Interstellar

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Movies: Science Fiction/Fantasy: Interstellar
By Luigi Novi (Luigi_novi) on Thursday, January 10, 2013 - 2:57 pm:

Christopher Nolan's next project, is about a group of scientists who travel through a wormhole into another dimension. It's based on a script by his brother, Jonathan, which was inspired by a scientific theory by Caltech physicist Kip S. Thorne.


By ScottN (Scottn) on Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 7:54 pm:

Interesting film. Not going to really post a review, but I do have a nit.

The black hole's accretion disk should have been rotating in the same plane as the black hole.


By Luigi_novi (Luigi_novi) on Sunday, November 09, 2014 - 10:34 pm:

I saw this today. It's a two hour and fifty minute space epic with drama at its heart that at times requires patience and thought, and it really comes together at the end, particularly with the really funky cool sci-fi concept that utilized by the resolution. For a three-hour film, it doesn't move with as brisk as pace as Peter Jackson or James Cameron's films, but it was enjoyable.


By ScottN (Scottn) on Friday, November 21, 2014 - 12:53 am:

Nit. When they get through the wormhole, they realize that the first planet is close to a black hole, and suffers from relativistic time dilation. Yet they choose to go there on the basis that they are receiving pings from it.

They should have realized that

  1. Essentially only one or two pings have been recieved (on the 1 hour = 7 years conversion scale)
  2. The ping were severely redshifted
  3. Only a few hours had passed since the previous exlorer's landing.


By Francois Lacombe (Franc0is) on Sunday, December 09, 2018 - 8:13 pm:

When the Endurance arrives at Saturn, we see a view of the planet showing the backlit side of the rings. They are depicted lit as we normally see them from Earth, with the dense parts bright and the sparse ones dark. A backlit view should be the reverse, with the dense parts dark and the sparse ones bright.


Add a Message


This is a private posting area. Only registered users and moderators may post messages here.
Username:  
Password: