kristen jones
Master Member
I thought it was a fantastic movie!
Finally saw this last night.
Good movie. Great effects.
But I have a few questions.
1: Where is all this "science" I've been hearing is supposed to be in this film?
a: Wormholes are theoretical. They may as well be fiction.
b: A massive planet orbiting a black hole doesn't get sucked into the black hole, but a tiny spaceship orbiting the planet will?
c: Cooper crosses the event horizon of a black hole and isn't atomized?
d: ...and then is spit back out into his own solar system?? (I realize this was necessary to tell a nifty story, but it's pretty far-fetched)
2: Why is it so darned important to save the human race? Sure, I would go to great lengths to protect the people I love, but the human race as a whole?
Why? What good are we? All we seem to be interested in is making our fellows suffer. When we're not dreaming up excuses to slaughter each other wholesale, we're inventing governments and economics and ridiculous ideologies and religions to oppress ourselves and others.
What do we contribute to the universe? All we do is consume resources and create garbage. So we find a new world to exploit and cripple... Will we live together in peace? Can we ever possibly live together in peace? History says "NO". What possible motivations could a sane individual have for wanting to perpetuate human suffering?
I've heard this theory before, when I was young in fact, and subscribed to it when I was still trying to find some kind of spirituality to cling to.
But "miracle of life"? It's difficult for me to believe in the "miracle" and sanctity and sacredness of human life when it's treated so cheaply and exploited and abused daily around the world. Of course I have no desire to hurt anyone, and would like nothing more than for humanity to treat one another with respect and dignity, but sadly that's not the way of the world. The world that we created, by the way. It doesn't have to be like this - but we've chosen to make it this way.
I just no longer have any faith in the human race as a whole. Like Mark Twain said - we hold ourselves up as the darlings of creation, but our actions prove us to be the lowest of the animals.
Interstellar's message may not be for you. Fair enough.
I just got around to watching this. I don't know how it sounded in the theater but the blu-ray needs to be recalled and remixed. I would say 50% or more of the time I couldn't understand a damn word they were saying. At several times I thought to myself--is this movie in another language because most of it sounds like garbled gibberish? This is definitely one for closed captions.
2: Why is it so darned important to save the human race? Sure, I would go to great lengths to protect the people I love, but the human race as a whole?
Why? What good are we? All we seem to be interested in is making our fellows suffer. When we're not dreaming up excuses to slaughter each other wholesale, we're inventing governments and economics and ridiculous ideologies and religions to oppress ourselves and others.
What do we contribute to the universe? All we do is consume resources and create garbage. So we find a new world to exploit and cripple... Will we live together in peace? Can we ever possibly live together in peace? History says "NO". What possible motivations could a sane individual have for wanting to perpetuate human suffering?
I just got around to watching this. I don't know how it sounded in the theater but the blu-ray needs to be recalled and remixed. I would say 50% or more of the time I couldn't understand a damn word they were saying. At several times I thought to myself--is this movie in another language because most of it sounds like garbled gibberish? This is definitely one for closed captions.
Hey if anyone buys the blue ray with a frame from the film, and gets one with the Endurance, please let me know if you'd be willing to sell it. Thanks.
Haha that's what I got. Maybe that's what everybody gets?I got a kid holding a cardboard box. LOL
Haha that's what I got. Maybe that's what everybody gets?
I guess not.
Apparently I've become even more jaded and nihilistic than I suspected I was.
Thanks for the chat, anyway.
Interesting read about 3D printing the Endurance
http://3dprint.com/62694/3d-print-lab-for-interstellar/