Interstellar

[Jose]

It was fun to watch but it had a bit too much black hole, warp speed, flying into another dimension, warping time and space stuff for me.

Compared to Gravity, I liked Gravity more.

Really?? Gravity?? Maybe I might have to go back and watch it again.

So I just got back from watching it in IMAX. 3:45pm showing and the theater was packed early and we wound up sitting near the front corner of the theater. Overall I really liked the movie. Kinda reminded me of 2001 for some reason. If you like science fiction, you will like this movie IMO. Don't want to give to much of this away and give my thoughts on the movie until more people have watched it but I may go back and see this again with my older nephew as he didn't get a chance to go with me and see it today.

[UserX]

Meh. I was more impressed with the sound system in the IMAX theater than the movie itself.

[idrivea4banger]

So I shouldn't see it?

[jluv]

Gravity sucked. I hope this one is light years better.

[ram57ta]

Went and saw it last night with my dad. It was a good movie. A bit long, and it moved very quickly. I left the theater kinda shaking my head trying to figure out the thought process for whoever wrote the story....its a bit out there. It also reminded me of the first time I watched 2001: A space odyssey. I would recommend.

[inline 6]

It was a good movie, go see it if you like sci-fi anything. I left not liking Matt Damon as much.

[Jose]

It was a good movie, go see it if you like sci-fi anything. I left not liking Matt Damon as much.

Sounds like he did a good job acting out the part Ya I didn't see that coming as there had been no mention of Matt Damon being in the movie and supposedly they did it on purpose (not sure why though).

[inline 6]

It was a good movie, there wasn't any space fuckin tho....

[IHaveAMustang]

I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was neat to see what humans think is inside a black hole. I really like TARS and his other robotic friends, their "humor" levels had me rolling.

TARS: I have a cue light I can use to show you when I'm joking, if you like.
Cooper: Yes, that would be nice
TARS: Good, you can use it to find your way back to the ship after I blow you out of the airlock
Cooper: Humor, 90%

Cooper: [When Cooper tries to reconfigure TARS] Humour 75%.
TARS: 75%. Self destruct sequence in T minus 10 9 8...
Cooper: Let's make it 65%
TARS: Knock, knock

[inline 6]

TARS, what happens if he opens that hatch? "nothin good"

[Jose]

Ya those lines had me rolling! Unlike any other robot/AI interactions I can think of in a sci-fi film I've seen. Which is stark contrast to Hal 9000 from 2001.

[Strychnine]

Cool shit here

'Interstellar' Animators Made A Physics Breakthrough While Creating A Black Hole For The Movie


Image of a black hole in the film Interstellar.




Soon, astrophysicists will receive a physics lesson from an unlikely source: Hollywood.

The movie-making business has, unintentionally, helped make something more: a scientific discovery. One that you can experience first-hand in the film "Interstellar," coming out in US theaters everywhere on Friday, Nov. 7.

In the film, a crew of explorers travel through a wormhole to reach distant worlds orbiting other stars. Along the way, they cross paths with a monstrous, spinning black hole.

More impressive than the beauty of the black hole, is that this stunning rendition is the most scientifically accurate image of a spinning black hole ever created.

"Neither wormholes nor black holes have been depicted in any Hollywood movie in the way that they actually would appear," Kip Thorne said in a promotional video from Warner Bros UK.

"This is the first time the depiction began with Einstein's general relativity equations," Thorne said.



Kip Thorne working out equations for computing the image of a black hole.


Thorne is an American theoretical physicist who has written academic books on general relativity, collaborated with Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking, and is one of the world's leading experts on all things gravitational.

He is also the executive producer and scientific consultant for the film. It took Thorne's intellect, 30 special effects experts, thousands of computers, and a year of hard work to produce the black hole audiences see in the film.

You'd think that a black hole — which traps everything, including light — would be invisible. But that's not true.

If you could look at a black hole at different angles, you would see a strange warping motion of the background starlight. This is because black holes warp the space around them, so what you're seeing is an altered version of the real thing — similar to how you see a distorted image of an object when it's immersed in water.

Physicists know from Einstein's general theory of relativity that a spinning black hole — like the one in the film — warps space differently than a stationary black hole. This process is called frame dragging.

Based on what we understand about frame dragging, Thorne and the special effects team thought that the image they would get out of their computations would be a bright band of light, or disc, around the equator of the spherical-shaped of the black hole. In fact, the wobbling of such a disc led to the first observations of frame dragging in the 90s.

What they saw, however, was something completely different and far more beautiful: Breath-taking circular halos of light across the top and bottom of the black hole.

At first, the team thought there was a bug in their system, but Throne soon realized it wasn't a glitch, but a direct result of the calculations. This unexpected light halo offers scientists new insights into how light behaves around a spinning black hole. It was a triumph for both Thorne as a scientist and director Christopher Nolan.

When Nolan first called upon Thorne's expertise for the film, he anticipated that the special effects team would have to tweak the scientifically-accurate image to make it more aesthetically appealing and understandable to audiences.

However, the shocking, gorgeous results that came from Thorne's physics equations was more than Nolan or Thorne could have hoped for and what audiences will see in the film.

"What we found was ...we could get some very understandable, tactile imagery from those equations," Nolan said in the video. "[The equations] were constantly surprising and it spoke to the maxim that truth can be stranger than fiction."

Thorne is planning on writing up the team's efforts in two scientific papers: one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer science community.

Check out the full video "Interstellar — Building a black hole" from Warner Bros. UK:

[UserX]

Gravity sucked. I hope this one is light years better.

They had one thing in common... a female astronaut gets another astronaut killed by not following orders.

[Rick Modena]

Breathtaking, I can't wait to see it...

[CexMashean]

Went and saw it today. This movie is going to get awards. A lot of them.
Really great movie.