Interstellar (with spoilers) (Page 3 of 3)

Anyone else get legitimately mad at the "corrected textbook" bit because it seems like something that could actually happen in this country? That was MM's "save the cat" moment for me.

I saw it in 70mm and loved every second of it. Perfect blend of planetarium nostalgia and emotional roller-coaster film experience. Could have watched another three hours of them in space doing stuff. I cried so many times.

I'm just so happy science fiction is getting this kind of attention.

Yeah, the science is pretty spotty, which is disappointing. Yeah, Matt Damon's character is awful. Yeah, the "love is key" thing was frustrating (partially because my born-again relatives took it literally) Yeah, there's a ton of fridge logic just like Inception or Dark Knight Rises.

The score, the visuals, the emotion... all were incredible. Michael Cane's death scene was the only time I couldn't understand the audio.

My favorite element was the robot design. At first it's a comical slab of metal, but then as the film goes on, you see all these kick-ass features. Justifying the comic relief as a necessary component of making humans accept the robots was great.

I was so happy walking out of the theater. It was startling to overhear other people mocking different parts of the movie around me. I guess I'm just not as cynical toward scifi movies as I am for other blockbusters.

I had a similar experience with Her. Screening I went to was empty except for myself and a friend, and we both really enjoyed it.

Imagine being able to watch a 70mm screening all to yourself. No talking, no sounds of eating or shuffling around... That would be heaven.

Saw it again, this time in IMAX. The theater shook and rattled and it was blisteringly loud -- and I still had absolutely ZERO trouble hearing any of the dialog throughout the entire film.

Just saw this for the first time. I liked it, though had a hard time following who was on which planet and why they went where. Big thing I thought was clear that seems to have confused other people.
The end shows Hathaway contemplating a placard which leads us to think that the science ship was destroyed there and people killed. So people keep saying she's alone.

She smiles and starts walking back to a large, powered camp the camera suddenly reveals. Is this supposed to be for just her?
I thought it showed that this planet was the success, and the scientists were alive and helping her prepare a colony.

Also I thought the wormhole collapsed after MM did his thing in the Time Room?

The wormhole is connected to the the Gargantua system. Gargantua conceals the Tesseract in/near it's singularity, while is connected to the wormhole going the other way. It's a Y-shaped passageway for some reason. Or someth'n. Who the fuck knows, least of all Chris and Jonathan who don't seem to care about such details.

Apparently humans from the future pushed the y-shaped wormhole towards Saturn, which is apparently an easier thing to do than give us a pesticide to spray on the blight.

I dunno know much, but I'm willing to bet five-dimensional wormhole physics is a bloody lot harder than a new weedkiller formula. So if you want to help us out you aliens/humans from the future, then just help us out.

To be fair, it's completely speculation that they're actually future humans. Cooper thinks that's what's happening, but there's no evidence to suggest that's the case.

I could also see a version where Anne Hathaway's colony grow to become the future humans, and build the tesseract centuries later to save the people they left behind on earth.

But ya, the Terminator-style loop is probably the more accepted answer, it's all a single timeline.

But the future humans are already advanced. If we had a time machine now, why would we feel compelled to go back to the Palaeolithic and help them along? "Here's how you smelt metal you numbskulls. And here's how you plant seeds. And you can domestic x,y,z species but not these ones. Now stop hitting each other over the head with clubs and get civilized.

It's gotta be aliens coming along to give us a leg up (in a vague and round-about way). That makes more sense than future humans. Nolan just threw that in there to fuck with us. Not tying up all the loose ends keeps people talking about it.

Just give us the blight pesticide, Mr Alien. Good ol' Earth, even with the blight, looked more hospitable than that barren Anne Hathaway planet orbiting a turbulent supermassive black hole.

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Because it's a closed-loop thing. If they don't help the past humans become advanced, then they'll die off and never become the future humans.

Just seen this (finally). What an engrossing, beautiful and thought-provoking film. I loved every minute of it. That it doesn't answer every question sweetens the experience. Further, I can't help but think that it's a 2001 with all the characters and emotions that film lacked.

There was only ever one scientist that reached that planet, Edmunds, as all the Lazarus astronauts were solo missions. He presumably died sometime between his arrival and the Endurance's departure from Earth.  That last shot is her burying Edmunds and returning to the camp that she has set up or added to with the equipment from the Endurance. It's inhabited by her, CASE and that point some babies in tubes.

So Murph isn't quite right that she's alone out there.