I just realized this is the second time in 15 years I went to the movies and both movies were from nolan

The 70mm version only runs in select IMAX theaters, I guess they would have advertized that. It should look 4x sharper than 35mm, but since you haven't been in 15 years... The last true 70mm 'film' I saw was in Futuroscope in France 14 years ago. I've never seen a feature length movie in IMAX that was actually made with 70mm cameras.


I just watched Edge of tomorrow 7.5/10

It started of great, sci-fi groundhog day version of the opening of saving private Ryan. The editing was smart enough to keep the pace up and not draw out the repetitions while inserting some humor into a pretty nasty experience. It felt a bit like playing a platformer level from hell, but with shortcuts opening up. It made the 1 in a million nonsense action scenes you always see plausible.

Was a solid 8, maybe 8.5 until the screenwriters ran out of ideas and took his ability away. I was expecting some horrible desperate attempt to kill himself (127 hours style yet not to survive) to trigger another reset, then they could take a shortcut with the new information and work on the next path. Instead it went into implausible standard action mode, basically undoing the first part of the movie. He can do it all without root learning or even getting hurt. 6/10 for the final 3rd and 5/10 for the cowardly happy ending making up new rules last minute.

Guardians of the Galaxy

a lot of fun great entertainment for the whole family..I even laughed a few times visually its very good cgi and the actors worked well together overall good looking.. lacks a good and interesting story gets repetitive and they could have made a better villain but what can you expect from a movie for children..

7.5/10 

Interstellar 9/10

Maybe I'm scoring it a bit higher because it has been a long time since I've seen actual moving pictures with all the film grain and not a pixel in sight, accompanied by the gentle flicker of the projector. (Although the bright sky could also be compared with a strobe light at IMAX size)
Most of the movie is shot in 35mm with more of the 70mm source material near the end. It's a bit jarring at first, all the transitions between soft picture with black bars, to full screen with razor sharp detail. Not that the 35mm material isn't a clear step up from 2K digital, it's that the 70mm stuff looks so good it literally gave me goosebumps a few times. Can't wait to upgrade my home theater to 4K, then 8K :)

The theater itself, Coliseum Mississauga IMAX 7/10. Black level compromised by the red glow from the exit signs and light bleeding out of the projection booth. Sound level at times so high my ears started clipping (They're still ringing now) Wall to wall screen, really theaters need to be larger then the screen for the sound to breathe and the picture not to brighten up the walls. Surround sound was decent, yet I was seated against the back wall so no sound from behind. There were only 10 rows of seats, small IMAX theater. Seats, not all that comfortable.

The movie itself. Awesome. Although earlier 'twists' are quite predictable, the final twist is a great one, very fitting, and beautifully visualized. I would also have liked to see them explore a bit more than Iceland and Water world, although they both look great. (Btw why does that magic wave not break in the shallow water...) Still there was plenty of space travel during the movie to make me happy. The gravity inspired bit was actually more exciting than the whole of Gravity, yet also took a lot of shortcuts with the laws of physics.
It might get a bit cheesy at the end, I don't mind, Nolan managed to get my eyes to tear up anyway. I didn't want it to end, kinda disappointed when the credits started. (Btw why is it always as if someone yelled fire as soon as the credits start...)

Long story short, I enjoyed from start to finish, definite buy on blu-ray / 4K blu-ray. It won't be the same though with black bars coming in from the side instead of the screen opening up for the 70mm parts. Great acting, great score. (Can't wait to hear it without distortion)

because the planet was very close to the black hole and so it was affected by its "gargantuan" force of gravity. (hope that answers the question)

im glad you enjoyed it did the wife ?

I just realized by your post there were no black bars but 2 years ago when I was watching the dark knight rises there was and its the same movie theater...maybe I just didnt notice lol

same here people almost run me over..I guess they feel uncomfortable.

Let's explain it with gargantuan gravity indeed lol. That planet should be one big vulcano and/or tidal locked if it was close enough for anything resembling a standing tide that hight at the black hole's side. Nm they can climb back out of the higher than earth gravity and the black hole's gravity well with that little lander :p

My wife didn't go. She just looked at me funny when I asked her. I don't blame her, I hate people too :) The automatic seat assign system put everyone clumped together in the top half. At least it put me right in the middle. Not that it would have been very watchable in the lower half with that giant screen in a relatively small room.

Comparing to my own theater I would not have been further away than 6ft from my 92" screen compared to where I sat in the back row. (Ofcourse IMAX is closer to 16:11.7 instead of 16:9, much higher screen as well)  A distance at which I find 1080p content quite ugly, looked fine for the 35mm content. I had about a 60 degree fov horizontally and 45 ish vertically for the 70mm content.  Comparing to 1080p that would have been about 30 pixels per degree, or half the closest recommended seating distance for 1080p, in the range where the difference between 4K and 8K is very noticeable.

Anyway an experience I won't be able to replicate at home until 8K projectors become affordable :o

Neil Degrasse Tyson : The planet is spinning on its axis. At the same time, it is revolving very close to the black hole. The part of the planet that is facing the black hole at any given time is being pulled towards the black hole. The part pulled up is essentially water in the shape of a giant wave. The wave seems like it is traveling around the planet. But essentially, it is the surface of the planet moving UNDERNEATH the wave as the planet is spinning. 

also there are many types of planets they even found an ice planet but no ordinary its actually burning ice like in a Zelda game but yeah probably the wave was too high indeed but movies you know eye candy,drama etc..

interstellar is closest to the real thing as we ever got to see in movies kip thorne is also the producer and he made sure everything made sense from a scientific perspective.

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I get the idea behind it, yet such a tide would slow down and stop the planets rotation over time. Even the weak moon's gravity has slowed down the earth significantly over time. Plus if the wave was that high from gravitational attraction, why are they falling off it in the lander... The whole planet would be deformed anyway and getting constantly torn up inside by gavitational friction. Unless it was some alien super sphere constructed from unknown strong materials with water dumped on it as a reservoir. Just as plausible at this point :)

Then there's the little issue of 1 hour = 7 years. That's quite a massive gravity well to climb out of I would think. The difference between on earth and off earth is 0.0219 seconds less per year. I can't imagine what you would need to escape the gravitational pull that makes a year last 8.5 minutes. It probably would make that huge tide on that indestructable marble :p

Gonna watch that video now. Interstellar one should be fun too. Docking with a spinning space station out of balance, basically a giant wobbly wheel. Then applying thrust outside the center of mass to escape orbit. It would just start the station spinning again. Same thing later when one lander runs out of fuel before the other. The last hour seemed more plausible than all that. It was great to watch anyway and nice they paid homage to all the scientific principles before running all over them.

It can not slow the planets rotation because its not moving at all..to slow it down or to stop it it would have to be a much stronger force than a big wave,I think.. about the ship I remember they could barely walk which means there was no zero gravity so its only natural how the ship and the crew behaved. so how was the wave affected by zero gravity (or black hole pulling it up) but not the rest.. my best bet is that the planets gravitational field (when the wave was created) at some moment was off place and probably still is (probably fluctuating) so it got caught by the black hole in the higher orbit or there would be no wave AHAHHAA I dont know weird things happen around a black hole .. I blame the black hole.

planets and suns can orbit around a black hole for thousands of years..I didnt really get the part about those freakin years I cant even start thinking about them..

didnt they turn off the thrusters before docking ? then they applied forward thrust while the station was still spinning but that would not make it spin even more..

Yeah they used the time difference to explain why nothing evolved on that planet, not much time has passed there yet on an evolutionary time scale. I guess you can also use that to explain tidal lock away (The wave has friction with the planet underneath and will slow it down eventually) Tidal forces not breaking up or heating up the planet are a bit more difficult to ignore.
Gravitational time dilation gets rather difficult together with rotating objects in orbit. I found that article from Neil deGrasseTyson. He also admits that they took some big liberties with the theories. Interesting article anyway.

Funny part: Why not send robots:  as I understood it, they did not know which planet they would go to until they came out on the other side of the wormhole, and that’s not a decision a robot could make because you’re not communicating with the robot through the wormhole. So, humans had to be there to make that judgment once they got across and got the extra data. Yep that worked out well :)

About the docking. The docking port would not be at the rotational axis with a big part of the station missing. It would be wobbling around in a circle and impossible to dock with. (Assuming the unlikely scenario that an explosion causes a single axis rotation in the first place) After achieving docking, they fire the thrusters to counter rotation, yet those thrusters are not in line with the centrifugal force. You would get part vector that slows the rotation down and a rest vector that starts another rotation. Granted they somehow get the rotation under control, then they fire the main thrusters whike hanging under the center of mass. Besides going forward the station would start to somersault as well. Then they use the 2 landers for a sling shot around the black hole (you don't really need extra power to get through a sling shot unless you start it wrong, then it takes a whole lot of force to fix your orbit at that point). I guess this time they positioned the landers correctly. Yet when the one runs out of fuel first, the other keeps pushing and it should start to spin again. Manoeuvering things in space is a bitch :) I guess at the last part they use the station's thrusters, otherwise he would not fall away when he disengages either. So I guess they can balance out the thrust for that last manoeuvre. Everything before that is hogwash.

I guess they could have done a space walk to board the station and fix it with the station's thrusters. It would look too similar to Gravity I guess. Send Tars. Although why don't they have remote access to the controls in the first place.

Anyway it's not like Star trek ever designed their ships to have the main thrusters push against the center of mass :) Has to look good first.