Hey everyone! It's been over a week since I have seen this movie, and it has really stuck with me... I have never something like this that was so thought provoking. I keep thinking about how important it is to be grateful & how valuable our time is, especially when spending it with loved ones. I just want to thank you for taking the time to enjoy this masterpiece with me! ❤
You are so right. In addition, it reminds me to support people around me, so they get the support and some experiences, their family or situation does not provide. (small scale, not rich and certainly no saint)
Watch Tenet that's Nolans greatest movie, it's an R rated written and directed by Nolan masterpiece, once again about the concept of time, and it has a terrifying villain played by Kenneth Brenagh, and it's a mind bender beyond anything ever put on screen before.
the oscars has and always will be just bunch of industry goons patting each other on the back.if you're not part of the wide scale circle jerk in hollywierd , then chances are you won't get an oscar or even a nomination.
Everyone misses the point of the ending. Brandt takes off her helmet showing that the atmosphere is breathable and that all along her love for the guy was guiding them to the right place.
"Because my dad promised me" What father wouldn't go through hell and back for his kids. Good reminder of what good parents are like. Weather solo or couple.
I love how this movie plays with emotions. When you realize he’s the “ghost”, you get a sudden sense of hope, but then you realize that he was sending messages to tell himself not to leave… and you’re crushed.
Christopher Nolan brought in real-life physicist Kip Thorne as a consultant on this film in order to get as much of the physics of gravity, relativity, and black holes as correct as he could. As no one had ever seen a real black hole before production began, Gargantua's appearance was based on renderings of actual scientific calculations to approximate what a black hole would really look like. It turned out to be remarkably accurate when the first-ever composite photo of a real black hole was taken in 2019, as it appeared very similar to Interstellar's Gargantua.
@@TimeFadesMemoryLasts Yeah while I love this movie everything about Millers planet and the time dilation of being on the surface is incredibly unrealistic. If the gravitational forces of Gargantua are so strong to cause such a time dilation, how could the crew operate like it was normal earth gravity while on the surface? Not to mention the dilation effect should be similar whether you were in orbit or on the surface since it wasn’t from the planet itself. The only plausible explanation was they the landed on the side of the planet nearest Gargantua where the planetary gravity and the gravity from Gargantua somehow equaled out to around 9.8m/s squared. But that doesn’t explain why someone in orbit would experience time at earth speeds. But whatever, it makes for a great scene
Hans Zimmer never disappoints, and this movie has my favorite compositions of his. When they land on the water planet there's a faint sound of a clock ticking in the background. It happens once every 1.25 seconds, which was intentional and is mathematically accurate. Each time the clock ticks an entire day passes back on earth.
That would be equivalent to 7.89 years per hour. It could be a rounding error, but then you'd think they would've said 8 years per hour. The correct rate for seven years per hour is one day every 1.41 seconds: (1 hr.P / 7 yr.E) * 60 min/hr * 60 sec/min * 1 yr/365 days = 1.41 sec.P/day.E
The most heartbreaking thing about him watching the tapes is that he went through all those emotions and had to process decades of events in just one sitting, he felt joy for a second only to be broken a minute later...that's just too tragic
Watching this in IMAX was an almost spiritual experience... Every aspect was a masterpiece of film making. Thank you for your insight and real and emotional reaction. You should also watch the film 'Contact' if you haven't seen it yet, very much in the same vein as this and Arrival.
@@davidfox5383 Too bad IMAX requires movie-goers to travel to an IMAX theater in order to fully experience the movie. That being said, I love that the IMAX format ensures that the movie is captured at really high resolution, unlike those first digitally shot movies like Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2.
he actually made the real black hole. Not so long time ago we got first actual pictures of black hole and it is very similiar to what shown in the movie
I love how at 1:13:57, after being told the station is named after his daughter and not him, that he has this big, proud smile on his face. Absurdly wholesome.
Fun fact: Christopher Nolan bought a field and planted all the corn the truck drives through. After the movie was made, they harvested the corn and actually managed to turn a small profit....
They’re pretty neck and neck I think for the majority of the population or the majority of Nolan and zimmer fans so I’ve never been upset with someone thinking one is better than the other, I often think I know which one I like more, but then it changes just like that. I attended my dad’s funeral 2 days before my 18th birthday and he was my hero and the wisest man I’ve ever met. So the dad/daughter dynamic (even though I’m a son) and the “my dad promised me” really has always hit me hard, and the fact that interstellar could be representative of possible futures for our reality some day. The earth dying and what not.. the organ and soundtrack is just insane. But inception is its own master piece too. And equally as good. People can relate to that guilt Leo feels about what he did and I feel close to that as someone who shares deep guilt too knowing that I could have seen my dad the night he died but chose to go to a dumb high school party. And it’s not like I knew he’d suddenly pass but. Us humans are hard on ourselves. Regardless they’re just both master pieces in acting, soundtrack, plot. Everything.
Also disagree, Hans has done many better scores. Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, this just gets more noticed as it is more "recent" than those.
Imagine watching this in theaters... ❤ You feel every single thing. The docking scene was the most intense experience I've had watching a movie in a theater. The seats were shaking, the soundtrack was blaring, I felt like I was literally there with them. If it ever comes back on IMAX, I've got to do it again. This movie is a masterpiece ❤
I saw this in theaters with a girlfriend when it was released. I'm hoping to see it with her again this year when it re-releases, now that we're married with kids. I hope to see it with my daughter when she is older.
A good father daughter movie, I did that with my daughter and she see's me in a new light, What wouldn't dad do for me? We have been closer than ever before. I would say watch it with her and let her cuddle when she needs too. (Dad will always be there for her)
I never got the chance to watch this back then. Hell, my first time watching this movie was 3 years ago on a plane lol. I've been waiting for it to come back later this year so i can have the official theatrical experience lol
@@samirSch I don’t think Inception is intended to move you with emotions. IMO the film was designed to take you on a crazy ride, to blow your mind by the expertise of Nolan’s vision. Interstellar is a beautiful blend of science, visuals and emotions.
I love Hanz Zimmers score for this it's brilliant. The scene on the water planet, the clicking you hear in the background the whole scene is counting 1 day per click back on earth. When you listen to it go by so fast like that it's crazy to think about. Also, Arrival is the movie that made me obsessed with the idea of how the language we speak decides how we see the word and learning new languages and the possibilities and outlooks that can come with that. So fascinating.
are you saying that we heard ~8400 clicks in that sequence? :D Its 1 second / click (its a sound of a clock), simply to keep us reminded of passing time and to induce a feel of urgency.
@@zatharigo7815 Honestly, I can't tell you the math on it lol I'm just a music nerd who took Hanz' Masterclass and he talks about how he plays with time within his movie scores. And he just mentioned that based on the time slippage, 1 click is supposed to represent 1 day on earth. And yes for the reason you stated to keep us reminded of what is at stake :) The sound fades into the score as it gets bigger so its hard to say how many there are total, but I don't think it's supposed to add up the the 20+ years they were actually there. He does it quite a bit in Inception too where parts of his score or sounds are slowed down by x3 when they are 3 levels deep in the dream. Just fun music things :)
The clicking tempo changes, from 48 bpm (once every 1.25 seconds) to 60 bpm (once every second). With the 7yr/h 48 bpm equates to ~21.3 hours, for 24 hours it would've had to be ~42.6 bpm. Maybe they just rounded the 7.89 yr/h down.
@@marwinhochfelsner I kind of just figured with them spending twenty-three years, four months, and eight days there in Earth time, equalling three hours and seventeen minutes in their own time... we don't see 3 hours of on screen footage for that scene so i just thought we are to assume some time has passed that we don't see. Filling the gaps of how many clicks we would hear. I didn't even realize the clicks change bpm!
The black hole illustration for this movie looked almost exactly like the first picture taken of an actual black hole, years before the actual picture was taken. They nailed it. William Shatner had a deep spiritual experience when he went up to space at age 90. The video of him and the other people in the capsule shows them laughing and talking, and he stands to one side, looking so irritated with the others. He said he felt terrified by the utter black of space and when he tried to talk about it the others were drinking champagne like it was a a carnival ride. A lot to process at his age.
That’s because they actually did the real calculations and modeled it based on gravitational physics. Kip Thorne consulted on this movie and the VFX team actually got a scientific paper published on black holes because of it
I totally understand being annoyed with people not understanding and appreciating the meaning of the thing that's happening right in front of them. I'd be indignant too. Especially since you only have about 10 min before having to come back down.
@@bassmunk people have different ways of reacting to that. That's why there are lots of different religions out there, and atheists as well. I myself am a Deist.
Shatner's experience is one that will always stand out in my mind as epic. He broke down and you could see it in his eyes he wasn't acting. He had a new look upon life on the planet.
This movie was and still is the greatest movie theater experience I've ever had. And it did give me that same feeling of a "spiritual awakening" that you described, I'm glad you loved it! 😊
What a blast, Interstellar is one of my favorite Sci-fi movies! Nolan is a genius! I also like Contact with Jodie Foster AND ALSO Matthew McConaughey 🙂 "Eureka" is an exclamation used to celebrate a discovery or invention, originating from a cry attributed to the Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. After a discovery, he supposedly ran naked around a public market place and yelled "Eureka", meaning "I have found it!"
LOL, I love how at the very start you're like "this is a Nolan movie so I need to FOCUS" and then as soon as the opening title image appears you're like "oh right, that reminds me, I need to dust and clean my apartment..." 😂 Lovely reaction and discussion, as always!
It wasn't Einstein running nude through the streets of Syracuse - according to legend Archimedes ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka" [I have found it] when he had come up with the idea of Archimedes' Principle, the idea that the volume of water displaced by an object equals the volume of the object. This makes it easy to calculate the volume of oddly shaped objects and thus the objects density if you weigh it.
From wikipedia: The upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces.
The experience of astronauts you are talking about is called The Overview Effect and it is induced by seeing our small, insignificant planet without its boarders and boundaries, against the full, endless blackness of space. To see the planet without all the pointless fighting, pointless separation, pointless "othering" of each other - it is awe-inspiring. And that is the word you are looking for, not cool, but awe. Awesome, in the full original meaning of the word. Also Miranda you should know that all of the shots from inside the Ranger where the actors can see stuff outside, through the windows, that's all in camera. Nolan did everything that would normally be done in post production, ie VFX stuff and did it all FIRST. He then projected all those elements onto screens outside the Ranger model so the actors are actually reacting to things in front of them, rather than a green screen. Anne Hathaway said she was moved to tears when she saw the black hole/wormhole for the first time on set. And you're not alone. The Pulitzer Prize winning author Ernest Becker wrote a book about this very thing, which was expanded upon by the work of a man named Sheldon Solomon and his colleagues. Basically, if human beings only thought about the existential nature of their existence - the fact that we are defecating meat puppets on a tiny insignificant rock in a literal sea of trillions and trillions of insignificant rocks, the fact that our awareness that we are here inadvertently creates an awareness that we will someday not be here and that time itself will continue eternally even though we won't be here to experience it - if that is all we thought about as humans, we would become so catatonic that we would probably die of thirst never leaving our beds. So to counteract what Ernest termed "death anxiety" human beings created Culture, all the cultures that exist today and have ever existed - and what a magnificent sight culture is to behold.
Well yeah, if you stopped eating and drinking and just sat around thinking about stuff then we would die of thirst. Humans can think about incomprehensible ideas just fine and our brains don't crash when we think about how the universe is so massive. Humans do not fall into a catatonic state because of it. It's only a thing in fictional stories to create a dramatic effect and to emphasize how significant and impactful what they saw is.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte It doesnt have anything to do with thinking about the "incomprehensible." It has to do with the weight and implications of what it means to exist and be a person, what it means consciousness and to be aware of the eventual death of that consciousness, the notion that the world continues without us indefinitely while we aren't here to experience it, the notion that other conscious beings exist, meaning and purpose etc. I wasn't referring to it with regards to the content of the movie specifically, ie space. What I was saying has nothing to do with thinking about space, let alone the vastness of the universe itself. The reason we don't go catatonic thinking about it, is because we developed a buffer that helps our minds compartmentalize all that, which as I said, is human culture.
@@BadassRaiden The "weight and implications" don't affect the brain at all. It's not human culture, it's just how the brain works. If it was different you wouldn't even be able to have these thoughts in the first place. The brain can deal with difficult, complex questions, the same way it can handle a math problem or a move in chess or even a tricky shot with a rifle during the Olympics. No one talks about "catatonic states" then.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte You simply fail to understand what I'm talking about about. The brain only successfully thinks about these problems, if it stops every once in a while, utilizing the buffer that is culture. It ALL we ever thought about was the fact that we are defecating meat puppets, conscious of the fact that we are here and that someday we will not be here, and the weight of what it means to be a moral agent, we would never get out of bed. It's called Death Anxiety and it's been proven as a concept through literal decades of psychological research. If you think the weight and implications simply don't affect the brain at all, then you have no idea what you are talking about. There has been a considerable number of studies, again, over decades, that proves beyond a reasonable doubt, that when you remind the average person of their mortality, and by remind I mean subconsciously - by flashing the word death in front of their eyes so fast they don't even consciously read it - they are more likely to not be generous to strangers, Christians are more likely to be less compassionate towards Jews, they are more likely to be accepting of the killing of animals other then for protection or food, religious individuals are more likely to consider being a suicide bomber - doesn't matter if they are Muslim - and in general they are more likely to be okay with the bombing of another country that doesn't pose a serious, current existential threat to their safety. Human beings do not like being reminded that they are animals that will someday die. Period. It's called Death Anxiety, it is a real, proven phenomena.
If you had stayed awake the first time you tried to see this movie, we would never have been able to enjoy your reaction. It was not a crime to fall asleep. It was a blessing.
My favorite movie of all time. Like you, I felt profoundly changed by this movie. Have watched it at least 10 times, and dozens of YT reactions. Really enjoyed yours. You’re not alone, this film touches on deep, deep aspects of what makes us human. It just happens to take place partly in space, but it’s not just a “space movie”.
Wonderful Miranda. It's amazing to see how emotionally invested you get. Same with your video games, I've only watched a couple of those as I prefer films, but it's great to see someone like you doing these because you feel things so intensely.
Overwhelmed??? The second time I watched the movie was 5 minutes after I finished watching it the first time... The silence, the physics, how the camera is attached to the vehicles... everything so realistic... this movie has the best transitions ever made in cinema (Cooper going away with the countdown, the message from Murph to change to earth and the message from Dr. Brand to return to the ship) an so many others... This is the best movie forever
Ive watched this several times, but i just realized that they said there are 6 billion people on earth. So 2+ billion people have already died (presumably) due to the atmospheric changes on earth.
Maybe so but also this is some unknown time in the future, at least several decades. Some of it might have been attrition as old people died off and birth rates plummeted. Probably a mix of that and starvation.
There's a line where I believe Mathew's character says to Michael's (paraphrasing) "they realized 'ending' people wasn't a long term solution", so that likely means there was a period of global war/extermination going on at some point.
Also in reality there would be no possible way to transfer 6 billion people logistically off the planet to a space station....let alone another planet through a worm hole. Maybe a few hundred thousand tops. The rest would die on earth.
One of the best, if not the best, reactions to this movie I've ever seen. And I've seen quite a few! Natural, spontaneous, genuine, funny, and at times profound. I sincerely congratulate you.
This is my favorite Nolan! Seeing it in IMAX 70mm was a life changing experience, haha can't wait to do that again later this year. And yes, "because my dad promised me" kills every damn time.
"I think I'm too emotional for this movie today." No, no you're not. As a grown ass man, I'm not ashamed to say I bawled my eyes out. This movie is just emotional. This is the only movie to ever make me ugly cry.
Fun fact, Kip Thorne was the science advisor for the movie (he's THE living reference for general relativity, and gets a nobel prize for gravitationnal waves in 2017... so he's a big deal). That was the first time that they use general relativity equations to generate images with that much details and resolution, to create image of the black hole. Black hole simulation were already done for more than 30 years, but not at this scale, they actually discover things doing it. They had to tweek it a little to not confuse viewers (moslty on colors and luminosity), but the movie is incredibly accurate for the rendering of the black hole.
Most people think Murphy's Law is "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong." But it actually means "What can happen will happen. But as there are more ways for something to go wrong than go right, it's more likely to go wrong than go write. We have to engineer things so when they do go wrong, it's not catastrophic.
Right...lol. It also depends on the parameters of what "going right" is defined as. The number of things needing to go right that are added, the more likely it becomes that at least most of them will not succeed as they require a fixed system that can be controlled/influenced. The more complex it becomes then, the chances of success decrease. So generally, it's best to keep it as simple as possible and not make things more complicated than they need to be. It kinda goes into the concept of entropy, as well, as "randomness" or "disorder" which is easier to achieve because "order" or "things set forth in a predictable path usually requires some sort of stable influence/effort being applied.
Brand never knew that Murphy solved the gravity problem, so she's completing the "Plan B" mission without realizing life on Earth has improved. Thus, Cooper is going to find her to help her, bring her back, or otherwise not leave her alone for the rest of her life.
Life in earth didn’t improve. Murph solved the gravity issue and built the huge space stations. Cooper was going to help Brand start a new civilization on a new habitable planet not rescue her.
I have watched probably most of the reactions to this masterpiece but I was hoping that I'd watch yours and not only I was so excited when I saw the notification but I knew it'd be the best reaction to it. I love your reactions, I've said it before n will keep saying that, the combination of witty remarks, emotional, comedy, silliness, nerdy moments, all make your reactions something to look forward to. There's so much I could say about this movie and about your reaction but will just say in the water planet, there was a clicking noise, not sure if you noticed it, that represented every 1.25 seconds there would be a day on earth. The amount of research Nolan did for that movie is insane but def worth it as he showed, before it was actually proven by scientists, how a black hole would look like. All those space shots were amazing too. I'm so glad to have watched your reaction.
This is by far my favorite movie. I've always been fascinated with space. This movie hits all the right notes. It's set in the future, but not too far to be unrecognizable. It is a very feasible problem that humanity is facing. The acting, the world building, the musical score by Hans Zimmer, the great special effects. It all comes together to a really profound ride. I also watched it for the first time at a very low point in my life, and it was what I needed at that point in time. Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did. It is for sure one of the best movies. A real tearjerker too. I hope one day this inspires people to pursue these types of endeavors. Much like Armageddon inspired us to test asteroid defense systems. My only regret is that I probably will not live to see space travel be a common thing.
I saw this movie in an IMAX like theatre in North Carolina a few weeks ago and let me tell you. The black hole scene was such a loud low frequency it vibrated inside your chest
The craziest thing about the whole scene with Cooper docking to the Endurance, wasn't just that Cooper had to match the rotation of the ship, but that he had to do it through absolutely MASSIVE G forces. I'd guess he was probably pulling like 15-16 G's by the end of the spin, since Brand passed out like halfway into the rotation, which I'd expect was probably around 8-9 G's.
It's more of a realization by scientists than a contribution of raw data to science. All they did for this VFX was plug in some numbers from a physicist about relativity. Don't get me wrong: it's awesome to have an accurate depiction of a black hole!
@@kratosGOW Saying it like that undermines the achievement, I think, of course it was a little more than plugging in some numbers. If I'm not mistaken the shots of the black hole took months to render. There's even peer-reviewed papers that discuss this movie.
@@VColossalV It did take a lot of data to process and render the black hole, yeah. The end product could have inspired some ideas about the workings of a black hole within the scientific community, I agree. I'm willing to accept that.
Inception Dunkirk and Tenet are also Nolan movies. Dunkirk is a historical recreation. Inception and Tenet are Sci-fi and will really mess with your mind
I got to see this movie twice in theaters and what an experience it was both times. The second time I took this girl, I was dating at that time, and she was crying at the scene when Coop was seeing the messages from his family, hard down sobbing
Nolan brought Kip Thorne early on the project (still in the writing phase) because he wanted the science to be as realistic as possible. He was very clear on that and it is all checks out until the point Cooper enters the Black Hole at the end.. The fact that Kip was an executive producer on the movie shows his dedication to this really well. He is a theoretical physicist working on gravitational physics. They developed a computer model that based on his equations was able to simulate how a black hole would look like. They used that model as a basis for the CGI in the movie. The fact that science proved them right later just shows what a brilliant scientist he really is. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 2017 for his work on gravitational waves. I have always been a fan of Hans Zimmer, most of his work is just amazing. Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Da Vinci Code, Blade Runner, etc... All exceptional work but in my opinion this is his Magnum Opus. There is just something about the way he uses organs here its almost distracting. It brings up so much emotions in me I can barely focus on the movie. Seen it about 15 times and it never fails to completely overwhelm me its not even funny at this point the whole thing is just surreal. I am a huge fan of original movie soundtracks and I adore a lot of them so much I have them on my phone and listen to them on a daily basis. But this one is really special to me, in my opinion its one of the best piece of music of the modern era. And thats a really high praise I am aware of that. Here is a short 5 mins long vid where Nolan and Zimmer talks about the creation of the soundtrack. Really interesting stuff. ua-cam.com/video/L_8t2VlwK4w/v-deo.html It's perfect casting, outstanding writing and performances across the board. But damn that little girl who played Murph...usually child actors performances go from bad t mediocre but very rarely you get one that kills it so hard than this young lady did. Mackenzie Foy deserves all the credits for her performance here, the relationship with her dad was so believable and natural doesn't matter how many times I watch it, I cant find anything that stand out as not genuine. I agree on the masterpiece part. This was the movie that made me a fan of Nolan. I loved his previous stuff and knew he was stupidly talented but this movie....not that many people could make a movie that makes me feel so gutted after watching it for the 10+th time. Even tough I am a huge fan of Star Wars, this is by far my favourite scifi movie lol And please don't be embarrassed for crying, its the natural state of things watching this movie. I think it was quite sweet. I had a lot of fun watching it.
I've been a space nerd ever since I was a kid, and this movie is absolutely incredible. The black hole Gargantua is hauntingly beautiful. More movies need to explore black holes and wormholes as well as this movie does.
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” Carl Sagan ~ Pale Blue Dot
This movie packs so much. The documentary vibe is because it's from a real documentary on pbs by Ken Burns called "the dust bowl "... that really happened in the 1930s due to planting and irrigation practices. (It's really a good watch). Then the fact that those cornfield scenes weren't fake. They bought farm land to shoot on... harvested and sold the corn... (if I remember correctly). Like... there's SO much to this movie. But definitely look up the dust bowl. I think it should be required viewing. Best wishes... great channel.
Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Lathe of Heaven", a novel published in 1971, explores the idea that we are living a reality shaped by the dreams of others. It's been made into a TV movie for PBS in 1980 and re-made years later. Not available on streaming services but I managed to snag the DVD (and the book) from Amazon.
What a wonderful reaction. This is one of my favourite movies if not, my top. So many great moments in this film. Ive watched probably 50 reactions to this movie and this was in my top three. Really great edit, quality and genuine emotion. Keep up the great work!
@@pleutron Why? Why do some humans have a need to be grammar police online? For one, some people struggle with words and sentence structure. Others aren't native English speakers. And the point of communicating is to convey something. Was it understood what was conveyed? Yes. So what's the issue?
@@ProxCyde I’m sure spelling and definitions matter in other languages just as much as English. In this particular instance, there is a huge difference in the definitions of “no” & “know”, except for their *sound* .
@@LochAndLoad95 I struggle with Spelling/Grammer/Reading especially if it’s not important it’s just my brain don’t work like that. If you ask me to draw you it would be like a photo if you asked me to remember numbers or names or anything I can my retaining skills are top tier lol.
Also, the crazy thing about the water planet from Romilly’s perspective is that the ranger would seem to slow down faster and faster as it moved away from the Endurance until it basically stopped. You wouldn’t notice it had moved until years later
A masterpiece indeed ❤ if you haven't seen The Martian you should consider it for your next watch. They're very different, yet they go together. Perfect reaction, glad you fell asleep the first time, looking forward to the next
As a physicist, this movie has always been intriguing to me. Some people have asked about the validity of the science in the movie. It actually is about as accurate as possible. The main advisor was Kip Thorne, a Nobel prize winner, and one of the greatest living astrophysicists. He won the Nobel for detecting gravitational waves. I went thru the equations myself because I was curious if the time dilation of a planet orbiting a huge black hole would be greater due to the relativistic velocity required to maintain orbit (relativity) or due to the huge gravitational well of the black hole itself. I could only calculate it for a non-rotating black hole. The proper equations take into account a spinning black hole, which drags the gravity field around with it, making space-time even more distorted. However, even my simpler equations got numbers that were in line with those in the movie. It turns out that the gravity effect dominates for a black hole the size of the one in the movie.
Talking about the universe and philosophy is always such a good time. I've sadly met very few people who don't just wanna talk about that stuff. They either just don't care or are afraid of the idea of space.
Hans Zimmer created the themes for this film without seeing it. He didn't even know it was a sci-fi epic. Nolan told him it was about a man who had to leave his family, and he developed the musical motifs on that basis.
Oh yeah, this movie fucks me up big time in all the right ways! Just the writing and the effects and the music are all woven together to form an incredible tapestry. There's only a handful of leitmotifs but every single one of them will rip your heart into tiny shreds, I tear up every time I hear one. My favorite scene is the airlock scene, it's just a perfect scene. The way you can hear the repeating, almost desperate thump of the latches trying to lock on, the way the strings in the score sound like a rising and falling alarm, the whole piece practically vibrating with tension, and the way Dr. Mann is suddenly cut off mid-sentence and the music vanishes and the sound of the explosion abruptly disappears because space has no sound. Mmm, incredible. Chef's kiss. I love TARS and CASE, their designs are so freaking cool and I love the emotion they display despite claiming to be emotionless beings. They are reminiscent of the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey, yes! I'm going to start calling them vending machines now, pfft. The scenes where they go into the wormhole and the black hole... I have no idea how they rendered those, they are mind boggling and actually scientifically accurate. Few things rarely get me to say "woah" out loud while I'm watching a movie. I can't think of another movie that glued me to actual edge of my seat. I couldn't look away! It's coming back into theaters this September for it's 10th anniversary and you can bet I'm gonna go see it on the big screen IMAX. And this I did not realize on my first watch through, there are no aliens or mystical gods, there are only humans and their love, which has transcended time to rescue themselves. Humans, or whatever they become in the far future, created the wormhole, they built the tesseract, and they allowed one man to use his own love for his daughter to manipulate gravity and save them all. The heart-rending realization that he was the ghost all along is truly awe inspiring.
You may want to check out Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathon Nolan's work as well, he wrote the Interstellar script and just recently did the new Fallout TV show. Both brothers are equally genius level filmmakers.
@TheMirandalorianReacts To answer your question on whether the quantum data was repeating for 30 years…here’s the answer: According to Kip Thorne, the physicist who worked with Nolan on Interstellar, he writes in his book “The Science of Interstellar” on page 266 “By the time Cooper has received the quantum data from TARS, he has mastered this means of communication. In the movie we seen him pushing with his finger on the world tube of a watch’s second hand. His pushes produce a backward-in-time gravitational force, which makes the second hand twitch in a Morse-encoded pattern that carries the quantum data. The tesseract stores the twitching pattern in the bulk so it repeats over and over again. When forty-year-old Murph returns to her bedroom three decades later, she finds the second hand still twitching, repeating over and over again the encoded quantum data that Cooper has struggled so hard to send her.” So the tesseract repeats the twitching pattern to every single moment of the watch’s second hand in Murph’s bedroom, moments which span 30 years.
You are not alone at all. There are a great many of us who, like yourself, kept our minds (and figuratively, hearts) open to the possibilities of story telling and the illuminating and transportive capacity of cinema to make us think and feel this deeply. There are those, including a great many critics/cynics/contrarian eggheads who actually seem to not only balk about a film such as "Interstellar" as they do so much of science fiction or fantasy, but resent being made to feel too deeply. I'm all in anytime I could take a ride like this. But it's a truly rare happening to experience one done as brilliantly and effectively as this one. Thank you.
Fun fact: Murph's watch wasn't a production watch by Hamilton at the time Interstellar was filmed; it was made specifically as a prop plot device. But since then, Hamilton has released two versions, one in a 42mm case, and another in 38mm. On the seconds hand of the 42mm variant, "Eureka" is printed in morse code. These watches are affectionately known as the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical "Murph".
@VwSvNexus Yeah at the moment it's a tad overpriced. The brand heritage, mechanical movement and the link to the movie doesn't help. I keep looking on the secondary market in case I get lucky.
Based on what you said I think you would love the series The Good Place, it's my favorite of all time. For a smart person, it opens your mind about the meaning of life, for a regular person is just fun.
48:20 I have watched this movie over a hundred times, literally, and I have never ever noticed the dubbed audio at that spot. Holy hell that was a good catch
I watched this movie & The Martian (Matt Damon) recently, and I was in awe!! I had never watched them. Despite always having a fascination with space growing up, I never watched either movie. And I'm so glad that I finally did
Listen to the audiobook on Audible for The Martian. The movie did not remotely do it justice. Also, listen to the Bobiverse (4 books at this writing). Most fun you'll ever have!
This film brings me to tears every time!! Even from the relative small percent you share during this watch party, had me balling 😢. Easily in my top 5 favorites. Thank you for sharing and allowing us to accompany you on this rollercoaster!
I mean regardless of whether or not the movie claims that, which is also what I think, it’s just a great way to think about life and humanity in general
I love your insights in the movies you "react" to. Especially this one. It's like watching a movie with a new friend who hasn't seen it. Much love, keep at it 😅❤
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your reactions. I LOVED your reaction to Interstellar, but it also made me watch some of your older ones like Mrs. Doubtfire (I also do voices), the Back to the Future trilogy, and more. You are spectacular!!
Hey everyone! It's been over a week since I have seen this movie, and it has really stuck with me... I have never something like this that was so thought provoking. I keep thinking about how important it is to be grateful & how valuable our time is, especially when spending it with loved ones. I just want to thank you for taking the time to enjoy this masterpiece with me! ❤
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You are so right.
In addition, it reminds me to support people around me, so they get the support and some experiences, their family or situation does not provide.
(small scale, not rich and certainly no saint)
It's been years since I watched this movie. It is still stuck with me. Don't worry its normal ahaha
Watch Tenet that's Nolans greatest movie, it's an R rated written and directed by Nolan masterpiece, once again about the concept of time, and it has a terrifying villain played by Kenneth Brenagh, and it's a mind bender beyond anything ever put on screen before.
I swear I got completely lost in this movie. It was an unforgettable experience.
McConaughey not even being nominated for this film is one of the Oscars biggest misses.
The average Oscar voter makes elderly Murph look young and spritely. They are increasingly irrelevant.
the oscars has and always will be just bunch of industry goons patting each other on the back.if you're not part of the wide scale circle jerk in hollywierd , then chances are you won't get an oscar or even a nomination.
So true. Watching his movie has been when I realized how good an actor Mr. M is.
I agree
@@Mathemagical55 Such as the far leftie Robert Deniro! lol
Everyone misses the point of the ending. Brandt takes off her helmet showing that the atmosphere is breathable and that all along her love for the guy was guiding them to the right place.
Yeah dude... Everyone noticed that
And his love for his daughter was what saved the humans back on earth and sent them to colonize space.
A few may have missed it - otherwise, no: because it's the entire point of the movie.
That is literally the whole point of the movie, I dont think I know anyone who missed the ending after a second watch...
Nobody with a double digit IQ missed that lmao
“Because my dad promised me” hits like a truck.
heh. that was fast.
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Or like a faceblast of dust
@@kimnielsen3430 or a orbiting fleck of paint on the windshield of a space station
every fucking time. upon rewatches i may not cry in whole movie but this line breaks me always.
Like a ton of bricks
this movie saved my life twice in 2014 and 2019 from depression and attempts, i am now happy fully employed looking to start a family this year
Why are u lying
May god bless you, stay strong
Why are you so soft..wtf.. remember all humans suffered all kinda of different things...Be tough
@@gamebredo8880 ????????
I’m happy for you, and glad you got through it. Keep going strong. 👍
"Because my dad promised me" Broke me every time 😭
so it doesn't anymore? what changed?
@@pleutronTime is relative, and can be navigated with gravity. It broke me two days from now, and it will break me again last week…
@@inhonoroftrip6320 😂 love(d) that answer. Except Terrance Howard says gravity doesn’t exist
I’ve seen this a million times and that lines still kills me.
@@Etticos. which ones?
"Because my dad promised me"
What father wouldn't go through hell and back for his kids.
Good reminder of what good parents are like. Weather solo or couple.
Yeah, sadly there are fathers out there who just don’t care. But I guess they wouldn’t be called fathers at that point. More so “organic material”
You speak the truth. I'd easily trade my life for theirs, if it came to it.
Right at the beginning, he says to Murph "I'm here because of you". What an understated call forward to the ending.
I love how this movie plays with emotions. When you realize he’s the “ghost”, you get a sudden sense of hope, but then you realize that he was sending messages to tell himself not to leave… and you’re crushed.
Christopher Nolan brought in real-life physicist Kip Thorne as a consultant on this film in order to get as much of the physics of gravity, relativity, and black holes as correct as he could. As no one had ever seen a real black hole before production began, Gargantua's appearance was based on renderings of actual scientific calculations to approximate what a black hole would really look like. It turned out to be remarkably accurate when the first-ever composite photo of a real black hole was taken in 2019, as it appeared very similar to Interstellar's Gargantua.
Also, the decommissioned robot was called KIP in honour!
Unfortunately this is very unrealistic, physics-wise. The scales are completely off unfortunately. But the concepts are at least true.
If you look into the lore of this movie, that wormhole that appeared near saturn was discovered in 2019.
@@TimeFadesMemoryLasts Yeah while I love this movie everything about Millers planet and the time dilation of being on the surface is incredibly unrealistic. If the gravitational forces of Gargantua are so strong to cause such a time dilation, how could the crew operate like it was normal earth gravity while on the surface? Not to mention the dilation effect should be similar whether you were in orbit or on the surface since it wasn’t from the planet itself.
The only plausible explanation was they the landed on the side of the planet nearest Gargantua where the planetary gravity and the gravity from Gargantua somehow equaled out to around 9.8m/s squared. But that doesn’t explain why someone in orbit would experience time at earth speeds. But whatever, it makes for a great scene
@@TimeFadesMemoryLasts Of course they are, for artistic license. Otherwise the movie would be boring, or simply impossible.
Hans Zimmer never disappoints, and this movie has my favorite compositions of his. When they land on the water planet there's a faint sound of a clock ticking in the background. It happens once every 1.25 seconds, which was intentional and is mathematically accurate. Each time the clock ticks an entire day passes back on earth.
That would be equivalent to 7.89 years per hour. It could be a rounding error, but then you'd think they would've said 8 years per hour. The correct rate for seven years per hour is one day every 1.41 seconds:
(1 hr.P / 7 yr.E) * 60 min/hr * 60 sec/min * 1 yr/365 days = 1.41 sec.P/day.E
The old people talking about the dust are not actors but people who lived through the dust bowl.
They really are a documentary. They are clips from the Ken Burns documentary on the great American dust bowl. Great documentary by the way
@@DaleKingProfile shame most people have no idea what that is
Although in hindsight you can tell one of those old people is better-looking and more presentable than the others, and that’s Helen Burstyn
@@Big_Tex It's Ellen, by the way not Helen.
@@DaleKingProfile haha I initially typed Helen Mirren because I get them confused
The most heartbreaking thing about him watching the tapes is that he went through all those emotions and had to process decades of events in just one sitting, he felt joy for a second only to be broken a minute later...that's just too tragic
"I've heard this movie is very emotional" **looks at thumbnail again** Yeah...
😂😂
Oh you poor child
"I have my tissues here ready"
Buy more.
Look up a movie called passengers
@@johncashman1119fantastic movie.
Watching this in IMAX was an almost spiritual experience... Every aspect was a masterpiece of film making. Thank you for your insight and real and emotional reaction.
You should also watch the film 'Contact' if you haven't seen it yet, very much in the same vein as this and Arrival.
Agreed.
@@davidfox5383 Too bad IMAX requires movie-goers to travel to an IMAX theater in order to fully experience the movie. That being said, I love that the IMAX format ensures that the movie is captured at really high resolution, unlike those first digitally shot movies like Star Wars Episodes 1 and 2.
Agreed, but whilst its good, its not quite as good as either this or arrival for me. just my personal opinion ofc.
Y E S ! Please watch "Contact". You will LOVE it. Based on the book by Carl Sagan.
Christopher Nolan actually made a real black hole for this movie. A black hole in our hearts for how sad it truly is.
That’s nothing. Christopher Nolan actually helped humanity evolve into four dimensional beings to hire some as set builders for the tesseract scene.
He actually made a real black hole. None of that CGI crap
@@peterwinters8587 I knew it!
he actually made the real black hole. Not so long time ago we got first actual pictures of black hole and it is very similiar to what shown in the movie
Even as a 4th dimensional being I still don't understand Tenet
I love how at 1:13:57, after being told the station is named after his daughter and not him, that he has this big, proud smile on his face.
Absurdly wholesome.
Fun fact: Christopher Nolan bought a field and planted all the corn the truck drives through. After the movie was made, they harvested the corn and actually managed to turn a small profit....
not harvested, but sold the farm to a local farmer :)
@@andyjensen2497the corn used was harvested. Look up the article. That’s all this comment meant to convey…Jesus Christ.
Lesser directors would have just added a CGI cornfield in post.
21:47 "I was not expecting these kind of emotions"
oh Miranda, saddle up, you're in for some serious tears
Nolans best movie. Zimmers best score. An absolute masterpiece.
Nolans second best movie and second best score of Hans Zimmer. Inception and Time is a bit better
@@Jigsaw_2101 I disagree but very much respect your opinion, Inception was also awesome
They’re pretty neck and neck I think for the majority of the population or the majority of Nolan and zimmer fans so I’ve never been upset with someone thinking one is better than the other, I often think I know which one I like more, but then it changes just like that. I attended my dad’s funeral 2 days before my 18th birthday and he was my hero and the wisest man I’ve ever met. So the dad/daughter dynamic (even though I’m a son) and the “my dad promised me” really has always hit me hard, and the fact that interstellar could be representative of possible futures for our reality some day. The earth dying and what not.. the organ and soundtrack is just insane. But inception is its own master piece too. And equally as good. People can relate to that guilt Leo feels about what he did and I feel close to that as someone who shares deep guilt too knowing that I could have seen my dad the night he died but chose to go to a dumb high school party. And it’s not like I knew he’d suddenly pass but. Us humans are hard on ourselves. Regardless they’re just both master
pieces in acting, soundtrack, plot. Everything.
Also disagree, Hans has done many better scores. Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, this just gets more noticed as it is more "recent" than those.
very much disagree on this being nolan's best movie. It's at best 4th for me behind dark knight, dunkirk, inception.
Imagine watching this in theaters... ❤ You feel every single thing. The docking scene was the most intense experience I've had watching a movie in a theater. The seats were shaking, the soundtrack was blaring, I felt like I was literally there with them. If it ever comes back on IMAX, I've got to do it again. This movie is a masterpiece ❤
I saw this in theaters with a girlfriend when it was released. I'm hoping to see it with her again this year when it re-releases, now that we're married with kids. I hope to see it with my daughter when she is older.
A good father daughter movie, I did that with my daughter and she see's me in a new light, What wouldn't dad do for me? We have been closer than ever before.
I would say watch it with her and let her cuddle when she needs too. (Dad will always be there for her)
I never got the chance to watch this back then. Hell, my first time watching this movie was 3 years ago on a plane lol. I've been waiting for it to come back later this year so i can have the official theatrical experience lol
this movie has a 100% success rate of making me cry multiple times.
Inception definitely needs to be your next Nolan movie...
My personal favorite Nolan film. The acting, the story telling, the twists and turns… and the ending! Simply a masterpiece of film!
For sure worth watching, and it's a great and fun movie, but nowhere as moving as Interstellar...IMHO.
@@samirSch I don’t think Inception is intended to move you with emotions. IMO the film was designed to take you on a crazy ride, to blow your mind by the expertise of Nolan’s vision. Interstellar is a beautiful blend of science, visuals and emotions.
Absolutely!
You're waiting for a train…
@@samirSch Inception is better and deeper than Interstellar.
The fact that this movie makes a "talking vending machine" a super lovable character you end up caring for is so amazing imo
I love Hanz Zimmers score for this it's brilliant. The scene on the water planet, the clicking you hear in the background the whole scene is counting 1 day per click back on earth. When you listen to it go by so fast like that it's crazy to think about.
Also, Arrival is the movie that made me obsessed with the idea of how the language we speak decides how we see the word and learning new languages and the possibilities and outlooks that can come with that. So fascinating.
Correct. Learning a new language means learning a new way to think.
are you saying that we heard ~8400 clicks in that sequence? :D
Its 1 second / click (its a sound of a clock), simply to keep us reminded of passing time and to induce a feel of urgency.
@@zatharigo7815 Honestly, I can't tell you the math on it lol I'm just a music nerd who took Hanz' Masterclass and he talks about how he plays with time within his movie scores. And he just mentioned that based on the time slippage, 1 click is supposed to represent 1 day on earth. And yes for the reason you stated to keep us reminded of what is at stake :) The sound fades into the score as it gets bigger so its hard to say how many there are total, but I don't think it's supposed to add up the the 20+ years they were actually there.
He does it quite a bit in Inception too where parts of his score or sounds are slowed down by x3 when they are 3 levels deep in the dream. Just fun music things :)
The clicking tempo changes, from 48 bpm (once every 1.25 seconds) to 60 bpm (once every second). With the 7yr/h 48 bpm equates to ~21.3 hours, for 24 hours it would've had to be ~42.6 bpm. Maybe they just rounded the 7.89 yr/h down.
@@marwinhochfelsner I kind of just figured with them spending twenty-three years, four months, and eight days there in Earth time, equalling three hours and seventeen minutes in their own time... we don't see 3 hours of on screen footage for that scene so i just thought we are to assume some time has passed that we don't see. Filling the gaps of how many clicks we would hear. I didn't even realize the clicks change bpm!
Yes, you absolutely hit the nail on the head, Interstellar is a MASTERPIECE!!! This is by far my favorite movie of all time!
Every reactor's reaction to realizing he's the ghost is *chef's kiss*. The reveal, the buildup, the drama of it, and then instant tears and crying.
I'm 30 years old. No children. But each time it wrecks me so badly. So no, you are not alone. Noone who shares the same feeling is alone.
The black hole illustration for this movie looked almost exactly like the first picture taken of an actual black hole, years before the actual picture was taken. They nailed it. William Shatner had a deep spiritual experience when he went up to space at age 90. The video of him and the other people in the capsule shows them laughing and talking, and he stands to one side, looking so irritated with the others. He said he felt terrified by the utter black of space and when he tried to talk about it the others were drinking champagne like it was a a carnival ride. A lot to process at his age.
That’s because they actually did the real calculations and modeled it based on gravitational physics. Kip Thorne consulted on this movie and the VFX team actually got a scientific paper published on black holes because of it
You didn't see the first photo, did you? It's just a glowing blobb xD
I totally understand being annoyed with people not understanding and appreciating the meaning of the thing that's happening right in front of them. I'd be indignant too. Especially since you only have about 10 min before having to come back down.
@@bassmunk people have different ways of reacting to that. That's why there are lots of different religions out there, and atheists as well. I myself am a Deist.
Shatner's experience is one that will always stand out in my mind as epic. He broke down and you could see it in his eyes he wasn't acting. He had a new look upon life on the planet.
This movie was and still is the greatest movie theater experience I've ever had. And it did give me that same feeling of a "spiritual awakening" that you described, I'm glad you loved it! 😊
What a blast, Interstellar is one of my favorite Sci-fi movies! Nolan is a genius!
I also like Contact with Jodie Foster AND ALSO Matthew McConaughey 🙂
"Eureka" is an exclamation used to celebrate a discovery or invention, originating from a cry attributed to the Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. After a discovery, he supposedly ran naked around a public market place and yelled "Eureka", meaning "I have found it!"
1:06:41 Love the switch from, "we've gone plaaad! 😂😂😂" to "wait those are books 😶"
LOL, I love how at the very start you're like "this is a Nolan movie so I need to FOCUS" and then as soon as the opening title image appears you're like "oh right, that reminds me, I need to dust and clean my apartment..." 😂
Lovely reaction and discussion, as always!
Imagine Cooper just showing up where Brand is and just saying "You won't believe what happened."
When cooper tosses the coin it curves in the air unnaturally and falls back towards the center of gravity (where the dust settled).
I LOVE that you said "Coward." and Hans named that track during his scene that.
It wasn't Einstein running nude through the streets of Syracuse - according to legend Archimedes ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka" [I have found it] when he had come up with the idea of Archimedes' Principle, the idea that the volume of water displaced by an object equals the volume of the object. This makes it easy to calculate the volume of oddly shaped objects and thus the objects density if you weigh it.
Wasn’t it to prove if gold given to a king was real?
From wikipedia: The upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces.
It might be likely Einstein never went to Syracuse indeed.
@@MikeB12800 Yes. By showing how dense it was he proved it wasn't real gold.
I don't usually get emotional during movies but watching you get emotional makes me get emotional. I love you!
The experience of astronauts you are talking about is called The Overview Effect and it is induced by seeing our small, insignificant planet without its boarders and boundaries, against the full, endless blackness of space. To see the planet without all the pointless fighting, pointless separation, pointless "othering" of each other - it is awe-inspiring. And that is the word you are looking for, not cool, but awe. Awesome, in the full original meaning of the word.
Also Miranda you should know that all of the shots from inside the Ranger where the actors can see stuff outside, through the windows, that's all in camera. Nolan did everything that would normally be done in post production, ie VFX stuff and did it all FIRST. He then projected all those elements onto screens outside the Ranger model so the actors are actually reacting to things in front of them, rather than a green screen. Anne Hathaway said she was moved to tears when she saw the black hole/wormhole for the first time on set.
And you're not alone. The Pulitzer Prize winning author Ernest Becker wrote a book about this very thing, which was expanded upon by the work of a man named Sheldon Solomon and his colleagues. Basically, if human beings only thought about the existential nature of their existence - the fact that we are defecating meat puppets on a tiny insignificant rock in a literal sea of trillions and trillions of insignificant rocks, the fact that our awareness that we are here inadvertently creates an awareness that we will someday not be here and that time itself will continue eternally even though we won't be here to experience it - if that is all we thought about as humans, we would become so catatonic that we would probably die of thirst never leaving our beds. So to counteract what Ernest termed "death anxiety" human beings created Culture, all the cultures that exist today and have ever existed - and what a magnificent sight culture is to behold.
Well yeah, if you stopped eating and drinking and just sat around thinking about stuff then we would die of thirst.
Humans can think about incomprehensible ideas just fine and our brains don't crash when we think about how the universe is so massive. Humans do not fall into a catatonic state because of it. It's only a thing in fictional stories to create a dramatic effect and to emphasize how significant and impactful what they saw is.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte It doesnt have anything to do with thinking about the "incomprehensible." It has to do with the weight and implications of what it means to exist and be a person, what it means consciousness and to be aware of the eventual death of that consciousness, the notion that the world continues without us indefinitely while we aren't here to experience it, the notion that other conscious beings exist, meaning and purpose etc. I wasn't referring to it with regards to the content of the movie specifically, ie space. What I was saying has nothing to do with thinking about space, let alone the vastness of the universe itself. The reason we don't go catatonic thinking about it, is because we developed a buffer that helps our minds compartmentalize all that, which as I said, is human culture.
@@BadassRaiden The "weight and implications" don't affect the brain at all. It's not human culture, it's just how the brain works.
If it was different you wouldn't even be able to have these thoughts in the first place.
The brain can deal with difficult, complex questions, the same way it can handle a math problem or a move in chess or even a tricky shot with a rifle during the Olympics. No one talks about "catatonic states" then.
@@Fragenzeichenplatte You simply fail to understand what I'm talking about about. The brain only successfully thinks about these problems, if it stops every once in a while, utilizing the buffer that is culture. It ALL we ever thought about was the fact that we are defecating meat puppets, conscious of the fact that we are here and that someday we will not be here, and the weight of what it means to be a moral agent, we would never get out of bed. It's called Death Anxiety and it's been proven as a concept through literal decades of psychological research. If you think the weight and implications simply don't affect the brain at all, then you have no idea what you are talking about.
There has been a considerable number of studies, again, over decades, that proves beyond a reasonable doubt, that when you remind the average person of their mortality, and by remind I mean subconsciously - by flashing the word death in front of their eyes so fast they don't even consciously read it - they are more likely to not be generous to strangers, Christians are more likely to be less compassionate towards Jews, they are more likely to be accepting of the killing of animals other then for protection or food, religious individuals are more likely to consider being a suicide bomber - doesn't matter if they are Muslim - and in general they are more likely to be okay with the bombing of another country that doesn't pose a serious, current existential threat to their safety. Human beings do not like being reminded that they are animals that will someday die. Period. It's called Death Anxiety, it is a real, proven phenomena.
If you had stayed awake the first time you tried to see this movie, we would never have been able to enjoy your reaction.
It was not a crime to fall asleep. It was a blessing.
My favorite movie of all time. Like you, I felt profoundly changed by this movie. Have watched it at least 10 times, and dozens of YT reactions. Really enjoyed yours. You’re not alone, this film touches on deep, deep aspects of what makes us human. It just happens to take place partly in space, but it’s not just a “space movie”.
"Eureka" means "I have found it!" and goes all the way back to ancient Greece.
Wonderful Miranda. It's amazing to see how emotionally invested you get. Same with your video games, I've only watched a couple of those as I prefer films, but it's great to see someone like you doing these because you feel things so intensely.
Overwhelmed??? The second time I watched the movie was 5 minutes after I finished watching it the first time... The silence, the physics, how the camera is attached to the vehicles... everything so realistic... this movie has the best transitions ever made in cinema (Cooper going away with the countdown, the message from Murph to change to earth and the message from Dr. Brand to return to the ship) an so many others... This is the best movie forever
Ive watched this several times, but i just realized that they said there are 6 billion people on earth. So 2+ billion people have already died (presumably) due to the atmospheric changes on earth.
And starvation.
Maybe so but also this is some unknown time in the future, at least several decades. Some of it might have been attrition as old people died off and birth rates plummeted. Probably a mix of that and starvation.
Last time I read WE'RE at over 8 BILLION POPULATION now this year of 2024! That's a lot of "MATING GOING ON"!! WE gotta' SLOW THAT DOWN.
There's a line where I believe Mathew's character says to Michael's (paraphrasing) "they realized 'ending' people wasn't a long term solution", so that likely means there was a period of global war/extermination going on at some point.
Also in reality there would be no possible way to transfer 6 billion people logistically off the planet to a space station....let alone another planet through a worm hole. Maybe a few hundred thousand tops. The rest would die on earth.
One of the best, if not the best, reactions to this movie I've ever seen. And I've seen quite a few! Natural, spontaneous, genuine, funny, and at times profound. I sincerely congratulate you.
This is my favorite Nolan! Seeing it in IMAX 70mm was a life changing experience, haha can't wait to do that again later this year. And yes, "because my dad promised me" kills every damn time.
Yeah, there’s no way I’m watching this on my favorite media device. True IMAX is the only way to experience it.
I hope they re-release it in my country too, I will spend the entire day in the theater lmao
When's the re-release? I missed it the first time it came to theaters
I KNOW! I have it marked on my calendar in late October so I don't miss buying tickets. To quote Romilly, "I've waited years."
"I think I'm too emotional for this movie today."
No, no you're not. As a grown ass man, I'm not ashamed to say I bawled my eyes out. This movie is just emotional. This is the only movie to ever make me ugly cry.
Fun fact, Kip Thorne was the science advisor for the movie (he's THE living reference for general relativity, and gets a nobel prize for gravitationnal waves in 2017... so he's a big deal). That was the first time that they use general relativity equations to generate images with that much details and resolution, to create image of the black hole. Black hole simulation were already done for more than 30 years, but not at this scale, they actually discover things doing it. They had to tweek it a little to not confuse viewers (moslty on colors and luminosity), but the movie is incredibly accurate for the rendering of the black hole.
Most people think Murphy's Law is "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong." But it actually means "What can happen will happen.
But as there are more ways for something to go wrong than go right, it's more likely to go wrong than go write. We have to engineer things so when they do go wrong, it's not catastrophic.
Right...lol. It also depends on the parameters of what "going right" is defined as. The number of things needing to go right that are added, the more likely it becomes that at least most of them will not succeed as they require a fixed system that can be controlled/influenced. The more complex it becomes then, the chances of success decrease. So generally, it's best to keep it as simple as possible and not make things more complicated than they need to be. It kinda goes into the concept of entropy, as well, as "randomness" or "disorder" which is easier to achieve because "order" or "things set forth in a predictable path usually requires some sort of stable influence/effort being applied.
Best sci fi film I’ve ever seen, which is why I enjoy re-living first time watches with other people. Well done.
Brand never knew that Murphy solved the gravity problem, so she's completing the "Plan B" mission without realizing life on Earth has improved. Thus, Cooper is going to find her to help her, bring her back, or otherwise not leave her alone for the rest of her life.
Life in earth didn’t improve. Murph solved the gravity issue and built the huge space stations. Cooper was going to help Brand start a new civilization on a new habitable planet not rescue her.
This is such a wonderful reaction! I’m hooked on your channel and your personality is amazing!
This film won't be repeated.
It is off the scale
Love your reaction
Watching it now...
I have watched probably most of the reactions to this masterpiece but I was hoping that I'd watch yours and not only I was so excited when I saw the notification but I knew it'd be the best reaction to it. I love your reactions, I've said it before n will keep saying that, the combination of witty remarks, emotional, comedy, silliness, nerdy moments, all make your reactions something to look forward to.
There's so much I could say about this movie and about your reaction but will just say in the water planet, there was a clicking noise, not sure if you noticed it, that represented every 1.25 seconds there would be a day on earth.
The amount of research Nolan did for that movie is insane but def worth it as he showed, before it was actually proven by scientists, how a black hole would look like. All those space shots were amazing too.
I'm so glad to have watched your reaction.
This is by far my favorite movie. I've always been fascinated with space. This movie hits all the right notes. It's set in the future, but not too far to be unrecognizable. It is a very feasible problem that humanity is facing.
The acting, the world building, the musical score by Hans Zimmer, the great special effects. It all comes together to a really profound ride. I also watched it for the first time at a very low point in my life, and it was what I needed at that point in time.
Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did. It is for sure one of the best movies. A real tearjerker too.
I hope one day this inspires people to pursue these types of endeavors. Much like Armageddon inspired us to test asteroid defense systems. My only regret is that I probably will not live to see space travel be a common thing.
I feel this is the magnum opus for both Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer.
I saw this movie in an IMAX like theatre in North Carolina a few weeks ago and let me tell you. The black hole scene was such a loud low frequency it vibrated inside your chest
Yeah seeing this in IMAX was beyond epic.
The craziest thing about the whole scene with Cooper docking to the Endurance, wasn't just that Cooper had to match the rotation of the ship, but that he had to do it through absolutely MASSIVE G forces. I'd guess he was probably pulling like 15-16 G's by the end of the spin, since Brand passed out like halfway into the rotation, which I'd expect was probably around 8-9 G's.
Creating the VFX for that black hole actually contributed to science, discovering new things about how black holes work.
It's more of a realization by scientists than a contribution of raw data to science. All they did for this VFX was plug in some numbers from a physicist about relativity.
Don't get me wrong: it's awesome to have an accurate depiction of a black hole!
@@kratosGOW Saying it like that undermines the achievement, I think, of course it was a little more than plugging in some numbers. If I'm not mistaken the shots of the black hole took months to render. There's even peer-reviewed papers that discuss this movie.
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It did take a lot of data to process and render the black hole, yeah.
The end product could have inspired some ideas about the workings of a black hole within the scientific community, I agree. I'm willing to accept that.
Inception Dunkirk and Tenet are also Nolan movies. Dunkirk is a historical recreation. Inception and Tenet are Sci-fi and will really mess with your mind
I got to see this movie twice in theaters and what an experience it was both times. The second time I took this girl, I was dating at that time, and she was crying at the scene when Coop was seeing the messages from his family, hard down sobbing
I was crying too. Such a heartbreaking scene
Nolan brought Kip Thorne early on the project (still in the writing phase) because he wanted the science to be as realistic as possible. He was very clear on that and it is all checks out until the point Cooper enters the Black Hole at the end.. The fact that Kip was an executive producer on the movie shows his dedication to this really well. He is a theoretical physicist working on gravitational physics. They developed a computer model that based on his equations was able to simulate how a black hole would look like. They used that model as a basis for the CGI in the movie. The fact that science proved them right later just shows what a brilliant scientist he really is. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 2017 for his work on gravitational waves.
I have always been a fan of Hans Zimmer, most of his work is just amazing. Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Da Vinci Code, Blade Runner, etc... All exceptional work but in my opinion this is his Magnum Opus. There is just something about the way he uses organs here its almost distracting. It brings up so much emotions in me I can barely focus on the movie. Seen it about 15 times and it never fails to completely overwhelm me its not even funny at this point the whole thing is just surreal. I am a huge fan of original movie soundtracks and I adore a lot of them so much I have them on my phone and listen to them on a daily basis. But this one is really special to me, in my opinion its one of the best piece of music of the modern era. And thats a really high praise I am aware of that.
Here is a short 5 mins long vid where Nolan and Zimmer talks about the creation of the soundtrack. Really interesting stuff.
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It's perfect casting, outstanding writing and performances across the board. But damn that little girl who played Murph...usually child actors performances go from bad t mediocre but very rarely you get one that kills it so hard than this young lady did. Mackenzie Foy deserves all the credits for her performance here, the relationship with her dad was so believable and natural doesn't matter how many times I watch it, I cant find anything that stand out as not genuine.
I agree on the masterpiece part. This was the movie that made me a fan of Nolan. I loved his previous stuff and knew he was stupidly talented but this movie....not that many people could make a movie that makes me feel so gutted after watching it for the 10+th time. Even tough I am a huge fan of Star Wars, this is by far my favourite scifi movie lol
And please don't be embarrassed for crying, its the natural state of things watching this movie. I think it was quite sweet. I had a lot of fun watching it.
I love all of Nolan's work, but Interstellar just hits different.
I've been a space nerd ever since I was a kid, and this movie is absolutely incredible. The black hole Gargantua is hauntingly beautiful. More movies need to explore black holes and wormholes as well as this movie does.
“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.” Carl Sagan ~ Pale Blue Dot
This movie packs so much. The documentary vibe is because it's from a real documentary on pbs by Ken Burns called "the dust bowl "... that really happened in the 1930s due to planting and irrigation practices. (It's really a good watch).
Then the fact that those cornfield scenes weren't fake. They bought farm land to shoot on... harvested and sold the corn... (if I remember correctly). Like... there's SO much to this movie. But definitely look up the dust bowl. I think it should be required viewing.
Best wishes... great channel.
This movie is coming back to IMAX again this year in September. I saw it when it came out in the huge IMAX in NYC. Can’t wait to see it again
Everything around us is more that we could ever comprehend, way bigger than our imaginations and more important than ourselves.
Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Lathe of Heaven", a novel published in 1971, explores the idea that we are living a reality shaped by the dreams of others. It's been made into a TV movie for PBS in 1980 and re-made years later. Not available on streaming services but I managed to snag the DVD (and the book) from Amazon.
They re-made the movie not long ago, but the original PBS movie is still my favorite. It's definitely a 70's sci-fi, but in the good ways.
The original is excellent, if you don’t mind the low budget aspects of the production. Very thought provoking.
That is a really good book
I read that a long time ago if I recall.... Was there something about giant flying turtles in it? Meh, can't remember.
There’s a Vorlon at the end selling hot dogs
What a wonderful reaction. This is one of my favourite movies if not, my top. So many great moments in this film. Ive watched probably 50 reactions to this movie and this was in my top three. Really great edit, quality and genuine emotion. Keep up the great work!
I saw this in theaters and I still haven't fully recovered. Glad you've experienced this now!
No movie has ever made me question reality🤣😭 this was truly an EXPERIENCE…I would sell my soul to experience it ALL over again
Fun Fact. No Actor used GreenScreen in this film. I no this as Anne Hathaway and Matthew Mcconaughey said so in a interview with Graham Norton
you no? or you know?
@@pleutron Why? Why do some humans have a need to be grammar police online? For one, some people struggle with words and sentence structure. Others aren't native English speakers. And the point of communicating is to convey something. Was it understood what was conveyed? Yes. So what's the issue?
@@ProxCyde I’m sure spelling and definitions matter in other languages just as much as English. In this particular instance, there is a huge difference in the definitions of “no” & “know”, except for their *sound* .
@ProxCyde nothing wrong with pointing out spelling/grammar mistakes so the OP can learn from it. Don't take it so personally 😂
@@LochAndLoad95 I struggle with Spelling/Grammer/Reading especially if it’s not important it’s just my brain don’t work like that. If you ask me to draw you it would be like a photo if you asked me to remember numbers or names or anything I can my retaining skills are top tier lol.
Interestellar is my top 1 film of the entire time and i'm glad you enjoyed it as much as I did
Also, the crazy thing about the water planet from Romilly’s perspective is that the ranger would seem to slow down faster and faster as it moved away from the Endurance until it basically stopped. You wouldn’t notice it had moved until years later
As soon as you mentioned in the intro liking philosophical discussions and existential crises, I thought "you have come to the right place".
A masterpiece indeed ❤ if you haven't seen The Martian you should consider it for your next watch. They're very different, yet they go together.
Perfect reaction, glad you fell asleep the first time, looking forward to the next
Hey! I just found your channel, and I loved your reaction, you are so emotional, genuine and sweet, I wanna see more! You have a new sub!! ❤
Great work Miranda! Can you PLEASE do Terminator 1 and 2??? So good.
As a physicist, this movie has always been intriguing to me. Some people have asked about the validity of the science in the movie. It actually is about as accurate as possible. The main advisor was Kip Thorne, a Nobel prize winner, and one of the greatest living astrophysicists. He won the Nobel for detecting gravitational waves. I went thru the equations myself because I was curious if the time dilation of a planet orbiting a huge black hole would be greater due to the relativistic velocity required to maintain orbit (relativity) or due to the huge gravitational well of the black hole itself. I could only calculate it for a non-rotating black hole. The proper equations take into account a spinning black hole, which drags the gravity field around with it, making space-time even more distorted. However, even my simpler equations got numbers that were in line with those in the movie. It turns out that the gravity effect dominates for a black hole the size of the one in the movie.
There's a plane you can book that climbs and then dives, when it dives, you experience zero gravity.
VOMIT BOMBER 🙂
Yep, and it’s called the Vomit Comet 🤣
Comet Comber
Talking about the universe and philosophy is always such a good time. I've sadly met very few people who don't just wanna talk about that stuff. They either just don't care or are afraid of the idea of space.
Hans Zimmer created the themes for this film without seeing it. He didn't even know it was a sci-fi epic. Nolan told him it was about a man who had to leave his family, and he developed the musical motifs on that basis.
Leave his daughter* more specifically
Oh yeah, this movie fucks me up big time in all the right ways! Just the writing and the effects and the music are all woven together to form an incredible tapestry. There's only a handful of leitmotifs but every single one of them will rip your heart into tiny shreds, I tear up every time I hear one.
My favorite scene is the airlock scene, it's just a perfect scene. The way you can hear the repeating, almost desperate thump of the latches trying to lock on, the way the strings in the score sound like a rising and falling alarm, the whole piece practically vibrating with tension, and the way Dr. Mann is suddenly cut off mid-sentence and the music vanishes and the sound of the explosion abruptly disappears because space has no sound. Mmm, incredible. Chef's kiss.
I love TARS and CASE, their designs are so freaking cool and I love the emotion they display despite claiming to be emotionless beings. They are reminiscent of the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey, yes! I'm going to start calling them vending machines now, pfft.
The scenes where they go into the wormhole and the black hole... I have no idea how they rendered those, they are mind boggling and actually scientifically accurate. Few things rarely get me to say "woah" out loud while I'm watching a movie. I can't think of another movie that glued me to actual edge of my seat. I couldn't look away! It's coming back into theaters this September for it's 10th anniversary and you can bet I'm gonna go see it on the big screen IMAX.
And this I did not realize on my first watch through, there are no aliens or mystical gods, there are only humans and their love, which has transcended time to rescue themselves. Humans, or whatever they become in the far future, created the wormhole, they built the tesseract, and they allowed one man to use his own love for his daughter to manipulate gravity and save them all.
The heart-rending realization that he was the ghost all along is truly awe inspiring.
You may want to check out Christopher Nolan's brother Jonathon Nolan's work as well, he wrote the Interstellar script and just recently did the new Fallout TV show. Both brothers are equally genius level filmmakers.
@TheMirandalorianReacts To answer your question on whether the quantum data was repeating for 30 years…here’s the answer: According to Kip Thorne, the physicist who worked with Nolan on Interstellar, he writes in his book “The Science of Interstellar” on page 266 “By the time Cooper has received the quantum data from TARS, he has mastered this means of communication. In the movie we seen him pushing with his finger on the world tube of a watch’s second hand. His pushes produce a backward-in-time gravitational force, which makes the second hand twitch in a Morse-encoded pattern that carries the quantum data. The tesseract stores the twitching pattern in the bulk so it repeats over and over again. When forty-year-old Murph returns to her bedroom three decades later, she finds the second hand still twitching, repeating over and over again the encoded quantum data that Cooper has struggled so hard to send her.” So the tesseract repeats the twitching pattern to every single moment of the watch’s second hand in Murph’s bedroom, moments which span 30 years.
The music score is beautiful
It is.
It's the best part of the film.
Hans Zimmer really is a musical genius
You are not alone at all. There are a great many of us who, like yourself, kept our minds (and figuratively, hearts) open to the possibilities of story telling and the illuminating and transportive capacity of cinema to make us think and feel this deeply. There are those, including a great many critics/cynics/contrarian eggheads who actually seem to not only balk about a film such as "Interstellar" as they do so much of science fiction or fantasy, but resent being made to feel too deeply. I'm all in anytime I could take a ride like this. But it's a truly rare happening to experience one done as brilliantly and effectively as this one. Thank you.
Fun fact: Murph's watch wasn't a production watch by Hamilton at the time Interstellar was filmed; it was made specifically as a prop plot device.
But since then, Hamilton has released two versions, one in a 42mm case, and another in 38mm.
On the seconds hand of the 42mm variant, "Eureka" is printed in morse code.
These watches are affectionately known as the Hamilton Khaki Field Mechanical "Murph".
$1000???? For a watch??? Goddamn
@VwSvNexus Yeah at the moment it's a tad overpriced. The brand heritage, mechanical movement and the link to the movie doesn't help. I keep looking on the secondary market in case I get lucky.
Based on what you said I think you would love the series The Good Place, it's my favorite of all time. For a smart person, it opens your mind about the meaning of life, for a regular person is just fun.
48:20 I have watched this movie over a hundred times, literally, and I have never ever noticed the dubbed audio at that spot. Holy hell that was a good catch
I just said the same thing tonight 😂
@@CJFromGroveSt09 looks like he says "wake up" instead of "waking date"
When Nolan wants to make a movie, give him as much money as he wants. He is a unique talent.
I watched this movie & The Martian (Matt Damon) recently, and I was in awe!! I had never watched them. Despite always having a fascination with space growing up, I never watched either movie. And I'm so glad that I finally did
Listen to the audiobook on Audible for The Martian. The movie did not remotely do it justice.
Also, listen to the Bobiverse (4 books at this writing). Most fun you'll ever have!
This film brings me to tears every time!! Even from the relative small percent you share during this watch party, had me balling 😢. Easily in my top 5 favorites. Thank you for sharing and allowing us to accompany you on this rollercoaster!
Murphy’s Law means ‘whatever can go wrong will go wrong,’ but I believe this film is saying if that is true then so is the opposite.
I mean regardless of whether or not the movie claims that, which is also what I think, it’s just a great way to think about life and humanity in general
I love your insights in the movies you "react" to. Especially this one. It's like watching a movie with a new friend who hasn't seen it. Much love, keep at it 😅❤
Forbidden Planet...50's first honest sci-fi movie will knock your socks off
I can't tell you how much I enjoy your reactions. I LOVED your reaction to Interstellar, but it also made me watch some of your older ones like Mrs. Doubtfire (I also do voices), the Back to the Future trilogy, and more. You are spectacular!!
Imagine trying to break into an abandoned military base only to discover, it's not abandoned.