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"Interstellar" is incredible. Possibly the GOAT sci-fi film of all time

It looks AND sounds incredible for the entire running time. ...
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
i thought it was totally mediocre except for a couple scenes...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
Did you watch it on an iPad? It demands a full theater exper...
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
watched in threatre contact lived up to its premise inter...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
They aren't comparable. Contact is more like The Arrival or ...
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
https://www.vulture.com/2014/11/contact-interstellar-matthew...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
I like Contact too so not really trying to argue You disa...
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
i didn't see oppenheimer but i'm not a nolan fan, he always ...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
proles were all OOOOO time travel
Pea-brained Boltzmann Weed Whacker
  08/03/24
I'm prole as fuck so this tracks
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
i liked the scene with the black guy turning old from the ti...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
I burst out laughing when Matt Damon shows up
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
yeah it was really jarring. bad casting. hathaway was also...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
I knew he was the traitor the second I saw his rat face.
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Deep Adventurous Sex Offender
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silver pit kitty
  08/03/24
So cr
stirring crystalline spot
  08/03/24
it is indeed a great movie, all the criticisms ive seen come...
lemon library main people
  08/03/24
I liked the part where they weren't mountains, they were wav...
cerebral bawdyhouse
  08/03/24
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Pea-brained Boltzmann Weed Whacker
  08/03/24
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Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
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stirring crystalline spot
  08/03/24
It's good
Pearly nibblets
  08/03/24
Cr Interstellar and Inception are Nolan's best
Up-to-no-good titillating persian
  08/03/24
I read the original script written by Jonathan Nolan when it...
Learning disabled hospital mad cow disease
  08/03/24
Why didn't he just say to wait for "the President"...
Vigorous base newt
  08/03/24
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silver pit kitty
  08/03/24
Could have had a twist at the end that the Earth was really ...
passionate lodge
  08/03/24
They could have worked it in using something like what you j...
Learning disabled hospital mad cow disease
  08/03/24
I liked it but they could've cut the first 40 minutes of the...
galvanic roommate house
  08/03/24
...
Fluffy principal's office
  08/03/24
This was an Ode To White People fwiw
Up-to-no-good titillating persian
  08/03/24
I liked the documentary style sound bites from old ladies. I...
Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness
  08/03/24
the gravity planet part was incredible (the waves, the look ...
Magenta Gas Station
  08/03/24
Great looking movie, but the plot was and is dumb as hell. ...
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  08/03/24
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silver pit kitty
  08/03/24
I think it’s a really good movie but I still like A...
transparent impertinent theater stage jewess
  08/03/24
Ad Astra is a movie for Men
Up-to-no-good titillating persian
  08/03/24
there’s a lot of truth to this
transparent impertinent theater stage jewess
  08/03/24
It’s overly sentimental and lachrymose, too much &ldqu...
Concupiscible National Giraffe
  08/03/24
I love the film despite virtually all these criticisms being...
burgundy dashing space gaping
  08/03/24
Hans Zimmer's score was an absolute banger
stirring crystalline spot
  08/03/24
Kip Thorne (Caltech prof. and Nobel laureate for his work in...
hilarious milk
  08/03/24
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transparent impertinent theater stage jewess
  08/03/24
It's no Wrath of Khan.
passionate lodge
  08/03/24


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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:10 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

It looks AND sounds incredible for the entire running time. Every single shot could be a photograph in a frame. Every single actor is A-list and they have incredible chemistry. It is easily Nolan's best work and if you compare it side by side with "Oppenheimer" the latter seems like trash.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924464)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:12 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office

i thought it was totally mediocre except for a couple scenes. the first half or 2/3 of the movie is shot on land in the dust belt. the score was wildly overbearing

the same producer did "contact", which was 10x better imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924468)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:12 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

Did you watch it on an iPad? It demands a full theater experience if not iMax imo

Contact has 1/10 of the outer space scenes lmao

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924470)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:14 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office

watched in threatre

contact lived up to its premise interstellar didnt imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924477)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:15 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

They aren't comparable. Contact is more like The Arrival or Sphere or other slow burn "space" thrillers that basically take place on earth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924481)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:18 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office

https://www.vulture.com/2014/11/contact-interstellar-matthew-mcconaughey.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924493)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:19 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

I like Contact too so not really trying to argue

You disagree that Interstellar is better than Oppenheimer? Was it just the ending you didn't like?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924496)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:21 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office

i didn't see oppenheimer but i'm not a nolan fan, he always does huge pumping scores and plays around with time to hide the flimsiness of his material

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924498)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:14 PM
Author: Pea-brained Boltzmann Weed Whacker

proles were all OOOOO time travel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924479)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:16 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

I'm prole as fuck so this tracks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924484)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:17 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office

i liked the scene with the black guy turning old from the time dilation planet stuff and the matt damon fake planet stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924488)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:17 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

I burst out laughing when Matt Damon shows up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924490)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:19 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office

yeah it was really jarring. bad casting. hathaway was also terrible

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924494)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:18 PM
Author: burgundy dashing space gaping

I knew he was the traitor the second I saw his rat face.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925156)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 6:34 PM
Author: Deep Adventurous Sex Offender



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925356)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:29 PM
Author: silver pit kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925182)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:16 PM
Author: stirring crystalline spot

So cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924487)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:20 PM
Author: lemon library main people

it is indeed a great movie, all the criticisms ive seen come across as people trying unsuccessfully to prove that they are too smart for it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924497)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:22 PM
Author: cerebral bawdyhouse

I liked the part where they weren't mountains, they were waves

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924500)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:22 PM
Author: Pea-brained Boltzmann Weed Whacker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924502)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:22 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924503)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:09 PM
Author: stirring crystalline spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924667)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 2:31 PM
Author: Pearly nibblets

It's good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924539)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:11 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good titillating persian

Cr Interstellar and Inception are Nolan's best

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924671)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:20 PM
Author: Learning disabled hospital mad cow disease

I read the original script written by Jonathan Nolan when it was being passed around Hollywood and the original ending was way better. In it, humanity sent a couple of robots to a planet orbiting a black hole. The robots’ job was to prepare the planet for humanity to live there. When the ship arrives, they find a thriving global civilization of huge cities and millions of robots awaiting humanity’s arrival, and even though the robots were only sent there a few months earlier, you find out that five-thousand years had passed on the planet due to time dilation as a result of the planet’s proximity to the black hole. Chris Nolan didn’t end up using it because IRL time dilation works the exact opposite way (i.e., LESS time would pass on a planet orbiting a black hole). It was still a 180 idea for a story though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924707)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:24 PM
Author: Vigorous base newt

Why didn't he just say to wait for "the President"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924722)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:29 PM
Author: silver pit kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925185)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 6:06 PM
Author: passionate lodge

Could have had a twist at the end that the Earth was really the one orbiting a black hole.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925309)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 6:33 PM
Author: Learning disabled hospital mad cow disease

They could have worked it in using something like what you just said. There was a rumor that Chris Nolan didn’t use it because he wanted to use it as the plot for a sequel but I don’t believe that. I’m fairly certain he just scrapped the idea altogether. Renowned physicist Kip Thorne was an adviser on the film and I think he straight up told Nolan this shit is retarded and could never happen IRL.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925352)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:27 PM
Author: galvanic roommate house

I liked it but they could've cut the first 40 minutes of them dicking around in a corn field imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924735)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:30 PM
Author: Fluffy principal's office



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924753)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 3:38 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good titillating persian

This was an Ode To White People fwiw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924785)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 4:09 PM
Author: Slate electric gaming laptop twinkling uncleanness

I liked the documentary style sound bites from old ladies. It made the bleak dystopian future more palatable and established a somber baseline mood to persuade us that this guy would leave behind his kids for a farfetched space mission

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924923)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 4:02 PM
Author: Magenta Gas Station

the gravity planet part was incredible (the waves, the look on the guy's face when they return, and the reaction to his daughter/son growing up)

matt damon being a bad guy was pretty good

rest was decent. stuff like love was silly

i'm generally a big fan of the movie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47924890)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:04 PM
Author: Swashbuckling field

Great looking movie, but the plot was and is dumb as hell.

"Cooper falls into the black hole and finds himself in a four-dimensional tesseract, where he travels through time and space and finds himself able to manipulate the falling dust grains in his childhood home, allowing him to send the NASA site coordinates to his past self and bootstrap his mission. He also deduces that the tesseract itself was constructed by a future generation of humankind to similarly guide their predecessors. He and TARS transmit information from within the black hole by manipulating the hands of Murph's wristwatch."

He uses love and a wristwatch to communicate to another dimension (also he can only send codes through becausue you can obvioulsy manipulate a watch through time and space but you can't jst send fucking words).

I've seen paw patrol episodes where i've had to suspend my disbelief more

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925132)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:30 PM
Author: silver pit kitty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925187)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:08 PM
Author: transparent impertinent theater stage jewess

I think it’s a really good movie

but I still like Ad Astra more for reasons I’m not quite sure I can articulate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925140)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:11 PM
Author: Up-to-no-good titillating persian

Ad Astra is a movie for Men

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925146)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:26 PM
Author: transparent impertinent theater stage jewess

there’s a lot of truth to this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925171)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:15 PM
Author: Concupiscible National Giraffe

It’s overly sentimental and lachrymose, too much “love my dang kids gonna miss them so 🥺”. Barf.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925151)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:21 PM
Author: burgundy dashing space gaping

I love the film despite virtually all these criticisms being valid, anne hathaway being a drag, and a bunch of plot points being stupid af.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925163)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:32 PM
Author: stirring crystalline spot

Hans Zimmer's score was an absolute banger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925192)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:44 PM
Author: hilarious milk

Kip Thorne (Caltech prof. and Nobel laureate for his work in gravity) was technical advisor on the movie. I talked with him about it. His objective was to make sure that nothing portrayed was impossible based on our present understanding of physics. Highly speculative was OK, obviously. He wrote a short book called "The Science of Interstellar," which shows his back-of-the-envelope calculations illustrating why things portrayed in the movie could be true. The book has a fair amount of depth on what happens around black holes. The visualization work they did on black holes and wormholes was 180.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925233)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 5:50 PM
Author: transparent impertinent theater stage jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925256)



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Date: August 3rd, 2024 6:05 PM
Author: passionate lodge

It's no Wrath of Khan.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5569239&forum_id=2#47925307)