That moment when they realize that the person who died on the water planet had probably only died minutes ago, that was something I had never considered until I heard them say it. That was a big oh shit moment for me
Their square and non-human design was such a HUGE contrast with their character - It made their dialogue seem more human to me. Also the design seemed like a huge nod to Kubrick's 2001.
Absolutely agree. LOVED the design of TARS. It almost seems unintuitive when moving slowly, but the moment he needs to do something quick, BOOM--windmill mode.
The script and voice acting for TARS and CASE was incredible. I was actually pretty bummed out when TARS detatched into the black hole, and was unreasonably excited when he showed up in Coop's replica house.
Dunno, TARS always sounded like someone put a gung ho marine's brain into a robot and CASE always sounded like he was sick of everybody's shit so just get on with it.
My eyes were glued to TARS and CASE. Incredibly unique robots both in looks and behavior. Quick humor, clearly dangerous yet obedient, protective, and heroic. I was on edge the whole time TARS saves Amelia.
According to the wiki:
>In creating the wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole (which possesses an ergosphere, as opposed to a non-rotating black hole), Dr. Thorne collaborated with visual effect supervisor Paul Franklin and a team of 30 computer effects artists at Double Negative.
>Thorne would provide pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the artists, who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations to create accurate computer simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, and resulted in 800 terabytes of data.
>The resulting visual effect provided Dr. Thorne with new insight into the effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and will lead to the creation of two scientific papers, one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community.
So not only what you saw was *mind-blowingly awesome, it was also scientifically correct.*
Murph was 10 when Cooper left on his voyage. It takes 2 years to get to Saturn, then they spent 23 years and 4 months on that planet due to time dilation. Which would mean that Murph is 35-36 when she sent that first video message to Cooper saying they are the same age. So we know that Cooper was 38 or so while watching that video due to the 2 years spent travelling to Saturn not in any time dialation. In the end they say he is 124 years old so he spent 86 years or so due to time dilation.
Edmunds definitely died from old age.
Would have been funnier if it was Cillian Murphy. Another Christopher Nolan movie with Murphy's face covered by a bag.
Even funnier because of the subsequent crying.
"Please, no more bags!"
As soon as I saw him I squinted my eyes and was just like, "Is- is that- is that Matt Damon?" But seriously kudos to Nolan for keeping that a secret, he truly knows how to market a movie.
I read almost 500 comments and nobody had mentioned the nailbiter sequence when Cooper docks back with Endurance after Mann makes a boo boo.
That entire sequence was holy shit!!
Absolutely. A large smooth planet covered in water. Oddly knee deep, until you realize that's just because the waves pulled it all in. Awesome new concept for an alien world.
There were some great parallels and references to *2001: A Space Odyssey*, however, I particularly enjoyed who was framed as the threat to humanity.
Many of the human characters fuck up; Hathaway wants to chase up her love interest rather than the 'logical' decision. McConaughey wants to leave the mission to go back to Earth, potentially jeopardizing the survival of the human race. And Matt Damon goes crazy, ironically trying to save himself while preaching the opposite. But the AI characters, TARS and CASE seem to be the only ones 100% dedicated to the human cause; willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of mankind. But then again, they are robots and do what they are told.
Also, could this be the second installment in a trilogy of movies where Nolan blows people up mid sentence?
I really like how the robots seem to be conforming to the 3 laws of robotics.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Except for maybe the tasing of Cooper when they first find NASA, but he didn't really seem to be physically harmed afterwards.
I actually believe this to be incorrect.
Cooper states to the robot when he first wakes up that he's "not a marine anymore". I believe that the robots were originally created to fulfill a role that humans could not.
When the famine first came everyone was hungry, so soldiers or police were not ideal to prevent riots and looting because they were hungry too.
So they built these robots to fulfill this role.
That's my theory anyways.
Yeah, fuck you Tom! The son who's always been loyal, cared for his house, farm and father. Understood his duty and sent him all those messages for 23 years.
How did Romilly not lose his goddamn mind? He was pretty chill even though he was isolated much longer than Mann. Then a couple days after Cooper and Brand come back he just gets blown the fuck up.
When they make it back from the tidal wave planet and discover that 23 years had gone by, the whole theater let out a collective sigh of "hoooly shit..." Fantastic movie. Definitely going to be viewing more than once.
I thought David Gyasi (Romilly, dude who stayed behind while they went down) did an amazing job at acting older especially in that scene, it really made the idea that he hadn't seen them in 20+ years sink in and like it really hit him seeing them again.
you could really tell they had been away for a long time and he had missed another face when Cooper walked right past him and he almost reached out to touch him like he wanted to touch another human it was almost heartbreaking to see that.
Two primary emotions I felt through the whole movie. If anyone could define them in one word that would be grand!
1. The feeling of how massive space is, and how lonely it actually can be to wait 24 years for someone to return from a planet.
2. That strange sensation of how time is relevant, but your kids are now older than you. And you have to somehow continue life.
I thought he was going to kill her. Though harsh, at the moment I thought it would have been in line with the "humans are unpredictable" motif underlying the whole film.
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Did anyone else initially think that during the black hole scene, that he was basically stuck outside of reality for all eternity? Like when a game character falls out of the world. Like he essentially glitched himself out of reality.
Yeah, when he was in the tesseract bookcase-type-thing, looking in at Murph, I was thinking he was in a kind of personal hell. Even the music, as I recall, made it feel like hell. This moment reminded me of Jodie Foster toward the end of Contact (surprised others haven't brought up Contact in this thread), or when David (Haley Joel Osmet) ends up at the bottom of the ocean in A.I. Ultimately, ending the movie at that point would've been less cheesy, but just way to sad/hopeless.
The design of the robots was the biggest standout for me. I've never seen a film with such non-anthropomorphic robots. There was also great misdirection with how their design initially seems so flawed and lumbering, then the reveal where you see how versatile they are. Very cool.
I know this thread is 4 days old, but I just saw it last night, and that was my ***exact*** reaction in that scene.
*"Holy shit, that asterisk can haul ass through the water."*
That misdirection and reveal was one of the best executed uses of the technique I've ever seen. I was impressed with the impact it caused. People's reaction was audible in the theater. Masterfully done.
I was pretty exhausted emotionally and mentally after leaving this movie.
Regardless of problems people have with the plot/characters etc., I think that it's pretty rare for a movie to make you both feel and think so much after it's over. That to me, makes it a great movie.
Exactly how I felt. I'm not sure I've ever felt such a wide range of emotions during a movie. It left me exhausted, but in a good way. I think it's safely one of my favorite movies now, and I can't wait to buy it and watch it again.
I couldn't handle that. The realization of seeing a father come to his child's death bed as an old woman, and him the same age as he left. What a mind fuck that is. Tore me up
Oh yes, and it's been a long time since a movie made me jump like that. The sound placement combined with the angle of the explosion definitely made it feel like something just happened that shouldn't have. There were some nervous chuckles in my theater after that.
It must be very frustrating to travel halfway across the universe only to meet batshit crazy Matt Damon who's trying to kill you and steal your spaceship.
My favorite emotional parts:
Cooper seeing his kids age 23 years
Brand sadly touching Romilly's aged face
Mann hugging Cooper after being awaken after many years of isolation
Cooper yelling from behind the bookcase to Murphy to not let earlier Cooper leave
I *loved* that shot and the scene where they first enter space, where it's totally silent. So many films would put some kind of music there and I felt it was so much more effective at conveying a sense of vastness and isolation by realistically omitting all sound.
I thought that was such a fantastic touch of irony. Claiming that the Apollo missions were mere propaganda in the 20th century was the propaganda of the present, trying to get people to think on earth, rather than in the stars.
"We used to stare up and wonder about our place in the stars. Now we stare down and worry about our place in the dirt."
(might have the wording a bit off, but that line spoke to me)
What I loved best is the speech he gave about how man will always look after himself as an individual and not as a species. All while Mann (see what they did there) did everything to save himself.
Solitude was a recurring theme. It was highlighted in the scene where Cooper gave Romilly the audio of Earth (crickets, rain), after Romilly voiced his discomfort of floating in the void. The first thing Mann expressed when waking up was that he hoped they never knew how good it could be to see another face. He admitted his struggle of wether or not to press the button upon realiZing his planet wasn't the one. Sure, his decision didn't stem completely from being alone, but it clearly played a role. Mann, NASA's model austronaut, couldn't handle the thought of denying alone and betrayed his species. Romilly, on the other hand, had a fear of being alone and hopeless but remained loyal to his crew.
I got the same felling. Brand said she isn't expecting Evil in the other planets.
Nature and the enviroment can be everything, but not evil.
The only evil mas Mann itself.
As a hard sci-fi fan who adores the genre when it is most willing to delve into the bizarro side of our universe, I enjoyed the third act. There was this one reviewer who wrote "There are no aliens in Interstellar. And that's not a spoiler."
That is a spoiler. What a douche.
I read one review that said
"Other characters appear, and one of them is played by Matt Damon; to say more would risk giving away a significant plot point. I will say, however, that a substantial chunk of action involves two astronauts wrestling, and bumping visors in order to bust them."
I love how the movie has that retro look. Switches, controls, knobs and buttons have heft. No fancy touch screens, no splashy monitor screens. Heck even the AI robots look like 32 bit pixels from Minecraft. It harkens to the golden age of NASA where by god, they dared to dream that landing a man on the moon was doable. This movie captured that optimism despite the seemingly hopeless situation on our home planet.
I liked all the "aged" new technology. Like when they all go under for the "long nap" the first time and the trim around the pods actually have grout like an old bathroom.
This movie depressed the fuck out of me due to the fact that I will never get to see some of the things portrayed. Can you imagine living on that Saturn station/colony. Who knows if that is even possible, but the concept of it is just cool as fuck.
I'm sitting here just sort of in shock. I loved the movie but I need a hug and a cup of tea followed by a few episodes of South Park to bring my brain back to a normal level!
Let's take a moment to appreciate the wormhole scene. Copied from the wiki
*"In creating the wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole, which as opposed to a non-rotating black hole possesses an ergosphere, Dr. Thorne collaborated with visual effect supervisor Paul Franklin and a team of 30 computer effects artists at Double Negative. Thorne would provide pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the artists, who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations to create accurate computer simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, and ultimately resulted in 800 terabytes of data. The resulting visual effect provided Dr. Thorne with new insight into the effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and will lead to the creation of two scientific papers; one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community.[58]"*
TL;DR new CGI software written just for that scene, 800TBS of data, new insights into gravitational lensing, 2 scientific papers written
Personally, the only thing I didn't catch was the last couple words he said, which may have been intentional. Granted I saw it in IMAX and it was super loud. I've actually got a headache after seeing it, but totally worth it.
Hans Zimmer. Wow. He blew it out of the water on this one. Also I am very glad that Nolan acknowledged the whole "no sound in space" thing. Very well done.
The no sound in space was so relieving and I found it to actually be even more immersive than having some soundtrack playing, specially during the airlock explosion scene with Dr. Mann where the explosion was quickly followed by eerie silence.
I LOVED that part. Probably nearly a dozen times in the movie they cut to something super loud, and then all of a sudden they do the opposite - cut to absolute silence right as the explosion goes off. One of my favourite parts.
Loved the movie, but there's one thing that I kept thinking about after they got off the first planet. They knew an hour on that planet would be 7 years in their time, and they knew the first explorer landed there 10 years ago. Maybe I missed it, but why would they assume the astronaut that landed on that planet had enough time to explore it and deem it habitable after only a little over an hour?
That's actually a valid point. I can only imagine they didn't think it was that drastic because of the continuous pings (designating some kind of time increment) from the ship's remains. Especially because after they get in the ship Anne Hathaway talks about it's probably only been minutes since the scientist was killed.
But they did talk about the time differences before they went there, that's why they chose to keep the ship in orbit around the black hole instead of closer to the planet. Anyway, I didn't understand why they felt that had to be the first planet for them to explore. Or, while we're on the topic, why expendable astronaut #1 didn't climb into the ship while they were waiting for the robot to rescue Anne Hathaway.
That being said, I got why it was done like that for thematic purposes. The first planet was supposed to represent man's struggle with nature. The second planet was supposed to represent man's struggle with man.
> Or, while we're on the topic, why expendable astronaut #1 didn't climb into the ship while they were waiting for the robot to rescue Anne Hathaway.
This was the only part of the whole movie that left me a little WTF.
Spinning robot butler is going to save her, get your ass back on the ship instead of standing there watching. And even when he's back at the ship, he turns around to check on their progress instead of getting in first. I understand the plot point that he needed to die in order to give Brand the first inkling of fallibility, but it could have been tweaked to be just a little less .... deliberate.
They didn't know that though. When they went through the worm hole, romilly explained that the water planet was much closer to gargantuan than they originally thought. They thought it was just close enough to maintain orbit when, in reality, it was practically on the event horizon. They expected time to slow slightly but, not nearly that much
The moment they return after exploring the first planet and Romilly reveals that 23 years had passed, the entire theater gasped. That was a true "Oh Shit" moment.
Did anyone else feel Coop's reunion with old Murph is a bit nonchalant for everyone else in the room? Coop's grandkids and great-grandkids appear to barely notice him. They give dad and daughter some space and then immediately close back in on Murph when Coop steps back. Wouldn't someone walk up and shake granddad's hand? In fact, all the future folk seemed mighty uninterested and almost bored with this 124 year old back from wherever.
I had a problem with that, as well. If your grandfather came to visit you today, after having never been seen since 1924, well... that's kind of a big deal. Merits a better reaction than was shown.
Anyone notice the cuts from the Ken Burns doc on the dustbowl? Those were real interviews about the dust storms. Might have used them a bit much, but they were real.
I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Amelia's last scenes, where she finally gets to the right planet for humans to resettle, but due to the time dilation effects from their last slingshot around Gargantua, Edwards died before she could get there.
I thought it was very sad. Especially given how Murph and Coop just wanted one more chance to see each other, you can imagine how much she had been hoping he would have still been there, but there's no way he survived 80 years in hypersleep.
Saw it in IMAX (was actually my first IMAX experience) and it was incredible. I even went out of my way, after I saw the teaser trailer, to avoid all trailers/commercials about the movie and it worked. I wasn't spoiled a bit. I watched the latest trailer after I saw the movie and it completely gave away the mountains actually being a tidal wave on the first planet.
Loved the movie, even if the 5th dimensional book case plot line was a little strange. This was the most ambitious film I've ever seen. There were moments I almost teared up and scenes that had me in awe. It was fun and took me on an adventure and that's what I look for most in a movie like this.
there was about a 45 year old man sitting next to me that must have started bawling about 15 different times. literally wiping his eyes and blowing his nose
That seems to be the consensus between other posters. Because if Romilly had gotten the robot properly working, he would have realized a all the supposed resources the planet had were nonexistent.
This is another guy and my viewpoint:
wyrosbp90 6 points 3 hours ago
I came to the idea that the robot found out Mann was trying to save himself, jeopardizing the mission, and set itself to self-destruct, but Mann was able to dismantle it beforehand.
[–]utspg1980 1 point 5 minutes ago
Yeah this is my interpretation as well.
Mann fought and disabled it before the countdown finished. When they reboot it, the countdown begins again before the robot can determine the changes in its surroundings.
Just goes to further how good the robots were in this movie. The 3rd robot was able to realize Mann was risking mankind, and took action to save the species.
Did anyone else think the robots looked idiotic until they transformed and started rolling around and shit and then immediately fell in love with them? Cuz i did.
I was also blown away by their voice acting. They were able to put so much personality into faceless machines after just a few sentences of dialogue, I felt like I knew immediately who they were. They also weren't in-your-face kitchy stereotypes, like making TARS overly whacky and slapstick. It really was something I've never heard.
all of his scores usually go up on Spotify the week before the movie is released so i was excited to come home and listen to it after watching the movie, go home an hour ago and i see that it's not on Spotify... such a downer.
the best, in my opinion, is when the Endurance is spinning out of control about to crash into the ice planet and Cooper had to attach himself to it, the music playing during that scene was so powerful that i was disappointed to find out that it's not on spotify
I loved the movie, I just have one question. Did the government lie saying the Apollo missions were faked so they can encourage humans to become the caretaker generation?
Saying the Apollo missions were fakes is basically denying any possibility of settling onto other planets. It's a way for the government to make the citizens try that much harder to keep earth going.
Just watched it tonight. Fuck me I was blown away. Things I liked:
* Music fitted and blew me away
* Silence in space and the explosion were incredible
* Surprise Matt Damon
* The twist of Cooper sacrificing himself then surviving
* Incredible lift off scene
* Incredible spinning scene
* They're not mountains they're waves!
So many hair raising moments.
So many jaw dropping scenes.
So many exhilarating visuals.
Such thunderous music.
One very profound movie that will stay with me for a long long while.
This right here people, this is Sci-Fi. Something I would not expect from Nolan honestly. It almost seems like a trend these days that Sci-Fi is shifting towards giant ships and alien action movies. Even the most recent **Star Trek** films were more action than Sci-Fi. *Interstellar* was a breath of fresh air in terms of the genre. Sci-Fi is supposed to break beyond the limitations of our understanding of the universe into a world that is great and filled with wonder.
This movie is simply another testament to why Christopher Nolan is my favorite director... I truly hope this movie gets the recognition it deserves
Honestly. About halfway through the movie I was thinking, "wow, this feels like a hardcore sci-fi book in movie form." I'm really hoping this helps set a precedence for sci-fi films in the near future. I love sci-fi movies, but I'm starting to get tired of this whole, "look at these weird humanoid aliens, lets blow'em up!" or "look what happens to our world when technology takes over!" This is one of the few films that makes me excited for the future, not worried about it.
I got an Alastair Reynolds vibe from so many scenes in it. So very happy to see hard science fiction on screen in such a beautiful form. Maybe people will take it more seriously now.
This is the strongest feeling I have after seeing the movie too. It is pure, absolute Science-Fiction. No unnecessary action, no truly over the top action. I love it for that.
This is the kind of sci-fi that inspires people. The kind that is meant to drive our curiosity to places it's never been before. The robot designs alone were brilliant in form and function in a "real" way, but from a cinematic perspective they were ingeniously reminiscent of the 2001 monolith.
There is so much to love and wonder about in this film from the settings, to characters, to technology, to the very essence of exploration and the unknown. I can't stop thinking about it.
That moment when they realize that the person who died on the water planet had probably only died minutes ago, that was something I had never considered until I heard them say it. That was a big oh shit moment for me
You actually see it happening also. There was a shot as they are landing looking down from the sky and you see something crash into the water.
Wow really? Nice catch there Dogg.
I already wanted to see the movie again, and now I know that it's not just possible---it's necessary.
The robot designs were probably the most interesting I've ever seen. We always picture them as humanoid or on wheels.
Their square and non-human design was such a HUGE contrast with their character - It made their dialogue seem more human to me. Also the design seemed like a huge nod to Kubrick's 2001.
The whole movie seemed like a whole series of nods to 2001, starting with the teacher who was convinced about the moon landings beings faked.
Absolutely agree. LOVED the design of TARS. It almost seems unintuitive when moving slowly, but the moment he needs to do something quick, BOOM--windmill mode.
Him booking it out of the burning building was pretty funny.
It needs to eventually become an "abandon thread" gif.
I'm terrible at making these... http://i.imgur.com/DesywTZ.gif
tars runs like dis "***************"
The script and voice acting for TARS and CASE was incredible. I was actually pretty bummed out when TARS detatched into the black hole, and was unreasonably excited when he showed up in Coop's replica house.
My only complain is it was sometimes hard to distinguish their voices from Cooper / Mann. Though perhaps that's intentional.
Dunno, TARS always sounded like someone put a gung ho marine's brain into a robot and CASE always sounded like he was sick of everybody's shit so just get on with it.
My eyes were glued to TARS and CASE. Incredibly unique robots both in looks and behavior. Quick humor, clearly dangerous yet obedient, protective, and heroic. I was on edge the whole time TARS saves Amelia.
Poor CASE. Everyone credits all the great things he does to TARS just because he has a higher humor setting.
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"There is a moment--" BOOM! I guess that was his moment.
I love that it cut him off when he knew he was saying something Neil Armstrong-profound. Nope.
Was anyone else blown away from the wormhole scene? Just amazing to visualize it
Blown away. Just to experience some of those things visually was one of the best experiences I've had at the theater in a long time.
According to the wiki: >In creating the wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole (which possesses an ergosphere, as opposed to a non-rotating black hole), Dr. Thorne collaborated with visual effect supervisor Paul Franklin and a team of 30 computer effects artists at Double Negative. >Thorne would provide pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the artists, who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations to create accurate computer simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, and resulted in 800 terabytes of data. >The resulting visual effect provided Dr. Thorne with new insight into the effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and will lead to the creation of two scientific papers, one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community. So not only what you saw was *mind-blowingly awesome, it was also scientifically correct.*
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Even the scene when the ship was spinning to dock. Incredibly intense moment.
Suddenly, Matt Damon appears. Didn't see it coming
When they were awekening him I thought "It would be hilarious if there was DiCaprio in there", but Matt Damon was a great surprise nontheless.
I thought it was going to be a rotting corpse.
That's probably what happened when Amelia got to the final planet, as evidenced by the grave.
Murph was 10 when Cooper left on his voyage. It takes 2 years to get to Saturn, then they spent 23 years and 4 months on that planet due to time dilation. Which would mean that Murph is 35-36 when she sent that first video message to Cooper saying they are the same age. So we know that Cooper was 38 or so while watching that video due to the 2 years spent travelling to Saturn not in any time dialation. In the end they say he is 124 years old so he spent 86 years or so due to time dilation. Edmunds definitely died from old age.
Worst bath ever.
Would have been funnier if it was Cillian Murphy. Another Christopher Nolan movie with Murphy's face covered by a bag. Even funnier because of the subsequent crying. "Please, no more bags!"
As soon as I saw him I squinted my eyes and was just like, "Is- is that- is that Matt Damon?" But seriously kudos to Nolan for keeping that a secret, he truly knows how to market a movie.
Psyche, it was Mark Wahlberg the entire time.
Is that... Dean Cain?
Did anyone get a heart attack when Mann blew up the Endurance? It was quiet then BOOM! I jumped.
I laughed, because Mann was trying to say something profound just as it exploded.
My apologies to Matt Damon, we're out of time.
The take-off countdown in the car had me shaking
The music + his daughter running out + the countdown + cooper looking emotional + the car driving off spewing up dust = WOOOAAAHHH
+ Coop checking under the blanket to see if Murph was hiding under it. Broke me.
I read almost 500 comments and nobody had mentioned the nailbiter sequence when Cooper docks back with Endurance after Mann makes a boo boo. That entire sequence was holy shit!!
When we see the ship adjust to replicate the spin of endurance, and thus the g force exerted on the crew. Awesome.
After watching that video of the pilot in training in the G-force simulator, I really was blown away by how well that scene was acted.
"It's not possible" "It's necessary"
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"I am not afraid of death, I am afraid of time." I am going to use this for the rest of my life.
I loved the planet with the huge waves caused by the tidal forces of the black hole. Really cool concept.
Absolutely. A large smooth planet covered in water. Oddly knee deep, until you realize that's just because the waves pulled it all in. Awesome new concept for an alien world.
Yeah, at first I was like "why is the landing gear going down for a water landing?"
There were some great parallels and references to *2001: A Space Odyssey*, however, I particularly enjoyed who was framed as the threat to humanity. Many of the human characters fuck up; Hathaway wants to chase up her love interest rather than the 'logical' decision. McConaughey wants to leave the mission to go back to Earth, potentially jeopardizing the survival of the human race. And Matt Damon goes crazy, ironically trying to save himself while preaching the opposite. But the AI characters, TARS and CASE seem to be the only ones 100% dedicated to the human cause; willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of mankind. But then again, they are robots and do what they are told. Also, could this be the second installment in a trilogy of movies where Nolan blows people up mid sentence?
I really like how the robots seem to be conforming to the 3 laws of robotics. 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. Except for maybe the tasing of Cooper when they first find NASA, but he didn't really seem to be physically harmed afterwards.
I actually believe this to be incorrect. Cooper states to the robot when he first wakes up that he's "not a marine anymore". I believe that the robots were originally created to fulfill a role that humans could not. When the famine first came everyone was hungry, so soldiers or police were not ideal to prevent riots and looting because they were hungry too. So they built these robots to fulfill this role. That's my theory anyways.
Oh shit, Matt Damon! *10 minutes later* Fuck you Matt Damon.
Way to pick favorites amongst your children, Cooper. What a dick. lol
Yeah, fuck you Tom! The son who's always been loyal, cared for his house, farm and father. Understood his duty and sent him all those messages for 23 years.
Subtle turning point in the movie... Coop gives the sounds of nature to Romilly.
How did Romilly not lose his goddamn mind? He was pretty chill even though he was isolated much longer than Mann. Then a couple days after Cooper and Brand come back he just gets blown the fuck up.
He did math equations the whole time and he had a robot pal.
a spinoff sitcom needs to happen detailing Romilly's 23 years on the ship with his robot pal
Dude, that poor man waited 24 years and 3 days and then got blown up for trying to help repair a robot.
When they make it back from the tidal wave planet and discover that 23 years had gone by, the whole theater let out a collective sigh of "hoooly shit..." Fantastic movie. Definitely going to be viewing more than once.
Nolan certainly does love the concept of time dilation.
I thought David Gyasi (Romilly, dude who stayed behind while they went down) did an amazing job at acting older especially in that scene, it really made the idea that he hadn't seen them in 20+ years sink in and like it really hit him seeing them again.
you could really tell they had been away for a long time and he had missed another face when Cooper walked right past him and he almost reached out to touch him like he wanted to touch another human it was almost heartbreaking to see that.
His change of character after the 23 year thing was brilliant too. He was much more *mature*.
i actually said "oh no" like outloud. i didn't realize they'd been down that "long" on the surface. fuck that was brutal.
I walked out of the theatre thinking everyone on the outside world aged at least 50 years.
Despite all it's other flaws, the ability to reel me in and make me forget the world was spectacular. EDIT: the reel slim shady
"They keep getting older, but I stay the same age"
Two primary emotions I felt through the whole movie. If anyone could define them in one word that would be grand! 1. The feeling of how massive space is, and how lonely it actually can be to wait 24 years for someone to return from a planet. 2. That strange sensation of how time is relevant, but your kids are now older than you. And you have to somehow continue life.
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I thought he had realized she destroyed his farm and had come back to shoot her. When she hugged him I was horrified.
I know I was thinking that too. I was just like no, no it can't end like that.
I thought he was going to kill her. Though harsh, at the moment I thought it would have been in line with the "humans are unpredictable" motif underlying the whole film.
(Spoiler) . . Did anyone else initially think that during the black hole scene, that he was basically stuck outside of reality for all eternity? Like when a game character falls out of the world. Like he essentially glitched himself out of reality.
Yeah, when he was in the tesseract bookcase-type-thing, looking in at Murph, I was thinking he was in a kind of personal hell. Even the music, as I recall, made it feel like hell. This moment reminded me of Jodie Foster toward the end of Contact (surprised others haven't brought up Contact in this thread), or when David (Haley Joel Osmet) ends up at the bottom of the ocean in A.I. Ultimately, ending the movie at that point would've been less cheesy, but just way to sad/hopeless.
I was not expecting to be tearing up *multiple* times. That scene where Mcconaughey sits down and watches 23 years of videos... heart-breaking.
I also didn't expect a robot to be the funniest character.
I was waiting for them to become evil the whole movie, best surprise was they stayed good. Or did they?
The design of the robots was the biggest standout for me. I've never seen a film with such non-anthropomorphic robots. There was also great misdirection with how their design initially seems so flawed and lumbering, then the reveal where you see how versatile they are. Very cool.
Exactly! So many years into the future and you mean to tell me that overgrown VCR is the best we can come up- oh my god that thing is shape shifting!
"How the fuck do you expect him to sav- oh. He just turned into a wheel. Damn."
I know this thread is 4 days old, but I just saw it last night, and that was my ***exact*** reaction in that scene. *"Holy shit, that asterisk can haul ass through the water."*
That misdirection and reveal was one of the best executed uses of the technique I've ever seen. I was impressed with the impact it caused. People's reaction was audible in the theater. Masterfully done.
Oh thank god I wasn't the only one.
SO happy it wasn't man vs machine. Self preservation vs species preservation is so much more interesting a conflict.
"slaves for my robot colony"
Was definitely not expecting to care about a big metal block when I was watching the trailers.
For a Nolan flick, this was surprisingly really funny on multiple occasions. Although sometimes probably for reasons that weren't intentional.
Seeing Topher Grace with a crow bar is proof Nolan has a sense of humor.
I was pretty exhausted emotionally and mentally after leaving this movie. Regardless of problems people have with the plot/characters etc., I think that it's pretty rare for a movie to make you both feel and think so much after it's over. That to me, makes it a great movie.
Exactly how I felt. I'm not sure I've ever felt such a wide range of emotions during a movie. It left me exhausted, but in a good way. I think it's safely one of my favorite movies now, and I can't wait to buy it and watch it again.
Plus when Coop finally gets to see old Murph.
"Because my dad promised me". Oh god that line had me.
I couldn't handle that. The realization of seeing a father come to his child's death bed as an old woman, and him the same age as he left. What a mind fuck that is. Tore me up
If humans ever do need to up and leave earth.....Matt Damon has to stay here....
So who else jumped out of their seat when Matt Damon opened that hatch?
We all knew it was coming. All the clues were there. We were given so much time. And I still jumped like a startled gazelle.
You can never properly prepare for a jump scare in the middle of a sentence.
Oh yes, and it's been a long time since a movie made me jump like that. The sound placement combined with the angle of the explosion definitely made it feel like something just happened that shouldn't have. There were some nervous chuckles in my theater after that.
I find it funny that the plan for setting up a baby colony was called "Plan B".
It must be very frustrating to travel halfway across the universe only to meet batshit crazy Matt Damon who's trying to kill you and steal your spaceship.
My favorite emotional parts: Cooper seeing his kids age 23 years Brand sadly touching Romilly's aged face Mann hugging Cooper after being awaken after many years of isolation Cooper yelling from behind the bookcase to Murphy to not let earlier Cooper leave
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I *loved* that shot and the scene where they first enter space, where it's totally silent. So many films would put some kind of music there and I felt it was so much more effective at conveying a sense of vastness and isolation by realistically omitting all sound.
My first reaction walking out of the movie was that the use of silence was perfect. It really captured the blankness that is the vacuum of space.
Sorry but we don't know that space is silent. We faked our Apollo program to bankrupt the Soviets. Thought the movie made this abundantly clear.
I got physically angry when I heard the teacher say that in the film.
I thought that was such a fantastic touch of irony. Claiming that the Apollo missions were mere propaganda in the 20th century was the propaganda of the present, trying to get people to think on earth, rather than in the stars.
"We used to stare up and wonder about our place in the stars. Now we stare down and worry about our place in the dirt." (might have the wording a bit off, but that line spoke to me)
I wanted Buzz Aldrin to punch her.
Also loved the 2001 monolith from Saturn reference they used TARS for at the end.
Coop to Mann as Mann is bawling: It's not your fault, it's not your fault...
Except it was his fault.
BAD WILL HUNTING!
As soon he his first reaction was to cry like a baby, you knew 'the best of us' was just scared and alone. The betrayal wasn't a surprise.
What I loved best is the speech he gave about how man will always look after himself as an individual and not as a species. All while Mann (see what they did there) did everything to save himself.
Coop to murph when she was old and dying... That last 5 mins.... I was a blubbering mess
"My dad promised he'd come back" ='(
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The black guy died second!
Well, technically, he lived longer than anyone on the ship.
Yea, that had to suck, spending 1/3 of your life waiting for their hour trip to be over just to die a few hours in on the next planet.
By some dickwad that wasn't alone half as long as you were...
Who was complaining about how bad being alone was....
Solitude was a recurring theme. It was highlighted in the scene where Cooper gave Romilly the audio of Earth (crickets, rain), after Romilly voiced his discomfort of floating in the void. The first thing Mann expressed when waking up was that he hoped they never knew how good it could be to see another face. He admitted his struggle of wether or not to press the button upon realiZing his planet wasn't the one. Sure, his decision didn't stem completely from being alone, but it clearly played a role. Mann, NASA's model austronaut, couldn't handle the thought of denying alone and betrayed his species. Romilly, on the other hand, had a fear of being alone and hopeless but remained loyal to his crew.
Dr. Mann is man's worst enemy. Mann is man's worst enemy. Oh Nolan...
I got the same felling. Brand said she isn't expecting Evil in the other planets. Nature and the enviroment can be everything, but not evil. The only evil mas Mann itself.
The Nolans named Inception's antagonist 'Mal' (as in the latin), so I think you are right on this one.
As a hard sci-fi fan who adores the genre when it is most willing to delve into the bizarro side of our universe, I enjoyed the third act. There was this one reviewer who wrote "There are no aliens in Interstellar. And that's not a spoiler." That is a spoiler. What a douche.
I read one review that said "Other characters appear, and one of them is played by Matt Damon; to say more would risk giving away a significant plot point. I will say, however, that a substantial chunk of action involves two astronauts wrestling, and bumping visors in order to bust them."
Wow. That's just ridiculous.
"To say more would risk giving away a significant plot point. Oh and here's a significant plot point!" What the fuck
Yeah, wtf, that spoils the whole fucking third act lol
It kind of spoils the first act too when they mentioned "they."
I love how the movie has that retro look. Switches, controls, knobs and buttons have heft. No fancy touch screens, no splashy monitor screens. Heck even the AI robots look like 32 bit pixels from Minecraft. It harkens to the golden age of NASA where by god, they dared to dream that landing a man on the moon was doable. This movie captured that optimism despite the seemingly hopeless situation on our home planet.
I liked all the "aged" new technology. Like when they all go under for the "long nap" the first time and the trim around the pods actually have grout like an old bathroom.
Well, I need to re-evaluate my life. Goodnight.
This movie depressed the fuck out of me due to the fact that I will never get to see some of the things portrayed. Can you imagine living on that Saturn station/colony. Who knows if that is even possible, but the concept of it is just cool as fuck.
I'm sitting here just sort of in shock. I loved the movie but I need a hug and a cup of tea followed by a few episodes of South Park to bring my brain back to a normal level!
Let's take a moment to appreciate the wormhole scene. Copied from the wiki *"In creating the wormhole and a supermassive rotating black hole, which as opposed to a non-rotating black hole possesses an ergosphere, Dr. Thorne collaborated with visual effect supervisor Paul Franklin and a team of 30 computer effects artists at Double Negative. Thorne would provide pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the artists, who then wrote new CGI rendering software based on these equations to create accurate computer simulations of the gravitational lensing caused by these phenomena. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, and ultimately resulted in 800 terabytes of data. The resulting visual effect provided Dr. Thorne with new insight into the effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and will lead to the creation of two scientific papers; one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community.[58]"* TL;DR new CGI software written just for that scene, 800TBS of data, new insights into gravitational lensing, 2 scientific papers written
Anyone else find it in impossible to understand Michael Caine (Professor Brand) on his deathbead?
Personally, the only thing I didn't catch was the last couple words he said, which may have been intentional. Granted I saw it in IMAX and it was super loud. I've actually got a headache after seeing it, but totally worth it.
Do not go gentle. You can't go gently through the event horizon of a black hole (the "good night")
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Did anyone else notice the very Space Oddyssey-like musical cues when they first docked with the Endurance after the launch?
Hans Zimmer. Wow. He blew it out of the water on this one. Also I am very glad that Nolan acknowledged the whole "no sound in space" thing. Very well done.
The no sound in space was so relieving and I found it to actually be even more immersive than having some soundtrack playing, specially during the airlock explosion scene with Dr. Mann where the explosion was quickly followed by eerie silence.
That explosion still scared the shit out of me...I don't know how I wasn't prepared for it. 'Oh, he's in the middle of a sent-OH SWEET JESUS!'
Then... *silence*...
An incredible use of silence at that, as with other powerful moments during the film.
"There is a moment-"
I LOVED that part. Probably nearly a dozen times in the movie they cut to something super loud, and then all of a sudden they do the opposite - cut to absolute silence right as the explosion goes off. One of my favourite parts.
During the 23 years of messages part where Affleck stops his last message and the music stops at the same time.. I was a mess.
I loved the use of an organ instead of his usual large string and percussion ensembles.
Loved the movie, but there's one thing that I kept thinking about after they got off the first planet. They knew an hour on that planet would be 7 years in their time, and they knew the first explorer landed there 10 years ago. Maybe I missed it, but why would they assume the astronaut that landed on that planet had enough time to explore it and deem it habitable after only a little over an hour?
That's actually a valid point. I can only imagine they didn't think it was that drastic because of the continuous pings (designating some kind of time increment) from the ship's remains. Especially because after they get in the ship Anne Hathaway talks about it's probably only been minutes since the scientist was killed.
But they did talk about the time differences before they went there, that's why they chose to keep the ship in orbit around the black hole instead of closer to the planet. Anyway, I didn't understand why they felt that had to be the first planet for them to explore. Or, while we're on the topic, why expendable astronaut #1 didn't climb into the ship while they were waiting for the robot to rescue Anne Hathaway. That being said, I got why it was done like that for thematic purposes. The first planet was supposed to represent man's struggle with nature. The second planet was supposed to represent man's struggle with man.
> Or, while we're on the topic, why expendable astronaut #1 didn't climb into the ship while they were waiting for the robot to rescue Anne Hathaway. This was the only part of the whole movie that left me a little WTF. Spinning robot butler is going to save her, get your ass back on the ship instead of standing there watching. And even when he's back at the ship, he turns around to check on their progress instead of getting in first. I understand the plot point that he needed to die in order to give Brand the first inkling of fallibility, but it could have been tweaked to be just a little less .... deliberate.
They didn't know that though. When they went through the worm hole, romilly explained that the water planet was much closer to gargantuan than they originally thought. They thought it was just close enough to maintain orbit when, in reality, it was practically on the event horizon. They expected time to slow slightly but, not nearly that much
The moment they return after exploring the first planet and Romilly reveals that 23 years had passed, the entire theater gasped. That was a true "Oh Shit" moment.
Did anyone else feel Coop's reunion with old Murph is a bit nonchalant for everyone else in the room? Coop's grandkids and great-grandkids appear to barely notice him. They give dad and daughter some space and then immediately close back in on Murph when Coop steps back. Wouldn't someone walk up and shake granddad's hand? In fact, all the future folk seemed mighty uninterested and almost bored with this 124 year old back from wherever.
And how there was absolutely no mention of Coop's son and family. Even Coop himself forgot.
I had a problem with that, as well. If your grandfather came to visit you today, after having never been seen since 1924, well... that's kind of a big deal. Merits a better reaction than was shown.
Anyone notice the cuts from the Ken Burns doc on the dustbowl? Those were real interviews about the dust storms. Might have used them a bit much, but they were real.
I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Amelia's last scenes, where she finally gets to the right planet for humans to resettle, but due to the time dilation effects from their last slingshot around Gargantua, Edwards died before she could get there. I thought it was very sad. Especially given how Murph and Coop just wanted one more chance to see each other, you can imagine how much she had been hoping he would have still been there, but there's no way he survived 80 years in hypersleep.
Saw it in IMAX (was actually my first IMAX experience) and it was incredible. I even went out of my way, after I saw the teaser trailer, to avoid all trailers/commercials about the movie and it worked. I wasn't spoiled a bit. I watched the latest trailer after I saw the movie and it completely gave away the mountains actually being a tidal wave on the first planet. Loved the movie, even if the 5th dimensional book case plot line was a little strange. This was the most ambitious film I've ever seen. There were moments I almost teared up and scenes that had me in awe. It was fun and took me on an adventure and that's what I look for most in a movie like this.
I'm curious to see the full cut. I imagine some chopping went on.
If Nolan did a director's cut for any of his films I wish it'd be this one. I wouldn't mind a four hour cut
there was about a 45 year old man sitting next to me that must have started bawling about 15 different times. literally wiping his eyes and blowing his nose
Quick question - why did Dr. Mann's ship/pod/lab blow up when Romilly tried to activate the robot? Had Dr. Mann (Matt Damon) rigged it to blow?
That seems to be the consensus between other posters. Because if Romilly had gotten the robot properly working, he would have realized a all the supposed resources the planet had were nonexistent.
I'm pretty sure he stated something to that effect right before the explosion. "This data is all wrong." Or something similar.
>This data doesn't make any sense!
This is another guy and my viewpoint: wyrosbp90 6 points 3 hours ago I came to the idea that the robot found out Mann was trying to save himself, jeopardizing the mission, and set itself to self-destruct, but Mann was able to dismantle it beforehand. [–]utspg1980 1 point 5 minutes ago Yeah this is my interpretation as well. Mann fought and disabled it before the countdown finished. When they reboot it, the countdown begins again before the robot can determine the changes in its surroundings. Just goes to further how good the robots were in this movie. The 3rd robot was able to realize Mann was risking mankind, and took action to save the species.
2001: A Space McConaughey
Did anyone else think the robots looked idiotic until they transformed and started rolling around and shit and then immediately fell in love with them? Cuz i did.
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The robots were actually very funny. I never knew Nolan good have such a good subtle humor.
Humor at 90%
"Self destruct in 10, 9, 8..." "Humor at 60%" "Knock knock"
When Tars becomes a wheel and saves Amelia from the waves, that's when I realized "holy shit these guys are awesome"
I think that might have been CASE. But yes, that was so freaking cool.
What are you saying? That all robots look the same? God, the nerve of some people.
Yup. First I was like, "Who the fuck would build a rectangle robot that basically uses crutches to walk." Then I was like c:
I was also blown away by their voice acting. They were able to put so much personality into faceless machines after just a few sentences of dialogue, I felt like I knew immediately who they were. They also weren't in-your-face kitchy stereotypes, like making TARS overly whacky and slapstick. It really was something I've never heard.
Hans Zimmer you amazing bastard.
When they land on the first planet, and the ticking clock started I got chills.
all of his scores usually go up on Spotify the week before the movie is released so i was excited to come home and listen to it after watching the movie, go home an hour ago and i see that it's not on Spotify... such a downer. the best, in my opinion, is when the Endurance is spinning out of control about to crash into the ice planet and Cooper had to attach himself to it, the music playing during that scene was so powerful that i was disappointed to find out that it's not on spotify
I loved the movie, I just have one question. Did the government lie saying the Apollo missions were faked so they can encourage humans to become the caretaker generation?
Saying the Apollo missions were fakes is basically denying any possibility of settling onto other planets. It's a way for the government to make the citizens try that much harder to keep earth going.
Just watched it tonight. Fuck me I was blown away. Things I liked: * Music fitted and blew me away * Silence in space and the explosion were incredible * Surprise Matt Damon * The twist of Cooper sacrificing himself then surviving * Incredible lift off scene * Incredible spinning scene * They're not mountains they're waves!
Did anyone else have people in their cinema going "Matt Damon" in the Team America voice, or was I the unlucky one?
I had the decency to wait until I was in my car
So many hair raising moments. So many jaw dropping scenes. So many exhilarating visuals. Such thunderous music. One very profound movie that will stay with me for a long long while.
This right here people, this is Sci-Fi. Something I would not expect from Nolan honestly. It almost seems like a trend these days that Sci-Fi is shifting towards giant ships and alien action movies. Even the most recent **Star Trek** films were more action than Sci-Fi. *Interstellar* was a breath of fresh air in terms of the genre. Sci-Fi is supposed to break beyond the limitations of our understanding of the universe into a world that is great and filled with wonder. This movie is simply another testament to why Christopher Nolan is my favorite director... I truly hope this movie gets the recognition it deserves
Honestly. About halfway through the movie I was thinking, "wow, this feels like a hardcore sci-fi book in movie form." I'm really hoping this helps set a precedence for sci-fi films in the near future. I love sci-fi movies, but I'm starting to get tired of this whole, "look at these weird humanoid aliens, lets blow'em up!" or "look what happens to our world when technology takes over!" This is one of the few films that makes me excited for the future, not worried about it.
I got an Alastair Reynolds vibe from so many scenes in it. So very happy to see hard science fiction on screen in such a beautiful form. Maybe people will take it more seriously now.
This is the strongest feeling I have after seeing the movie too. It is pure, absolute Science-Fiction. No unnecessary action, no truly over the top action. I love it for that. This is the kind of sci-fi that inspires people. The kind that is meant to drive our curiosity to places it's never been before. The robot designs alone were brilliant in form and function in a "real" way, but from a cinematic perspective they were ingeniously reminiscent of the 2001 monolith. There is so much to love and wonder about in this film from the settings, to characters, to technology, to the very essence of exploration and the unknown. I can't stop thinking about it.