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ithis said:
Munkeh111 said:

While the ending was definitely nonsense, we have no real idea what happens when you get close to a black hole. We think we know, but we don't

The actual time of the start of the film was quite vague, but generally assumed to be around now?

I actually argued to my wife (a physicist turned designer) that since inside a back whole there's probably no space-time as we can observe it, we don't know what is there. But I highligy doubt that any tranzition would be non destructive. But, when one gets close to the black hole we have a pretty good ideea that gravitational forces would rip things apart (puling considerably stronger the closer a thing is to it, thus a ship that has any length would be pulled apart). 

Timeframe wise I would guess trouble to have started within the next one or two reusable, pilotable space shuttle itterations. 

This is probably spoiler territory

So while his trip around the black hole as a slingshot was fine (though they had never really used slingshots before... but whatever, I have issuses with the planetary lander's fuel more than anything), the lander falling backwards from the ship didn't make a huge amount of sense...

So yeah, he ejects and his orbit decays into the black hole and the ship is torn apart. The question is how far did he go beyond the event horizon and at what point to weird things start to happen other than being trapped? So, I love the theory that on the other side of a black hole is another universe being created, like the big bang. But that's probably not relevant here

The question is, does his ship get to the middle of the black hole and then end up in the 5th dimensional nonsense, or is he plucked from his imminenent death by the future humans? Just don't get me started on those nonsense strings and love is the 5th dimension. I was quite tempted to walk out of theatre at that point.