Interstellar - Christopher Nolan Directing - Nov 2014

[JohnC]

It was outsourced to SpaceG4S and they made a balls of it.

[johnj]

Which Mars book is that? I got about a third of the way through the third before I gave up but don't remember advanced AI coming into them much.

It starts to become more apparent the later it goes on (spoilers!), but I liked the way the AI is basically the only thing that can handle the complex equations needed for interplanetary space travel, the AI being so powerful they have to keep it off grid, AI regularly being complex tasks and equations to do by different characters, the slight unknowingness of whether they are sentient, I thought it seemed like a sensible representation of AI. Towards the end of the final book it really becomes quite central from what I recall.

[Mr Hatfield]

Maybe they can't just stick a wormhole anywhere and they need to find an area with the right conditions to enable them to do it. So maybe the place they made it was the closest suitable spot to Earth.

bend over - I'll show you a wormhole.

[jonamok]

With a pair of mirrors? Or are you bending over too? Or is it a real hole in the soil made by a worm?

[Mr Hatfield]

Its visible with a 4d mirror, sucks in light and can transpose time so you won't wake up for 3 hours.

[Cheeko]

So the sound mix being fucked is a general thing? I was all set to complain to Cineworld as I felt we missed about 35-40% of the dialogue.

It's not meant to be like that at all, the intentional audio obscurities occuree in specific instances

when they are driving through the cornfield, when Michael Cain dies and when the video messages to cooper are first being played.

None of those sections contain any important dialogue and they amount to less than 5% of the film.

[Commander Jameson]

FXguide article on some of the visual effects work in Interstellar.

http://www.fxguide.com/featured/real-and-raw-the-miniature-fx-behind-interstellar/

[SMD]

Saw this last night, incredible chutzpah from Nolan. Laughed so hard at the Indian in the cupboard and loved the walking kitkats.

[Seamonster]

I saw this the other night. I think I would quite easily put it in my top ten films of all time list.

I don't actually have such a list but when I do this will be in it, along with the 25 other definite entries.

[Ste_S]

Saw this for the first time on an old widescreen analgoue TV and loved it. Suprisingly the visuals and sound are still amazing, although I would of loved to of seen it on a big screen.

I really enjoyed this. A beautiful story about a man wanting to re-connect with his daughter. Could have been a lot shorter.

Saw this last night and loved it. A spiritual sequel to Contact.

My take on it as well. Sort of a companion piece to Inception in a way, a big cinematic experience (and ode to cinema itself) about a simple theme

[Mentazm]

I watched it a few weeks ago. I liked the sentimentality of it, but its a rip off of loads of earlier films like contact and event horizon. It's also dumber than a bag of bricks and the ending is straight up bullshit.

[rumblecat]

What's the rip off from Event Horizon?

[Mentazm]

The wormhole explanation scene is an EXACT copy of the explanation scene in Event Horizon. Also giant wormhole in space going to a far distant place, but obviously that's EH didn't invent that.

[Plissken]

It is the standard explanation for wormholes. I remember seeing it in the 80s on a TV show.

[Sarlaccfood]

Also there is such a thing as homage.

[K]

I also thought that scene was uncannily similar to the one from Event Horizon. They should probably have thought up a different way to explain how a wormhole works. I mean, that sequence in Interstellar was problematic for a couple of reasons, the main one being that it implies that the captain of a NASA mission to explore a wormhole doesn't know what a wormhole is and has to have it explained to him in the simplest possible terms while they're actually on the way to enter the wormhole.

The other problem is that it it draws comparisons with Event Horizon, and frankly Event Horizon is the better film.

[JohnC]

It would be a bit weird to change the explanation of how a wormhole works as best as we can tell just so it isn't the same as something else explaining how a wormhole works. Should different movies give different dates for historical events to avoid being the same too?

[rumblecat]

I didn't mind it- saw it as a homage or a cheeky steal- but there's a big difference set historical dates and using a pencil-through-paper to explain a scientific theory.

What's with Nolan and dead wives by the way? He's got a real thing for them- The Prestige, Memento, Inception... I think The Following had one as well, and I guess the only reason Batman didn't is because Batman doesn't do marriage.



Poor Robin.

[Harsin]

Both women Batman macks on dies in those films. Catwoman probably choked on her dessert after her final scene.

[Down by Law]

I also thought that scene was uncannily similar to the one from Event Horizon. They should probably have thought up a different way to explain how a wormhole works. I mean, that sequence in Interstellar was problematic for a couple of reasons, the main one being that it implies that the captain of a NASA mission to explore a wormhole doesn't know what a wormhole is and has to have it explained to him in the simplest possible terms while they're actually on the way to enter the wormhole.

The other problem is that it it draws comparisons with Event Horizon, and frankly Event Horizon is the better film.

So at what point should they have explained the wormhole for the benefit of the audience? Not everyone who goes to the pictures posts on videogame message boards. They probably think a wormhole is something you should avoid when looking at apples.

[Harsin]

A scene back at base before the launch. I mean it's not like they had to describe the cloning procedure in Jurassic Park as they were driving into the T-Rex paddock.

[K]

Yeah, the problem wasn't that they explained it to the audience, it's that they did it in a clumsy and implausible way, i.e. having two characters tell each other things they should by reason already know. There are more elegant ways to handle exposition.

It's like having a scene in The Dambusters where the navigator lectures the captain as to what a bouncing bomb is and how it works, while they're on the way to drop one on Germany.

[Sabreman]

Experts teaching experts in movies is always a tiresome problem, but to Interstellar's credit what it's also doing in that scene is explaining something McConaughey's character isn't quite up on, which is the reason the wormhole is a sphere (something like that anyway, I do remember it's acknowledged that he knows the whole pencil through the paper concept, but it's some further aspect of the phenomenon that's being explained).

[englishbob]

The other problem is that it it draws comparisons with Event Horizon, and frankly Event Horizon is the better film.

You have got to be joking!

[Sarlaccfood]

A scene back at base before the launch. I mean it's not like they had to describe the cloning procedure in Jurassic Park as they were driving into the T-Rex paddock.

But they where still at Jurassic Park already.

[Ryan]

"Come on, TARS!"

The USB cable even has the "apple break-in-5-mins" kink.

Genius.

[Harsin]

But they where still at Jurassic Park already.

And they explained the reason for that secrecy in the film.

[maryliddon]

So at what point should they have explained the wormhole for the benefit of the audience? Not everyone who goes to the pictures posts on videogame message boards. They probably think a wormhole is something you should avoid when looking at apples.

You just don't.

I mean if you're going pilfer from 2001 don't nick the realism of space ships not making sound in space. Steal its respect for the viewer's intelligence.

Shit movie

[Down by Law]

What are you on about mate

[maryliddon]

Well, exactly