INTERSTELLAR Appreciation and Discussion {#1} .. through the wormhole
 

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Sweet.

I saw this movie on Tuesday and again on Thursday.

Easily one of the best films I'm gonna see all year. The music, the storyline, all beyond mind blowing!

Wonderful! I haven't seen it yet, but hope to this weekend. I've been hearing a lot of buzz about it and thought we should have a thread.

I've heard that the sound is a little weird - intentionally. Did it bother you?

You know what the sound never bothered me one bit. In fact it made me exhilarated.

Near home there's a space museum with an imax and I remember going as a kid and they would play these space documentaries and they'd have just that real spacey-futuristic music like.

The score to this film brought me back to those days as kid because that's how I interpret space so it really took me back to my youth- to those days (even currently) when I look up at the night sky and just imagine the world and what's beyond it.

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With that thought- the special effects were incredible. There is this one scene and it just brings it back to the reality that on the grand scheme of things we are truly nothing, not even a blip on the radar. And yet life continues, we keep moving as if somehow our tiny grain of sand in the vastness of the universe will make a difference.

I love that feeling- the nothingness of it all. That probably sounds morbid but to me it's the most positive thing in the world because of how grand the universe is. We're just lucky to have been apart of what we can't really fathom and understand.

Sorry going a bit deep there. That's what the movie does to me :sigh:

I'm glad you went deep! I feel as you do .. and now more eager than before to see this movie! :)

Are you familiar with William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence?" ..

"To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower ..
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour."

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I'd never heard that before. It's beautiful.

Definitely go see Interstellar. I saw it twice in a week. That's how much I loved it. I've downloaded some of the songs and then I went out and got the novelization of it too.

Even picked up the real stuff "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan.

Your thoughts in post #5 put me in mind of the verse. We should never outgrow childlike wonder. :sigh:

Love Carl Sagan's works. He doesn't dumb down, but he somehow makes even the hard stuff more understandable to the lay person. :)

My mind is always childlike. I'm 26 years old and I still read comic books, I still believe in the impossible.

I love Carl Sagan. My all time favorite book of his is Contact. I saw the movie as a kid and even back then, the first time seeing it I can remember understanding it and being so amazed. It's got one of my all time favorite quotes that I always like to quote when I talk about life on other planets:

If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space

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This movie brought me back to that. And to see it on the big screen- there's nothing else like it.

I can't go into full detail but we can certainly discuss the movie fully once you've seen it :)

In the mean time there's a quote in one of the trailers- it's long so I haven't fully memorized it yet but I want to- and I ended up using that quote on my college graduation announcements- because it was so long I only used the part that I underlined and that's in blue.

We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments.

These moments when we dare to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known.

We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. Or perhaps we've just forgotten that

we are still pioneers. And we've barely begun.

And that our greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us,

because our destiny lies above us."

Thanks for sharing that .. It's so very true.
If the greatest achievements of mankind are behind us, we are wasting the space Sagan spoke of.

^- Oh nicely merged :clap:

I hadn't taken that Sagan quote to mean the space here on Earth but the universe. It's so vast that it would seem weird if we were the only intelligent life in it.

Oh, I agree .. ridiculous to think that intelligent life could evolve only on this tiny planet.
The truth is, we haven't taken very good care of the space we've got. I can't imagine that any other intelligence would want us messing around in "other" space.
Not as we are now. :no:

Tell me about it. I was out camping last weekend. Did a lot of stargazzing and in a span of less than an hour I saw 13 satellites fly by. I've seen maps of how much junk we have in space. It's bad enough that we pollute our own planet down here but to have all that space junk too. I understand that it's necessary but as human beings we are disgusting creatures when it comes to trash.

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ETA-

Oh found this! It's a prequel comic to the movie.

Interstellar Prequel Comic

Thanks for the link! That is very cool. :D
Is Matt Damon in this movie? .. :confused:

So awesome there's a thread :yay: I LOVED the movie :D