If there is one thing that can be said about these space movies, it is this - if they explain the technical jargon satisfactorily, they are a delight to watch and understand but if they just throw around terms like wormholes, blackholes & singularity (which mere mortals like us don't have much exposure to), the audience is left wondering about the key points of the plot.
Interstellar belongs to this second set of movies. e.g. they tell us that what "gravitational time dilation" means is that each hour on the surface of a planet having such a dilation corresponds to more time elapsing on earth. But since most of us don't have a clue as to how it works, it remains just an abstract concept - something to be taken at its face value - and we fail to grasp its full significance as far as the movie goes (if everyone on Earth shifts to the new planet, who cares
whether it is 7 years on earth per an hour on Miller or 10?). Same goes for the concept of Singularity. Why is it necessary to get the data from the wormhole to figure out how to lift the space-stations by defying the gravity?
It's equally difficult to stomach the plot that Dr. Brand was the only scientist to have worked on the equation and realized its impossibility. Was NASA having an attrition issue?
Even Wiki couldn't tell me how Cooper stumbles across a solution to Murph's equation and communicates the same to her using gravitational waves. Come to think of it - the whole movie was about that :-(
I think they spent a lot of time depicting Cooper's life before he started on his space voyage and also on Mann's antics. A duration of 169 minutes is okay for a Hindi movie, but not for a Hollywood flick!
The only saving grace was Matthew McConaughey who perfectly essays the father torn between his love for his kids and his duty to do everything that he can to save them.
But as the movie dragged on, I wished a wormhole would open up right next to my seat and help me pass the time quickly. ;-)
Interstellar belongs to this second set of movies. e.g. they tell us that what "gravitational time dilation" means is that each hour on the surface of a planet having such a dilation corresponds to more time elapsing on earth. But since most of us don't have a clue as to how it works, it remains just an abstract concept - something to be taken at its face value - and we fail to grasp its full significance as far as the movie goes (if everyone on Earth shifts to the new planet, who cares
whether it is 7 years on earth per an hour on Miller or 10?). Same goes for the concept of Singularity. Why is it necessary to get the data from the wormhole to figure out how to lift the space-stations by defying the gravity?
It's equally difficult to stomach the plot that Dr. Brand was the only scientist to have worked on the equation and realized its impossibility. Was NASA having an attrition issue?
Even Wiki couldn't tell me how Cooper stumbles across a solution to Murph's equation and communicates the same to her using gravitational waves. Come to think of it - the whole movie was about that :-(
I think they spent a lot of time depicting Cooper's life before he started on his space voyage and also on Mann's antics. A duration of 169 minutes is okay for a Hindi movie, but not for a Hollywood flick!
The only saving grace was Matthew McConaughey who perfectly essays the father torn between his love for his kids and his duty to do everything that he can to save them.
But as the movie dragged on, I wished a wormhole would open up right next to my seat and help me pass the time quickly. ;-)
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