Interstellar (trailer)

[Kramodlog]

Texas in space! the Moon landing is fake! /panic

[video=youtube;U7X1ntOgL70]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7X1ntOgL70[/video]

 

[Joker]

No food makes people go something something.

I hope there's some kind of explanation as to why the body responsible for bringing textbooks into class would think the moonlanding was fake. Maybe when faced with disaster they've gone back to simpler, less thinky times.

 

[WayneLigon]

No food makes people go something something.

I hope there's some kind of explanation as to why the body responsible for bringing textbooks into class would think the moonlanding was fake. Maybe when faced with disaster they've gone back to simpler, less thinky times.

Without knowing the exact timeline the movie will use, I'm guessing that the government needs a scapegoat to explain why suddenly they can't provide basic services. So, as administrations do, they look to re-write history to make themselves look better. The 'excess and wastefullness' of previous administrations would be a good place to start because those people are not around to defend themselves, esp if you conflate it into the idea of a general cultural 'disease' to make people feel better about having much less than previous generations. You can then cast the fact that people are starving to death and huge dust bowls are engulfing the land as a 'return to the great pioneer roots of our country' instead of admitting to a fatal inability to manage resources over a long period of time.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I hope there's some kind of explanation as to why the body responsible for bringing textbooks into class would think the moonlanding was fake.

Because Texas likes to rewrite history.

I wasn't expecting this movie to get into politics, but it's interesting. Maybe I'll catch it.

 

[trappedslider]

how is this a trailer? More of a clip....but anyway...I'm guessing it will gloss over the politics At least as far as the textbook is concerned and here's an actual trailer in fact trailer number 3

[video=youtube;0vxOhd4qlnA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA[/video]

 

[Janx]

I like space. I like sci-fi.

From the TV trailers, I don't understand how this movie works.

We go from "earth is dying" to "cowboy turned spaceman" to "checking out other worlds" with little clarity as to how it all makes sense. At least that farmer astronaut movie made it clear that the farmer built a rocket in his barn.

Even Gravity makes sense (hey, we're astronauts in space, oh no, we're gonna die!")

Since it don't make sense, I'll wait until it hits Netflix to see it.

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At least the last trailer posted shows enough bits to explain A->B->C

 

[WayneLigon]

From the TV trailers, I don't understand how this movie works.

Made perfect sense to me, but what I was worried about was the film was going to be 90% 'whining about leaving his kids' and 10% 'we're exploring new worlds'. Hopefully from what I've seen it'll be at least 50/50 but I'm waiting for some reviews that address that exact ratio.

 

[Morrus]

I'm looking forward to this. Apparently they hired Kip Thorne to figure out what a black hole would actually look like (including excretion disc, gravitational lensing, the whole works) in an attempt to remain scientifically accurate.

Plus Nolan. I didn't like Inception, but I enjoyed Insomnia and loved all three Batflicks.

 

[Joker]

Well this movie was pretty awesome. I think I'll it again in IMAX.

 

[Kramodlog]

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?

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.