CinemaSins wrote:Jesus that truck caught up to that drone so fast...
It's a 10-year-old aging drone with a possibly faulty guidance system. Probably not at peak performance.
CinemaSins wrote:Can't imagine a future where escaping Earth via wormhole is a better plan that just fixing Earth.
It's a much better plan when Earth is about to become a duplicate of Venus. Our modern civilization wouldn't have a hope of stopping that, so there's no way Cooper's world does.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interstellar/c ... ?context=3
CinemaSins wrote:Why did they put it near Saturn?
Because history recorded it as appearing near Saturn.
CinemaSins wrote:Doesn't such a wormhole possibly affect the gravity of the region?
A very small handful-of-km-wide region, yes. Insignificant on a planetary scale.
CinemaSins wrote:He's ready to go back into space immediately?
There's no evidence that he immediately boarded the rocket upon returning to NASA. No doubt there would have been a brief training period, which would've been pointless to show because it would add nothing to the film.
CinemaSins wrote:Here, a genius NASA astronaut will explain the theory of wormholes to another genius NASA astronaut.
Astronauts have different specialties; in fact, the majority of astronauts are mission specialists. Not everyone knows everything, and relativity isn't something Cooper needs to know in-depth to fly the ship.
CinemaSins wrote:they explore a planet near a black hole.
A planet that is Earth-size with water, hydrocarbons, tolerable atmospheric pressure & temperature, and has a stable orbit. When the world is ending, it's prudent to check all options.
CinemaSins wrote:Why is the best Earth-like planet one that orbits a black hole?
The target system needs an inactive supermassive black hole for the quantum data. Gargantua's system doesn't have the most habitable planets; it's just the most habitable system that has a satisfactory black hole.
CinemaSins wrote:great tidal waves from great tidal forces
They're most likely
not from tidal forces. FAQ, Q4:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interstellar/c ... _spoilers/
CinemaSins wrote:4 minutes of dialogue [...] does not explain this 45-to-an-hour shit
Would you rather they kept the full 45-minute conversation in the film?
CinemaSins wrote:Wes Bentley's character I barely cared about died. I'll make a note of that for future sorrow.
The point of showing that isn't to feel sorry for him specifically. Killing off the character who seemed to be the leader of crew early shows A) just how dangerous the mission is B) they're in way over their heads.
CinemaSins wrote:All that stuff on the ocean planet took over 3 hours?
Rendezvousing with the planet on its orbit after the slingshot, plus the full atmospheric entry sequence, plus everything we saw onscreen, plus the full 45-minute conversation, plus the climb to orbit, plus rendezvousing with the neutron star for a slingshot back to
Endurance... actually, having all that happen in
only 3 hours is kinda pushing it.
CinemaSins wrote:Mars right next door looks way safer than those new planets they traveled to.
It is. But the new planets have Earthlike gravity, water, an thick atmospheres. The mission objective was to find somewhere they could transplant a civilization, meaning checking out these strange new worlds is a necessary risk.
CinemaSins wrote:"The equation couldn't reconcile relativity and quantum mechanics. You need more." Like more dialogue so that you don't sound like a vague bastard.
How is that in any way vague? Anyone remotely familiar with either GR or QM, and the quest for a theory of everything, will understand that statement perfectly.
CinemaSins wrote:But how do you know what to look for?
By looking at certain phenomena and specific parts of the black hole where the predictions of GR and QM are either incomplete or conflicting.
CinemaSins wrote:For some reason, the movie now decides to cut back and forth
CinemaSins has done lots of Nolan films, surely he's noticed by now that this is Nolan's style.
CinemaSins wrote:If you can crack your space helmet yet keep fighting, the planet's air can't be all that bad for you.
Mann's helmet cracked, but didn't breach. As for Cooper, he was exposed to a mixture of his suit's air and the surrounding atmosphere, a nontoxic but not sufficiently oxygenated mixture.
CinemaSins wrote:How come Anne Hathaway and the other dude can't hear these comms?
They explicitly showed that you have to manually activate the transmitter to send a message. Mann's doesn't activate his, and Cooper's was thrown away.
CinemaSins wrote:How long does it take for these two to FLY to the spot that Mann and Cooper WALKED to a little bit ago?
Mann & Cooper's full walk is not shown. They could have been walking for an hour or two; either way, the Lander gets there in minutes. Also, take note that the less-than-friendly terrain makes flight somewhat tricky, reducing the Lander's effective top speed to get from A to B.
CinemaSins wrote:So they can disable AUTO docking but they can't disable his ability to video-game dock?!?!
Emergency manual backups are a must for spacecraft in case of computer failure. By definition, a manual backup is something that shouldn't be disable-able.
CinemaSins wrote:Excuse me, you're going to what the what to push you out of the what's what, now? I didn't hear what you said, but it sounds impossible.
Cooper said he'd take them to the critical orbit, a uniquely unstable orbit where a slight perturbation outward (rockets firing) can send the ship careening into space away from the event horizon with very little effort.
CinemaSins wrote:isn't it reasonable, with the scientific knowledge we have today, to assume this guy is vapor?
No; Gargantua's too big to do that. Tidal forces are weak enough that he'll only starting ripping apart once he gets very far inside the event horizon.
CinemaSins wrote:According to this movie, it's theoretically possible to fly into a black hole, eject, and then end up inside your daughter's childhood bookshelf.
Only if you have a 5D machine helping you out. Also, this only works if reality matches the specific kind of Anti-deSitter spacetime that Kip Thorne assumed in
The Science of Interstellar. Currently, we can't prove if that's the case, but we're working on it.
CinemaSins wrote:If you can poke through a tesseract and touch books, why not just write a note and pass that through?
Cooper can only do basic push/pull actions to affect gravity within Murph's room. Handling a pencil & paper is much more mechanically complex and can't be done with the Tesseract's interface.
CinemaSins wrote:TARS can still communicate to Cooper from Bum-Fuck Egypt to Somewhere, Somethingsville.
TARS' path into Gargantua was very similar to Cooper's. He would have also fallen into the Tesseract.
CinemaSins wrote:How is he able to reach inside the glass of the watch?
Each of the "strings" is an object's worldline. Moving the worldline translates to a gravitational effect. So he's pushing on the watch hand's worldline, but not the worldline of the rest of the watch.
CinemaSins wrote:And how does he ensure the watch continues to deliver the message once he's done with it?
Anything Cooper does is stored within the Tesseract and repeated. Recall that the gravity anomalies causing the dust to fall were persistent.
