Yup. There's nothing wrong with science fiction paying lip service to the actual science but entertaining when done well, but this one fail miserably because it's horribly written and pretending to be intelligent.
It was just a stupid movie. No reason to try to understand stupid.
The advanced future selves were probably descendants from the seeds Dr Brand is able to cultivate. Remember she and Cooper part ways at the end of the movie. Brand goes to Dr Mann's planet, and Cooper continues on to the Black Hole.
Entire plot is based around the need to "crack the gravity equation" so they can boost habitats into space. (instead of building them on earth) Then goes on to show they have a Chevy escalade size lander that can go SSTO on a supergravity planet.
Don't try to figure it out, and best you take your disbelief, suspend it, and lock it in a storage unit 100 miles away.
Entire plot is based around the need to "crack the gravity equation" so they can boost habitats into space. (instead of building them on earth) Then goes on to show they have a Chevy escalade size lander that can go SSTO on a supergravity planet. ¯\_(ツ_/¯
Don't try to figure it out, and best you take your disbelief, suspend it, and lock it in a storage unit 100 miles away.
The special SSTO vehicle uses Deus Ex Machina brand fuel, which is really expensive and difficult to make.
Despite them being uninterested in space exploration and believing the moon landings to be myth
Time Travel aside, my biggest hangup is that Matt Mcconaughey does not want himself to go interspace but yet in communicating to his daughter he forgets that it failed to stop him from going in the first place.
My second favorite honest trailer is for this movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZMzf-SDWP8
(Mad Max Fury Road is my top honest trailer in case you cared)
I did enjoy the dig at the public school retaliating against the little girl who insisted the moon landings were real despite the asshole teacher's ignorant opinion that they weren't.
Seems to illustrate the fact that government-controlled education is also government-controlled propaganda. And if they say a lie is the truth then you'll get in trouble for calling the lie a lie.
LMAO! I should have watched that instead of what seemed like a three hour movie! :thumbsup:
Education from any source is subject to bias.I did enjoy the dig at the public school retaliating against the little girl who insisted the moon landings were real despite the asshole teacher's ignorant opinion that they weren't.
Seems to illustrate the fact that government-controlled education is also government-controlled propaganda. And if they say a lie is the truth then you'll get in trouble for calling the lie a lie.
You're one of the most clueless posters on the forums that do not even realize the fact that I've ever seen.
That in itself is a bit entertaining I guess.
And can blow up in your face if you aren't careful! A big part of the cost, of course, is any reasonable semblance of credulity. I still really like The Martian!The special SSTO vehicle uses Deus Ex Machina brand fuel, which is really expensive and difficult to make.
Star Wars vs Star Trek.And can blow up in your face if you aren't careful! A big part of the cost, of course, is any reasonable semblance of credulity. I still really like The Martian!
Decades ago I wrote a short story about an interstellar expedition in which the voyagers return to earth after having aged considerably less than earth's inhabitants. I should find that, maybe I can write a decent screenplay based on it. I was aiming for credulity. Of course, I don't have a design for a propulsion system intense enough to take advantage of relativistic time differential. That's just an assumed given in my story. The Martian has no such flaw. I was in awe of that book and am totally incapable of creating anything that compares to it. Well, I'm not a space travel freak like Andy Weir.
Mostly I despise the time travel card in science fiction, with few exceptions. The Terminator movies are good and Back to the Future worked, but it's so easy to make a bad movie playing that card and I think they did here, disastrously. And I thought the ending was just plain boring, really the ultimate sin in a movie.
And can blow up in your face if you aren't careful! A big part of the cost, of course, is any reasonable semblance of credulity. I still really like The Martian!
Decades ago I wrote a short story about an interstellar expedition in which the voyagers return to earth after having aged considerably less than earth's inhabitants. I should find that, maybe I can write a decent screenplay based on it. I was aiming for credulity. Of course, I don't have a design for a propulsion system intense enough to take advantage of relativistic time differential. That's just an assumed given in my story. The Martian has no such flaw. I was in awe of that book and am totally incapable of creating anything that compares to it. Well, I'm not a space travel freak like Andy Weir.
Season 2 of the new and improved The Black List Table Reads with Franklin Leonard continues this week with the Sci-Fi/Drama earmovie Celeritas by screenwriter Kimberly Barrante. When a missing astronaut crash lands forty years after he launched having not aged a day, his elderly twin brother helps him escape the NASA scientists hunting him. As the government closes in, neither brother is who they claim to be. Our presentation stars Jake Abel, Justin Chatwin, Alexandra Daddario, Christine Estabrook, Matthew Del Negro, Kevin Weisman, Adam Grimes, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Matthew Jaeger, and Cooper Thornton.
Yup. There's nothing wrong with science fiction paying lip service to the actual science but entertaining when done well, but this one fail miserably because it's horribly written and pretending to be intelligent.