Movie - Interstellar

[Hans Tucker]

New movie by Christopher Nolan aka Batman fame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWhVkztwYqA

[OzStarGazer]

Great! A new movie to add to my list of space movies. :)

[multiweb]

Trailer looks pretty cool.

[beren]

Anyone go out today and see this new film ? Surprised no one has mentioned anything about it for a while. Hopefully it will be good planning to see it over the weekend.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Going see it Friday night.

[ZeroID]

18:30 Friday, Tickets in hand.
Reviews have been very good.

[multiweb]

Seen it on the big screen last night. Got my hopes high. Well, entertainment value nill. I'm sure though it may appeal to the scientific community but as far as I'm concerned I tend to go to the movie to relax and be entertained. If I ever wanted to read a book on blackholes , relativity, time dilation I'd do just that.

Gardians of the Galaxy:
docking sequence 3s + 15 min of shooting people. Now were' talking :P

Interstellar:
Docking sequence 10min + ... .... ..-.. --..-..-- ?!

I'm clearly not the target audience. I had more fun listening to a raccoon talking to a tree :) I'm sure there are people who will love it though.
The more scientific type will chime in I'm sure.

[rustigsmed]

plan on seeing it tonight. fingers crossed it's good.

[Stardrifter_WA]

Just got in from seeing Interstellar tonight and I thought it was well done. Went and saw it at an Extreme Screen and the sound affects were amazing.

Like all Sci-Fi movies, I suspend my belief system and just enjoy the ride. I liked it, but then, I like most movies. It is entertainment, after all.

Cheers Peter

[Amaranthus]

Except for 2001/2010 - that is why I love those movies so much. Hard Sci-Fi.

[glend]

With that Hollywood A-list cast I won't be seeing it, the best sci-fi movies do not use big stars. I agree that 2001 Space Odessey was my all time favorite but I like what Ridley Scott did with the original Alien. I like the attention to detail in both 2001 and Alien. I find myself constantly annoyed by inplausible events like those in Gravity - what a turkey.

[ZeroID]

Epic....I'll have to see it again, and buy the BluRay later.
There is a story, the connection between the father and daughter and the argument around survival of the species.
The visualisations are quite stunning and in my mind within the realms of possibility for the most part. After all we don't know how it all works yet and there are more surprises out there than we can imagine.
For a three hour film we and the rest of the theatre goers sat mesmerised and silent. There are lots of moments of realisation about the consequences of wormhole, black hole effects on time and gravity.
It was summed up for me by another guy, a stranger who looked at me as we walked out and said, "Well, THAT was intense !"
I had to agree. As I said I need to see it again.

[rustigsmed]

Enjoyed it, was a good sci fi hopefully it spawns more. Great visuals and music to match. Great acting, storyline was stronger than most sci fis you see these days but I did pick what was going to happen very early on. May see it again at the movies.

[Steffen]

I watched the movie tonight and thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn't a gadget movie, and it wasn't a western in space suits. It had moral dilemmas, space-time dilemmas, love, great special effects that didn't look out of place, and a fist fight :)

It certainly is a demanding movie to watch, not light entertainment with punch lines in every dialog and comic relief after every dramatic scene. I thought the science was portrayed well, although subsequent re-watches may reveal errors in detail that I've missed the first time around.



It sure was!

Cheers
Steffen.

[Andy01]

Saw a midnight screening at Imax (whoa) last fri night. Initially thought I was reliving an episode of the Big Bang Theory as I was with 4 other IT geeks, but quickly settled in an LOVED the movie!

McConaghy has come leaps & bounds as an actor, ever since Dallas Buyers Club he's awesome. Hathaway is well, just eye candy but not a deal breaker and Damon plays an interesting character well.

Loved the robots, loved the score and the visual FX. Thought the human drama was a bit fluffy but overall 9/10. The movie certainly tips it's hat to 2001 in several scenes - (well it's really a reboot of the original, Hollywood style) - with no stone unturned and you're held by the hand and led all the way through to the end. Some clever concepts and decent hard science for once in a Sci-fi movie, more Sci than Fi anyway.

... And I want to see it again!

Andy

[Manav]

Christopher Nolan is getting better and better and this movie was his best yet. Sure it has plot holes and the last third seems rushed to put everything together but its still so so good.

The score is epic but that's what you would expect from Zimmer.

10/10 for me given its pushing the boundaries of sci-fi genre and is a must buy on blu-ray for me :)

[wulfgar]

Entertaining film and certainly worth a viewing. But utterly ridiculous. They land and take off from 1G planets in a shuttle like space ship with an on board supply of fuel. Yet the same spaceship required a multi stage launch from earth to reach orbit.
They suffer relativistic time dilation on a relatively normal planet which could only occur close to the event horizon of the black hole.
Hero in spacesuit alone survives journey through a black hole and creates a time paradox.

Stunning visuals of space flight but scientifically and dramatically lame. A forgettable film.

[hobbit]

Saw it tonight. Loved TARS and CASE but there were a couple of times in the movie where the score completely overpowered the actors to the point that i couldn't understand what they were saying.

And yes there are scientific inaccuracies but I'm really not caring about them. I go to movies to enjoy them and enjoy this one I did.

[ZeroID]

I assume you meant to say 'could not understand' and I agree. Way too much musical dramatisation when you really needed to hear what was going on.

Agree with your second para too. Inaccurate or not at least the movie made you think. I enjoyed the twists it had.

[ZeroID]

OK, so now we know, it was on purpose. Or may be the sound editor got it wrong and nobody wants to admiit it

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11359741

[PeterEde]

Cooper didn't enter the BH did he? From what I understand of BH time basically stands still as you cross the EH so you don't enter. In that period he was able to send the message. So time from b4 he left home to the BH was looped. Plus we have the magic of humans controlling a BH to make everything work

[Steffen]

Yeah, I've gotta get me one of those black holes... :P

Cheers
Steffen.

[alistairsam]

I saw it last night in Imax and really liked it.
I do follow the science a lot and could appreciate the various paradoxes, of course there is the Hollywood artistic license to stretch things a bit, but I was waiting to see what would happen next so didn't realize it was 3 hours.

It isn't everyone's cup of tea and the Imax theatre was packed with young couples majority of whom had mixed expressions when they came out.
Wish it was in 3D though. I think Space has to be experienced in 3D.

Cheers
Alistair

[Steffen]

Maybe not. It seems like they may have actually made a scientific discovery or two in the making of the film: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/

Cheers
Steffen.

[Shiraz]

Martin Pugh features in the credits at the end of that trailer :thumbsup:.

[LewisM]

Just saw it. Loved every second. Can't see the issue with the science being difficult. Felt it was dumbed down too much if anything.

All fantasy, nice escape for 3 hours. Yes, some of the science is flawed, but who cares - it is not a documentary.

[PeterEde]

In the US apparently if you've paid to see it once you can see it again free. I feel it's one of those movies the more you see it the more you'll take from it.
I suggest searching the many pages that have popped up explaining the movie. Certainly helps to make sense of things and opens your eyes

[Octane]

Kid free this weekend so seeing it on Saturday. :)

Love being able to escape into fantasyland for a few hours!

H

[Octane]

^ perfectly said!

H

[Steffen]

To find out just how much the science if flawed you could read Kip Thorne's book about it: The Science of Interstellar (http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=4294987333)

Thorne of course is a theoretical physicist, and science advisor as well as executive producer of the film.

Cheers
Steffen.

[PeterEde]

Theoretical does not mean he's right either. In fact anything theoretical is just that and may only ever be that.

[pfitzgerald]

I for one thoroughly enjoyed the film and given the chance will go again.

I thought that the science aspects of the movie were well handled in the main and that they added to rather than detracted from the movie. Certainly much better than the recent attempts made in the movie Gravity.

Paul

[Bassnut]

I liked the movie, a bonus was the lack of typical overwhelming stupid American relationship threads. The science wasnt that flash, im pretty sure being so close to a black hole that it caused time dilation of 7 years in 1 hr would have gravity tidal forces that would rip you apart instantly, and ditto passing though a worm hole. The last half an hr was a head spin, that was the whole point of the movie I think, the possible dimension power of "love" rather than the science. My son went with me, he is a psychologist and thought the whole thing was fluff until the last half hr.

[cfranks]

I watched Discovery Channel's "the Science of Interstellar" and noted one of the resident scientists was labelled (the/a) "World's expert on Gravity Waves!"
Really?

Charles

[skysurfer]

I've seen it and it is really nice. Visual effects, nice music, sometimes even emotional (e.g. when Prof. Brand died). More realistic than most other sci-fi movies. The end with quick swapping images of Earth and the spaceship was a bit confusing, but the 4D space shots are well done.
Some flaws still exist: direct communications over billions of light years (or does it go over gravitational waves ?) and when Cooper really crosses the event horizon het cannot survive it.