Well I did Vote for "Batman Begins" last week, and that's the beginning of "The Dark Knight" Trilogy; ALL 3 films (by Christopher Nolan) are Epic / Cinematic Masterpieces...and 100% the Best of Batman!!! I don't think you've seen "The Prestige" yet either, and Christopher Nolan really works his Magic & Mystery with that one!
I do enjoy Christopher Nolan's work. But as I have mentioned in other comments, I think that Jen should explore the works of Stanley Kubrick, and perhaps more Alfred Hitchcock as well. (Although Nolan's Batman rocks! )
Him watching the videos of his children after spending 22 years on that tidal wave planet is an absolute soul crushing movie moment. The acting phenomal
That scene broke me how within hours so many years had passed and what felt like only 3 hours to him was 22 years that he had to endure in the matter of seconds
Hello Jen! Would you consider a film based on true events as opposed to fiction "Fire In The Sky" (93) Co Starring Robert Patrick (T1000 of Predator 2) Saw in the theatre when Ground Hog Day was sold out, and still talking about it! Most slept on film ever.(Now Cult Classic) Not going to win any polls but so worth checking!!
This is my #1 movie of all-time ever since it was released. I would pay some serious money to be able to watch it in a movie theatre again. Great reaction Jen! 😊
@@kaiielle Doesn't have to be an IMAX. I don't know how it is in the U.S. or Canada but if you rent a theatre, you probably have to bring the movie yourself, unless it's something from their current program.
Hey Jen, in the end you eventually named 'time dialation' as the true villian in this movie. We see that Dr Brand sr tells the universal human truth we should not be afraid of death, but we should be afraid of time. Time is a never-ending avalanche of thunder and fire rolling toward us. We spend our whole lives trying to outrun time. But eventually, it will catch us, it will catch up with all of us. So live your life to the fullest before time runs out.
Don't forget 'Good Will Hunting' (1998), it's a quadrilogy now. :P Highly recommended movie, Matt Damon's break out role. Drama/love story. Will Hunting is a brilliant but troubled young man who is slumming his way through life. After assaulting a police officer he is court ordered to attend psychotherapy sessions or go to jail. He chooses the former, but his therapist is also battling his own demons.
This movie was written with input from Kip Thorne, who is a well-respected astrophysicist. A lot of the science here is accurate (not all of course, but more than most movies). That's the part that always gets me: a movie rooted in real science winds up being more fantastical than pure fiction. It's why I love science.
As a dad to two children the part that got me the most was Murph on her deathbed when she says "my dad promised me" because it's so important to me for my kids to know they are my world and I'd do anything to protect them.
"How realistic of a future scenario would something like this be" - you asked this during the dust storm scene, so in case you were asking about that: that already happened for real in the US in the 1930's. It was called the Dust Bowl and some of the talking heads you saw at the start were real people from that era talking about it.
I’m a grown ass old man and I cry about three or four times every single time I watch this movie. And I watch it a lot. It’s one of my favorites of all time. Thank you so much.
I didn't love this film the first time I saw it but the 2nd time I saw it I absolutely loved it and love it more with each viewing. I think it's a masterpiece and maybe my favorite Christopher Nolan film.
I had a similar experience. I've never "loved" it, but I have grown a deeper appreciation for it over time. I still don't like a couple elements but they don't overshadow the major beats of the film the way they did the first time I saw it.
The first thing I did when I walked out of the theater was buy a ticket to watch it again but in IMAX. Amazing! The second thing I did was buy the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer is a genius
@@Yora21 well yes of course I would agree with you there's a documentary you can watch even the old people at beginning were actually in the documentary I believe it was like 1920s
@@Yora21 True, partially: the side effects of having less plants in open fields, though, are the same (in general): plants of all sizes prevent winds from running wild miles on end, picking up tons of dust as they go. When plants are not enough, even light winds can create big clouds of dust (that's why you can see bad dust storms in places like the desert). It doesn't matter if it's thanks to poor farming practices, a mysterious illness of plants or chopping everything without consideration, once plants fall below a certain limit, dust storms are not that far away.
The scene where Mann fails to dock with Endurance Cooper realizes that saving the human race rests on him docking with Endurance. That's why he says "Its necessary." Cooper has the mentality of a test pilot. A regular pilot in an aircraft in trouble would be thinking "I've got 10 seconds before I crash! I need to bail out!" A test pilot would think "Hell I still got 10 seconds! I bet I could save this thing!"
This is my absolute favorite thing of all time. Not just favorite movie, my favorite anything. Seeing this film, literally changed the course of my life, changed who I am as a person, how I think about myself and my relation to the world, it's relation to me, how I relate to others, and why I make the choices that I make. My absolute favorite part of this film is how it doesn't forget that you, the viewer, were probably confused and curious as to what was going on with Brand's hand - and that it brings it full circle to show you that it was Cooper all along, reaching out from across spacetime to embrace that moment. So as for how likely is that scenario - it's actually surprisingly likely. Maybe not with the blight and everything but as far as the dust goes, legitimately possible. We've already had frequent dust bowls around the globe and as climate change gets worse, causes more droughts, dries up the land, and if we refuse to change how we engage in agriculture in an attempt to make sure the soil stays fertile and vibrant, because climate change makes the winds stronger because the air is warmer - all that dust and dirt and it being blown around is not out of the realm of possibility by any stretch. It is - rather unfortunate... I am a climate activist and though it will be very very very very hard to avoid the worst of what climate change will bring us, I do think it is possible. But it will require a transformation in how we see ourselves, each other, the world. A transformation of how we see action and labor and choice and willpower. A transformation in how we relate ourselves to everything outside of us, and everything within us. A transformation of love, compassion, empathy and understanding. No more can we maintain the attitude of, "why should i have to sacrifice if others don't." Because that is the point. Not all of us have the capacity to sacrifice, not all of us have that luxury. But those that do, sacrifice so that others don't have to, to take on that burden for the sake of others. We all have to go above and beyond what we think we are capable of. We have the capacity to do extraordinary things, all of us. It's time we stop killing each other, time we stop caring who someone else chooses to be and recognizing one another for the absolutely incredible being we are and rising to the task, rise into the call - to stand by one another, to protect each other, to make sure a future exists, and to be there for them to embrace when things really get bad. "Nothing lasts forever not even the world. But we gotta keep it going as long as we can right? Fix the holes, change the parts? All that. So we can say we had a good run, that we lived."
The Gargantua Black Hole visualization was based on scientific theory and came about five years before the first image of a black hole was released in 2019 and was pretty accurate.
yea that's what's amazing about this movie. The gravity slingshot using the Penrose process in a spinning supermassive black hole is also true. Although the ability to withstand the gravity on Miller's planet (considering the time dilation) is kinda unrealistic because the gravity is like a black dwarf star on that planet which people can't handle (20,000 g's or up to 3,000,000 g's). Then the ability to withstand tidal forces in the black hole is also quite unrealistic. The closing of the tesseract and the evaporation of the black hole is also theoretically possible if there is enough negative mass injected into the black hole. The information being sent to the past also requires entropy to decrease, which is not possible overall but locally and occasionally, yes entropy can be decreased artifically. Yes only futuristic tech can allow us to manipulate mass, genetically engineer ourselves to survive in supermassive objects, and also manipulate gravity to send information. But hey, that's incredible speculation, which may turn out to be false. The time travel is also most logical since everything happens with the future information coming through.
Jen, I love , love, love your reaction to "Interstellar", The amazing thing about Chris Nolan's writing is the level of emotional intelligence he assumes the audience has. We all know Copper loves his daughter. When he says, "The first thing you learn about being a parent, is making sure your child is safe and protected. That includes not telling a ten year old girl, that the world is coming to an end." In this exchange of dialogue Nolan is showing how Cooper specifically loves and care for Murph in ways too deep to comprehend. In ways so deep that he would travel the universe to save his daughter and the rest of humanity.
You will love another space movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Jodie Foster from 1997, "Contact". Its a philosophical look at a message from space leading to a thrilling climax.
I saw this beautiful movie in Italy when it came out and I liked it so much that I saw it several times. The story is based on a phenomenon called "Dust Bowl" that actually happened in the central part of the United States and Canada between 1931 and 1939 due to the intensive exploitation of agricultural crops. C. Nolan imagines that this disaster affects the whole world and our species must leave the Earth. To understand why time flows more slowly on large-mass planets, you have to imagine a Bowling ball on a mattress: the larger it is, the more space / time bends due to gravity as predicted by Einstein. For example, if you could stay on a Black Hole for a minute, the force of gravity would be so powerful that a million years would pass on Earth! More difficult to understand Quantum Physics which in theory is irreconcilable with Relativity in the current state of scientific research. The relationship between Cooper and his daughter "Murph" is also very moving. You are very nice, Greetings from Milan, Italy
When I first saw this film in 2016, I felt an intense pity for Dr. Brandt as she ended up marooned and alone on an alien planet with little to no possibility of rescue!
The time dilation is 100% real science. Spooky stuff! In interviews, Hans Zimmer said he based the soundtrack solely on his feelings about a parent-child relationship. Other movies “like this” are Nolan’s other big sci-fi ones: Inception and Tenet. Inception is an easier recommendation; Tenet is harder to follow, but great if it clicks for you.
Hans Zimmer did not "base the soundtrack solely on his feelings about a parent child relationship". Chris Nolan sent Zimmer a single, out of context, script page of dialogue between Cooper and Murph. Zimmer used his own relationship with his son as inspiration for the theme he wrote. It was only after this that Nolan revealed that the film was going to be a space epic, and Zimmer wrote an appropriately epic score. Although the parent/child theme was the jumping off point, to say that the score is based *solely* on that undermines it somewhat; the use of church organs to create a sense of grandeur and the playing around with time signatures to represent the time dilation aspects of the narrative were choices Zimmer made once he knew the full scope of the film.
YES ! Perfect companion reaction to your Gravity reaction. Love it. Oh, and the answer is: Scarily so. That hypothetical future is scaringly realistic.
I commented that I was excited about this one when I found out you had it scheduled. My favorite movie. It wasn’t my favorite until years after seeing it and after seeing it a few times. I still come up with thoughts and questions after 4 years. That’s why I love science; endless questions. All answers lead to more questions.
Pretty novel reaction. Most people instantly despise Matt Damon's character, but you empathized right away. Most people scoff at the "We didn't invent love" speech, but you didn't. Seeing different perspectives is why I love reactions!
Watched this last night with my husband, I’d seen it a few times, he was watching for the first time. Truly, this is one to watch at least twice, if not more, it just gets better💜💜
Awesome comment Jen! Chuffed you loved the movie, it's also one of my most favorite movies. The story and the acting is phenomenal and the score is arguably one of Hans Zimmer's absolute masterpieces.
Hans Zimmer's score is magnificent. Fantastic reaction as always Jen, you adorable little hamster. If you like this, you'll love Kubricks 2001; a true masterpiece.
Made the same recommendation, great film,it laid the foundation for the films we see today. I'll second your recommendation though! (Great minds think alike! )
Inception is the other one kind of similar. It's not space, but it's an intellectually stimulating mind bender also by Nolan. Also with a strong emotional core. Very well done.
This movie makes me cry every damn time - It's a great story of loss, love, and latency. (Needed three L words there - I think those fit.) And now Jen's Bond villain lair needs a TARS to be complete.
This is my favorite movie ever.. I love to see people watching it because I like it so much that I wanna share this feeling with other people. It's a brilliant way to show how a small being in this universe can have relationships and feelings with such a huge impact. By the way the soundtrack is amazing as well.
When traveling into the Black Hole, Cooper enters a Tesseract, which is a 5th dimension of space allowing him to easily travel through different points of space-time at his own will. Very mind blowing!
Another Beautiful and Emotional Reaction Jen...You almost had me crying too, towards the end there! Here's a few more Space Movies that should make you Think About It as much as Feel About It too: "Contact" / "Mission to Mars" and "Passengers" (2016).
For another along this line do "Contact" (1997) based on a scifi story written by Dr Carl Sagan known for his good Cosmos science series on TV in the 80-90s. Contact also stars Matthew McConaughey but Jodie Foster plays the lead role. There's another tie between the two movies in that one of the Interstellar producers is Prof Kip Thorne astrophysicist of Caltech, was also a friend of Sagan and was consulted by him to keep the science in his novel "Contact" as updated and accurate as possible. Another good scifi you'll enjoy too. 🖖😎
this movie had be absolutely balling.. hell, even after just the reaction i had to like watch spongebob after this lol.. the docking scene is one of the most intense and well made scenes i have ever seen. And the music.. just incredible..
One of my favourite movies out there.. what make it so special to me is three reasons: 1. I sav it in cinema and it blown my mind! 2. I bought a large coke and by the end of the movie my bladder almost exploded cose I refuse to go to the bathroom😅 3. The next day my parents have accident, nothing happened to them thank God but my car was crashed and ended up in a junkyard 😕 So yeah, that was a weekend to remember 😅
TARS is low key the mvp. Was able to jump into the black hole and receive the quantum data they needed to send to murph so that she could finish the equation and save humanity.
This was such an amazing movie! The soundtrack is beautiful. Gravity and time dilation are my absolute favorite things to ponder! If you're interested, there are some videos and documentaries on Einstein here on YT that go into some detail about it and it's really fascinating! Great job as usual Jen!
One underrated movie similar to this is "Europa Report". It's set up as a documentary about the first interplanetary trip to Jupiter's moon Europa. There are no famous actors but the writing and performances are solid. I don't think I've seen anyone react to this one. Of course the granddaddy of all epic sci-fi films is "2001: A Space Odyssey". It's definitely required watching for any space enthusiast.
Docking to a spinning object is possible, so long as the g force doesn't cause you to pass out. All you have to do is spin too until your rates of rotation are matched. You can see that Dr. Brand passes out, but as a pilot Cooper would have had more extensive high-g training. In fact, the only way we know of to create artificial gravity is to get a spacecraft or space station to spin. So in the future, it's likely that it will be common to dock to spinning space stations. But they probably won't be spinning quite so fast.
not going to lie, after watching this in cinema I left speechless. And like you said, I left the theatre thinking about this movie 3 days after. It's is definitely my #1 movie of all time no doubt.
Two fun facts: 1) corn fields was planted specifically for filming and crops even made profit(tho some farmers told that those fields would be fruitless) 2) each second of Gargantua close footage took 1 hour of rendering, bc of lack of technology when the movie was made
If you haven't seen the sequel to 2001: Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick's classic) then it is in somewhat the same "vein" as Interstellar. Not as grand as Interstellar, but still worth watching! It has Roy Scheider in it. It's called "2010: The Year We Make Contact." It came out in 1984. 2001: A Space Odssey is also pretty good but somewhat dated. A classic though. Came out in 1968 - but it is 4 hours long. heh.
They were both the same age when he came back due to relativity. The dust storms are a real possibility, look up the Dust Bowl in the U.S. during the 1930's. I lived in Dallas/Fort Worth during the late 1970's and I can remember dust storms in west Texas turning the sky yellow from all the dust. The wormhole and the library were what you could call a tesseract, a construct to allow him to communicate with Murphy.
I like that, for all the expansive space themes and the love motif, it's basically just a haunted house movie. And it never really loses that vibe, although it tries to make you forget as the second act begins, but it's still a haunted house movie throughout. A really sweet and affecting one though.
You should definitely watch more Christopher Nolan. I’d recommend both Memento and Inception. In my opinion, he is the director currently working that reminds me the most of Kubrick.
The music is the real star of this movie and though it is a sci-fi movie it used no synthesizers. All music is from real instruments, primarily a huge pipe organ.
I think another movie that is set in space which will provoke your mind (at least it did for me) is Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. And if you were completely puzzeled by that movie, you need to see its sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Both are awesome space adventures in my opinion.
Hello, astrophysicist here . I just stumbled on this video, and I wanted to thank you for your great reaction! As far as explaining what exactly is happening during the black hole scene, the truth is that when Cooper enters the black hole the movie transcends science and enters sci-fi, so it's more or less purely speculation. As others have stated, Kip Thorne (who is a Nobel Laureate theoretical physicist/astrophysicist) collaborated with the production team and wrote an entire book on the physics presented in the movie! Okay, into the nitty gritty: --Entering the black hole-- In reality, Gargantuan is so small, that you would likely be shredded before reaching the event horizon. The movie adopts the notion that "if you enter the event horizon moving fast enough" you'd be fine, but truly the event horizon in not physical barrier in the real world, but rather an information barrier. What I mean to say is that when you pass the event horizon to an outside observer you would just get touch closer to the "singularity" if it exists before being shredded by the strength of gravity. Imagine, if a black hole is so strong that it it's gravity causes the material around it in its accretion disk to break down into the most fundamental particles while orbiting at near light speed, then likely Cooper who is made of weak molecular bonds would not survive the journey in one piece, but rather 10^25 pieces :P. There is however a special case of passing the event horizon of a rotating supermassive black hole like the one in m87 galaxy that is roughly 4 Billion times the mass of the sun and the size of our solar system. In this case, you could easily pass the event horizon as the "tidal forces" (caused by a differential in gravity on your body) would be weak enough for you to pass through unharmed, but again the event horizon is not like a thin shelled wall that you can peer inside. Black holes likely retain their blackness when you enter, and the physics that made them black on the outside only become more extreme and non-trivial on the inside. TLDR, the scene inside the black hole is pretty cool, but very sci-fi, and likely not possible. --Inside the black hole-- As far as the scene with Cooper and Tars talking about dimensions inside the black hole, this is all I really understood. I guess Tars was saying something like there are 3 dimensions of space and 1 of time, so Cooper seeing the same exact room in space over and over at different times is some sort of projection of the 5th dimension into 3D space, which can be seen as an almost infinite amount of scenes in the same room. I don't really understand this, but to me it almost just looked like 4D -> 3D. Just all moments in time and space shown as moments in 3D space, so it's just 4 dimensions into 3, and no 5D hocus pocus, but who am I to judge :). How did Cooper move the clock with "gravity" though he was just moving his arm and touching a string like line in space? I have no idea. I guess the idea is that this is some alternate dimension inside a black whole were future humans/creatures created a place to communicate backward in time through gravity, and they don't know how to send the correct information, only Cooper can because Cooper loves murph so they have a bond that transcends time and space? Again this doesn't make much sense to me, because If they could just set this whole thing up for Cooper to go in and give the quantum information, it seems like they could have just given the quantum information to the present day humans in the first place, since this was their plan? I'm kind just along for the ride here :). --The cylindrical space station at the end of the movie-- This is actually totally possible, if you have a large enough diameter cylindrical space station (needs to be large so the corialis force doesn't knock you over) built with strong enough material, you can just rotate it and generate artificial gravity. And you can point it at the Sun to get energy, however at the distance of Saturn the Sun definitely would not be nearly that bright. In fact the energy you receive from the Sun decreases with the square of the distance you are away from it. Saturn is 10x as far from the Sun so you would expect the Sun to be 100x less Bright. The energy you received on a 100% efficient solar panel a 1meterx1meter would be approximately 13.8 watts, meaning it would be roughly 3x less energy then you would need to power your weak 40 watt light bulb in your desk lamp (leds are much more efficient, but I'm just trying to make a basic point about how weak the Sun would be at this distance). A couple good points/questions you mentioned that I concur on: - Why didn't they just go to Edmunds first, and not waste time near the black hole? - Why would you try to live on a planet that has an absurd amount of time dilation near a black hole? Seems like a pain - Why did no one go to check on Cooper or Bran? Like maybe just send a party to edmunds planet? Maybe they did, but the time dilation just made it so that Cooper and Bran arrive after the search parties, since they were so close to the black hole. My apologies for the long winded response. let me know if you have any rather specific questions you'd like answered, as I was pretty vague here to just provide context to the movie. Cheers!
Hey Jen, I agree with your assessment of Interstellar's main theme, being the fusion of science and love. When Cooper falls into the 5th-dimensional tesseract that lays out his daughter's life in the bedroom. His future self uses science and technology to build the access portal to his daughter. However, it's love that gives this technology meaning. For example, our cell phones are useless until we find a use for them. Until we make a personal connection with technology and give it a purpose, it's essentially useless like a broken broom or hair dryer.
In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have watched reactions of Titanic, Saving Private Ryan and Interstellar consecutively. Three incredible but very emotional movies. 😢
3:41 I don't know much about biology, but I know of some scenarios of smaller scale ecological disasters. A. The Great Dust Bowl - In the 1930s, the Great Plains of the US suffered years of long drought. Along with bad farming techniques that did not hold top soil, huge dust storms added more hardship during The Great Depression along with starvation and death to people and livestock B. Bees - If bee species died off no more pollenized plants C. Bananas - because of a lack of diversification in farming, a fungal diease adapted and killed off the sweeter species of bananas eaten decades ago. This pattern is now repeating.
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Well I did Vote for "Batman Begins" last week, and that's the beginning of "The Dark Knight" Trilogy; ALL 3 films (by Christopher Nolan) are Epic / Cinematic Masterpieces...and 100% the Best of Batman!!! I don't think you've seen "The Prestige" yet either, and Christopher Nolan really works his Magic & Mystery with that one!
You should watch Sunshine. It's a really good melancholy space movie.
Gonna add my +1 to both The Prestige and Sunshine that were commented above. 😊
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I do enjoy Christopher Nolan's work. But as I have mentioned in other comments, I think that Jen should explore the works of Stanley Kubrick, and perhaps more Alfred Hitchcock as well. (Although Nolan's Batman rocks! )
12:56 Trivia: That's a clock of 1,25 seconds, each tick marking one day of time passing on Earth.
Him watching the videos of his children after spending 22 years on that tidal wave planet is an absolute soul crushing movie moment. The acting phenomal
I'm still thinking about that scene 😥
It was such a treat in theaters, IMAX particularly
I was so emotionally broke in that scene. Someone used that scene in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS parody trailer to hilarious effect.
That scene broke me how within hours so many years had passed and what felt like only 3 hours to him was 22 years that he had to endure in the matter of seconds
Hello Jen! Would you consider a film based on true events as opposed to fiction
"Fire In The Sky" (93)
Co Starring Robert Patrick (T1000 of Predator 2) Saw in the theatre when Ground Hog Day was sold out, and still talking about it!
Most slept on film ever.(Now Cult Classic) Not going to win any polls but so worth checking!!
This is my #1 movie of all-time ever since it was released. I would pay some serious money to be able to watch it in a movie theatre again. Great reaction Jen! 😊
Agreed, I would love if it came back for a period. btw, like your channel, Im new over there.
Well, you can rent one. I think AMC prices start around 100-150$.
@@andreasvogler1875 I live 90 minutes away from the nearest big city IMAX theatre in Canada. Rural life problems. So there's that to factor in too.
@@kaiielle Doesn't have to be an IMAX. I don't know how it is in the U.S. or Canada but if you rent a theatre, you probably have to bring the movie yourself, unless it's something from their current program.
@@andreasvogler1875 I believe you can even make it cheaper by bringing more people, everyone pay their part, reduces the price accordingly.
With every reaction to this movie, I will post the same thing.
“…Because my dad promised me.” Instant tears every time.
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Bro I just saw you in another reaction video 😂😂
Crushed 💔😢😭
the "because my dad promised me" line always makes me cry. It took..80 years? but he kept his promise.
Love this movie.
Hey Jen, in the end you eventually named 'time dialation' as the true villian in this movie. We see that Dr Brand sr tells the universal human truth we should not be afraid of death, but we should be afraid of time. Time is a never-ending avalanche of thunder and fire rolling toward us. We spend our whole lives trying to outrun time. But eventually, it will catch us, it will catch up with all of us. So live your life to the fullest before time runs out.
Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar and The Martian has 1 thing in common, that is, together they make the saving Matt Damon triology.
Matty D is always in peril!
Don't forget 'Good Will Hunting' (1998), it's a quadrilogy now. :P
Highly recommended movie, Matt Damon's break out role. Drama/love story. Will Hunting is a brilliant but troubled young man who is slumming his way through life. After assaulting a police officer he is court ordered to attend psychotherapy sessions or go to jail. He chooses the former, but his therapist is also battling his own demons.
This movie was written with input from Kip Thorne, who is a well-respected astrophysicist. A lot of the science here is accurate (not all of course, but more than most movies). That's the part that always gets me: a movie rooted in real science winds up being more fantastical than pure fiction. It's why I love science.
As a dad to two children the part that got me the most was Murph on her deathbed when she says "my dad promised me" because it's so important to me for my kids to know they are my world and I'd do anything to protect them.
"Because my dad promised me." That line always gets me. Best space movie imo
In my opinion, this film has the greatest musical score of all time.
"How realistic of a future scenario would something like this be" - you asked this during the dust storm scene, so in case you were asking about that: that already happened for real in the US in the 1930's. It was called the Dust Bowl and some of the talking heads you saw at the start were real people from that era talking about it.
Fun fact. The actress who plays Murph as an older woman is the mom from the Exorcist.
That would be academy award winner Ellen Burstyn. She'll be 90 this December 7th.
Best movie reaction "fun fact" of 2022 🥂
Her acting in Requiem for a dream is amazing.
This one, Contact, Arrival, & Annihilation are my absolute favorites!
I cry everytime, even with reactions.
Space movies are so emotional!
Annihilation is cosmic horror, which is a part of sci-fi
I love Contact. I re-watch it once a year or so.
I second these recommendations!
@@kraftlab I love Contact, gives me such hope for the future. I went a year watching it every week. Elly's statement at the "trial" was amazing.
This movie makes me cry a little every time because it reminds me of my little girl ❤ one of my favorite films
I’m a grown ass old man and I cry about three or four times every single time I watch this movie. And I watch it a lot. It’s one of my favorites of all time. Thank you so much.
“Contact” with Jodie Foster and MM is very good too.
I didn't love this film the first time I saw it but the 2nd time I saw it I absolutely loved it and love it more with each viewing. I think it's a masterpiece and maybe my favorite Christopher Nolan film.
I would watch this one again for sure!!
I had a similar experience. I've never "loved" it, but I have grown a deeper appreciation for it over time. I still don't like a couple elements but they don't overshadow the major beats of the film the way they did the first time I saw it.
It’s definitely my pick for Nolan’s best, even if the part inside the black hole seems a little corny.
Jen your voice is GORGEOUS. So soft and measured and precise but with such a lovely timbre. I could listen to you all day 😄👌
The first thing I did when I walked out of the theater was buy a ticket to watch it again but in IMAX. Amazing! The second thing I did was buy the soundtrack. Hans Zimmer is a genius
3:39 It is very realistic.And it has happened before. It was called "The Dust Bowl!"
Murph and Cooper relationship always makes me cry. I love them so much. Its something Ill never experience.
The Dust Bowl really did happen so that part is extremely realistic
It was because of bad farming, though. Not because of plants dying.
@@Yora21 well yes of course I would agree with you there's a documentary you can watch even the old people at beginning were actually in the documentary I believe it was like 1920s
@@Yora21 True, partially: the side effects of having less plants in open fields, though, are the same (in general): plants of all sizes prevent winds from running wild miles on end, picking up tons of dust as they go. When plants are not enough, even light winds can create big clouds of dust (that's why you can see bad dust storms in places like the desert).
It doesn't matter if it's thanks to poor farming practices, a mysterious illness of plants or chopping everything without consideration, once plants fall below a certain limit, dust storms are not that far away.
The scene where Mann fails to dock with Endurance Cooper realizes that saving the human race rests on him docking with Endurance. That's why he says "Its necessary." Cooper has the mentality of a test pilot. A regular pilot in an aircraft in trouble would be thinking "I've got 10 seconds before I crash! I need to bail out!" A test pilot would think "Hell I still got 10 seconds! I bet I could save this thing!"
This is my absolute favorite thing of all time. Not just favorite movie, my favorite anything. Seeing this film, literally changed the course of my life, changed who I am as a person, how I think about myself and my relation to the world, it's relation to me, how I relate to others, and why I make the choices that I make. My absolute favorite part of this film is how it doesn't forget that you, the viewer, were probably confused and curious as to what was going on with Brand's hand - and that it brings it full circle to show you that it was Cooper all along, reaching out from across spacetime to embrace that moment.
So as for how likely is that scenario - it's actually surprisingly likely. Maybe not with the blight and everything but as far as the dust goes, legitimately possible. We've already had frequent dust bowls around the globe and as climate change gets worse, causes more droughts, dries up the land, and if we refuse to change how we engage in agriculture in an attempt to make sure the soil stays fertile and vibrant, because climate change makes the winds stronger because the air is warmer - all that dust and dirt and it being blown around is not out of the realm of possibility by any stretch. It is - rather unfortunate...
I am a climate activist and though it will be very very very very hard to avoid the worst of what climate change will bring us, I do think it is possible. But it will require a transformation in how we see ourselves, each other, the world. A transformation of how we see action and labor and choice and willpower. A transformation in how we relate ourselves to everything outside of us, and everything within us. A transformation of love, compassion, empathy and understanding. No more can we maintain the attitude of, "why should i have to sacrifice if others don't." Because that is the point. Not all of us have the capacity to sacrifice, not all of us have that luxury. But those that do, sacrifice so that others don't have to, to take on that burden for the sake of others.
We all have to go above and beyond what we think we are capable of. We have the capacity to do extraordinary things, all of us. It's time we stop killing each other, time we stop caring who someone else chooses to be and recognizing one another for the absolutely incredible being we are and rising to the task, rise into the call - to stand by one another, to protect each other, to make sure a future exists, and to be there for them to embrace when things really get bad.
"Nothing lasts forever not even the world. But we gotta keep it going as long as we can right? Fix the holes, change the parts? All that. So we can say we had a good run, that we lived."
The Gargantua Black Hole visualization was based on scientific theory and came about five years before the first image of a black hole was released in 2019 and was pretty accurate.
yea that's what's amazing about this movie. The gravity slingshot using the Penrose process in a spinning supermassive black hole is also true. Although the ability to withstand the gravity on Miller's planet (considering the time dilation) is kinda unrealistic because the gravity is like a black dwarf star on that planet which people can't handle (20,000 g's or up to 3,000,000 g's). Then the ability to withstand tidal forces in the black hole is also quite unrealistic. The closing of the tesseract and the evaporation of the black hole is also theoretically possible if there is enough negative mass injected into the black hole. The information being sent to the past also requires entropy to decrease, which is not possible overall but locally and occasionally, yes entropy can be decreased artifically. Yes only futuristic tech can allow us to manipulate mass, genetically engineer ourselves to survive in supermassive objects, and also manipulate gravity to send information. But hey, that's incredible speculation, which may turn out to be false. The time travel is also most logical since everything happens with the future information coming through.
Interstellar is one of my favourite films that gets better the more I watch it. I love Christopher Nolan and his films.
Glad you did this one. Top of my list of Sci-Fi films. Really amazing!
Jen, I love , love, love your reaction to "Interstellar", The amazing thing about Chris Nolan's writing is the level of emotional intelligence he assumes the audience has. We all know Copper loves his daughter. When he says, "The first thing you learn about being a parent, is making sure your child is safe and protected. That includes not telling a ten year old girl, that the world is coming to an end." In this exchange of dialogue Nolan is showing how Cooper specifically loves and care for Murph in ways too deep to comprehend. In ways so deep that he would travel the universe to save his daughter and the rest of humanity.
I could watch this movie once a week and never get tired of it.
You will love another space movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Jodie Foster from 1997, "Contact". Its a philosophical look at a message from space leading to a thrilling climax.
Yes, 'Contact' is decent, directed by Robert Zemeckis. 👍 It's based on Carl Sagan's book; he has lots of fans. BILLIONS and BILLIONS of them. 😋❤
I heard that people said this is a boring film, but it does some pretty impressive scientific accuracies.
I definitely wasn't bored but people seem to either love it or hate it 🤷♀️
I saw this beautiful movie in Italy when it came out and I liked it so much that I saw it several times. The story is based on a phenomenon called "Dust Bowl" that actually happened in the central part of the United States and Canada between 1931 and 1939 due to the intensive exploitation of agricultural crops. C. Nolan imagines that this disaster affects the whole world and our species must leave the Earth. To understand why time flows more slowly on large-mass planets, you have to imagine a Bowling ball on a mattress: the larger it is, the more space / time bends due to gravity as predicted by Einstein. For example, if you could stay on a Black Hole for a minute, the force of gravity would be so powerful that a million years would pass on Earth! More difficult to understand Quantum Physics which in theory is irreconcilable with Relativity in the current state of scientific research. The relationship between Cooper and his daughter "Murph" is also very moving. You are very nice, Greetings from Milan, Italy
When I first saw this film in 2016, I felt an intense pity for Dr. Brandt as she ended up marooned and alone on an alien planet with little to no possibility of rescue!
A.I. and Arrival are two great sci-fi movies with similar themes. Highly recommend both of them.
To say the least, the fact you know what an interference pattern is, shows how much you like science and space. you're awesome!
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The time dilation is 100% real science. Spooky stuff! In interviews, Hans Zimmer said he based the soundtrack solely on his feelings about a parent-child relationship. Other movies “like this” are Nolan’s other big sci-fi ones: Inception and Tenet. Inception is an easier recommendation; Tenet is harder to follow, but great if it clicks for you.
I'd like to see those! 👍👍
@@jenmurrayxo Tenet has the plot of a basic James Bond movie, less distraction that way from trying to keep up with the scifi element
@@jenmurrayxo Tenet is a really great movie, a bit underrated, this movie will mess with your brain
Hans Zimmer did not "base the soundtrack solely on his feelings about a parent child relationship".
Chris Nolan sent Zimmer a single, out of context, script page of dialogue between Cooper and Murph. Zimmer used his own relationship with his son as inspiration for the theme he wrote.
It was only after this that Nolan revealed that the film was going to be a space epic, and Zimmer wrote an appropriately epic score.
Although the parent/child theme was the jumping off point, to say that the score is based *solely* on that undermines it somewhat; the use of church organs to create a sense of grandeur and the playing around with time signatures to represent the time dilation aspects of the narrative were choices Zimmer made once he knew the full scope of the film.
@@richieclean Nitpicking about that one word choice aside, your version of the story is too long for a RUclips comment. I was abbreviating.
Saw this with my niece, we still love the robots to this day. One of Matty Mack’s best movie.
The tick you noticed when they where on the water planet, happen every 1.25 seconds. Each tick you hear is a whole day passing on Earth.
This movie always reminded me of the good ol’ days when we used to sit around a bonfire and sing the most delightful serenade to an onion.
YES !
Perfect companion reaction to your Gravity reaction. Love it.
Oh, and the answer is: Scarily so. That hypothetical future is scaringly realistic.
I commented that I was excited about this one when I found out you had it scheduled. My favorite movie. It wasn’t my favorite until years after seeing it and after seeing it a few times. I still come up with thoughts and questions after 4 years. That’s why I love science; endless questions. All answers lead to more questions.
This one will get better each time I watch it I think!
Pretty novel reaction. Most people instantly despise Matt Damon's character, but you empathized right away. Most people scoff at the "We didn't invent love" speech, but you didn't. Seeing different perspectives is why I love reactions!
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Watched this last night with my husband, I’d seen it a few times, he was watching for the first time. Truly, this is one to watch at least twice, if not more, it just gets better💜💜
My favorite movie of all time. So glad you got to experience it.
Awesome comment Jen! Chuffed you loved the movie, it's also one of my most favorite movies. The story and the acting is phenomenal and the score is arguably one of Hans Zimmer's absolute masterpieces.
Hans Zimmer's score is magnificent. Fantastic reaction as always Jen, you adorable little hamster. If you like this, you'll love Kubricks 2001; a true masterpiece.
Made the same recommendation, great film,it laid the foundation for the films we see today.
I'll second your recommendation though! (Great minds think alike! )
It helps to read the book, as it helps with understanding the ending and a lot of the movie.
@@Iceman-135 I agree,but coming to your own conclusions is a part of the viewing experience.
Inception is the other one kind of similar. It's not space, but it's an intellectually stimulating mind bender also by Nolan. Also with a strong emotional core. Very well done.
i wish i could experience the mountains/waves scene for the first time again in a theatre. the music by hans zimmer is unparalleled
7:59 Its the part when she says "when" that made me want to bawl like a two headed baby! 😭😭
This movie makes me cry every damn time - It's a great story of loss, love, and latency. (Needed three L words there - I think those fit.) And now Jen's Bond villain lair needs a TARS to be complete.
This is my favorite movie ever.. I love to see people watching it because I like it so much that I wanna share this feeling with other people. It's a brilliant way to show how a small being in this universe can have relationships and feelings with such a huge impact. By the way the soundtrack is amazing as well.
Your editor has been having a lot of fun lately.
I think on the first planet, each tick is one day on Earth.
When traveling into the Black Hole, Cooper enters a Tesseract, which is a 5th dimension of space allowing him to easily travel through different points of space-time at his own will. Very mind blowing!
Another Beautiful and Emotional Reaction Jen...You almost had me crying too, towards the end there! Here's a few more Space Movies that should make you Think About It as much as Feel About It too: "Contact" / "Mission to Mars" and "Passengers" (2016).
Watching this on the big screen was PHENOMENAL.
For another along this line do "Contact" (1997) based on a scifi story written by Dr Carl Sagan known for his good Cosmos science series on TV in the 80-90s. Contact also stars Matthew McConaughey but Jodie Foster plays the lead role. There's another tie between the two movies in that one of the Interstellar producers is Prof Kip Thorne astrophysicist of Caltech, was also a friend of Sagan and was consulted by him to keep the science in his novel "Contact" as updated and accurate as possible. Another good scifi you'll enjoy too. 🖖😎
Contact yes.
this movie had be absolutely balling.. hell, even after just the reaction i had to like watch spongebob after this lol.. the docking scene is one of the most intense and well made scenes i have ever seen. And the music.. just incredible..
Once again, this movie keeps making me cry
The soundtrack is my favorite thing to hear. I've listened to it almost everyday for the last 3 years, in every situation: studying, sleeping...
One of my favourite movies out there.. what make it so special to me is three reasons:
1. I sav it in cinema and it blown my mind!
2. I bought a large coke and by the end of the movie my bladder almost exploded cose I refuse to go to the bathroom😅
3. The next day my parents have accident, nothing happened to them thank God but my car was crashed and ended up in a junkyard 😕
So yeah, that was a weekend to remember 😅
The ticking in the background on miller's planet is the equivalent of 1 day passing on earth per tick
TARS is low key the mvp. Was able to jump into the black hole and receive the quantum data they needed to send to murph so that she could finish the equation and save humanity.
Fair!
This was such an amazing movie! The soundtrack is beautiful. Gravity and time dilation are my absolute favorite things to ponder! If you're interested, there are some videos and documentaries on Einstein here on YT that go into some detail about it and it's really fascinating! Great job as usual Jen!
Great reaction; asking all the questions along the way. 😄👍
13:00 the clicking is a day on earth if memory severs
One underrated movie similar to this is "Europa Report". It's set up as a documentary about the first interplanetary trip to Jupiter's moon Europa. There are no famous actors but the writing and performances are solid. I don't think I've seen anyone react to this one. Of course the granddaddy of all epic sci-fi films is "2001: A Space Odyssey". It's definitely required watching for any space enthusiast.
Docking to a spinning object is possible, so long as the g force doesn't cause you to pass out. All you have to do is spin too until your rates of rotation are matched. You can see that Dr. Brand passes out, but as a pilot Cooper would have had more extensive high-g training.
In fact, the only way we know of to create artificial gravity is to get a spacecraft or space station to spin. So in the future, it's likely that it will be common to dock to spinning space stations. But they probably won't be spinning quite so fast.
Great reaction I can tell when u really dig a movie u ask 50million questions lol
Lolllll facts! My mind was going a mile a minute lol
not going to lie, after watching this in cinema I left speechless. And like you said, I left the theatre thinking about this movie 3 days after. It's is definitely my #1 movie of all time no doubt.
“Is he joking” is the best reaction to the second docking scene I’ve ever heard fr looked like Anne Hathaways character when he says it lmfao
Notice how she has the same type khaki jacket her dad did in the beginning
Welcome to the Higher Dimensions...We've been waiting for you! =)
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Two fun facts:
1) corn fields was planted specifically for filming and crops even made profit(tho some farmers told that those fields would be fruitless)
2) each second of Gargantua close footage took 1 hour of rendering, bc of lack of technology when the movie was made
If you haven't seen the sequel to 2001: Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick's classic) then it is in somewhat the same "vein" as Interstellar. Not as grand as Interstellar, but still worth watching! It has Roy Scheider in it. It's called "2010: The Year We Make Contact." It came out in 1984. 2001: A Space Odssey is also pretty good but somewhat dated. A classic though. Came out in 1968 - but it is 4 hours long. heh.
They were both the same age when he came back due to relativity. The dust storms are a real possibility, look up the Dust Bowl in the U.S. during the 1930's. I lived in Dallas/Fort Worth during the late 1970's and I can remember dust storms in west Texas turning the sky yellow from all the dust. The wormhole and the library were what you could call a tesseract, a construct to allow him to communicate with Murphy.
In my top 5 movies of all time. SO good. Space movies are my wheelhouse. Lol. Been looking forward to you reacting to this.
I like that, for all the expansive space themes and the love motif, it's basically just a haunted house movie. And it never really loses that vibe, although it tries to make you forget as the second act begins, but it's still a haunted house movie throughout. A really sweet and affecting one though.
You should definitely watch more Christopher Nolan. I’d recommend both Memento and Inception.
In my opinion, he is the director currently working that reminds me the most of Kubrick.
I definitely see that. And I'm sure he's much easier to work with than Kubrick was. 😆
Don't forget The Prestige, I'd put it on the same caliber as Interstellar just that it gives a different feel and theme.
The music is the real star of this movie and though it is a sci-fi movie it used no synthesizers. All music is from real instruments, primarily a huge pipe organ.
I think another movie that is set in space which will provoke your mind (at least it did for me) is Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. And if you were completely puzzeled by that movie, you need to see its sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Both are awesome space adventures in my opinion.
I had no idea there even *was* a sequel to 2001! I’m going to be looking for this tonight! Thank you!
You really get into the movies you watch, and it's a lot of fun seeing you watch them. Thank you.
Thanks kevin! ☺️👍
Another space movie worth watching is Moon. Just like the Moon itself it's epic and mysterious.
I'd like to see that 👍👍
My favourite part is when you realize the part at the beginning how important that old woman is.
My MVP Award would go to whoever cast young and adult Murph.
That casting was spot on.
One of those gems that really is enhanced with an actual theatrical experience. Saw twice….maybe it was three times in theaters.
This movie is amazing, it was nice seeing you reacting to it.
Jen you need to stop making me cry 😂😂great reaction as always to a mind boggling film❤️❤️
Every tick in the music is 24 hours on Earth when there on the water planet.
Hello, astrophysicist here . I just stumbled on this video, and I wanted to thank you for your great reaction! As far as explaining what exactly is happening during the black hole scene, the truth is that when Cooper enters the black hole the movie transcends science and enters sci-fi, so it's more or less purely speculation. As others have stated, Kip Thorne (who is a Nobel Laureate theoretical physicist/astrophysicist) collaborated with the production team and wrote an entire book on the physics presented in the movie!
Okay, into the nitty gritty:
--Entering the black hole--
In reality, Gargantuan is so small, that you would likely be shredded before reaching the event horizon. The movie adopts the notion that "if you enter the event horizon moving fast enough" you'd be fine, but truly the event horizon in not physical barrier in the real world, but rather an information barrier. What I mean to say is that when you pass the event horizon to an outside observer you would just get touch closer to the "singularity" if it exists before being shredded by the strength of gravity. Imagine, if a black hole is so strong that it it's gravity causes the material around it in its accretion disk to break down into the most fundamental particles while orbiting at near light speed, then likely Cooper who is made of weak molecular bonds would not survive the journey in one piece, but rather 10^25 pieces :P. There is however a special case of passing the event horizon of a rotating supermassive black hole like the one in m87 galaxy that is roughly 4 Billion times the mass of the sun and the size of our solar system. In this case, you could easily pass the event horizon as the "tidal forces" (caused by a differential in gravity on your body) would be weak enough for you to pass through unharmed, but again the event horizon is not like a thin shelled wall that you can peer inside. Black holes likely retain their blackness when you enter, and the physics that made them black on the outside only become more extreme and non-trivial on the inside. TLDR, the scene inside the black hole is pretty cool, but very sci-fi, and likely not possible.
--Inside the black hole--
As far as the scene with Cooper and Tars talking about dimensions inside the black hole, this is all I really understood. I guess Tars was saying something like there are 3 dimensions of space and 1 of time, so Cooper seeing the same exact room in space over and over at different times is some sort of projection of the 5th dimension into 3D space, which can be seen as an almost infinite amount of scenes in the same room. I don't really understand this, but to me it almost just looked like 4D -> 3D. Just all moments in time and space shown as moments in 3D space, so it's just 4 dimensions into 3, and no 5D hocus pocus, but who am I to judge :). How did Cooper move the clock with "gravity" though he was just moving his arm and touching a string like line in space? I have no idea. I guess the idea is that this is some alternate dimension inside a black whole were future humans/creatures created a place to communicate backward in time through gravity, and they don't know how to send the correct information, only Cooper can because Cooper loves murph so they have a bond that transcends time and space? Again this doesn't make much sense to me, because If they could just set this whole thing up for Cooper to go in and give the quantum information, it seems like they could have just given the quantum information to the present day humans in the first place, since this was their plan? I'm kind just along for the ride here :).
--The cylindrical space station at the end of the movie--
This is actually totally possible, if you have a large enough diameter cylindrical space station (needs to be large so the corialis force doesn't knock you over) built with strong enough material, you can just rotate it and generate artificial gravity. And you can point it at the Sun to get energy, however at the distance of Saturn the Sun definitely would not be nearly that bright. In fact the energy you receive from the Sun decreases with the square of the distance you are away from it. Saturn is 10x as far from the Sun so you would expect the Sun to be 100x less Bright. The energy you received on a 100% efficient solar panel a 1meterx1meter would be approximately 13.8 watts, meaning it would be roughly 3x less energy then you would need to power your weak 40 watt light bulb in your desk lamp (leds are much more efficient, but I'm just trying to make a basic point about how weak the Sun would be at this distance).
A couple good points/questions you mentioned that I concur on:
- Why didn't they just go to Edmunds first, and not waste time near the black hole?
- Why would you try to live on a planet that has an absurd amount of time dilation near a black hole? Seems like a pain
- Why did no one go to check on Cooper or Bran? Like maybe just send a party to edmunds planet? Maybe they did, but the time dilation just made it so that Cooper and Bran arrive after the search parties, since they were so close to the black hole.
My apologies for the long winded response. let me know if you have any rather specific questions you'd like answered, as I was pretty vague here to just provide context to the movie. Cheers!
Very interesting, thank you! 👍
i've never seen you so invested in a movie. it's so adorable! :)
Really loved it!
This might be my favorite Christopher Nolan movie. Phenomenal performances all around. Loved the reaction Jen.
Thanks William! ☺️👍
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Hey Jen, I agree with your assessment of Interstellar's main theme, being the fusion of science and love. When Cooper falls into the 5th-dimensional tesseract that lays out his daughter's life in the bedroom. His future self uses science and technology to build the access portal to his daughter. However, it's love that gives this technology meaning. For example, our cell phones are useless until we find a use for them. Until we make a personal connection with technology and give it a purpose, it's essentially useless like a broken broom or hair dryer.
If you like the concept of aliens possibly being human, the movie for you is SPHERE. amazing film! Great reaction, Jen!
I'll second that, "Sphere" has become rather under-rated lately. Great Sci-Fi flick for the late 90s, both horrific and psychological too!
Sphere is a fantastic movie
Way to spoil the end
My favorite movie of all time!
Beautiful reaction to this amazing movie, it's such an emotive movie too. Christopher Nolan at his best!
In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have watched reactions of Titanic, Saving Private Ryan and Interstellar consecutively. Three incredible but very emotional movies. 😢
3:41 I don't know much about biology, but I know of some scenarios of smaller scale ecological disasters. A. The Great Dust Bowl - In the 1930s, the Great Plains of the US suffered years of long drought. Along with bad farming techniques that did not hold top soil, huge dust storms added more hardship during The Great Depression along with starvation and death to people and livestock B. Bees - If bee species died off no more pollenized plants C. Bananas - because of a lack of diversification in farming, a fungal diease adapted and killed off the sweeter species of bananas eaten decades ago. This pattern is now repeating.