Which is just about every science fiction story.
I saw it today. Some notes without having read what others have said here.
[spoiler]1. The presentation of the disaster hitting Earth was perhaps overly vague. We were told that all of the wheat crops failed due to a blight, and then the okra (good riddance, I say) and then the corn. What about the rest of the crops? What about developing blight-resistant varieties of the crops? And they needed Tom to become a farmer rather than going to college? Mechanization has reduced the number of people needed on farms. And the movie showed automated, robotic combines, so their workforce would be even smaller than in the real world.
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The monolithic robot was odd looking but perhaps an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey?
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Also odd that denial of the Apollo moon landings would be the majority, official opinion.[/spoiler]
The reviewer here quite liked it, but panned the sound:
I enjoyed it but my biggest issue with the ending was…
…if they’ve developed the technology to build massive Bernal Sphere/O’Neill habitat-starships and maintain their ecosystems then they could’ve covered the Earth with arcologies for everyone to live in for far less cost. It’s an easy problem to fix to; just make the civilization ending problem with the Sun instead of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Quite simply,
high-school girls: ah get older, they stay the saaame age.
I’m surprised this movie is getting such rave reviews. The trailer doesn’t make the movie look at all interesting. But I’ll plan to see it.
Hated it. The kind of philosophical twaddle that college freshmen debate for hours in their dorm rooms while smoking pot. OVERBEARING music. A wtf? ending that just sort of got plucked out of their asses without leading us there.
Another comment and question.
[SPOILER]Why would they use just a screen door at a time when dust storms were common? I imagine that they would have added an airlock to the house, so that you have to pass through two doors before you’re inside. Basically a dust storm equivalent of the sort of mud room people have in the snowbelt.
Also, how was the population bomb supposed to work? I think they were going to develop the fertilized eggs in incubators, but then they have to care for and raise babies. So would they defrost, say, six babies initially. Once they’re raised, they could defrost a few more and then the next generation could raise more kids. But they’d need diapers, breast milk or formula and all kinds of food.[/SPOILER]
Regarding time dilation:
I get that time passes much slower due to gravity, but how does that affect biology, anatomy, or physiology? Even though time passes more slowly on the Miller planet, their bodies should still age, or decay, at the same rate. If they spent 23 Earth years on the Miller planet, their bodies should still have aged 23 years.
Why? They were only there for a few hours; it’s not their fault that the rest of the universe suddenly started moving faster.
Relativity!
Really? Because I figured out about 15 minutes in just who exactly the “ghost” was. It seemed obvious to me. But then, I’ve read a lot of science fiction, and I know a loop when I see one.
Saw it yesterday with my son and we both really, really liked it. It was old-school SF—literary SF to some extent rather than big-explosion-and-funky-aliens movie SF. And I am an old-school SF fan (and writer) and so is my son. I thought McConaghy’s performance was very good and the plot made sense to me. Both me and my son called the idea that the alien benefactors were actually future humans before it was revealed and my son also guessed that the “ghost” was actually future Cooper once they talked about being able to use a black hole to send signals back in time.
That’s it, exactly. It felt like something by Stephen Baxter or Robert Charles Wilson.
Originally posted by Mince:
Nope. They only aged a couple of hours. That’s how relativity works. What they experienced was only a couple of hours based on their frame of reference. In another frame of reference, 23 years had passed. Where they were, only a couple of hours had passed, so their bodies aged accordingly. That’s how our universe actually works.
I had a tough time understanding dialogue at times too.
In general it was OK, looked great but the sentimental parts just didn’t hit me like they were designed to. On these kind of movies I just tend not to worry about the validity of the science too much, and just watch the movie for the entertainment it is.
We saw it on the IMAX and it looked incredible, and apparently with no green screens. It’s definitely an achievement and worth the time, I didn’t think it was dull at all. I hate Anne Hathaway, so that didn’t help.
They did me…but then, I have an 11 year old daughter.
IME, it seems the more sentimental parts resonated with moviegoers who had children.
I have two kids, and I got pretty choked up during the scene when they come back from Miller’s Planet, and Cooper was watching the video of his son over the 23 years that transpired for them, and he was just breaking down in tears over that disparity and time lost to such a horrifying degree.
GR is fascinating, but to be a victim of it… turns out to be pretty horrible.
I meant “They are us”. O RLY?
Saw it last night - we tried to see an 8;30 showing but they were all sold out until 10 PM which shows how popular it is.
We saw it at a newly-opened theater, all reclining seats - made that much much nicer!!
There were just SO MANY instances of " the stupid, it BURNS".
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The watch was shut in a box. No way would it have still been running. No watch batteries run that long; even a solar battery needs, yanno, light.
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Thousands of frozen embryos. Require deep freezing to keep them viable. Then DON’T KEEP TAKING THEM OUT TO LOOK AT THEM.
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What killed Wolf Edmonds? Is that planet even truly habitable?
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If the blight was killing all the food crops, did they have enough un-blighted seeds to actually grow anything in a cleaned-up environment like the arcologies?
I’m curious about the arcologies: why were they out near Saturn anyway? Wouldn’t you want them closer to the sun so there’s more solar power available? Or is the plan to send them through the wormhole and settle whatever planet(s) they found, if any?
The “gravity” thing was such a maguffin - it was never explained just what Michael Kaine’s character meant to do with it if he “solved” whatever he was looking for. Anyone have any clues?
Matt Damon’s character sure was a rat bastard - happy to kill off ALL HUMANITY FOR ALL TIME just because he was lonely.
Actually Mamma, all those “stupid” points are easily inferable from the movie as is and it seems more like nitpicking any actual problems with the script.