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What a POC! I can't comment on the entire thing since I turned it off just as they arrived at the wormhole, but based on what I saw I have to say it was the worst movie experience of the year, bad dialog, bad story, bad characters, bad acting, bad science and the special effects were just plain stupid, really bad. A complete rip off of Contact, to boot! McConaghy should have quit when he was ahead with Contact.
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No original formula= poor film experience, IMO.
It's now on cable. I'm watching it on EPIX as I type this.
Criminy, I'll never get away from this movie.
-Steve
I liked the science - it all makes sense with current views on black holes and time dilation - all good with me up to the last 15 min.
However, I still don't get it that on the water planet, which was so close to the black hole that hours passed in years on earth, the gravity effect of the black hole caused massive tsunamis but the observable gravity was not high and it did not seem to overly effect the movements of humans. Surely objects with mass on a planet so close to the gravity field of a black hole would be seriously effected depending on the clashing gravity fields and rotation of the black hole and the adjacent planet?
I really liked the robots. Nicely done.
Caine - meh - whatever, not so bad.
Damon - strange - maybe just not used to seeing him as a real arsehole.
Hathaway - Damn! But wasted in the spacesuit for almost the whole movie!
2001 is still the only realistic sci-fi space movie.
Gravity was good, but can't really be classed as sci-fi.
Cheers,
John K
Gravity is the weakest force of the four fundamental forces. It is so weak that compared to the strong force, the nuclear binding force, it is only 10 > -40 as strong. My guess is as long as you have NOT reached the horizon of the black hole, gravity is not very noticeable. Even if the black hole is very massive. While the Earth's moon affects tides, we do not notice the Moon's gravity since it's small compared to Earth's gravity. At the center of all galaxies is a supermassive black hole, e.g., billion solar masses. If the gravity of the supermassive black hole was extremely strong at a distance from the center it would suck all of the galaxy into the black hole and the galaxy would not exist, no? But the galaxy is more or less in equilibrium. At the horizon of the supermassive black hole there is some sucking in of nearby material and that's what produces the intense white light visible at the center of the galaxy and what produces the extremely large black hole over time.
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Director's Cut.
That'll pull it all together.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Einstein's view on relativity is put at the top of the list in this movie.... something like; measurements of various quantities are relative to the velocities of observers. But with the complication of proximity to a black hole and then to calculate the additional force of gravity relative to the various speeds of individuals. Will gravitational force of a black hole warp the whole space time continuum....thingie...And so the movie tries to illustrate this effect at the water planet where the crew goes down to the planet surface for several minutes (less than an hour) and when they return they find their crew mate that had stayed with the ship has aged nearly twenty years. And he's not too happy about that. Plus they find that the water planet won't be suitable because of the huge and massively destructive tsunami's that seem to be a regular feature of it.
This is where the movie started to drag down my spirits as well as the crews.
The soppy angst between father in space and daughter back on Earth. It seemed far too over-wrought and over dramatic. Yet these two characters are key features of the plot which features both as Earth saviors. Another downer. So much sadness and depression.
The Michael Caine character. Man am I getting tired of seeing the geriatric actor playing another grief stricken sobbing character. Not fun to watch. And that Dylan Thomas quote; 'Do not go gently into that good night.....' He must have emoted that line at least three times during the course of the movie. Once might have been enough. Jeez.
Mann's planet. Ice fields and glaciers. Dr. mann attempts to murder Cooper so he can hi-jack Endurance and carryout his crack-pot scheme. Matt Damon seemed mis-cast for this role. I did not see any spot for him in this movie. Square peg, etc.
The gradual decline of livability on planet earth. Another downer. the movie starts out a downer and then spirals down from there.
But there is hope. A space station, currently buried underground just needs to conquer gravity and launch into space as the 'plan A' to save just a few remnants of humanity. And, naturally, Murph solves the equation that makes it all possible. Wow, what do we do, create an anti-gravity device? Just in the nick of time, I gather. ;-)
Then what about the Tesseract thingie...
animated gif of a tesseractGosh....my brain's starting to feel like that Tesseract looks...
Ok so this is an attempt at a 'good' sci-fi movie,... but man there was so much depression in so many scenes that it was starting drag down the audience in that imax theater where I saw it.
It did end kinda upbeat with Cooper speeding off to find Dr. Brand on a planet which may be humanity's best hope....
whew. I put too much effort into trying to get into this movie. In the end, I can't say I care about it. There's no fun in watching it.
Nope, I did not buy the blu-ray.
-Steve
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The more I see it at home, the more I like it. I think it's VERY well done and rewarding to watch multiple times.
Different strokes, I guess.
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William Bruce Cameron: "...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
...actually I liked it but you need to see it on the big screen to really appreciate the effects.
Similar to having to see Gravity in 3D to appreciate it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says the science is pretty accurate.
But then I'm a sucker for time travel movies anyway and I don't mind McConaughey.
A.
I did see it on the big screen. Well, a big huge theater screen, anyway. The science even if it was accurate which I highly doubt was trite and dull. That's my main gripe - that Kip Thorne, the science guru who acted as advisor for Interstellar, Was SO DULL. Besides, all the key features of Interstellar, including the science and the time travel, were already done in Contact, and much better. Even the special effects in Contact were superior and that was 20 years ago! Hel-loo! Hey, I like time travel movies as much as the next guy but good ones, ones like Contact, Back to the Future and the Time Machine. As for Gravity, at least it had some suspense and very good special effects. Unlike you know what. As far as the time travel science it was totally bogus. The aging of people on Earth compared to an astronaut traveling near the speed of light is a paradox. It all depends on which system is defined as the one at rest. Hel-looo! In other words it's strictly a literary device. It's not science.
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The time frame entered was always (as best I can recall) the one of reference, according to the scenes, except for the ultra-dimensional episode of pushing out books in code pattern. When McConahey-hey was returned to solar orbit, he was as he was, but he popped out into a future where his daughter was old.
You have to be a sci-fi nutcase to really like the genre. All of it by nature is beyond common scope and always suffers harsh criticism because of that. All that aside, it did have some poor qualities. The sound level was almost a plot character in its own right.
There is no aging differential. It's a paradox. You can just as easily consider the spaceship as the reference system at rest and the Earth as the system in motion at near the speed of light. Then it's the astronaut who ages more rapidly than the people on Earth. It's all relative. Hel-loo!
Far be it for me to convince you, but relativity time differentials have been proven by experiment, with similar clocks being compared, one having just traveled at high speed. And they were compared after travel, so this was the chosen reference frame of comparison.
The result was that the high-speed traveled clock indicated an earlier time than the kept at home, thus relatively less aging when seen upon return.
Unfortunately the experiment with the clocks doesn't mean people age at different rates. The choice of which system is the one at rest is strictly arbitrary. It's a paradox. Look it up. The whole thing is Science Fiction. Hel-loo! And the thing about worm holes is they don't exist. They are only theoretical and even then they cannot provide a shortcut to anywhere. Ironically it was the Interstellar science advisor who pointed out the "shortcomings" of worm holes in his book on same.
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But there's a lot of brainpower being expended out there on black hole research.
All of the black hole research or 95% of it was actually done in the 60s. And black holes should never be confused with wormholes.
...it was touted as a love story in space and time, not Star Wars.
That was very considerate of you towards Mr McC.
Bill
...that's Best Actor Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey.
I believe...
Total crap from beginning to end.
"A lie is half-way around the world before the truth can get its boots on."
-Mark Twain
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