Someone explain Interstellar

[John Connor]

So I finally watched this movie and I'm confused. I understand the 4th or 5th dimension thing. How time back on earth is 7 years for every hour beyond the wormhole. But the ending. They were on a space station near Saturn? Why does everything look like another dimension? Why did his daughter burn the corn? I just don't get it. Didn't help that the audio for the dialogue was low on my flat panel. I need a sound bar.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

This will help:


http://www.amazon.com/Bose-CineMate-Theater-Speaker-System/dp/B005OB1TU0/

Best when paired with:

http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Cable-HDMI1000HD50-1000HD-50-HDMI/dp/B000UF53HK

CZroe says:

So I finally watched this movie and I'm confused. I understand the 4th or 5th dimension thing. How time back on earth is 7 years for every hour beyond the wormhole. But the ending. They were on a space station near Saturn? Why does everything look like another dimension? Why did his daughter burn the corn? I just don't get it. Didn't help that the audio for the dialogue was low on my flat panel. I need a sound bar.

It really doesn't sound like you understand even the part you think you understand.

 

[Phoenix86]

So I finally watched this movie and I'm confused. I understand the 4th or 5th dimension thing. How time back on earth is 7 years for every hour beyond the wormhole.

The extra dimensional thing has nothing to do with the time dilation, that's just physics, theory of relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation

They were on a space station near Saturn? Why does everything look like another dimension?

It's a mix of the size and shape of the space station, it's basically donut shaped and small enough so you can see the curvature. Also they obviously used film filter/processing to make it look funky.

Why did his daughter burn the corn? I just don't get it.

She burned the crop for two reasons. She wanted them to leave the farm with her, this gave them a good reason. However she also need to examine her old room, and since she was being thrown out of the house she used it as a diversion.

 

[John Connor]

Weird...

 

[John Connor]

This song should have been the sound track. LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g

 

[Dr. Zaus]

This song should have been the sound track. LOL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g

My wife likes this song... she like 80s drum-machine & synthesizer crap.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Love conquers all. That is all this movie is saying. Nothing more. The timey wimey stuff is just window dressing.

 

[John Connor]

My wife likes this song... she like 80s drum-machine & synthesizer crap.

So do I. And it ain't crap.

:awe:

 

[John Connor]

Love conquers all. That is all this movie is saying. Nothing more. The timey wimey stuff is just window dressing.

Yeah, that seems like the theme I guess.

 

[John Connor]

Oops! Wrong thread! LMAOhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCM4_5uB1ww

 

[Muse]

So I finally watched this movie and I'm confused. I understand the 4th or 5th dimension thing. How time back on earth is 7 years for every hour beyond the wormhole. But the ending. They were on a space station near Saturn? Why does everything look like another dimension? Why did his daughter burn the corn? I just don't get it. Didn't help that the audio for the dialogue was low on my flat panel. I need a sound bar.

Interstellar was IMO a failure. I'll post my review below, I watched it a month ago.

I very often have problems with dialog and I have my strategies:

1. I listen with high fidelity earbuds.
2. I rewind as necessary and often turn on subtitles when doing so.

My review:

IMO, it's pretty much rubbish. The first 40 minutes or so are often really great and AFAIC, it's all because of Matthew McConaughey's preformance. But it changes abruptly then and Nolan starts playing his cards. It's clumsily constructed, the science is bullshit/fantasy. To me it was hard to follow the plot (will have to check Wikipedia), it's tiresome, I wanted it to end and it finally did. Really nuts-ball stuff, especially the absurd beyond belief ending. Ghost indeed. Rubbish.

 

[John Connor]

I'd like to know how the robot talked to him in that other dimension.

 

[Xonim]

So I finally watched this movie and I'm confused. I understand the 4th or 5th dimension thing. How time back on earth is 7 years for every hour beyond the wormhole. But the ending. They were on a space station near Saturn? Why does everything look like another dimension? Why did his daughter burn the corn? I just don't get it. Didn't help that the audio for the dialogue was low on my flat panel. I need a sound bar.

His daughter burned the corn to get the brother to leave the house.

As for the audio, it's been stated by the director that his intention was to have the dialogue difficult to hear in some parts of the movie. There was only one spot where we had to turn on subtitles (

Spoiler

old dude was on the bed talking to Murph

). Also, skip the sound bar, skip anything branded Bose, and get yourself a proper audio setup :biggrin:

 

[DigDog]

the explanation is (brace yourself for hard science):

1) they experience temporal dilation because of their proximity to a black hole (michio kaku would say it's 100% correct, i'm less of a buffoon so i say wer'e in the 1% realm, but whatever)
2) the ending is completely made up

there is zero relationship between what happens bfore and after they enter the tesseract; essentially, some "alien race" put this deus-ex-machina there for him to use to ... alter reality through time manipulation (not possible even in the most ridiculous speculations), and then he saves everyone and we can go home.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Interstellar was IMO a failure. I'll post my review below, I watched it a month ago.

I very often have problems with dialog and I have my strategies:

1. I listen with high fidelity earbuds.
2. I rewind as necessary and often turn on subtitles when doing so.

My review:

IMO, it's pretty much rubbish. The first 40 minutes or so are often really great and AFAIC, it's all because of Matthew McConaughey's preformance. But it changes abruptly then and Nolan starts playing his cards. It's clumsily constructed, the science is bullshit/fantasy. To me it was hard to follow the plot (will have to check Wikipedia), it's tiresome, I wanted it to end and it finally did. Really nuts-ball stuff, especially the absurd beyond belief ending. Ghost indeed. Rubbish.

Totally agree. Could have been a much better movie but wow did things get lame after about an hour. But hey, in movies love conquers all, even space/logic/physics/science/etc...

 

[Sonikku]

Basically man is doomed without intervention, but they got help from their future selves that gives their past selves the solution to avoid being doomed.

But if they're doomed without the intervention then how can they be in the future to, oh I don't know just forget it. :hmm:

 

[thesmokingman]

^^grandpa paradox

This will be interesting...

 

[Anubis]

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Inter...2&sr=8-1&keywords=the+science+of+interstellar

 

[poofyhairguy]

What I got out of it is Matthew McConaughey can't die. He must be a god or something.

And OP, soundbars are for either metrosexuals or men who let their women run the house.

Get real speakers and proudly put them where guests can see.

 

[ElFenix]

explanation:

Spoiler

people assume that time is a strict progression of cause to affect, but actually, from a non-linear, non subjective point of view it is more like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey...stuff

 

[zinfamous]

What I learned is that Matthew McGaagunasdghy is that dirty old man that hangs out at the public library, shoving books off the shelves so that he can sneak a creeper peak at all the ladies.

 

[ImpulsE69]

What I learned is that Matthew McGaagunasdghy is that dirty old man that hangs out at the public library, shoving books off the shelves so that he can sneak a creeper peak at all the ladies.

Well alright alright alright

or...and this is new..how?

 

[rh71]

What I learned is that Matthew McGaagunasdghy is that dirty old man that hangs out at the public library, shoving books off the shelves so that he can sneak a creeper peak at all the ladies.

I watch prank videos for the ladies. Sue me!

 

[Phoenix86]

Basically man is doomed without intervention, but they got help from their future selves that gives their past selves the solution to avoid being doomed.

But if they're doomed without the intervention then how can they be in the future to, oh I don't know just forget it. :hmm:

Aside from the whole tesseract/black hole shenanigans (it's a sci-fi movie after all) this is really the major flaw with the movie.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Basically man is doomed without intervention, but they got help from their future selves that gives their past selves the solution to avoid being doomed.

But if they're doomed without the intervention then how can they be in the future to, oh I don't know just forget it. :hmm:

it's because of all the potential humanities one of them want doomed but in the future realized that other parallel universes of humanities was old be doomed so they build solutions to get themselves past that bottleneck.