And that is one piece of good hard SF and a movie that dared to expect something of the viewers instead of force feeding everything.

It did remind me of a lot of other scifi though, it was heavily inspired by older stuff and not just 2001: A Space Oddysey.

I think I recognized bits from Cities in Flight for instance, and Hinterlands by William Gibson.

But this is a movie that will find a place on the shelf next to Moon, Contact and others of the harder kind, to be rewatched multiple times.

Eh, my opinion of Interstellar was "SCIENCE! SCIENCE! LOOK AT ALL OUR SCIENCE! IT'S GREAT, WE'VE SUPERSATURATED IT WITH SCIENCE! EVERYTHING WORKS EXACTLY AS IT WOULD IN REALITY! LOOK AT ALL THE THOUGHT THAT'S GONE INTO THI-"

"Um, boss?"

"What?"

"You know all the science we put in the first two and a half hours?"

"Yeah, it's great!"

"I know, but... um..."

"What?"

"We've used it all up. We put so much science in the first 2.5 hours that we've run out of science entirely, and we've got half hour left to fill."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Get the people who did the science for Mass Effect 3's ending. I'm sure we can work something out."

I liked it. But if you didn't see it in IMAX, you really didn't see it.

"Get the people who did the science for Mass Effect 3's ending. I'm sure we can work something out."

Agree with you Dagonet! For me it sits up there with 2001, Moon, Contact, Sunshine, Silent Running and Solaris (the original, though I do still enjoy the George Clooney one!).

Sunshine is awesome. Has a pretty good cast, very underrated movie.

I would love to know how they managed to not export the crop killing blight along with the crops they took off planet. If they have the tech to construct perfectly self-contained environments, surely they would have been easier to build on Earth than in space?

The blight is tied to the altered atmospheric gases.

That's fairly realistic. There have been a few mass extinction events where microscopic ocean life switched to a new dynamic and poisoned our air. Not good.

The blight is tied to the altered atmospheric gases.

That's fairly realistic. There have been a few mass extinction events where microscopic ocean life switched to a new dynamic and poisoned our air. Not good.

Ah! Ok, I missed that. That does change things.

"We've used it all up. We put so much science in the first 2.5 hours that we've run out of science entirely, and we've got half hour left to fill."

Oh, I don't mind the ending. They could've easily put a science spin on it by claiming people are always connected through quantum entanglement and call that love. .

I think it's a Blade Runner night tonight though. .

Agree with you Dagonet! For me it sits up there with 2001, Moon, Contact, Sunshine, Silent Running and Solaris (the original, though I do still enjoy the George Clooney one!).

I'll even toss AI in there.

I forgot AI! There's a lot wrong with AI, but there's also an awful lot in there to like.

I dunno, if you have Blade Runner, why would you need another movie dealing with that whole, do robots have feelings/ count as human beings thing. It was very funny to watch it with my buddy David watch him getting pissed of by robot David on the screen.

I've always seen AI as a sort of 'counter-point' to Blade Runner. Blade Runner looks at the robots/feelings argument from the point of view of the robot/replicant itself, whereas AI looks at it from societies point of view.

Blade Runner, to me, has more to do with rights, like Moon, or even Bicentennial Man. AI is more concerned with emotional obligations.

Philip K [last name short version for Richard which is not allowed by the censorship board] has so many good stories, I'm very curious where they'll take The Man in the High Castle.

I loved Interstellar. To me, it was the 2001 of the 21st Century. I know there's a lot of century left and there might be an even better movie come along, but it'll be hard to top Interstellar.

On thing that I absolutely thought was incredible was the score. The use of the organ music was a stroke of genius.

Not that originally though:

Listen to Alan Parsons Project: "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" and you'll know where Mr.Zimmer got his score from...

It was Philip Glassy as well in part (see what I did there? 8-))