Damn, I was going to watch it, too, because all the astrophysicists on GD assured me that it correctly used a bunch of scientifical words so it must be much more realistic than most sci-fi bullshit!

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ETA: Belongs to someone else!

And it was going to be my one and only "page ownage" post, too.

By that standard Elysium was a good movie

I liked the movie because I don't overthink what's meant as entertainment

however, I really really disliked how whiny the daughter character became; I can understand it when she was a teen and had really close relationship with dad, but at thirtysomething - lady, grow some balls - your dad went away on the most important mission of the human race and you're still bitching and holding a grudge like a shallow self-centered child. I just thought it was very petty.

Its not like they had to explain string theory or anything. For the most part I felt like they just let the images do the explaining. Sure, they had to briefly explain time dilation, but that was kind of an important hinge to the story. it wasnt a difficult movie to follow at all.

Same here.
Saw it at the theatre and bought it on iTunes.

Makes me think.

I know they "RE-RELEASED" the movie for one day in IMAX, with "SCENES ADDED"......

Did this make it into the DVD release??

She thought he left her on Earth to die when Michael Caine told her that "Plan A" was a sham.

there are others here who can explain the mechanism better, but the key point to remember is that gravity is proportional to mass--it is mass that causes gravity.  so two objects of the same mass are going to have exert the same gravitational pull.  so the sun holds the earth in its orbit (they orbit each other, but that's irrelevant here).  but the sun is really big, right?  now crush all of that mass down into a baseball-sized object--same mass, but much, much denser.  the earth's orbit wouldn't change at all, right?  since it's the same amount of mass, it's the same gravitational pull.

what's different is when you get so close to the singularity (point of infinitely compressed mass), that you would be inside the sun's former surface.  the radius of the sun--from surface to center--was 700,000km before it collapsed.  once you got closer to the singularity than that, gravity would start behaving differently.  think of being in a hole with really, really steep sides.  the closer you get to the singularity, the steeper the sides get.  the event horizon is where the sides become so steep that nothing can escape.  with our sun, the radius of the event horizon would be ~3km.  see the difference?

as for orbiting, time slows down with gravity.  remember when they said that every hour on the first planet was 7 years on earth?  in order to orbit the planet, they would have to get even closer to the black hole, meaning that the time difference gets even more extreme.  when anne hathaway suggests orbiting, cooper points out that it would take hundreds of earth-years, and everyone back home would already be dead.

i agree that it was a dartboard strategy, but again, they talked about this.  they only had limited fuel, and were under tremendous time pressure.  i wanted to see more comms attempts, but it was a movie, and i was willing to suspend disbelief.

TOTALLY AGREE.  THE FATHER/DAUGHTER STORY WAS THE CORE OF THE MOVIE, AND WAS BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED.  I hate CHILD ACTORS IN SERIOUS MOVIES, BUT I THOUGHT THE LITTLE GIRL DID A BRILLIANT JOB.

LIKE I SAID, I THOUGHT EVERY PART OF THE MOVIE WAS GOOD, BUT IT DIDN'T QUITE COME TOGETHER--THE INGREDIENTS WERE THERE, BUT FOR ME, THE CAKE DIDN'T RISE.  GOOD MOVIE, BUT NOT ON THE LEVEL OF 'INCEPTION'.


this fulfills my capitalization quota for the month of april.

I enjoyed it quite a bit.  

he's referring to the people who were landed there and that this expedition was sent to find.  The first planet should have never been landed on by the first or second expedition... it should have been obvious from a long long way's off what was happening on that planet.



I have all sorts of problems with the science in the movie... how they get orbital mechanics all wrong and must have super powerful almost magical ships to pull off the maneuvers shown...



But the plot was good ... if a bit corny.  Ann Hathaway's lines just fell flat for me.  



 

Just watch Ken Burns The Dust Bowl

Same here.

FIFY



 

It's been a while and maybe I'm mis-remembering some things, but, she never communicated with him for all those years, until her birthday came at which time they would have been in same age if dad had returned. So she seemed (to me) deeply resentful before she found out about the sham.

Second, what did she expect? Did she think her father went away to save himself and left her to die? Did she think her dad could have put her in his pocket for a joy ride into a black hole? She wasn't the only one facing certain death, that was the inescapable fate of every man and woman and child left on earth, including watching her nephew cough himself into early grave, and all she could think about was "my dad wasn't there for my 35th birthday?" ... for being portrayed early on as a brilliant and inquisitive mind, she just turned into an emotionally sick wreck for no good reason; I just couldn't stand her character

It was OK, not great, but OK, worth watching.

Felt like they were trying too hard to make it somewhat of an homage to 2001.

I wouldn't consider it even close to the greatest Sci-Fi movies of all time but it was enjoyable.
I like space flicks like Sunshine and Interstellar was much better in almost every way.