Interstellar

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage in Christopher Nolan's newest project, "Interstellar".

Starring cast includes Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck and Michael Caine. Due for release 7 November 2014.

edited 14th Dec '13 10:30:17 AM by TheBatPencil

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)

Looks interesting.

edited 14th Dec '13 11:22:31 AM by zam

Looks pretty interesting. I'll be checking it out.

"Oh great! Let's pile up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them!"

Here's hoping it's more of an adventure movie than an action movie.

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Here's hoping they explain why they can't expand to the other planets in the solar system. Maybe they found a life-bearing planet on the other side of the wormhole?

I hope it's adventure too. Otherwise it's Stargate without the gates and mythology.

But.. you can't evacuate earth. Not in space ships. The numbers just don't work. Uploads, maybe.. but "primates in tin cans"? Nope. Lots of sf do this, because lots of sf is about the mythology of the american west, but the logic just does not work.

edited 25th May '14 1:08:48 PM by izeintime

You certainly can't do it in one shot, or early on.

No, I mean that if you have the engineering might to move billions of people of the bloody planet, then you have the ability to fix just about anything wrong with said planet - it implies a level of wealth and power over the physical universe where if you have the ability, you cannot possibly have the need, and if you need to do it, you cannot afford to.

I mean, I could construct scenarios where this didn't hold, but it would require stacking the deck to hell and gone, and the threat could not be resource depletion - Being in the path of an astronomical hazard a few centuries down the line might do it.

who cares it's a movie

there are moments when accuracy matters a hell of a lot, don't get me wrong

but come on dude

sit back and enjoy the ride yknow

For some people, inaccuracy makes enjoying less easier. Also, people can notice and be bugged by inaccuracy...but enjoy a work nonetheless.

For me...this movie is directed by Christopher Nolan. That's all I need.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

Is there some other source regarding the movie's plot which references moving the majority of humanity off-world? Because Michael Caine's line in the trailer about needing to think as a species, not individually, gives me the impression that their best hope of saving humanity will only save a proportion of them—so it won't involve an Earth-wide exodus.

Of course, trailers can be misleading.

That's actually worse. A civilization which is failing at keeping agriculture going on earth - where the biochemistry is compatible, the flora and fauna well known and the soil has been worked with for literal millennia - is not going to be able to land a colony on another world and have them live. It's the same issue - if you have to do it, as opposed to just want to, you dont have the ability.

The only logical explanation is that they found a life-bearing planet on the other side of the wormhole (or at least have reason to suspect they'll find one). Which is horrendously implausible, but I guess it's better than "Let's find another planet to terraform in another star system instead of fixing the one we've got or terraforming Mars."

edited 26th May '14 12:58:21 PM by Discar

Doesn't help - We are evolved to eat a diet of earth-life - absorb amino acids and vitamins from our food that the life of an alien world is extremely unlikely to possess the full range of. And you cant just plant earth plants and eat those, either - plants grow in a complex context of soil microbes and fungi. Planting corn in an alien soil would be like planting it in sand. Now, in theory, if one is really, really good with genetics and biochemistry and cellular machinery, this could all be solved - but you know what a lot simpler application of those technologies would be? Boosting earth agricultural output. If you are starving on earth, you are so incompetent at working with eco-systems that any other context will kill you really, really quickly.

Though that doesn't seem to be the case, it's possible there's some sort of cosmic cataclysm forcing them to leave. Sun about to go Red Giant, for instance (though again, this doesn't seem to take place several billion years in the future). Moon falling out of its orbit for whatever reason they can think up, etc. Martian with a laser about to blow up Earth because it obstructs his view of Venus.

edited 27th May '14 8:44:15 AM by KnownUnknown

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.

Another possibility is that it might actually be some sort of rip in time which takes them to the distant future or past, and they end up using Earth all over again. Solves the biosphere issue and at the same time goes along with the typical Adam-and-Eve plot that's so beloved by Sci-Fi.

I've read a summary of the supposed leaked script, courtesy of Cracked, who found it on reddit, and...

Yeah.

Let's just say that if you really love science and Sci-Fi, and I mean REALLY love Sci-Fi, to the point that you not only want to have kinky sex with it, but even want your genitals to be glued together fusing you permanently to Sci-Fi while sex toys stimulate you both so that you'd be in eternal bliss, then I can see you really fucking loving this movie, if the leaked script is as it is.

And I'm not saying it as if it's a bad thing, it's just that, the story is fucking insane. It's like, let's make a comedy film, but incorporate all comedy tropes in it. Not just some, heck, even most isn't going far enough, we need to push it to the limit, throw in every comedy trope in existence we can find and then invent some more.

Now here's the problem with the film. It's going to be really hard Sci-Fi, like, an actual person who has a lot of knowledge and possibly has a Ph D that relates to space but for which I forgot the name has been hired to do aid in writing the film, to make it as scientifically accurate as possible. It might be a really tough film to watch, but it does have the potential to be Oscar worthy.

Signatures are for lamers.

Your mention of kiny sex in relation to a film with Anne Hathaway in it distracted me from the point you were making.

But! If it really is really hard sci-fi, then I'm in.

Okay, I was warned to not look at the IMDB page for this. I promptly ignored said warning, and was spoiled of a major plot twist. So, yeah, watch out.

"Urge to thump... rising." -Fighteer

This would be the first movie I will see in IMAX.

I am in.

I want to know the plot twist, but I can't find it there!

I'll probably see this film the weekend after it comes out.

I want my ticket funding to go to the BH 6 opening weekend :)

You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.

It would be mine to, were it not for Guardians of the Galaxy.

Also, are there any full 'blueprints' or pictures I can use for a reference of the ship? I want to build it in Kerbal Space Program.

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