Half in the Bag: Interstellar

www.redletterme... - While Mr. Plinkett's house floats across Lake Michigan, Mike and Jay attempt to wrap their brains around Christopher Nolan's latest film Interstellar. Mike also discusses some previous films about black holes such as Event Horizon and The Black Hole.

[@speedmastermarkiii]

"It's like being on a Carnival Cruise Line, only much safer." That aged well. Seriously, it did.

[@humanbeing2730]

ahahhahahahaha

[@q1q2q23]

*Plinkett voice* Oh my Gooooooood...

[@noahmay7708]

The Costa Concordia had already sunk at this point sooo.

[@dingdongs5208]

I think it was more in reference to Costa Concordia

[@weirdlingweirdo1058]

I had to look up Costa Concordia. I knew there was going to be this comment, about aging well, but I thought it was in reference to the covid outbreak on a cruise liner in 2020. Now in 2021 the delta variety outbreak on a cruise liner has happened.

[@yodason1]

"A new planet that anne hathaway can overact on" had me rolling so hard.

[@litarea]

I come back to this videos at least once a month the just to hear that golden line.

[@tingtang9302]

@@jameshutchins3798 wow super cool like totally awesome and hip or alternately biting wow awesome

[@litarea]

And yes I'm still here

[@onlineenglish7065]

Yes!

[@jordan101197]

Look everyone knows, YOU DONT TALK SHIT ABOUT THE HATHAWAYS!!!!🎅🏿🤬

[@jordanrioscreations]

"When offered a chance to go to space to get away from his family on a suicide mission, Cooper jumps at the chance." I laughed very loudly at this.

[@SirCrest]

I can't get enough of Mike's "AAAOOOOHHH FAAAAAAUUucck"

[@SirCrest]

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[@henryhill92]

I opened my door and played it at a really high volume, then my housemate ran out to check if I was ok lmao

[@sindurgoku8022]

10 hour version of Mike screaming AOOOOOH FFFFAAAAAAAUCK!

[@demo0831]

He has had alot of training with all the pornos he starred his dad really layed it in him

[@demo0831]

@@veritasg9020 yeah he said that to his dad but he didnt listen

[@plissken2156]

9:01 - There it is. 9:36 - And again. 13:58 - And again. 14:42 - And again. 24:18 - And again.

[@dogsoap]

Tbf they're talking about a space film

[@morbid1.]

You guys didn't know there are 5 fundamental forces: gravity, weak, strong, electromagnetic and love...

[@saraklaren]

When they pulled the love schtick, my eyes rolled up to the top of my head so fast that you could hear the clank across the room. I mean, a movie that they researched with esteemed physicists for scientific accuracy pulling the old love conquers all thing was a big letdown for me in a movie that I otherwise loved.

[@DellDuckfan313]

Hold up

[@Maladath]

@@saraklaren Interstellar is tearing me apart, Lisa! There are parts of it that are among the most incredible stuff ever filmed, the robots are the best, the docking scene might be the most epic and intense piece of cinema I will ever see, but parts of it are so fucking frustrating or unbelievably dumb I literally both love and hate this movie. I like to re-watch bits of it and at the same have no desire to ever see it again.

[@crypticscrutiny1153]

@@Maladath you know anything about the musical instrument known as the guitar? Well, occasionally, when playing the"guitar" some musicians have been known to utilize a technique known as "string bending". Often times this "technique" can produce a sound that the average "listener" would perceive as "off key". But we are immediately tossed back into "harmony" as the technique leads into more traditional playing in key. For you see, this convoluted analogy was intended to "express" that it is the contrast that leads to appreciation and "awe" . To perceive discord and then to also witness "harmony". Aye, there's the "rub". I am sure you get the "point"?

[@shadymcnasty5920]

@@crypticscrutiny1153 you sound like a “pretentious” “ asshole” and your “example “ was “convoluted” and didn’t connect to anything the OP was “saying” we get it you play guitar

[@CarlSlime]

"What's best of the worst?" "I don't know..." What if Jay and Mike from Best of the Worst and Jay and Mike from Half in the Bag exist in different universes in the great multiverse within in the Red Letter Media KZbin Cinematic Universe?

[@every_username_is_taken]

You know what's really crazy? The Mr. Plinkett from the Star Wars reviews and the Mr. Plinkett from Half in the Bag exist in different universes, but in one of the HitB episodes, they mention Mr Plinkett's reviews. That means either that Mr. Plinkett from HitB also does reviews when Mike and Jay aren't in his home fixing his VCR, or, even crazier, it implies that Mr. Plinkett's reviews exist in a pocket universe INSIDE the HitB universe, and by extension implies that some version of RedLetterMedia also exists inside the HitB universe...

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

3:00 confirms that the AVGNYTCU is part of the RLMYTCU. _Very cool._

[@choosybeggar3309]

That would be awesome to see them meet their counterparts from hitb,botw,re-view,and nerd crew.

[@HughMansonMD]

So which basement of which universe do all of the cheerleaders exist?

[@godofspacetime333]

You dig on multiverses?

[@kenkopacki241]

"Casey Affleck showed up in this movie wearing a Ben Affleck costume". That might be the funniest thing I've heard in weeks.

[@cyrollan]

That's way funnier than the Anne Hathaway line

[@EunosXX]

The explanation used by Sam Neill's character in Event Horizon was used in the book A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

[@stevemiller1626]

And by Carl Sagan

[@crosbylandau5549]

No one gives a shit

[@voidofbeeswax]

@@stevemiller1626And by Brian Boitano.

[@Kidd724]

And Kevin Bacon.

[@ethan.branthoover3460]

And me to the crackhead outside the speedway

[@robertpicklesnickle]

"Their mission: to find a new planet for Anne Hatheway to overact on" probably my favorite line on HITB thus far. Seriously though Imax is the only way to experience this movie.

[@Fnidner]

what about now

[@pulDag]

@@Fnidner 10 years anniversary will be in IMAX again.

[@alexthorpe2522]

Oh, Mike. Drinking Stella for Interstellar. Well played.

[@fillipoenzagi2731]

@@westerling8436 but....it is a Stella Artois. Alex was right.

[@fillipoenzagi2731]

@@westerling8436 you do know he's drinking two types of beer in this episode right? So... You wrong unless you can prove otherwise.

[@fillipoenzagi2731]

@@westerling8436 this is getting monotonous. Time stamp please or stop replying. I'm open to be wrong, just send a time stamp.

[@fillipoenzagi2731]

@@westerling8436 Jesus! Let's just agree to disagree. Stop replying.

[@spethmanjones2997]

Fillipo Enzagi wrong

[@tearlactusthedevoureroftea5626]

Watching Half in in the bag is the highlight of my day

[@tearlactusthedevoureroftea5626]

***** cool beans

[@SV67943]

***** I'm not sure I'd even want daily blow jobs. That seems like an awful lot of commitment to something that has to be done expertly, or not at all.

[@JESUSSDAD]

you will need an extra large hadron collider if you want to find the love boson. according to the emails in my spam folder anyway.

[@jkenny1]

Can confirm this is a scientifically accurate statement. (Gravitons can't be detected because they need more energy than the LHC can produce, more power than is even feasible by any sci-fi civilization even I think).

[@mjfan653]

and it will be known as the extra large hard-on collider aint science amazing, huh

[@Modenut]

Schlock & Schmalz. Those are THE most important and deeply technical terms when discussing movies. Probably.

[@masonk9838]

I've held off a long time from watching or reading any reviews of this film. I knew a lot of the opinions of this film, and I didn't agree with most of them. I'm glad that these guys took the time, a whole half hour, to give this movie a proper review. I loved this movie, in its whole entirety I don't think I ever looked away from the screen. The visuals, the score, the actors, the script, the plot, every little thing sucked me in more and more. I know a little bit about black holes and science of that nature, so the ideas presented in the film were nothing new to me, but it's really the love angle that just bought and sold it for me. I don't know why, I really think it's the characters and their delivery that just made me totally buy it the whole way, and I think it really helped me get in the mindset of Cooper. I'm watching all these beautiful amazing shots, spinning ships, the majesty of the black hole, but all the while I'm thinking "You gotta get home." And when he did get home, the tears did flow. Sappy I know, but for me the whole movie was an emotional spring, building the tension more and more just waiting to be released. I know that there are better movies, and there will be better movies than this. But for me, this movie is my favorite and I consider it the best most engaging story I've ever experienced. Because this was an experience for me.

[@masonk9838]

Oh my God, I'm not alone. I was in the theatre and I cried like a child. For me a big part was when you knew he was going to be reunited with his daughter and they finally meet again, it just felt like all the tension was lifted off your shoulders and you could finally relax and just let all your emotions out, which I did.

[@masonk9838]

Nope, it just had that effect on me.

[@jlschlesinger]

Count me in too. Same setting (saw it alone), same reaction all throughout of wonder, engrossment, and emotional release. This is the kind of beautiful film that would bother the type of person who is uncomfortable accepting some things defy scientific explanation, such as the power of faith and love. When you get into the weirder aspects of string theory, quantum physics, even the current scientific views regarding the nature of black holes, things get really weird anyway, and require no small amount of faith anyway. I had no problem whatsoever entertaining the "theory" of love finding a way back home in the end - it was in my mind a beautiful mix of the rational and supernatural. And the acting ranged from the quite proficient to very moving. Anyway, for what it's worth, put me down on the "five stars" side. I'd see it again in the theatres in a heartbeat, if it were still showing.

[@masonk9838]

Grimjack13 Them's fightin' words Grimjack.

[@jlschlesinger]

Manufactured movie? Aren't they all? What an emotional outburst for someone decrying another's emotionality. I could ask what you think is a worthy movie, but it really doesn't matter - regardless of how obnoxious a film you'd offer up, I'd not be pissing and moaning about it to the degree you do. .

[@michaelianbone]

I burst out laughing when Ann Hathaway gave that speech about love, she sounded like Miss Alabama or something.

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Miss Alabama..... hahahahahaha!

[@Jeviok]

I thought it was gonna cut to her lifeless body floating out in space after having been jettisoned out the airlock for spewing such schmaltzy idiocy.

[@Beer_Dad1975]

The worst thing about it is people who didn't manage to follow the "higher dimensional future humanity manipulating things" plot think that her speech explains the plot of the film, and that somehow McConaughey has some magical "love" connection that allows him to communicate with his daughter - the "love" connection is only the fact that she has an emotional attachment to the watch her father gave her, so pays attention to it when it is acting strangely. I love this film, but it does make me realise how stupid your average film goer is when you hear people saying how silly it was that it used love magic to resolve the plot.

[@danielromero432]

@@Beer_Dad1975 yeeah man i on the same boat! Also it's pretty obvious to me that she was grasping at straws in that scene cause she had to defend her idea of going to edmunds planeta and she really didnt have any rational, scientific arguments, and is quickly dissmissed by Cooper and romilly as it should be...

[@jamescoddington2954]

holy shit that Black Hole scene when he saves the girl.. I almost spit my tea out.. this episode is a masterpiece of editing, acting and hilarity.. YOU HACK FRAUDS

[@Jester123ish]

Hey, I loved the score to Disney's The Black Hole, gives it a sense of menace.

[@toddblackwood129]

@Jester123ish I couldn’t agree more! Notice how the music had an odd military march to it? That’s because the soundtrack was written by John Barry and I’ll bet anybody 1000 bucks that it was the original score to Moonraker and got rejected by the 007 producers who were trying to ride the coattails of the Star Wars fad and perhaps wisely thought they’d pushed Barry in too far a space opera direction.

[@vtrip_]

"love is the one thing that transcends time and space." balls.

[@drakonidesthevigilant5155]

Love is the lifeblood of the Kosmos

[@salum75]

God is love, and he is also omniscient and omnipresent, so...God/love is more than just the fifth dimension. love is not just feeling in the same way God is not an entity.

[@linusdn2777]

Wouldn't hate also transcend time and space? If we're discussing it on this level. Envy? Suspicion? Fear?

[@vtrip_]

@@linusdn2777 hate too. Which I feel is the same emotion as love but on the opposite side of the spectrum.

[@linusdn2777]

@@dankyjoker gotem

[@KevinJonesReviews]

No one can accuse Chris Nolan of not trying. He's a director who always puts 110% and I can respect him for that

[@bonmot7850]

If only he could put 110% into finding a good writer.

[@anitaekka6454]

Bon Mot People criticise intestellar for not being scientifically accurate even when they don't know anything about science. What can a writer do in this..??

[@liteoner]

Actually, I wish he was only giving 100%. That 10% might be what I hate in his movies.

[@KABOBkabob]

Why is Jay on the left side in this episode? Is this the only episode? He's always on the right.

[@FairEnoughDude]

Is Jay Bauman replacing Mike Stoklasa?

[@Petsinwinter2]

KABOB kabob It's definitely happened once or twice before this. I know because it threw me off then, too.

[@ZachSMarsh]

He subverted expectations over three years before expectations were subverted.

[@kortexsirvasil]

IT BROKE NEW GROUND

[@flowerpt]

Spacetime warp, one presumes. Like on that Star Trek episode where

[@bananian]

You may even say that flying around a blackhole that close without burning up from the heat and x-rays doesn't make sense, but I still loved that scene because it was so beautiful.

[@nosuchthing8]

bananian as long as you stay clear of the accretion disk, no worries

[@bananian]

@@nosuchthing8 If it's hot enough to warm the other planets, then it's going to burn anything coming close to it.

[@monroepaco]

Boo, the ad wasn't for pizza rolls

[@sanders555]

Not getting an ad at all is the exact same disappointment as not getting an ad for pizza rolls.

[@accreditedbythenicemaninth6495]

I can’t like this comment enough!

[@spethmanjones2997]

I got a shitty Playstation ad

[@stevethefishdotnet]

The Black Hole is a precious memory from my childhood. I thought the music was great, too. Sure, the effects are cheesy by today's standards, but the premise is solid: a deep space exploration team finds a derelict ship adrift in space, captained by a madman who murdered his crew and intends to explore what is beyond the black hole. That is a pretty freaking awesome story.

[@Charles_Bro-son]

I was hooked as a kid. The sort of cute comic relief robots, the absolutely creepy transformed former crew and Maximilian Schell as a really good villain. BTW. coincidence that the evil robot's name also was Maximilian?!

[@highwayman1218]

Agreed! I was kid hooked on all this stuff. Battlestar Galactica, Star Wars, etc.... Lotta cool sci fi stuff as a young kid.

[@cyrollan]

I dig the movie, it's a serious trip! And the soundtrack rules, I found it on vinyl for 50 cents!

[@coosoorlog]

I think the music is phenomenal.

[@deejaydubla]

Just want to say that, for the first time yesterday, I legitimately saw a Totino's Pizza Rolls ad during a Half in the Bag video and it felt very meta.

[@rashaseden7062]

The “NASA mounted camera” view on the truck as Cooper drove away was a nice touch.

[@ClownBAYby]

That was the greatest "OOOOOOH FUUUUUCK!" of all time. I hope to hear it very often in the future.

[@MrDawnRise]

Interstellar: Humans can do anything if we just love one another. 2001 Space Odyssey: Yes, human, you sure can do whatever you want. Sure...

[@No1TypeC]

@@bensosnowski1128 Jesus Christ

[@joelsmith5938]

@@bensosnowski1128 It's something wonderful. It's basically the grandfather of all science fiction films after 1968. All of them. That said it is extremely slow moving by today's standards (it is over 50 years old, after all). You will also understand where thousands of parodies different shots and musical sequences and plot elements from the film originate. All that said, considering the film has pre-digital special effects in it that are unparalleled even by today's technology, to me it's a must-watch. I would suggest taking an afternoon and just watching it. It will feel its length but it will be something wonderful.

[@johnt.campbell316]

Yeah. I get you're probably joking, but *2001: A Space Odyssey* is an amazing movie. The ending is a bit confusing, but it really is an influence on every space movie after it came out. One of my favorite movies.

[@ManOutofTime913]

@@johnt.campbell316 If you want to know what was happening in the ending, read the book. It's explained in extensive detail. I kind of wish Kubrick had incorporated for the screenplay the element from the book where Dave has food to eat in his cage but it's all made of blue goo.

[@sebastianstroud-klein5332]

@@mattstorm6568 I watch it regularly and it just gets better every time! It just depends wether you’re into slow-burning movies or not

[@TheWitchfinderGenral]

The real heroes of Interstellar are TARS and CASE. The humans are just along for the ride.

[@thevorace]

"Love is the fifth dimension" ~Ann Hathaway

[@unadulterated]

Ann Hathaway Wins Nobel Prize

[@linusdn2777]

I think all she wanted to say was that you can love someone who is on the other side of the universe.

[@luiginastro8831]

@@4Everlast What do you know, actors aren't like the fictional characters they play.

[@TxxT33]

That's the one part that felt off...I mean not that the science was on point till then but it was at least comprehensible and you could kinda accept it as the nature of the movie but that whole love is the fifth dimension crap was just....not necessary.

[@BeKindToBirds]

@@4Everlast Her husband is 1 year older than her...

[@SV67943]

"Can love travel through space?" Not without some kind of luminiferous aether, Mike.

[@williamlampke8083]

All jokes aside they did a really good job with the set in the skit

[@joemutt359]

Woah, _V For Vendetta_'s score fitted _Interstellar_ just perfectly in the trailer...

[@seansankey3562]

I was lucky to be able to watch this on the biggest IMAX screen in the US - AMC Lincoln Square IMAX and it really deserved to be shown on that screen. No movie is perfect but I think this was very ambitious and worked very well and I thought it was very emotional. Christopher Nolan plays with time so well in his movies.

[@leonefurlan137]

uffff,i sincerely envy you!!! (I've missed it in theaters,after i've watched it at home a dozen times,i love it a lot! Can just imagine the goodnes on the biggest screen in the world). Peace

[@seansankey3562]

@@leonefurlan137 it did not disappoint in vision and sound!

[@D4rKSUN1]

3:00 they have a bootleg of "the angry video game nerd: the movie"

[@ROMBomb001]

"I clapped! I clapped because I knew the thing!" Seriously, though, that was a great easter-egg!

[@ryanb4940]

2014 was 9 YEARS AGO?!?!? 😵😵😵😵

[@AlexaExtraordinaire]

The soundtrack was what kept me nailed on my seat for the entire movie. Brilliant music by Hans Zimmer and you guys didn't even mention it!

[@Maztuhmind]

Easily one of his better soundtracks.

[@Germanswisscheese]

The Black Hole scared the shit out of me when I was kid. I saw both The Black Hole and Event Horizon at nearly the same age and The Black Hole is far more frightening. Imagining what's under those reflective visors and black cloaks is far more frightening than people splattered across the inside of a ship.

[@bradleybindle6428]

Intersteller: the first movie to reunite matt Damon and Casey Affleck after their smash hit blockbuster, Gerry

[@peterj4741]

The amount of times Jay straight up interrupts Mike is crazy. and I don’t mean this episode, I mean all the episodes.

[@skemsen]

Not at all talking about the Hans Zimmer score was weird I think because you mentioned other scifi scores and this one played such a big part setting the moods in a lot of scenes. It was far from generic or bland.

[@godofspacetime333]

Everything Hans Zimmer does is generic and bland. The man has absolutely no sense of melody. Just try and sing or hum one zimmer piece from memory. The most memorable piece he ever wrote was the Batman theme in the Nolan movies and that was two notes.

[@lousyskater]

And now I need to rewatch Event Horizon

[@blshouse]

Sadly, this is the only decent review of Interstellar I've seen. It must be the beer.

[@calrastall7326]

spotted cow is delicious

[@jkenny1]

They didn't even mention how absurd the premise of the movie is... "We have a pest problem for our crops therefore we need to start a civilization from scratch in a new galaxy" I don't even...

[@jr2904]

@@jkenny1 pest? Wasn't it climate change and a dust bowl situation?

[@Andrew-yl7lm]

@@jr2904 yes, it was. Nothing can grow and essentially the earth itself was dying. Its a blight on a global level, it's not because of aphids lol

[@spethmanjones2997]

This movie was very moving to me and that’s a pretty rare thing for movies these days. I didn’t feel dead inside after watching it which was a nice change of pace.

[@spethmanjones2997]

Tim Jim I agree that the Matt Damon part was the one aspect of the movie that wasn’t as good as the rest.

[@eternalbeing3339]

This movie and train to busan are some of the most moving movies i have seen.

[@tubulartopher]

Everybody I've talked with about this movie always groans at the "love transcends time and space" aspect of the film. I find that it actually is one of the movie's strengths. When two people who care about each other are separated by an ocean of stars what's the one thing that keeps them connected? Love, obviously. Chris used this story element as a means for the future human/bulk beings to communicate with humanity in the past. I've never seen anything like this done before and for that I thought it was refreshing and brilliant.

[@tubulartopher]

​@Bat Bat If a person dies, would that "love" that they have for you only be reserved for the you they interacted with when alive? I do not think so. The same applies both ways. Regardless of our relation to each other in space/time, this love will still be there, even if neither are aware of the other's condition or state of existence.

[@googlereadsettlers]

The over-explaining killed it near the end for me too. Like, when he's there doing the ghost stuff and says "It was always me" 3-4 times I just felt insulted.

[@joelsmith5938]

I felt the same way. Thankfully, we can salvage the film ourselves and just edit that garbage out.

[@towermoss]

You can thank the people who like Adam Sandler movies.

[@gmorkins6006]

The initial summary by Mike on this film might be the best one ever.

[@Ray_Midge]

"Well said, concise, and to the point." - Coach Mike with the positive reinforcement

[@cyrussoxlegion]

I mostly agree with what you said about Interstellar. It's what you said about The Black Hole with which I take issue. The score is actually really good, and there's more to it than just the "repetitive" main title. There's some very well written, somber and creepy music in the film. It also has some great uplifting music. This is John Barry we're talking about, the man who composed the music to most of the James Bond films for a very long time. I remember when I was a kid I loved the robots in The Black Hole. I loved Vincent, Old Bob, and Maximillian for how damn scary he is. The concept that robots could think, feel and care about people was kind of mind-blowing to me. Obviously, that particular trope is being overused these days. By the way, Black Hole was 1979.

[@durden2480]

The 24 year scene is absolutely brutal, my own father wept like a baby. A grown 60 year old man 😟

[@shadymcnasty5920]

He looked at you and wonder where the time went. At that moment he saw you as the day you where born and wondered where the time went. I know because I did the same to my son

[@Barnesofthenorth]

"I wanna watch people travelling a long distance in space to find habitable planets" Just can't stop bringing up Star Trek can you Mike.

[@zenithquasar9623]

I know people give crap to Nolan about the love theme, but it is one of the most universal things that connect humans. When it comes to stories, love and romance is actually one of the most popular stories amongst any culture, more so than the hero's journey. And, I think, it didn't try to say something objective about love, it was saying love can be a very powerful drive for humans and it is.

[@youreallinsane]

Event Horizon doesn't suck, Jay. It doesn't.

[@johnnyrambo5083]

Oh yes it does.

[@bk138gt6]

youreallinsane one of the top 10 horror movies

[@VarvasNukka]

It works great as a 40k film.

[@void_gazer]

event horizon > interstellar..don't fight me

[@orbasm5]

RaJu_777 I will not. Instead I say we formulate an alliance against Event Horizon haters. Also lmao VarvasNukka, i never thought of it like that. Are they turning into Chaos Marines, i guess? (I don't know a whole lot about WH 40k)

[@rob_k]

Mike is absolutely right. As a science nerd, I loved it. But most regular people I know (not particularly interested in space and physics) thought it was too long, too weird, and ultimately boring. My dad fell asleep watching it. :D So the general audience not so much interested I think. But physics nerds, space nerds, or even cinema nerds are gonna dig it or at least find it interesting.

[@OhBoy404]

Stop acting like regural people are stupid

[@TheGamerThing]

But the last 20 mind ruins any scientific credentials it had

[@Ohnonoki]

I really, _really_ enjoyed Interstellar! I'm even more psyched for Chappie.

[@KuroyoruUmidori]

[@DinosaurBand]

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you on red letter media production team. I get so much entertainment and enjoyment from your shows. You make my day a little brighter. :) Together we can cross space-time with love.

[@prestonroberts5516]

I think the robots in Interstellar are a perfect example of "function over form."

[@NealX]

This isn't a statement on the film's quality as a whole, but people in the comments here seem to be in such a hurry to dismiss the theme of "love transcending time and space" and are even claiming the film itself only brings up the idea to treat it with appropriate contempt. You're projecting your own views on the film, which broaches the idea (through Hathaway's character) as both an intriguing scientific hypothesis, philosophical musing, AND as a psychological need inherent in how humans wish to relate to the universe. The people who dismiss that idea seem to be missing that the film's central resolution is based around Matthew McConaughey's character's relationship with his daughter Murph. Their love for each other leads *directly* to the salvation of the human race. You can argue about the merits of the idea philosophically or how it's used in the film, but in your rush not to be seen as taking something so "cheesy" seriously, don't try to claim it's not actually an important theme in the film. It is THE theme. And yes, to quote one of the more interesting comments in one of the threads here, it is "some My Little Pony shit."

[@definitelynotofficial7350]

Nah... It's just dumb... And the fact that it's so important for the movie really hurts the final product.

[@definitelynotofficial7350]

L1ttleT3d Exactly. There is absolutely nothing scientific in "love transcends dimensions" and nothing of any merit other than something an angsty 14 year old girl would write in her Facebook profile.

[@NoMoreNever]

+Neal X I agree with you that the theme of the movie is the connections we form between ourselves and others, be it family, friends or someone we love, and when we are faced with the realization that we are about to die, our thoughts tends to drift towards the people in our lives that we care about the most. That is powerful indeed, and it`s what may keep us hanging on to life even when hope seems forfeit. My problem is not with the theme itself, but the presentation of said theme. If we somehow accept that any strong emotion can enable us to locate any given individual we harbor strong feelings of attachment for across space and time, then wouldn`t the same be true for someone we deeply hate or despise? As a motivator I buy it, but not as an actual force that can punch through the vast distances of space and time.

[@NealX]

***** Fine, I never actually said anywhere in my comment that I _liked_ the presentation of the idea in the film. In fact, I didn't, Anne Hathaway's monologue actually made me cringe. My comment was directed to a strange number of people in this comments section arguing that love wasn't actually a major theme of the film, which is absurd.

[@NoMoreNever]

+Neal X And again I agree. I`m totally on board with that being the theme of the movie.

[@dzhellek]

Based on the trailer I think they should rename the movie "Whispering profoundly".

[@SeriusSim]

The good times when RLM special effects were actually pretty good and the actors really tried to sell the plot

[@mikee9167]

Main dude said that love was a quantifiable thing. Brains are quantifiable. The big idea you don't touch on which is presented in the movie is that future humans somehow manipulate the past and to some extent exploit that love to preserve their timeline. But then you'd have to talk about how causality is screwed up in this movie.

[@dbowl7111]

I fucking love how Mike's screaming at the start is ADR'd in

[@StormsandSaugeye]

It's interesting to note that the blackhole in the movie was the most accurate representation of a Black hole in Cinema. Further, that it was the subject of peer review and the modeling of the black hole was done based upon all available data being fed into said model and allowing it to generate a representation based upon that. In a way, a movie helped advance quantum mechanics and the study of singularities by allowing the most accurate model ever to be generated and examined.

[@mobaby1979]

YES!!! HOW IN THE HELL DID THEY FAIL TO MENTION THIS SMH

[@stefanforrer2573]

everytime i hear "love is the only thing that transcends time and space", i just want to ram my head into the nearest wall

[@towermoss]

Well it was sorta true. It was was brought Cooper to his daughter, and what made his daughter go back for the watch.

[@VespoLiveGaming]

I thought that talking apes that dominate a post-apocalyptic earth were the only thing that transcended space and time.

[@linusdn2777]

If movies make you this angry, maybe you should stop watching movies.

[@snoopstp4189]

You didn't hear that in this movie because they made it a specific point to say that gravity transcends space-time.

[@eon5323]

@@towermoss that's not because of love. Its because of information. INFORMATION transcends space and time. What brought those two characters together could easily been achieved with relentless blind hatred.

[@TehEditor]

omg Mike is drinking InterSTELLAr Artois :o

[@TheWitchfinderGenral]

Also known in as "Wife Beater"

[@john-el9636]

Am I the only one not getting the Totino's Pizza Rolls commercials?

[@Splashy151]

+John Lechlieter it's a plinkett joke. they say that before the youtube ad pops up. you might have ad blocker on, haha.

[@FuckItSnoopy]

If it makes you like the film better, Matt Damon was insane by the time they showed up and seemed to be doing the Bond villain thing more to convince himself that he wasn't evil than anything else. Also, the spaceship they took from Earth likely had to have a lot more fuel than that little ship that can leave the planet's gravitational field, so that might be a fair enough explanation as to why it needed the rocket and the smaller ones didn't. If they were being clandestine about going to space, they couldn't exactly send parts one at a time to be put together in orbit. I do wish someone had told Nolan not to do that stupid love monologue. It comes from out of fucking nowhere and makes Anne Hathaway's character look like a stupid asshole.

[@DreamwalkerFilms]

Ding ding ding, that monologue took me RIGHT out of the movie.

[@pseudofox]

Dreamwalker Films Oh, yeah, like... it really does... : /

[@gumball20000]

The first planet they landed on had higher gravity than Earth, so that wouldn't make sense for them to be able to take off from it so easily.

[@ZarkowsWorld]

gumball20000 they only landed with a small craft etc, and also the movie went from docu to sci-fi, hence the ability of the smaller landing craft, more like in the Alien movies etc.

[@MrJL1995]

The love monologue is probably the most confusing scene i have ever wittnessed in a movie. The first 20 seconds i was like: "yeah it is all a metafore".. One minute into the speech i was rasing my eyebrows: "Wait........ Are she actually serious 0_0" it was just such a amazingly akward moment

[@WickedMo13]

When it came to the Love part, I looked at from a science perspective like how gravity was referred to in the film, compared to it being just some emotional reaction. Love is a form of consciousness that can transcend dimensions. Favorite scene was that docking scene, in the IMAX Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan are a badass combination.

[@shadymcnasty5920]

Ya call me old fashioned but I really like that analogy. Because in our 3 dimensional view point love truest does transcend all dimensions.Regardless of how much time and space passes your emotions if they are strong enough stay the same and nothing else will do that given enough time

[@pushon10]

Mike saying 'OHHHH FUCK!' never stops being funny

[@kylekondit9709]

I disagree with the interpretation that Nolan was indicating that love was a literally a quantifiable force of energy. I felt that the theme and the overall point of the "love" scene was what love brings people to do. Not like a magical force that just affects reality for no reason. This is furtherd by Matt Damon when he's telling Cooper about how your kids are the last thing you see before you die. He literally says that seeing the thing you love most is what makes you fight harder for your life for them.

[@ObakeOnna]

Question: is the "love is a mystical force that transcends space-time" bit in the movie actually as bad as it sounds? Because holy shit does it ever sound dumb.

[@gerberbaby281]

It only sounds dumb because your perception of love.

[@SV67943]

You don't believe in the force, do you?

[@ObakeOnna]

gerberbaby281 Yeah, damn my rational science-based perception of the world. Without it I could enjoy science fiction so much more.

[@ObakeOnna]

SV67943 Haven't you heard? It's all mitochondria or whatever. :P

[@te7423]

Just watch the movie.

[@defenstrator4660]

The black hole flyby was perfectly reasonable. It's the same as going past any other body in space, you just need enough velocity to escape orbit. The problem is the amount of radiation being released by the black hole is horrific.

[@tomanderson9202]

I think a lot of people are taking the whole 'love transcends time and space' a little too literally.

[@D3r3k2323]

Yeah lol, if you don't take it literally than I don't see any problem with it. Although Anne Hathaway definitely "over-acted" that part way too much

[@alexandercheskis]

So we are never told how far away the people in the ships are from the black hole or Saturn or whatever but fun fact, Supermassive black holes allow you to get closer to their event horizon than stellar mass black holes because the event horizon on a super massive black hole is soooo much further from the singularity. The tidal forces are much much weaker.

[@MrHEC381991]

Jays laugh is tremendous

[@ChromeKong]

Never disagreed so hard to any statement in the show: The Black Hole might be a bad movie but the music by the legendary John Barry is terrific and one of the best soundtracks ever made. It delivers threat and mystery so perfectly and the repetition just reminds of that ever twisting monster of a black hole. You judgement about this is so strangely superficial in this regard.

[@DreamwalkerFilms]

Best soundtracks ever made? LOL

[@ChromeKong]

Dreamwalker Films Do you even know it? It’s made by the legend John Barry. Just watch the last 10 minutes of the movie.

[@DreamwalkerFilms]

@@ChromeKong I absolutely do, I've seen the film many times. Johny Barry is a great composer but it doesn't mean every score of his is a masterpiece. I don't necessarily agree with Mike that it is one of the WORST scores ever, but likewise, I think BEST is a bit of a stretch haha

[@ChromeKong]

Dreamwalker Films Not the best, one of the best. That’s a difference. The Soundtrack makes this movie. It projects a movie into my head that is faaar better than the actual one. Of course this is a very personal judgment.

[@Flashplayer65]

To be fair, they are film critics, not film music critics. I personally tend to disagree with film critics a lot when it comes to scores.

[@MrPicklerwoof]

9:10 By the way, if you think about it, it actually makes perfect sense they used a Saturn-like rocket for the initial take-off. Since it meant their small planetary ships would have a higher total of fuel for the mission as a result. Plus the rocket may have even included additional stored fuel for the Endurance.

[@Elethiome]

I'm surprised I don't see more (or rather, any) mentions of Hoshi no Koe, the critically acclaimed short animation that Interstellar basically rips the entire concept off of. It's a great example of how often less is better, and how much more touching the movie could be without all that dialogue.

[@NormalLee67]

The movie lost me as soon as Matthew McConaughey went into the black hole and started sending morse code messages back in time using space bookshelves, all thanks to the power of love. EDIT: this comment is three years old stop fucking replying to it you fucking brainlets

[@Stalin4ever]

+ryrysteam Well... a hundred times they said gravity is the only thing that - theoretically - can bend time and go across it. He was in black hole, you know, lots of gravity there, and he sent the message using it. Everyone say this movie explained too many things, but it never hurts .

[@NormalLee67]

Stralinho The thing is, he should've kept floating towards the center of the black hole, meaning he would've been spaghettified (as in, the past tense spaghettification) sooner or later (and this is the best-case scenario. It's possible he could've encountered forces strong enough to spaghettify him to death before he even entered the event horizon). He wouldn't be able to float around willy-nilly like he did in the movie, he'd keep being pulled towards the center of the event horizon before being stretched into oblivion. Man, imagine if that's how the movie ended- Matthew McConaughey goes into the black hole, gets spaghettified, and that's it. Bam. Cut to credits.

[@grassygnoll3345]

+Stralinho Which is what sends him to the stars (he gave the location of the base) creating a causality loop. So the reason he goes is because he went because he told himself the information he needed to go through a worm hole placed by future mankind because they knew they needed to do it because without it they won't happen. The films OK but it's an old story.

[@ricardonelson7628]

+ryrysteam It's a science fiction film. Keyword fiction. The multiple reality and quantum theory in bioshock infinite was rearded and made no sense but no one cared because "IT'S A SMART GAME FOR SMART GAMERS!" Do you get mad at every episode of star trek where the characters escape death by making shit up?

[@NormalLee67]

Ricardo Nelson When a movie takes itself so seriously and tries to be as realistic as it possibly can (as Interstellar did), yes, I will get mad if it suddenly dives into oversentimental-schlock territory.

[@hectorroche7665]

Please, notice the flies around Jay's head at 29:09, truly wonderful

[@Lmaoh5150]

I really wanna see you guys do Synecdoche, New York. It's not recent of course, but I'd love to see your guys' opinions on it. It's incredibly underrated and should get a lot more attention than it has.

[@dl950]

Just like a planet, a blackhole has a gravitational pull that follows the same force attributes, the inverse of a square. More simply, an orbit around a black hole would be as if you were to orbit around a planet or star with the same mass. Gravitational pull is relative to one bodies mass and another. Between the inverse square I mentioned earlier of the gravitational force exerted by both bodies lies an equilibrium where anything can maintain an orbit. Same thing with a massive planet.

[@sleanidraC]

That "Fuck you" at 26:18 really made me laugh! I liked Interstellar a lot! I'm a sucker for space travel, especially when it envolves some interesting stuff about how space-time works. I think I got caught up in the visuals, science and spectacle of it all a little to easily. At the end I felt that something was a little off in this movie but I couldn't quite point out what exactly. You guys made some things clear in that respect. Like how the earth-scenes didn't really fit as well with the space-scenes as Nolan probabely intended. I think I liked it more than Inception because of my interest in the material it covers rather than the actual movie itself.

[@thebluestcrowe]

While you may not care - the rocket that was needed to blast off from earth was needed because they took a ship that had multiple smaller ships on board. This is how they were able to go down to one planet, and leave a member of their crew on board the mothership while the flew down to the water planet on a smaller ship. This became a very important part of the story in a few place (Mann stealing their mothership, and shortly after where they had to use all of the smaller ships engines to power the mothership AND detach them from the mothership to change its weight and its course)

[@thebluestcrowe]

Also - as much as I hated the 'love conquers all we just don't understand - even though that goes against the grain of all scientific principles' I think your comment about it being delivered fairly well is really true. I love your content as always and while I didn't agree with everything you had to say - I liked the variety in opinions between the two of you. Its great to see a great channel that stays consistently strong for such a long time. As a reasonably long term fan - thank you.

[@ericjamieson]

Having already heard about the "love is the only thing that transcends time and space" BS I was fully prepared to hate this movie, but, damn, it actually kinda sells the idea (not that I think it's actually true, but it did have me suspending disbelief for the purpose of the story).

[@knowthycell]

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[@ankitacharya8993]

Interstellar copied the room Interstellar =love can transcend gravity The room = if everybody love each other world would be better place.

[@michaele8157]

Interstellar is one of my favorite moies of all time

[@ChristianNorthernNJ]

Disney's The Black Hole is an incredible film. You must be crazy. You definitely have to watch it as an adult, though. The only thing that makes it a kids film is the goofy robots. Seriously. It's about necromancy and how a murderous genius madman wants to go into a black hole so he can touch the mind of God (and become one himself) but he ends up burning in hell.

[@alexandrerighi]

almost spat all my drink on the computer screen after the synopsis

[@RayTech70]

The robots were pretty cool and amazingly mobile too! What I didn't like was the fact that NASA could have sent numerous robots with propulsion systems to cut to the chase and find out which planet was best instead of sending humans first. Maybe NASA was dumb, I don't know: after all they did take their best pilot and turned him into a corn farmer while continuing operating without even consulting with him about such things.

[@Infinity_Coda]

"Casey Affleck showed up wearing a Ben Affleck costume"

[@macsmith3878]

Event Horizon is pretty good and the score in Black Hole is cool.

[@samuelperezgarcia]

The Black Hole theme is pretty fucking awesome.

[@ChromeKong]

It is!!! One of the best soundtracks ever made!

[@Rafferty1968]

Agreed. I think the segment of score they used was a homage to 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, its the theme for the Nautilus if memory serves me right.

[@ManOutofTime913]

@@Rafferty1968 Having watched both films, it doesn't really sound like it. Plus, I believe the Black Hole is more trying to rip off Forbidden Planet than trying to do 20,000 Leagues under the Sea in space, but that's just me.

[@ManOutofTime913]

@@samuelperezgarcia The menacing theme that plays when they apporoach the Cygnus is great. The action score that is technically the main theme of the film is terrible though. It's so cheesy, it takes you right out of the movie and kills any atmosphere.

[@InTrancedState]

You can fly near a blackhole exactly how you would a planet. So flying near it with a ship is totally kosher as it's just a gravitational pull. The only issue might be debris if the blackhole is consuming another star or something

[@DingbatToast]

McConaughey delivers his lines like there's someone sleeping next to him and he doesn't want to wake them

[@Faithinhim7]

Lol it's funny hearing people get hyped about a 4K curved TV. In just 5 years everything has changed.

[@eternalbeing3339]

Yeah now they are 5k very affordable.

[@Andrew-yl7lm]

What happened to curved TVs? They were everywhere like 4 years ago but I haven't seen one since

[@elinicoritale6384]

@@Andrew-yl7lm ikr.

[@SkigBiggler]

@@Andrew-yl7lm probably cause they’re largely not that useful. Curved screen isn’t going to add a massive amount of immersion, and given the hassles that come with it (slightly warped image perhaps, shitty mounting, screen shape makes it a bit awkward to install on ledges designed for normal TVs), I’m not surprised they’re not really very common anymore.

[@Brent_Mosey]

I've always wanted to see a film or TV series based on David Brim's Earth. Amazing book.

[@steelytemplar]

I have to say that I really love that old Disney Black Hole movie. That being said, I don't think I can really argue that it is some kind of cinematic masterpiece.

[@somnambulist83]

interstellar and galaxy invader are a lot more similar than people usually want to admit. the first act of interstellar is basically just corn, like the woods in galaxy invader serve for an easy and cheap backdrop for an easy and cheap setting. there's barely a hint of sci-fi until he gets to the secret nasa base. "oh an indian air force drone! how exotic! everyone's poor, how futuristic!"

[@MrHEC381991]

"Dexter blooows, listen..." lmao

[@ZemplinTemplar]

They were conserving fuel with the launch vehicle from Earth. And said launcher wasn't a Saturn V, but probably an SLS-descendant. The Saturn and the SLS look very similar, as there's not many creative ways you can design a very large rocket.