Re-watched Interstellar

[cockerpunk]

speaking of old sci fis ... i was just recently rewatching contact.

what a good fucking movie it is.

my favorite part is that its a movie written by scientists. and throughout, there is just a heavy, heavy, skepticism of engineers. lol. like all the scientists are doing science stuff, and then in the back corner, hadden, the engineer, is doing something useful, but also nefarious. always nefarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loUZI_cufKc

[cheapguitarscheapthrills]

Adding it to the list. Are you the same dude who used to make YouTube videos about pump guns?

[cockerpunk]

yup

[cheapguitarscheapthrills]

Sick dude grew up watching those videos and got into pumps and phantoms

[bored383]

Arrival > Contact

[cockerpunk]

Arrival > Contact

arrival is a movie that will make me cry immediately.

its a fantastic movie.


i wouldn't put them in the same category besides sci fi though. contact is about one woman's struggle with the limitations of science, and her personal experience, and how one finds truth, and the arrival is a movie that asks a very specific question: "if you knew it would end badly, would you do it anyway?" which is an exceedingly painful question.

[Magmoormaster]

I watched Arrival with my wife a few weeks ago. It was her first time seeing it. I'm a huge Denis Villeneuve fanboy, and I think this was the first movie of his I saw.

I've never seen Interstellar, but my first boss is apparently related to the physicist who came up with the theory. From what he was telling me, they kinda butchered the science. Still said it was a good movie though.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Never see it but I will give it a go thanks.

[Trbo323]

If we are talking about real world physics and science

The expanse > everything

The show is very good, because they follow the books somewhat closely the stuff they do change is understandable because in the books it would not be very visually simulating

All that said, if you are a sci-fi fan, go read the books. If you can't read, the audiobooks are probably some of the best out there. I forget his name but the narrator does an amazing job. Top notch voice acting, he gives each character a different voice but none of them feel forced

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[Grendel]

Narrator - Jefferson Mays

[XNine]

Interstellar is so good. The soundtrack, ESPECIALLY the "No time for Caution" scene is just fucking uuuuuugh. I don't know that I've felt tension like that from a movie before.

I love how they theorized what a black hole would look like up close and then a few years later we got photos showing they were right.