Spoilers Interstellar

[Morrus]

I saw this years ago when it came out but watched it again last night. I have mixed feelings about it.

I love all the time dilation stuff, the gorgeous space cinematography, flawless performances, the high concept, the idea that the ghost is future him. All great stuff.

Two Hamilton watches product placement! Coop’s day-date aviator and Murph’s khaki field watch. I have them both (the latter in the 42mm size has Morse Code for ‘Eureka’ along the seconds hand).

I think for me up until fe goes into the black hole and it starts to feel more like magic. (Insert obligatory quote here). I still don’t get how he gained the superpower of knowing how to control the watch hand by tweaking gravity. How so much technical info could be passed via Morse Code (did he sit there tweaking the hand for a year?), did Murph have to be looking at it at the time? The whole time? If they (the future people) can create an elaborate plan to have Coop do all that why didn’t they just do ut themselves? Are they not allowed in their own tesseract?

Dunno. I just feel like the end got a bit mumbo jumbo-ey. A great film but the resolution didn’t quite stick the landing for me. But maybe I’m missing some details or nuance.

Still love the film.

 

[Marc Radle]

Never saw the move but I have soundtrack which is pretty amazing!

 

[Nikosandros]

I also love this film, but most of my friends mock me about it.

About the future people, I think that they transcended further and left behind the tesseract.

 

[Ryujin]

I saw this years ago when it came out but watched it again last night. I have mixed feelings about it.

I love all the time dilation stuff, the gorgeous space cinematography, flawless performances, the high concept, the idea that the ghost is future him. All great stuff.

Two Hamilton watches product placement! Coop’s day-date aviator and Murph’s khaki field watch. I have them both (the latter in the 42mm size has Morse Code for ‘Eureka’ along the seconds hand).

I think for me up until fe goes into the black hole and it starts to feel more like magic. (Insert obligatory quote here). I still don’t get how he gained the superpower of knowing how to control the watch hand by tweaking gravity. How so much technical info could be passed via Morse Code (did he sit there tweaking the hand for a year?), did Murph have to be looking at it at the time? The whole time? If they (the future people) can create an elaborate plan to have Coop do all that why didn’t they just do ut themselves? Are they not allowed in their own tesseract?

Dunno. I just feel like the end got a bit mumbo jumbo-ey. A great film but the resolution didn’t quite stick the landing for me. But maybe I’m missing some details or nuance.

Still love the film.

To me, it felt like they were trying to recreate the weird ending of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Short on explanations, , long on visuals.

 

[payn]

I saw this years ago when it came out but watched it again last night. I have mixed feelings about it.

I love all the time dilation stuff, the gorgeous space cinematography, flawless performances, the high concept, the idea that the ghost is future him. All great stuff.

Two Hamilton watches product placement! Coop’s day-date aviator and Murph’s khaki field watch. I have them both (the latter in the 42mm size has Morse Code for ‘Eureka’ along the seconds hand).

I think for me up until fe goes into the black hole and it starts to feel more like magic. (Insert obligatory quote here). I still don’t get how he gained the superpower of knowing how to control the watch hand by tweaking gravity. How so much technical info could be passed via Morse Code (did he sit there tweaking the hand for a year?), did Murph have to be looking at it at the time? The whole time? If they (the future people) can create an elaborate plan to have Coop do all that why didn’t they just do ut themselves? Are they not allowed in their own tesseract?

Dunno. I just feel like the end got a bit mumbo jumbo-ey. A great film but the resolution didn’t quite stick the landing for me. But maybe I’m missing some details or nuance.

Still love the film.

Most Nolan films tend to impress on first viewing and then get a little less impressive with more viewings.

 

[Morrus]

I also love this film, but most of my friends mock me about it.

About the future people, I think that they transcended further and left behind the tesseract.

Carefully tuned to this guy's bedroom?

 

[Morrus]

Most Nolan films tend to impress on first viewing and then get a little less impressive with more viewings.

Actually I think I liked it more the second time. The bits I struggle with I struggled with both times through.

 

[Nikosandros]

Carefully tuned to this guy's bedroom?

I was making a general point. The specifics are not clarified by the movie and I agree that it is all very "convenient" and vague.

 

[dragoner]

Before they showed it here, Kip Thorne, Kip Thorne - Wikipedia came and spoke at Purdue, talking it up. It has some things done more for entertainment, though I think it is pretty cool overall.

 

[Morrus]

Before they showed it here, Kip Thorne, Kip Thorne - Wikipedia came and spoke at Purdue, talking it up. It has some things done more for entertainment, though I think it is pretty cool overall.

Yeah I’ve heard him talk about his role in the production in various podcasts over the years.