nando820

It was depressing. That scene with the daughter asking the dad to stay and he says "Murph don't let me leave like this", then he is driving away crying and looks under the blanket next to him. Then she runs out of the house crying and then I'm crying and off he goes into space. Pretty well done

RichC2

Maybe once the Blu is out and we have CC subtitles. That way we can read it.

Cooper: Alright, Alright, Alright!
TARS: [INDISTINGUISHABLE]

Why So Blu?

raven56706

i think maybe people with kids will feel that part more than others... its just rough...

i had to hold my kids alittle more last night because of the movie

d2cheer

I disagree...it was played for sentiment. Just one of the many, many clichés in the movie.

I will be stunned if this doesn't have a huge drop this weekend.

inri222

Solid Snake

What comes out this weekend?

RichC2

Dumb and Dumber To!

Competition isn't needed for a movie to collapse though.

Was Veterans Day observed on Monday or Tuesday this year? Because both this and Big Hero 6 had surprisingly strong Mondays (Interstellar taking over the #1 spot).

Troy Stiffler

Inception had a really universal appeal. It's a pleasing action adventure sci-fi film.

I think the appeal of Interstellar is more limited. It's not a gun p'chew p'chew kind of movie. It's a sci-fi exploration movie. Which is a good indicator of how people think. Violence over science.

redrum

the whole movie i thought TARS voice was Matt Damons, the dude who did it sounded just like him

tucker

great movie!
one of the best SCI FI movies!

great chart on this movie

HN

^^ "Black hole" should be worm hole. Gargantua is the black hole

HN

I thought that too! And then we got to Mann's planet and I was thinking they modeled the robots after Mann.

then I looked it up afterwards and was

Numanoid

It is indeed only his voice. And he sounds like Cyclops, or apparently Matt Damon, so you should be fine.

invisiblegt

Perhaps this question was answered in the film, and I missed it. Perhaps this question was answered previously in this thread, and I missed it. But in the event that it was clearly explained in either...

Why, precisely, were people actively being discouraged from becoming scientists, or engineers? I know they kept talking about how they desperately needed more farmers to keep up with food demand, but, for that exact reason, wouldn't you want people actively working on a "solution" to the blight? For all their talk of "back in my day, there was a new gadget coming out every day," that wouldn't be the case in that future. With, literally, all of mankind rallied behind a singular problem, you'd imagine they'd be able to come up with something.

And yes, I realize that it appeared as though they were doing research in the "mysterious" underground base (which, why they didn't use the Stargate is beyond me), but that was being done in secret.

RichC2

It wasn't explained or mentioned. It's just the way it was, you can apply your own logic to that any way you want, or just chalk it up to "Well that's dumb."

But from what I recall, they never said they didn't need scientists, nor did they discourage it. They just didn't need mechanically inclined engineers. But it's been a week, details fuzzy.

HN

i thought they were discouraging aerospace engineering / exploration?

The Bus

That word does not mean what you think it means.

RichC2

I think they were discouraging anything that could distract from the necessity of food now. Totalitarian or what have you.

Jaymole

That is good to hear, thanks.

Ash Ketchum

Yeah, but scientists and engineers are the ones who help farmers increase their crop yield, aren't they?

RichC2

Engineers became farmers for that reason, Scientists kept on scientisting scientistically. Or something.

nando820

I think its a ratio thing. They might only need 30% of the population doing research while they need the other 70% as manpower producing and distributing the food across. They were just trying to allocate resources where they needed the most.
Kinda like in Gattaca where the future has become so efficient that depending on your psychical and IQ scores they assign what type of job you are fit the most

Kal-El

Updated:

spoilered for size.

Mr. Salty

You'd think, but history shows that human behavior often makes no sense.

Look at how climate scientists, and science in general, are being demonized now. And there are plenty of examples in the not-so-distant past when dictatorships got rid of scientists, teachers and "intellectuals" first, in favor of laborers.

I think Nolan was very much looking at the wave of anti-science going on in some parts of the world (especially the U.S.) and wanted to comment on it.