Wow, what a movie!

Between this movie, Ad Astra and Arrival, it's like Hollywood have remembered how to make good sci-fi films. And even better, none of these films were about fighting some alien enemy, they were about exploration and physical phenomenon. Shame that the Star Trek franchise is now controlled by idiots, it would be awesome to get those type of stories in Trek again.

Yeah, one of the best. They make movies like this once a lifetime. Music is wonderful as well.


Thomas Bergersen and Hans Zimmer are the Gods of music of our time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8emPcVRhuc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izsjRpcgfmk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAzCf0ascW8


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Definitely one of the better sci-fi's of recent times. I'd suggest the Martian as well if you haven't seen it yet. More space than sci-fi but very good nonetheless.

I like old Nolan movies a lot better... but it's still the best in that list.
A lot of modern Hollywood (scifi) movies would've been better if they made them a lot shorter. Ad Astra: great atmosphere, but dragged on for too long. And pirates on the moon in a "car chase"... really?

Generally any Nolan movie is going to be worth your time. Loved that one though. The work they put into that black hole was really impressive. I did find it funny how the final movie version wound up looking more like a black hole than the original unaltered model. Memento! Pure, distilled writing genius.

The most popular Trek has always been action/political Trek. Star Trek: The Motion Picture is barely praised even on Trek forums. Not saying that's bad or good, just saying it's no wonder the newer shows and movies focus on other elements. I thought Beyond was a good balance of the two, personally, but obviously opinions differ.

Anyway... Interstellar was good. I wasn't as in love with it as you, and the ending is meh for me, but it's a good sci-fi movie for sure. I liked Arrival a lot, and I loved Ex Machina and Annihilation. Blade Runner 2049 was surprisingly great as well. Haven't seen Ad Astra yet.

Allow me to be that guy, but Interstellar is so dumb it insulted my intelligence. Even the worst episodes of Star Trek wouldn't try to push that "love" crap Interstellar did at the end. Even the whole premise doesn't make sense. No matter how bad life gets on Earth, it will always be easier to build cities underground, even under ocean, than to search for a new planet through a black hole or something and build gigantic spaceships with artificial gravity generators to move everyone there in a rush. The whole movie makes no sense.

^This.

I enjoyed Interstellar well enough, but there were a lot of problems. I consider the docking scene to be one of the best space scenes ever made; but if they tried to fire up the main engine and provide thrust behind an area that wasn't the center of mass all they would accomplish is spinning around really fast. Still, I go back and watch that scene every now and then. However it really went off believability close to the end with the black hole, it moved from an interesting and fairly accurate science fiction show into complete fantasy; my impression after watching it was that it wasn't a very good movie because of that.

Ad Astra I found to be very dull, while watching I can basically tell that the writer was just making up conflict that he can shoehorn in and waste time with. I did like Annihilation, gets a bit too weird at the end but the journey was worth it. The martian was good, arrival was ok. What I really want to find are more movies similar to Pandorum

The point of the blight in Interstellar was that it was transforming the Earth into a nitrogen atmosphere. Even if you build cities underground or underwater, you still need oxygen.

The moon pirates and monkeys on the space ship were ridiculous scenes that had no place in the movie, but I know exactly why they were included:
Hollywood Exec: "We've got a nearly 3 hour movie without any action scenes, please add some"

Why not? That's exactly the part I liked the most in Ad Astra. Basically you had starving monkeys that wouldn't know how to eat the rations on the spaceship, so they attacked Brad Pitt's crew immediately.

The space pirates... that's a different thing.

I didn't say it didn't make sense, just that it felt completely out of a place in an otherwise methodical, slow-moving film.

Honestly it didn't feel all that out of place, since it's just another unexpected crisis. Just like the sequence from the start of the film. Which I also liked, since again it's something I've never seen in any other film.

That aspect can be taken with a grain of salt. I thought it made Dr. Brand appear rather irrational and compromised at that stage. Using blind faith and feelings to justify her opinion and express her emotions. Not really a strong-suit considering her position, but understandable.

*Spoilers Follow*

For me the real truth was probability, even if some of the characters thought it was love, it was a little more determinable than that. Cooper found himself in a dimension (or four) where time has no meaning, because it's not linear. He can be here, later, earlier, wherever he wants, whenever he wants. So if there's a chance that he can find Murph and communicate with her, then he has what appears to be an infinite amount of opportunities to do it. Time seems pressed from her point of view, but she's in 3 dimensions. She will run out of time if he doesn't convey the message. But he won't.

I hope that makes sense... or maybe it is love... :P