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Munkeh111 on 14 November 2014
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luvtospooge said:
Munkeh111 said:

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.

Perhaps you went in expecting some sort of scientific documentary. I went in expecting a great movie with some real life concept of general relativity applied. Do note that I am not a physics or science major, for that matter.


Also, what's wrong with speculating what's inside a singularity? Little to nothing is known about what happens inside, so what's wrong with speculating and theorizing a bit? From what I've read, the tesseract and the whole 5th dimension thing is not so far fetched.

I did study physics and I did generally enjoy the film, but that doesn't mean there are so really stupid bits in it. I didn't expect a documentary, but what I got was half a documentary and half a drama of sorts. But kind of forgot what it was half the time.

I have no issue with weird stuff inside a black hole, but what was there was just so stupid. Then we get the speech about love being the 5th dimension which just made me angry

The real physics issue that annoyed me was the lander. To leave earth, they take this huge rocket to reach outerspace with no problem at all. Yet this tiny lander has enough fuel for 2 planety landings and take offs, in planets that have strong gravity. It just doesn't make any sense

My point with this is if you spend 90% of the time with "hard sci-fi" and then you get lazy, that really annoys me.

But that's not my real problem with the film! The real problem was that the dialogue was poor and everything just felt a tad sloppy. All the scenes on earth took twice as long as they needed to, I just wanted them to get into space. When they did, WOW! The imagary was just fantastic and then the plot kind of fell apart again...

If you're looking to settle humanity on a planet, why would you even consider the first planet? It's so close to the black hole that it's simply not going to be stable. There was no reason to go there other than to speed the plot along. These guys are scientists, they're not stupid! It just doesn't make any sense

I didn't think it was a bad movie, but I certainly wouldn't recomend it.

I'm no Nolan lower, I think the Dark Knight Rises is just one giant plot hole and Inception is not a masterpiece, merely a good film. Memento on the otherhand is a master piece. But yeah, I wouldn't go see this film again