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Interstellar - Christopher Nolan Directing - Nov 2014

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Don Wiskerando

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Well that's just your prejudice coming through though.  Just because we experience love as that sicky feeling in our stomachs doesn't preclude it actually being a manifestation of something else.

 

We live in 3D world, although we experience the passing of time linearly we can't see it or manipulate it.  To a creature that lived in the fourth dimension they might experience love in the way we experience time.  Love certainly feels real enough when we have it.  

 

The point is that it sounds like new age nonsense because all of us have heard the hippy crap since the 60's and just dismiss it out of hand but there isn't any scientific reason why it couldn't be true.

 

I'm no sentimentalist,  I mean I killed a dog once, but the story poses a question and within it's bounds it delivers the possibility of an answer.

 

I think it's a great film once you get over your own preconceptions.

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I don't think you necessarily need to read "love" as the literal all-powerful force, rather a bunch of compassionate superdimensional posthumans to whom the limitations presented by a black hole are no more significant than the limitations presented by a picket fence.

 

Why would a black hole be giving off loads of ionizing radiation exactly?

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Since we're nit picking the science, the SSTO vehicles they have are completely implausible. Did they bother trying to explain those?

 

Led to some nice shots.  They exhausted camera strapped to a spaceship shots though.  I don't need to see any more of those, thanks! :rolleyes:

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3 hours ago, Alex W. said:
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I don't think you necessarily need to read "love" as the literal all-powerful force, rather a bunch of compassionate superdimensional posthumans to whom the limitations presented by a black hole are no more significant than the limitations presented by a picket fence.

 

Why would a black hole be giving off loads of ionizing radiation exactly?

 

I thought that the glowing halo round the black hole was some kind of accretion disk, which I understood - from a layman's perspective, admittedly - would be emitting shedloads of energy as it got consumed by the hole itself.

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9 hours ago, Harsin said:

Truly the best way to express that concept was to have it screamed by a hysterical crying woman (the only one in an otherwise all male crew).

 

Yeah, not to be too 'right on' about it, but it's a shame it was from the woman who it appeared at the time might have been making her decision based solely on emotion. 

 

She's one of the smartest, bravest people in existence, yet she's the woman so it must be her?

 

I dunno. Maybe she was right so it's fine?

 

Though full disclosure, that, along with the Matt Damon shit, was one of my least favourite parts of the movie on my initial watch. I guess on that first run I was just too in awe of everything to take it all in properly.  

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1 hour ago, K said:

The four forces in the standard model of particle physics are love, courage, friendship, and magnum force. 

 

In general K I find you rather irritating and too try hard.

 

But bravo sir, bravo.

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9 hours ago, Indy @ S.E. said:

Nope, still don't really understand half of the time elements of this movie.

 

One that I hadn't even considered (but saw in a comment on Reddit the other day) is that on the descent to Miller's Planet, the Ranger would appear from the perspective of Romilly to gradually slow down and eventually slow to a crawl. 

 

I'm not sure how long an orbit of Gargantua took Romilly, but potentially each time he came around the Ranger was only a little bit closer to Miller's Planet. While from the perspective of the Ranger Crew, they were already down there with giant waves coming at them. 

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It's 9pm kids are in bed, wife is busy on the laptop so I pick up the remote & flick through the apps.

 

Netflix first, the watch list is a mixture of martial arts, Indian, a few TVshows & Trollhunters. Nothing takes my fancy, switch on the PS4 & check Now TV, lot's of movies in the watchlist but nothing that reaches out and grabs me. Back to the TV and Amazon Video app, once again the watch list is a mix of tv shows and a few odd movies some I know I will enjoy like Dheepan or Ronja but I'm just not feeling them now.

 

Press home on the app & at the top is a banner for Interstellar.

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It's now 12:15am, I remove the headphones & breathe.

I know it has it's flaws but I love this film.

 

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4 hours ago, Don Wiskerando said:

Read book 3 of The Ballad of Halo Jones.  It helped me to understand this aspect of relativity at the age of 10.

 

Alternatively, read The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, which is what Alan Moore ripped off when writing Halo Jones, and is about a million times better.

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I'm not sure I like it - every time I watch it, it makes me very sad. But I am drawn to it. I must have seen it 5 or 6 times now.

 

Going to see Hans Zimmer do his live thing in the summer, will be looking forward to hearing the music from this.

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17 minutes ago, mexos said:

I'm not sure I like it - every time I watch it, it makes me very sad. But I am drawn to it. I must have seen it 5 or 6 times now.

 

Going to see Hans Zimmer do his live thing in the summer, will be looking forward to hearing the music from this.

 

Impossible surely? 

 

 

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On 08/03/2017 at 11:27, RB said:

 

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Just listened to this again and now I'm watching Interstellar for what I think is time number five.  

 

I cannot imagine how any other movie can unseat this as my number one of all time. 

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