<![CDATA[Interstellar]]>If you haven't seen it, don't read!

Oh my god, that was terrible. It was also at the same time very good, with a solid script, acting and production and all the rest, but there were just too many plot holes and contrivances for me to take it seriously. From the 'maybe love put the wormhole there' moment to the massive internal paradox of Coop necessarily having found the NASA coordinates before being able to go to NASA, through the wormhole, in to the black hole and back in time and give himself the NASA coordinates.

And while we're on the subject, no, you don't survive going in to a black hole.

And why does he think he'll survive better outside his spaceship - that's being destroyed by all the floating debris which should also be destroyed - and eject?

And how does the robot survive the black hole?

Why, having waited 80 years to see her father again, does Murph just immediately send him away again to find Anne Hathaway? Whose planet may or may not be habitable - we can't send data back, apparently - and may or may not also have the other guy she's in love with on?

 

It could have been so, so good and still was a very enjoyable film if you're willing to suspend a whole lot of disbelief, but there were too many plot holes that had me tearing my hair out to really enjoy it.

 

]]>https://brownsboard.com/topic/30934/interstellarRSS for NodeThu, 01 Oct 2026 01:55:58 GMTMon, 17 Nov 2014 10:06:26 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:23:50 GMT]]>Gene Roddenberry once said "Good science fiction must first be good fiction. "

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]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/473326https://brownsboard.com/post/473326Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:23:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:19:01 GMT]]>big bang nerdism.

i'd rather watch a turd drop in the toilet than half the sci fi movies i've seen.

thank god we have intelligent people like this but i won't waste 3 hours watching them manipulate some fantastic theory.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/473321https://brownsboard.com/post/473321Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:19:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:01:50 GMT]]>After Dumb and Dumber, this is the best movie I ever saw. Thanks 😆

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/472700https://brownsboard.com/post/472700Thu, 22 Jan 2015 01:01:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:14:48 GMT]]>I thought it was hohum...

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@vaportrail said:

Keeping me busy. I think I actually might be interested in rocket surgery.

Hey is that a euphemism for Urology?

😁

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@diehardbrownsfan said:

How's Medical School going?

Keeping me busy. I think I actually might be interested in rocket surgery.

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@vaportrail said:

This is going to sound so conceited (and it probably is), but having learned all the STEM stuff I know makes it very difficult for me to enjoy lots of movies.

For example, Cowboys and Aliens - ship of an alien species with very powerful directed energy weapons uses ancient rocket technology on their spaceship

My kids were watching the latest execrable transformers movie and a similar thought struck me. What kind of giant transforming alien made of organic metals fires a lame ass missile?

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/469181https://brownsboard.com/post/469181Wed, 07 Jan 2015 01:08:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:01:53 GMT]]>How's Medical School going?

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@diehardbrownsfan said:

I always prefer my Science Fiction movies to be reality.

This is going to sound so conceited (and it probably is), but having learned all the STEM stuff I know makes it very difficult for me to enjoy lots of movies.

For example, Cowboys and Aliens - ship of an alien species with very powerful directed energy weapons uses ancient rocket technology on their spaceship

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/469104https://brownsboard.com/post/469104Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:38:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:20:50 GMT]]>I always prefer my Science Fiction movies to be reality.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/469080https://brownsboard.com/post/469080Tue, 06 Jan 2015 18:20:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:39:45 GMT]]>Saw it over the weekend. Watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time a week before. 2001 was better, and the book by Arthur C. Clarke is the best piece of sci-fi ever, without question.

That said, I liked how they implemented relativity, but I have no idea why the quantum gravity readings in Gargantuan allowed Murphy to get the spaceship off the earth. Just one of those Chris Nolan loopholes, I guess.

Things I didn't like:

"Love is the answer." So fucking corny.

"Evolving into a 5-dimensional species." Um. Right. The beings who put the wormholes there were actually humans from the future? So the humans that existed because Murphy got them off the planet put a device back in time to allow Murphy to get them off the planet. That's some grandfather paradox shit right there. I mean, I let shit like that pass in Terminator, because I'm not watching Terminator for the story, but in a movie like Interstellar, it just doesn't fit.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/469061https://brownsboard.com/post/469061Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:39:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:00:01 GMT]]>I will use a paraphrase from the movie itself: It was 90% boring, 10% interesting

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/451526https://brownsboard.com/post/451526Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:00:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:32:04 GMT]]>We saw it today.. Not bad.. Too long.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/450731https://brownsboard.com/post/450731Wed, 19 Nov 2014 02:32:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:12:33 GMT]]>Let me quote the theme song from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

"if you wonder how they eat and breathe and other science facts, repeat to yourself 'its just a show I should really just relax'"

😁

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@gftchris said:

Perhaps. But then you can come up with all kinds of bullshit and not even attempt to justify it beyond saying 'well, even though it's impossible, it's still possible'

Half-way decent writers will try to justify it, that's Sci-Fi Writing 101, and the movie does attempt to do so with the whole future advanced technology slant. It's just for you not an acceptable justification. 🙂

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/450367https://brownsboard.com/post/450367Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:54:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:29:07 GMT]]>Perhaps. But then you can come up with all kinds of bullshit and not even attempt to justify it beyond saying 'well, even though it's impossible, it's still possible'

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@gftchris said:

Sci-Fi requires some suspension of disbelief, but there are certain things that we know to be the case - like the fact that you can't enter a black hole and hope to survive, among other things. Check the spoilers for the full list of gripes, some of which are scientific, others are more plot oriented.

Just a bit more devils-advocating... things known for certain have been proven wrong before. They get proven wrong when additional data comes to light or when advances in technology make the impossible possible. Within the movie, the teseract is the product of some advanced technology. What is to say it doesn't somehow mitigate the gravitational forces at the center of the black hole? That's the speculative part of speculative fiction.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/450347https://brownsboard.com/post/450347Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:16:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:07:45 GMT]]>Hey I'm sure there are some people out there that will be really bothered if the shit in a science fiction movie isn't pure science. Oh well.

Keep in mind that 50% of the words in the term science fiction is fiction.

🙂

And over the decades there've been all sorts a ridiculous things that actually come to pass.

I'll give you an example. I can still enjoy a Western even though the good guy is shooting the gun out of the hand of the bad guy at 500 feet with a pistol on horseback.

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@axe said:

Doesn't Sci-Fi require a leap of faith because obviously we haven't gotten there yet?

And, Is it worse than Charlize Theron dieing because she couldn't fucking turn left?

Sci-Fi requires some suspension of disbelief, but there are certain things that we know to be the case - like the fact that you can't enter a black hole and hope to survive, among other things. Check the spoilers for the full list of gripes, some of which are scientific, others are more plot oriented.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/450323https://brownsboard.com/post/450323Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:59:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:25:34 GMT]]>Doesn't Sci-Fi require a leap of faith because obviously we haven't gotten there yet?

And, Is it worse than Charlize Theron dieing because she couldn't fucking turn left?

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@osiris said:

Yes, just don't raise your expectations. My friend warned me of the inconsistencies and I think that prepared me to enjoy the movie more than I would've had I gone in unwarned.

I went in unarmed, because geeky friends of mine (that should know better) said it was so good.

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@the-cysko-kid said:

I'm not reading the spoilers. Was it worth seeing or not?

Yes, just don't raise your expectations. My friend warned me of the inconsistencies and I think that prepared me to enjoy the movie more than I would've had I gone in unwarned.

]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/450105https://brownsboard.com/post/450105Mon, 17 Nov 2014 20:51:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:16:39 GMT]]>Or if you don't mind a multi year trip through space seeming like it was shot in real time...

😉

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]]>https://brownsboard.com/post/450042https://brownsboard.com/post/450042Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:16:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Interstellar on Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:33:42 GMT]]>It's worth seeing, if you don't mind a few scientific inconsistencies and tear-your-hair-out moments.

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