Interstellar General Film Discussion Thread

Christopher Nolan's 2014 grand scale science-fiction story about time and space, and the things that transcend them.
Post Reply
User avatar
rickfox
Posts: 126
Joined: July 2012
rhonkt wrote:Question:
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can someone explain to me why Dr. Mann didn't just ask for a ride back? I don't see why he was trying to bamboozle them...I guess it would've damaged his reputation to admit that the data was fake and that he was only trying to get saved, but still the whole fight with Coop seemed a little pointless.

ride back? I
if you mean back to earth , then you are wrong
User avatar
rickfox
Posts: 126
Joined: July 2012
rhonkt wrote:Question:
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can someone explain to me why Dr. Mann didn't just ask for a ride back? I don't see why he was trying to bamboozle them...I guess it would've damaged his reputation to admit that the data was fake and that he was only trying to get saved, but still the whole fight with Coop seemed a little pointless.
after Mann reached that icy planet, he decided that he doesn't want to die, so he falsified information and sent them out with becon signal , boobtraped the robot incase later if the rescue team want check its data, he may thought the rescue team should have ample supply to reach him and other 11 planets, when rescue team arrive , he can claim some error occured and icy planet actually is not liveable and get way with it

then he took a long nap
that is first step

after team reached him and woke him up, they had a conversation(when he was half naked), through this conversation he learned that team had very limited resource thus unable reach other candidate planets(he did ask whereabout of other explorers),and there is only one left --Edmoond's planet, but then Cooper want to go home(Cooper thought icy planet is liveable),that is a big problem for Mann,if Cooper leave with Endurance, Mann is still doomed. --- so there comes his step two
User avatar
Panapaok
Posts: 8217
Joined: May 2014
rhonkt wrote:Question:
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can someone explain to me why Dr. Mann didn't just ask for a ride back? I don't see why he was trying to bamboozle them...I guess it would've damaged his reputation to admit that the data was fake and that he was only trying to get saved, but still the whole fight with Coop seemed a little pointless.
Dr. Mann didn't want to come back to earth. He wanted to go the third planet.
rhonkt
Posts: 47
Joined: October 2014
rickfox wrote:
rhonkt wrote:Question:
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can someone explain to me why Dr. Mann didn't just ask for a ride back? I don't see why he was trying to bamboozle them...I guess it would've damaged his reputation to admit that the data was fake and that he was only trying to get saved, but still the whole fight with Coop seemed a little pointless.

ride back? I
if you mean back to earth , then you are wrong
Didn't Mann want to go back to Earth? Couldn't he have simply asked to "tag along" on the Endurance until they wrap up their mission and head back?
ANONIMNIQ
Posts: 904
Joined: June 2010
Location: Bulgaria
gervasium wrote: There was no point in which it started happening. Nothing happens if Murph stops Coop from going because that event has a probability of 0 in that universe. If Murph stopped him he wouldn't cease to exist in the Tesseract, he never would have gone to the tesseract in the first place, so we wouldn't see him going to the tesseract in the movie.
Events don't change non-stop either, they never "changed" in the first place.
This is confusing! My mind came to a standstill :lol:
w88|
m88|
fun88|
188bet|
fb88|

12bet|
cmd368|
happyluke|
11bet|
12bet|

138-com|
1xbet|
22bet|
855crown|
8live|
9club|

betphoenix|
dafabet|
dubai place|
fabet|
five88|
gdwviet|

hl8viet|
9club|
k8vina|
lixi88|

esball|
empire777|
m8win|
Mansion-Bet|
Yebo-Casino|
ok368|

one88|
Oppabet|
Pinnacle|
Qq8788|
Qqlikebet88|

Rongho99|
Sbobet|
Sbong88|
SV388|
thienhabet|

Ucw18|
Vwin|
Bet365|
WilliamHill|
Betvictor|
Bwin|

1xbet|
Unibet|
Paddypower|
neds|
Ladbrokes|

Coral|
10bet|
8live|
Marathonbet|
WeBet|
Last edited by ANONIMNIQ on June 26th, 2019, 11:59 am, edited 4 times in total.
User avatar
rickfox
Posts: 126
Joined: July 2012
rhonkt wrote:
rickfox wrote:
rhonkt wrote:Question:
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can someone explain to me why Dr. Mann didn't just ask for a ride back? I don't see why he was trying to bamboozle them...I guess it would've damaged his reputation to admit that the data was fake and that he was only trying to get saved, but still the whole fight with Coop seemed a little pointless.

ride back? I
if you mean back to earth , then you are wrong
Didn't Mann want to go back to Earth? Couldn't he have simply asked to "tag along" on the Endurance until they wrap up their mission and head back?
you didn't pay attention to the movie? did you

until they wrap up their mission and head back-------Fuel
rhonkt
Posts: 47
Joined: October 2014
if you mean back to earth , then you are wrong
[/quote]
Didn't Mann want to go back to Earth? Couldn't he have simply asked to "tag along" on the Endurance until they wrap up their mission and head back?
[/quote]
you didn't pay attention to the movie? did you

until they wrap up their mission and head back-------Fuel
[/quote]

First of all, don't be a douche.

Second of all, I've seen the movie twice now and still don't quite understand this point. And I know I'm not alone, because I've seen many articles about this issue.
I know they didn't have enough fuel to explore all the planets...I assume this also means they didn't have enough fuel to get back to Earth? If so, then it would be pointless for Mann to hijack the Endurance anyway. The only reason it would make sense would be if Mann wanted to go to place A (Earth?), and Coop wanted to go somewhere else...but I didn't see this explained in the movie.
Last edited by rhonkt on November 13th, 2014, 12:31 pm, edited 5 times in total.
User avatar
Athinaia
Posts: 9
Joined: November 2014
Location: Greece
fallengt wrote:Regarding the ending. His bother, Jonathan said in an interview that the wormhole's closed and Cooper has to find Brand in a little ship blindly. Okay, I get the romantic(lunatic maybe ?) idea behind it but I'm pretty sure they didn't tell us wormhole was closed in the movie. CMIIW

I know Nolan and his brother like the "some movies are not meant to be fully understood" . Yes sure but a film has to be self-contained... You don't feed audiences with vague details in the movie and tell them wtf happened in an interview after that. :shock:
If the wormhole was open, then Murph would have sent those people to Brand's planet. Instead, we are seeing them playing baseball, so we can assume that it is gone.

It does make sense if *they* are acting like a Deus ex machina. They save you once, but they can't make your life always that easy. That's not what a Deus ex machina does. Plus, TARS retrieved a great deal of info about gravity and other similar issues, AND got an update, and hey, if you can escape from a black hole, chances are that you will find a way to another galaxy too. Cooper has to to try to get there, after all, there's nothing left for him at that station.


My question is why did *they* care saving us? Unless we are somehow important to their evolution, I don't have any other good answer to that.
User avatar
Lionheart
Posts: 1113
Joined: November 2012
This is a 2 day article so i imagine this is bullshit

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/cu ... click=feed

Why the hell do they invent these things ? It happened the same with a possible The Dark Knight Rises Director's Cut. Do they take this straight out of their assholes ?
rhonkt
Posts: 47
Joined: October 2014
Panapaok wrote:
rhonkt wrote:Question:
Sorry if this has been discussed, but can someone explain to me why Dr. Mann didn't just ask for a ride back? I don't see why he was trying to bamboozle them...I guess it would've damaged his reputation to admit that the data was fake and that he was only trying to get saved, but still the whole fight with Coop seemed a little pointless.
Dr. Mann didn't want to come back to earth. He wanted to go the third planet.
I don't know about that. I'm not saying this article is right, but clearly many people believe:
Mann wanted to go back to Earth.

http://screencrush.com/interstellar-dr-mann/
EDIT: After thinking about this further:
I think Mann wanted to go to Edmund's planet because he knows Earth is doomed (he knew "plan A" never really existed). On the other hand, Coop eventually wanted to return to Earth. There is where the conflict lies.

But clearly this wasn't explained/shown on screen very well if there are multiple articles out there saying Mann wanted to return to Earth.
Post Reply

Return to “Interstellar”