Interstellar (2014)

I loved Contact, but didn't like Interstellar that much. The fact that he survived the black hole is fine. The fact that the black hole affected time is fine. The watch/books/library/love/morse code angle was ghey. They had unmatched creative liberty with the introduction of the black hole, and to me turning it into 5th dimension library to communicate with his daughter via morse code (plus the power of love yo) just seemed lazy.

I just saw this the other day. Not a bad movie, but the focus of it was a little...

I mean I can see how it would be a GREAT movie for Middle America.

Contact was much better. I'd say that Interstellar was a good movie though. Just not great. "The power of love!" was a bit overdone. And you could tell within 5 minutes that Matt Demon had flipped, so that entire arc felt needlessly drawn out. And some of it didn't make very much sense. But it doesn't really have to, since he was just insane and everything. I think I would have preferred if they dug deeper into the stuff that was actually interesting and spent less time of the dumb bullshit. Imagine.

I don't feel like I wasted my time watching it though. It was purdy decent. But it did hang heavily on the actors. Whoever that woman was that played Murphy was pretty good. And the child murphy was good too.

And not to be overly picky or anything... But I don't think frozen clouds would actually float.

I'm just sayin. I think ice is more dense than any sort of remotely breathable atmospheric gas could be.

I also liked the movie until he entered the black hole. And as I posted somewhere earlier in the thread, if a black hole was large enough you could get close to/all the way to the center without being torn apart. It's the smaller black holes where the difference in gravity increases so rapidly that you'll turn into spaghetti.

Was a pretty good movie overall that had a chance to be an amazing movie but it fell short.

Contact is an all-time favorite of mine. This movie was ok but Contact was miles better. This movie tried to be more than Contact, and ended up being quite a bit less. Nolan tried to get too fancy with the bullshit plot twists instead of just trying to make a great sci-fi movie.

Big Phoenix_sl said:

One atom at a time?

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Gavinmad_sl said:

if a black hole was large enough you could get close to/all the way to the center without being torn apart.

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Answered already.

The black hole was the size of Earth's orbit around the sun.

Neal DeGrasse Tyson answered some of the science questions way back when the film was released including black holes, time dilation, and the tidal waves
Neil deGrasse Tyson Breaks Down 'Interstellar': Black Holes, Time Dilations, and Massive Waves - The Daily Beast

and he admits they fudged things which is why the water planet isn't traveling near the speed of light, or why a gentle black hole is producing tides so dramatic that it's like an endless pair of tsunamis circling the planet. Also I think there's some conflict because Neil said something about how fast the planet is rotating, but I'm pretty sure the planet is tidally locked to the black hole.

Tars, Docking, good acting was highlights rest of the movie was really bland or stupid

Furry_sl said:

No, this movie is not scientifically accurate in almost any sense

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Movie confirmed scientifically accurate in almost every sense

Furry_sl said:

No, this movie is not scientifically accurate in almost any sense, though one of its coolest scenes by far actually was- the docking scene. A movie all like that would be so kewl.

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Furry, the internet's retard or Kip Thorne, renowned physicist and advisor to the film... hmm... who to beleive???

The Science of Interstellar: Kip Thorne, Eric Michael Summerer: 9781494559397: Amazon.com: Books

'Interstellar' Science: Physicist Kip Thorne Writes the Book

Time Travel and Wormholes: Kip Thorne's Wildest Theories