The Films and Movies Thread

[mmoan2]

Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure birdie.

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True, but Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey was, well, a bogey. Seriously!

[mmoan2]

The Elegant Universe - three part documentary on Quantum Mechanics and String Theory as answers to a Universal Theory of all life. Birdie. Very interesting primer on theoretical physicists search to discover the secrets of the universe. Makes you wonder how they plan on proving all this someday...

[nevets88]

The Elegant Universe - three part documentary on Quantum Mechanics and String Theory as answers to a Universal Theory of all life. Birdie. Very interesting primer on theoretical physicists search to discover the secrets of the universe. Makes you wonder how they plan on proving all this  someday...

This isn't a movie, it's tv 3 part documentary - should really be in the favorite tv shows thread. I put a YT vid in that thread as that's a documentary I really enjoyed.

[nevets88]

LOL, there's an explainer infographic for Interstellar already, I can see why you might need one for Inception, I guess the time dilation can get a little dicey:

http://i.imgur.com/MgwWMFU.jpg

[SwingKing]

Haven't seen Interstellar yet, but heard good things.  Might actually pay to see this one in the movie theatre.

[colin007]

Interstellar Eagle on a short par 5. I went to the Imax show and thought it was WAY WAY too loud. I'm actually hearing impaired, wear hearing aids in both ears, I can't imagine how people with fully functioning hearing can stand it. Anyways, the story was great, I think I would have changed the ending, but the space shots, the other planet shots, the visualization of the black hole, were just simply stunning. I am a total space nerd and that stuff took my breath away. Very very good movie.

[Warren Zevon]

I saw Interstellar yesterday. I give it a birdie. Visually stunning and beautiful. I thought it was overly long, but I'm not sure what could have been edited out. Lots of narrative that didn't quite do it for me, but to me Nolan peaked with Memento, lol. In space, no one can feel your hug.

[mvmac]

Interstellar is in between an eagle and a birdie for me so I give it a birdie on a long par 4.

Wasn't a fan of the middle act with the surprise "guest star" but I get how it was a plot device to get us to the last act. Great visuals, love the characters, story and how things connect. Nolan always does a great job of telling a story utilizing his characters and their motivations. It's a Sci-Fi fantasy but it also feels very real. The underlying message that we need to keep exploring/dreaming was clear but Nolan didn't try to hit us over the head with it.

@nevets88 , that was a cool infograph.

The graph makes it seem like the people that open the worm hole are the descendants of Earth orbiting Saturn, 68 years after they solve the gravity equation. I initially thought the people that open the wormhole and build the tesseract are even farther into the future, maybe even evolved past a "human" looking state. Just seems like a crazy amount of advancement for 68 years.

[nevets88]

I saw Interstellar again and the writing just doesn't hold up so I'm gonna drop my rating to a tap in birdie. The exposition, clunkyness, not letting the scenes have room to breathe really stick out but for me because I loved the space aspect so much, I'm more forgiving of this movie than most. Here's a summary of the original script Spielberg dropped, with the Chinese space station, Murph's a boy and no Dr. Mann. I'll eventually get to reading the original script in full. http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/2008_script [SPOILER=Warning: Spoiler!] [LIST] [*] I agree with the critics, Hollywood just won't let any main characters die even more lately and I would not have minded a version where Coop dies. [*] Things that don't make sense - why would Coop go after Brand at the end? Yeah, he wants to move on but there was no indication he was in love with Amelia. [*] If you're gonna let old Murph see Coop, let that scene go on for a little longer. Let Coop meet his grandkids. [*] I got dusty when Coop left Murph, watched the 23 years of video and met old Murph. [*] Escaping the huge wave, TARS doing that spinning thing rushing Amelia to the spaceship, docking with the 60 rpm spinning Endurance was excellent. [*] Love the use of the organ. Yeah, it was loud, Inception was worse though, with the brass section. [*] I thought Murph's brother was gonna toss the watch. Murph making the discovery in her childhood room while Coop was in the tesseract was awesome. [/LIST] [/SPOILER]

[mvmac]

Here's a summary of the original script Spielberg dropped, with the Chinese space station, Murph's a boy and no Dr. Mann. I'll eventually get to reading the original script in full.

http://interstellarfilm.wikia.com/wiki/2008_script

I like the second act better but prefer Acts 1 and 3 for the Nolan Interstellar. I like that they go to multiple planets and there is more of an "interaction" between Murph and Coop in the Nolan Interstellar.

[nevets88]

Another infographic:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xJKIg4Jr--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ovhksy5qlesslilfebpv.png

The old Time Travel paradox:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/11/07/interstellar_explained_the_ending_who_are_they_the_tesseract_the_blight.html

I don’t understand the ending. If “they” are descended from humans, and Cooper saves humanity, then how could “they” exist in the future if Cooper hasn’t saved humanity yet? Or, as Vulture put it, “you can’t travel back in time and engineer your own salvation.” Right?

A lot of science fiction, at least, would disagree with you. The ending of Interstellar seems to present a “bootstrap paradox.” In short, this is a type of time paradox in which a chicken sends an egg back in time, which egg then becomes that chicken. A popular example is The Terminator: In the first movie in the series, Kyle Reese is sent back in time by John Connor to protect Sarah Connor, John Connor’s mother. The paradox is that Reese turns out to be the father of John Connor—by sending Reese back in time, John Connor created himself. (Similarly, by going back in time to try to kill John Connor, Skynet leaves behind the advanced robotic parts that lead to the creation of Skynet.)

Without time travel, whether such a thing is possible remains theoretical, but it’s something theoretical physicists do argue about.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/interstellar-explained-in-one-timeline-warning-spoile-1656588261

First Timeline:

Wormhole opens. Mann and Brand and Cooper work on the Lazarus Project. Cooper flies on the final mission (the mission he'd been training for without knowing it) with Amelia, going through the same trials and sacrificing himself in Gargantua to let her escape to Edmund's world. Amelia institutes Plan B on Edmund's world. Those people go on to evolve into Humanity's future, with a stable Black Hole to guide their sciences. They evolve to work in the 5th dimension, and decide they want to save their ancestors. THEY find Cooper in Gargantua and create the tesseract for him. They initiate their original gravity burst to down Cooper's training flight for the original Lazarus mission. This leads Cooper to leave the program, marry someone, and have children. This change creates a second timeline, and creates Murph, key to their plan.

Second Timeline

This is what we see in the movie. THEY cannot interact with Murph, because she did not exist in their original timeline, so they use Cooper in the Tesseract to communicate with her, via love and gravity. His purpose here is two-fold: to guide himself back to Lazarus after THEY diverted him and to bring Murph into Lazarus, to fulfill the promise of Brand's Plan A. Cooper rejoins Lazarus just as before and re-aligns his second timeline with his first. Once in the tesseract again (or the same original time due to 5th dimension mechanics) he relays the TARS data to Murph and she makes Plan A a reality. Cooper Station lifts off, and begins it's slow trek towards the Wormhole.

Cooper is released from the tesseract, and recovered on Cooper Station just outside Saturn for a final reunion with Murph before she dies. He then leaves in a ship to rejoin Brand on Edmund's planet, knowing that she he there alone due to the time dilation involved in the final voyage across Gargantua causing Edmunds to be long dead of old age. Cooper and Brand create the second age of Humanity, those that will become THEY as they wait for the survivors of Earth to reach them in their slow gravity ship.

[boogielicious]

Divergent - Bogey.  The story had potential, but it never took off.

[nevets88]

Interstellar Gets An Unexpected Twitter Review From Neil deGrasse Tyson

http://www.hugecool.com/2014/11/interstellar-gets-unexpected-twitter.html

I dunno, but I would most definitely expect him to eventually weigh in on the movie.

Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 9h 9 hours ago

In # Interstellar : They explore a planet near a Black Hole. Personally, I’d stay as far the hell away from BlackHoles as I can

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

REMINDER: Never look to me for opinions on new films. All I do is highlight the science one might or might not find in them.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar , if you didn’t understand the plot, there is no published book to help you.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar , if you didn’t understand the physics, try Kip Thorne’s highly readable Bbook “The Science of Interstellar"

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar : On another planet, around another star, in another part of the galaxy, two guys get into a fist fight.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar : Of the leading characters (all of whom are scientists or engineers) half are women. Just an FYI.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar : They reprise the matched-rotation docking maneuver from "2001: A Space Odyssey," but they spin 100x faster.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar : You enter a 3-Dimensional portal in space. Yes, you can fall in from any direction. Yes, it’s a Worm Hole.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 10h 10 hours ago

In # Interstellar : You observe great Tidal Waves from great Tidal Forces, of magnitude that orbiting a Black Hole might create

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

In # Interstellar : The producers knew exactly how, why, & when you’d achieve zero-G in space.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

In # Interstellar : Experience Einstein's Curvature of Space as no other feature film has shown.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

In # Interstellar : Experience Einstein’s Relativity of Time as no other feature film has shown.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

GPS Satellites are pre-corrected for General Relativity, allowing them to beam us the accurate time for Earth’s surface.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

GPS satellites, located farther from Earth’s center than we are, keep faster time than do our clocks on Earth’s surface.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

In # Interstellar : And in the real universe, strong gravitational fields measurably slow passage of time relative to others.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

In # Interstellar : There’s a robot named KIPP. One of the Executive Producers, a physicist, is named Kip. I’m just saying.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson · 11h 11 hours ago

In # Interstellar : All leading characters, including McConaughey, Hathaway, Chastain, & Caine play a scientist or engineer.

[colin007]

i effing love Neil deGrasse Tyson.

[nevets88]

i effing love Neil deGrasse Tyson.

I did not know that GPS clocks ran faster than terrestrial clocks. You can learn a thing or two from Tweets. Not all Tweets are superficial.

[jamo]

Watched Lone Survivor the other day on HBO. I give it a birdie.

[iacas]

Million Dollar Arm . Lips one in for par, but only because it was based on a true story.

[Abu3baid]

Cars I Doesn't get old... birdie