I know you guys have already discussed this, but you can't pull this out of archives, and I just saw this and need to get this off my chest.
First off let me give this movie a 8 out of 10. It was not perfect. I will only discuss my questions or complaints:
1. My biggest complaint was the Matt Damon scene. Nothing against Matt Damon, but the whole wrestling match in space suits was kind of comical. I'm not sure why Damon had to kill everyone in the first place to accomplish whatever he wanted- return to Earth or Edmunds planet?
2. Here is my number one question after watching this: Who built the tesseract that enabled Coop to communicate with his daughter? My neighbor says they were future humans. Really! How could that be? They would not have survived to be able to do that. The planet was heading toward extinction. I would like to think this was supernatural, where some Divine being is looking out for the human race. Any thoughts?
3. The ending where Coop is reunited with daughter seemed comical too. No drama here at all, in fact daughter didn't even want to see him. This could have been better In my opinion.
4. Too much time spent in the beginning with Coop and Murph before he found NASA.
Otherwise, I loved it.
In 5th dimension, time is a constant. For us there might be a past or a future, but time is as physical as a wall or a the floor. We just can't control it, but it's a constant. It simply exists. So, at the time you're reading this, somethin in "our future" is also happening right now. We just didn't reach it yet, but it's happening. "Whatever can happen, will happen" (because it's already happening).
So, in the film, there is no past Cooper or present Cooper or future Cooper. It's just Cooper messing with spacetime (our 4th dimension). It's not a matter of "when he does it". He simply does it. And it affects the past (in our perspective) even though for the 5D beings on the film, everything's happening at the same time. No past or future.
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2 - I thought it was pretty well confirmed by Coop in the bookcase thing that it was future humans who built the tesseract to save humanity. See link below for a far better explanation than I could give. My problem is you're betting a whole lot on the communication between the father and daughter. What if Coop couldn't get Murph to look at the watch and decode the Morse? Humanity's over, I guess. I just think our future descendants wouldn't leave much to chance.
3 - She only didn't want to see him because she thought he just left the planet and left her and her brother to all die alone. Once she figured out he was trying to save them all, she forgave him. That was the point of her hugging the brother and saying, "Dad's coming, he's going to help us."
4 - Yeah, I agree, a little tedious, but I guess it makes you care about the characters more if you flesh out the father-daughter relationship.
Great movie, wish the other thread was still active as I just saw it this past week and would love other viewpoints on it.
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Got it, but where's fricking Edmonds? Then, old lady Murph tells Coop to go to Edmonds' planet to be with her. Well if Edmonds is still alive, wouldn't he have a problem with that since they were allegedly in love?
if he's dead which I assume he is, how'd he die? If he's dead, how's he sending out the "ok" signal? Is it just a repeat of the first water planet where we kept getting the same signal?
Thank you. This is the confirmation I needed. I will go back tonight.
Link - ( New Window )
1) The Tesseract was only meaningful to Coop's life. This means that only Coop could have set up the chain of events to tie the plotline together.
2) The dependence on Coop in the beginning of the movie to interpret his Binary coordinates of NASA and for Murph to return to her old room and recognize morse code on the watch was dicey at best. Mechanical watches can't work that way.
3) considering what we theorize about Black Holes, Coop should have been destroyed trying to enter one.
I guess I expected something less esoteric. Anne Hathaway is always nice to look at though.
Now from our perspective, how did the future humans become so advanced the first time around without the wormhole to save humanity? Still trying to wrap my head around that one.
In fact, it makes more sense to me that "they" helped him reach that point. After all, that was an underlying theme-who the "they" are? I think Nolan left that up for the individual to decide. Some think God, some think future humans, some think aliens with great intelligence, you think Coop.
The second time I watch it I'll be able to appreciate it more. I hated the second Kill Bill the first time I saw it; the second time I loved it.
Not bad for an 8/10 movie that isn't perfect!
I saw the movie opening weekend and it hasn't left my mind since. Need to go for a second viewing myself
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Just watched it tuesday. I've never done this before, back in 3 days.
Not bad for an 8/10 movie that isn't perfect!
I saw the movie opening weekend and it hasn't left my mind since. Need to go for a second viewing myself
8 is pretty good. It was sooooo cold in the theatre, I was not focused, plus it was not IMAX 70mm. I hear this makes quite a difference.
Awesome UConn. My wife just informed me we are not going tonight to the mall- BLACK FRIDAY! She said lets put this off a bit, maybe Sunday. I suppose I can replace the exciting Giants- Jax game with this. Lol
I know it's not very relevant in the long run to the story. Just curious if you could interact that way why they needed morse code. Seems there should of been a more reliable and efficient way other then the watch.
1. The Matt Damon scene no longer bothers me. Mann showed his humanity by not wanting to die so he falsified everything to get his butt out of there. I can live with that.
2. The "abrupt" ending with Murph no longer was abrupt. It now makes sense how it was handled and in fact, I respect Nolan for not dragging it out appealing to our emotions.
3. The movie was not too long as I previously thought. I was okay with the 45 minutes before liftoff backdrop.
4. The only problem I now have is the explanation Coop gave to Tars as to who built the tesseract. How does he know why "they" are? I'm not aware of him receiving any revelation regarding this. If Nolan purposely wanted the answer to be "future man" then I think he created a plot hole because how did future man do that when clearly planet earth was on its last breath. Who from earth was able to do that? When did they do it?
Besides, it seems to me he should have left it open to ones interpretation- God, aliens, Angels, future man, whatever.
So, my score is no longer 8 of 10. I give it a 9.5.