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Interstellar!

Craig B said:
Re: Interstellar, was there actually any evidence that what's her name, Bland, made it to the last known possibly habitable planet?

I don't remember, as I was too busy trying to decipher Matthew McConaughey's mumblings re the meaning of it all.
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Yeah....you see her on the planet, helmet off so breathing suitable air. In the background is a base camp made up of pods from the spaceship etc presumably with the embryos inside that will form the new human colony. So not only do we get to fcuk up this habitable planet but we get a second shot at doing it again to another ;)

You don't see the boyfriend (the original astronaut) she went to find though. I'm sure I read that he's dead, of an unknown cause/reason, and that ties in Cooper going to find her to be together and..... I dunno..... make babies, grow babies or whatever it is kids do nowadays?? Not sure how she alone is gonna be able to grow and develop so many kids..... I mean, that's a lot of nappies she's gonna need....baby milk, Farleys Rusks, prams, Gripe Water....she's gonna be knackered cos they aren't all going to stay asleep all night are they? And what if she gets sick herself and can't tend to the embryos/kids? Maybe there'll be a second film showing Brand continually making different meals (cos kids all want different food) and washing baby clothes that she's made from......(hmmmm.....another unsolved question) and then, just when they're about to all die from lack of food, lack of clothes, lack of everything.... the refugees from Earth arrive to save them.
 
Craig B said:
I'll grant you 'Bladerunner', but how many closed ended storylines are there these days?

It seems that every screenplay is designed to leave the door open for another sip at the trough. You can set your watch by them. Oh dear, there's five minutes left in the flick, plenty of time to prepare us for the possibility of a sequel.

Re: Interstellar, was there actually any evidence that what's her name, Bland, made it to the last known possibly habitable planet?

I don't remember, as I was too busy trying to decipher Matthew McConaughey's mumblings re the meaning of it all.
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The story started with the older generation of the future telling stories of how it used to be on planet earth, the following story was more to do with the journey taken to achieve this, we don't need to see any more as we know from the beginning it was achieved.

I think some may have missed the point of the storyline, it's not so much where or which planet but the journey & how the pioneers of this achievement reached their goal & the huge sacrifices they made along the way.
 
Watched the bluray the other day and enjoyed it immensely. The black hole sequence was excellent and the waves..........wow! Stunning visuals and thought - provoking storyline.
 
Actually rageman the older generation storytelling at the beginning was confirmed as the videos for the museum at the end on the weird space station thingy, one was the daughter, they were not the ultimate 'end game' of what ever the mumbler and bland got up to.

But anyhow, I hope they don't do another, I suspect they wont.
 
garyi said:
Actually rageman the older generation storytelling at the beginning was confirmed as the videos for the museum at the end on the weird space station thingy, one was the daughter, they were not the ultimate 'end game' of what ever the mumbler and bland got up to.

But anyhow, I hope they don't do another, I suspect they wont.
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must have missed something, never saw this confirmed as the space station at the end or beginning of the film, where did someone say this & where does it say one of them is the daughter of the main lead, I hear one lady say her father was a farmer as were most people back then, doesn't state it's the daughter talking about the lead, i also thought this on the first watch but then realised she was just talking about her particular father.

The start was supposed to be the end of the film then the story of how they got to this position was told, they then reversed this position by showing the ghost scenario which was both the beginning & the end at the same time though of course this wasn't known until the end if you know what i mean :)
 
At the end the mumbler finds himself on the cylindrical space station thingy, a man escorting him wishes to show hime something he will like and takes him to the museum, where he sees his daughter (at the beginning of the film) saying her father loved farming on videos around the museum. His near first words to his old daughter are 'you said I liked farming..'

So to my mind, leaving aside the complexities of all time existing at once thing, he was a farmer, he was in space, he was in 5th dimension, he was at cylindrical space station. Technically end of film. He then goes to bland to totally give her one, and help in the general re-pop of the new earth.

Old people vids at beginning of film end at the cylindrical space station, after all they are banging on about growing crops, not populating the new world.
 
I suspect our nerd girl Bland to have already repurposed the cash point robot thingy as father of her soulless Borg children long before the mumbler ever catches up with her.

Cue sequel...
 
OK, I'm going to risk alienating myself from hardcore fans of proper sci-fi, which apparently amounts to 2001 and Bladerunner, and say I enjoyed Interstellar, especially the sarcastic robot.

Joe
 
I saw it at the local IMAX on the last day they were having a screening and really enjoyed it. I have been holding off on watching it again via a disc and 43" plasma at home in case the experience of it on the big screen at big volume was one of the reasons I liked it as much as I did, though think it will still be enjoyable.
 
The only downside to this film for me was the sound on dvd, it is quite hard to understand the lead on some occasions as the dvd is very quiet compared to my other offerings & his mumbling nature didn't help matters but a great film that will probably be more appreciated in years to come as 2001 was, critics slammed this on it's initial release though interstellar did receive great reviews by most.
 
garyi said:
Old people vids at beginning of film end at the cylindrical space station, after all they are banging on about growing crops, not populating the new world.
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Am I right in thinking that the old people videos about growing crops were in fact real people talking about 1930s Dustbowl crisis?
 
One thing that annoys me about Interstellar.

People go on and on about it's so-called scientific accuracy (as if that really matters in a movie) and the ship lifts off Earth in the traditional fashion but when they get to the world that has supposedly heavier gravity they're flitting about in craft that appear to have come from Star wars.

Apparently 'wormhole ' is too 'nineties' a term, hence the use of the term 'Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the movie.':rolleyes:

I didn't realise Michael Rosen was a physicist as well as a writer of children's poetry.:D

Stephen
 
It was largely enjoyable guff, ruined only by its schmaltzy ending. The robot was cool, in a smart-ass / paranoid android kinda way.

I'm no theoretical physicist, so the accuracy or otherwise of the science is way over my head. Although all of the cast were hotter than the people you usually see jumping around in offices when a probe bumps into a rock.
 
I'm into sci-fi and I thought it one of the best films I've ever seen, joining The Shawshank Redemption, Sunshine, Fight Club and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 
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