Interstellar

[Brandenhee]

Just finished watching interstellar. It's a good movie, had a good time without alcohol. Wanna hear your thoughts about it. Also, was the foreshadowing about the dad being the ghost at the start too obvious?

[TheHolyCawCaw]

Still have to watch it

[SeanBond]

Just finished watching interstellar. It's a good movie, had a good time without alcohol. Wanna hear your thoughts about it. Also, was the foreshadowing about the dad being the ghost at the start too obvious?

Had a good time without alcohol? Lol is that hard? Yeah I loved the movie personally. One of the best movies about space I have ever seen. 

[Atmos]

It was a good movie, but from someone like me who is deeply interested in blackholes, time, and relative dimensions, it lost count the moment it showed the blackhole. The story was really good, but the science did not hold up at all, what could we expect though, if it had followed the laws of gravity then the moment that the pilots could see the blackhole they would be "spaghettified" their ship would rip apart, and they would all die a horrible death (due in fact for them to be that close to it, they would have died long long ago due to unimaginable amounts of gravity. That and the whole "its an older blackhole so its slowing down!" bit... I can't even begin to describe why thats wrong in every single way of science... Blackholes arn't dangerous because they're spinning, they're dangerous because they are so F**KING HEAVY. And the older a blackhole is only means its going to get heavier, they don't go on diets or get smaller they only get bigger and bigger over time with the consumption of more matter. Theres also a LOT more wrong with this movie, it doesnt hold up scientifically except on maybe one or two things, but it does cover a lot of known artifacts of our universe such as gravity having a direct effect on time, and the slightly less popular theory that blackholes are portals to other dimensions. To enjoy it i had to toss my science hat out of the window and just like it for a action sci-fi movie, and on that means it was pretty darn good. All in all I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 as a film, and about a 3.5/10 as a science geek.

 

#EndRant

[Brandenhee]

Had a good time without alcohol? Lol is that hard? Yeah I loved the movie personally. One of the best movies about space I have ever seen. 

It's a rating system of a youtuber called jeremyjahns. You shld check him out. The system goes like this - Awesometacular for perfect, Would buy on bluray for very good, good time no alcohol required for decent, good time only when you are drunk for not so good and lastly dog shit for.... well that's self explanatory. 

[Brandenhee]

It was a good movie, but from someone like me who is deeply interested in blackholes, time, and relative dimensions, it lost count the moment it showed the blackhole. The story was really good, but the science did not hold up at all, what could we expect though, if it had followed the laws of gravity then the moment that the pilots could see the blackhole they would be "spaghettified" their ship would rip apart, and they would all die a horrible death (due in fact for them to be that close to it, they would have died long long ago due to unimaginable amounts of gravity. That and the whole "its an older blackhole so its slowing down!" bit... I can't even begin to describe why thats wrong in every single way of science... Blackholes arn't dangerous because they're spinning, they're dangerous because they are so F**KING HEAVY. And the older a blackhole is only means its going to get heavier, they don't go on diets or get smaller they only get bigger and bigger over time with the consumption of more matter. Theres also a LOT more wrong with this movie, it doesnt hold up scientifically except on maybe one or two things, but it does cover a lot of known artifacts of our universe such as gravity having a direct effect on time, and the slightly less popular theory that blackholes are portals to other dimensions. To enjoy it i had to toss my science hat out of the window and just like it for a action sci-fi movie, and on that means it was pretty darn good. All in all I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 as a film, and about a 3.5/10 as a science geek.

 

#EndRant

About the blackhole, you will only be severely affected when you approach the event horizon which is the point at which the blackhole's gravitational pull gets so strong that even light cannot escape. Prior to that, you will just be at free fall and will not be spaghettified. Also, it being a super massive blackhole, it has different properties compared to a "regular" one. The events after the main protagonist falls into the blackhole past the event horizon are "made up" as nobody really knows what will happen after that point so the writers had some wiggle room to get a lil creative about it.

[AlexStriz]

Am I the only one that thought it was kinda stupid? I mean, the first hour two where fine, but when he went into that black hole with the fifth dimension and started throwing stuff at his daughter to communicate to her from the future? Hmm... And then when he woke up in a world that was a complete cylinder? I don't know, I feel like it was a little over the top. 

 

The friend I was in there with literally got up and left when he saw the hospital and what was outside. 

 

Also, wasn't where ever they were living just outside Saturn? What was the whole point of going into the wormholes if in the end they just started living right next to it?

[steffen_anywhere]

It was a good movie, but from someone like me who is deeply interested in blackholes, time, and relative dimensions, it lost count the moment it showed the blackhole. The story was really good, but the science did not hold up at all, what could we expect though, if it had followed the laws of gravity then the moment that the pilots could see the blackhole they would be "spaghettified" their ship would rip apart, and they would all die a horrible death (due in fact for them to be that close to it, they would have died long long ago due to unimaginable amounts of gravity. That and the whole "its an older blackhole so its slowing down!" bit... I can't even begin to describe why thats wrong in every single way of science... Blackholes arn't dangerous because they're spinning, they're dangerous because they are so F**KING HEAVY. And the older a blackhole is only means its going to get heavier, they don't go on diets or get smaller they only get bigger and bigger over time with the consumption of more matter. Theres also a LOT more wrong with this movie, it doesnt hold up scientifically except on maybe one or two things, but it does cover a lot of known artifacts of our universe such as gravity having a direct effect on time, and the slightly less popular theory that blackholes are portals to other dimensions. To enjoy it i had to toss my science hat out of the window and just like it for a action sci-fi movie, and on that means it was pretty darn good. All in all I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 as a film, and about a 3.5/10 as a science geek.

 

#EndRant

 

I fully agree with this. They made the black waay too weak. "Spaghettification" occurs because of the inverse square law and the fact that the short distance across a ship or body already results in a great force delta, which stretches the body in question.

 

Spinning black holes do create an interesting signature in space-time though. They actually twist space-time rather than just being an infinitely deep well.

 

Glad someone here had similar thoughts. I generally liked the movie, but it just wasn't completely accurate...

[timemachine]

One of my favs! Would buy the BluRay when it comes out. There are many things left unanswered so i'm hoping for a sequel!

[Atmos]

About the blackhole, you will only be severely affected when you approach the event horizon which is the point at which the blackhole's gravitational pull gets so strong that even light cannot escape. Prior to that, you will just be at free fall and will not be spaghettified. Also, it being a super massive blackhole, it has different properties compared to a "regular" one. The events after the main protagonist falls into the blackhole past the event horizon are "made up" as nobody really knows what will happen after that point so the writers had some wiggle room to get a lil creative about it.

 

Thats not actually quite true, really what so ever...

 

You should check out into the wormhole with Steven Hawking, or cosmos (original series with Sagan or reboot with Tyson) I can't recall the specific number of miles away that you need to be from a small blackhole to not be affected by it, but its quite a fair number more than several dozen light years. You're talking about the gravity of these things being so immense, so insanely powerful that a single super blackhole drives entire galaxies... And a super massive blackhole doesnt mean it has a smaller gravity well, it just means that its that much more powerful of a blackhole. You gotta check out those science shows, they're fun to watch and will teach you about all this stuff mate, cause no attempt to bash but yer just throwing out things that are plain wrong.

[Sauron]

It was a good movie, but from someone like me who is deeply interested in blackholes, time, and relative dimensions, it lost count the moment it showed the blackhole. The story was really good, but the science did not hold up at all, what could we expect though, if it had followed the laws of gravity then the moment that the pilots could see the blackhole they would be "spaghettified" their ship would rip apart, and they would all die a horrible death (due in fact for them to be that close to it, they would have died long long ago due to unimaginable amounts of gravity. That and the whole "its an older blackhole so its slowing down!" bit... I can't even begin to describe why thats wrong in every single way of science... Blackholes arn't dangerous because they're spinning, they're dangerous because they are so F**KING HEAVY. And the older a blackhole is only means its going to get heavier, they don't go on diets or get smaller they only get bigger and bigger over time with the consumption of more matter. Theres also a LOT more wrong with this movie, it doesnt hold up scientifically except on maybe one or two things, but it does cover a lot of known artifacts of our universe such as gravity having a direct effect on time, and the slightly less popular theory that blackholes are portals to other dimensions. To enjoy it i had to toss my science hat out of the window and just like it for a action sci-fi movie, and on that means it was pretty darn good. All in all I'd give it a solid 7.5/10 as a film, and about a 3.5/10 as a science geek.

 

#EndRant

 

I agree, however if we really wanted to nitpick the science the wormhole itself is pretty much an absurd in space as we know it. If I recall correctly there are small "folds" in space, bu they aren't "big" enough to allow significant leaps, let alone go to a different galaxy...

 

I take sci-fi movies for their entertainment value and ability to sell you the story, if they were 100% accurate they wouldn't be sci-fi would they? ^^

[Sauron]

Also, wasn't where ever they were living just outside Saturn? What was the whole point of going into the wormholes if in the end they just started living right next to it?

 

They way I understood it that was just some sort of outpost that served as an intermediate station between the solar system and their new colony, I could be wrong tough

[SeanBond]

About the blackhole, you will only be severely affected when you approach the event horizon which is the point at which the blackhole's gravitational pull gets so strong that even light cannot escape. Prior to that, you will just be at free fall and will not be spaghettified. Also, it being a super massive blackhole, it has different properties compared to a "regular" one. The events after the main protagonist falls into the blackhole past the event horizon are "made up" as nobody really knows what will happen after that point so the writers had some wiggle room to get a lil creative about it.

lol, that's a good rating system

[Blueprint]

I lolled so hard at the newton's 3rd law reference. The fact that the reaction force provided JUST ENOUGH energy for the spacecraft to escape the field was insane.