from comments that came after the film and the few people who left before the end. A pit too sciency and philosophical maybe? At the same time, stuff was added to the film to please the general public and it just made it longer (Matt Damon is a baddy? So obvious). The power of love? That again?

This is right on. I admit I was engrossed for almost the entire film (right up until that sharp left-hand-turn near the end [sblock]after entering the black hole[/sblock]. I enjoyed the acting and characters, and the SFX and scenery were fantastic.

Then my brain kicked in as I walked out. Like [sblock]if they had that nifty Ranger vehicle that could go from surface to orbit through the atmosphere of a 130% gravity planet, why'd they need the Saturn V to get into Earth orbit?[/sblock] The movie quickly went from "deep" to "meh" as I considered more and more elements. But I was entertained, no question.

Not a lot of original material here. 2001: A Space Odessey, Tree of Life, Gravity, Ring World, Star Wars all come to mind. But who is original, right? Still, for two hours and 45 minutes, I wasn't bored.

I think of it as [sblock]"2001 A Space Odyssey meets Poltergeist"[/sblock]. The way the overall story runs, it's almost as if the writers had a good basic concept, wrote themselves through 85% of the script, then realized they had written themselves into a corner [sblock]where they couldn't figure out how to reunite the main characters, so they pulled a Deus Ex Machina ... or a couple of them.[/sblock]

 

[WayneLigon]

The whole idea of transporting the human race from a dying Earth to another planet is an amazing one. Perhaps someday, someone will actually make a movie based around that concept.

 

[Zaukrie]

My son and his friend loved it. Two HS seniors. Said we should definitely see it.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I liked it, but the people I saw it with definitely had mixed reactions.

I guess the ending was a bit to deus ex machina to me, and the "love" as force was... hollywoodesque.


The robots were pretty interesting. At first I totally didn't get what they were. Completely non-humanoid robots with perfectly human voices feel really weird. And you half-way expected one of them to go mad, but they were just there to do their jobs.
Are they based on any "real" concepts for robots?

 

[Morrus]

I loved it up until they entered the black hole. Then it became too silly and trippy for me. Until that point, though, I was engrossed.

Guessed the main spoiler during that first NASA meeting when he and his daughter were in that conference room with them.

And if they have cool shuttles which go up to orbiting ships and back down again with nary an effort, what was the point of the giant rocket in the first place?

 

[Joker]

And if they have cool shuttles which go up to orbiting ships and back down again with nary an effort, what was the point of the giant rocket in the first place?

Maybe the fuel used for the Rangers was limited and they had a spare Atlas lying around. Maybe for cinematic effect.

 

[Morrus]

Maybe the fuel used for the Rangers was limited and they had a spare Atlas lying around. Maybe for cinematic effect.

Or maybe they just screwed up, which I think is more likely! Those things screed like Star Trek shuttlecraft. They were several tech levels beyond everything else.

 

[Joker]

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Or maybe they just screwed up, which I think is more likely! Those things screed like Star Trek shuttlecraft. They were several tech levels beyond everything else.

Well, fuel was a big concern and they had to decide what planet to visit. So I don't think they were quite at impulse drive level yet.

 

[Morrus]

Well, fuel was a big concern and they had to decide what planet to visit. So I don't think they were quite at impulse drive level yet.

The fact that fuel was a concern doesn't mean they had magic fuel which enabled them to instantly and easily leave a planet with more gravity than Earth in a small ship with the size, speed and agility of a Star Trek shuttlecraft. The fuel needed to leave Earth required massive rockets and fuel tanks and stuff. It takes a LOT of fuel to get into orbit.

Unless they had new, magic fuel they didn't tell us about.