[Spoilers]Interstellar
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Now that most of us have seen Interstellar I think it’s time we discussed the film and included spoilers.
So be warned there will be spoilers! Check http://bitbangers.co.uk/topic/139/interstellar for non spoiler discussions.
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I’m going to skip the praise portion and go straight for the parts that I didn’t get.
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Why were the robots giant rectangles? Is it supposed to be more robust or something?
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On the ice planet, where the fuck were they? At first, I thought they were on top of a mountain range type thing, but they kept talking about “the surface.” And then when Cooper and Dr. Mann were walking to the watchamacallit place, there was like ice or something above them, so it made it look like they were in a cavern maybe? But somehow they were able to go back and forth between the planet and Endurance.
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I’m not sure i’m totally on board with this whole black hole place. Yeah, the idea of a projection of 5 dimensions onto 4 dimensional time-space makes some degree of sense, Why did it have to exist beyond the event horizon of a black hole? Was it at least at the singularity? I dunno.
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Not really a thing that I didn’t understand, but I kept thinking about how this movie was really similar to Sunshine: Humans on earth are fucked, one last attempt is sent to save everyone, something goes wrong preventing a return, they run into a previous expiditioner who turns out to be evil, main character sees amazing things inside an astronomical object that no one is supposed to be able to survive in. The 2 big differences in this were: 1. people on earth matter to the story, and 2. everyone reunites in the end. I think a movie about a blackhole is a fitting pseudo-sequel to a movie about the sun.
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In addition to my issues, I have a few interesting insights. Well, I think so anyway.
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At first I struggled with the question of why, if we have in the future invented a technology to allow influence over the past, do we wait until humanity is on the brink of annihilation to use it? And the answer I came to is: totally by chance. For whatever reason, Cooper is the one who goes on this self-fulfilling prophecy mission. When he has the ability to influence the past, who will he go to? His daughter. She means everything to him. If he went to anyone else, why would he even be the one to do it? It is definitely a very cyclical argument to say that Cooper went on this mission because when he went on this mission he told himself to go on this mission. But the fact that this is the reality (in movie terms) that we observe makes it the only thing we have to work with. But why couldn’t someone else led the mission, @Almost? They absolutely could, but that’s not what we see. Our prophecy has already been self-fulfilled; we have tautologically eliminated the possibility of another protagonist. Or maybe this is just a drunk rant. YOU DECIDE.
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Why the fuck is there a 5d projection in 4d beyond the even horizon of a black hole? Because fuck you, dear viewer. You don’t know, I don’t know, therefore anything is possible or some bullshit. Hey, why not just rope in the fact that in the future we’ll be smarter? That way I don’t even have to try to explain this shit.
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Holy shit that scene when they go through the worm hole and Anne Hathaway does “the first handshake” would probably be amazing while high. Just look at her face.
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Anne Hathaway is hot.
Where am I going with any of this? Fuck if I know. THE END
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@Almost I kinda had the same feeling about the robots when i first saw them but after you see them in action you can see that they kinda work. Weird design though. :heart: Tars.
The planet was made up of frozen clouds. The surface was a lie. Dr Mann made up the surface of that planet and faked the data so that he would eventually get picked for having the “best” planet for building a new human colony. He then executed his plan to take their ship to another planet that actually had a chance of sustaining life. If his plan worked, he would have survived as well. He was pretty selfish.
I’m pretty sure they said that it he was the best pilot for this mission and that he had been training for it most of his life. At the start when he has that nightmare. That was one of the test flights for the Lazarus missions but for some reason their was a gravitational anomaly, similar to the one in his house, that stopped him from completing the test. Also, when he is at the school speaking to Murph’s teachers they say that most of the engineers, pilots etc… are not needed any more because all the world needs at the moment are farmers. NASA was also disbanded but kept alive in secret. I’m not sure if they would have been able to train more pilots for the flight.
