"Area man won't use smartphone, complains sci fi movie not 'Futury' enough" Seriously what part of technological downturn are you not getting? Were there a lot of advances in the period after the fall of the Roman Empire? (Hint, Google "Dark Ages") When all you care about is growing food, the Latest Camry isn't a big concern. For Fucks sake, Cooper wanted that Indian drone for it's solar panels. Full economic, technological, cultural, collapse. All because food is scarce. You're welcome. Why do you think Coopers son was so concerned about that truck? Besides, nothing dates a movie like "futuristic" cars. Don't believe me, go watch the original Robocop.
IIRC, the cop cars in the original Robocop were then-current models (and the 6000 SUX was a then-current Olds with minor mods). Wait, just checked at the Internet Movie Car Database, and the cop cars were '86 Ford Tauruses, while the 6000 SUX was a '77 Olds.
Geez, I'm sorry I offended you! Yeah, everybody driving 2010 cars in 2050 (or whatever it was by then) is not at all a "takes me out of the movie" moment. Which reminds me - why was an Indian drone flying over the Midwestern US?
Dude, you really weren't paying attention to the movie. As @evenflow already pointed out, there was clearly some sort of apocalyptic event (or multiple events). Christopher Nolan is very adept at creating fully-realized realities through innuendo and what may appear to be throwaway lines of dialogue. There was one scene where Cooper and his dad are having a beer, and they marvel at what the world used to be like with 6 billion people. The Indian drone over US airspace is an indication that there was very likely a war and potentially even a nuclear exchange. That, combined with global warming, would easily explain the crop failures and dust storms. It would also explain why there hasn't been any significant advances in technology. You really have to pay attention to Christopher Nolan films.
The only thing that bothered me was the cars should have been more MadMax or at least Cuban in styling. 40 yo cars don't bother me especially if there'd been a breakdown in society, sometime around 2015. My wife's daily driver is a 20 yo Camry that refuses to die. We'll probably be puttering around in that in 2035... I didn't care for the Westin Bonaventure scenes. They should've used a brewery.
Sorry for resurecting an old thread, just saw this on Friday. Quite thought provoking. Anyway, despite the bad science and other complaints, no-one has mentioned this in the full thread...... Why does he have to go on that mission that day? No time to let him freshen up on his skills, get used to the controls, get up to speed on the mission, sort things out at home. Nope, you have stumbled into this NASA facility and while we recognise your skills, you are going on this mission tonight!
First off, it's not bad science. They had Kip Thorne working with them the whole time. Nolan was very determined to get the science as accurate as possible while still being able to tell the story he wanted to tell. There's a companion book written by Thorne that explains the science quite well. Also , there's a behind the scenes doc. about the science as well. Second, I'm pretty sure he didn't leave that night, he left a day or two later. Maybe not enough time to retrain, it seemed like he knew and NASA knew he could do it.
It's movie logic. You're just supposed to go with it. "You know, ol' Coop was a great pilot back in the day. And even though Earth's resources are very limited, and this mission carries with it the fate of all mankind, I'm going to say we can entrust it to all to a guy who wasn't even on our radar three days ago and whose physical and mental conditions haven't been checked in more than a decade and are pretty much complete unknowns. Besides, we don't seem to have trained anyone else to do it."
It is bad science. Nolan has said that despite having Thorne on board there are still leaps they had to make for dramatic effect and storytelling purposes, and Thorne has acknowledged this.
Taking a Saturn V to Saturn was one of those leaps, along with having a little landing craft that could fly back into orbit. Hey, why didn't they use that to get off the Earth? But then they lost me with the whole climate disaster nonsense. The tropics are forever stuck at being only slightly warmer then they presently are due to massive negative cloud feedback. About 8C warmer is the limit for several billion years with CO2 levels 10 to 20 times higher than we could pump out, as the effect of CO2 is logarithmic (the effect of additional CO2 tends toward zero with increasing amounts). The poles are stuck at or below freezing because they don't get enough sunlight. So somewhere in between tropical paradise and arctic wasteland will be a vast range of really nice climate. That can't really change, and hasn't in billions of years aside from the occasional asteroid strike.
I don’t know. I may have realized it back then but I didn’t think about it again until I saw that. I have watched the movie since it was released.
Just to bring this back on topic, did she do you behind the bookshelf in some sort of quantum realm while you were knocking boolks off the shelf confusing your kid into thinking you were spaceghost? Because if not this thread really needs to be split off into it's own more interesting topic.
