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[Rentahamster]

What technical jargon was in interstellar? If anything, that film needed MORE science, or at least a guy to say things like "hey, due to gravitational time dilation every minute you spend down there is like a year up here, so this planet is totally unsuitable for colonization no matter how much of an eden it might be but hey I can see here with my telescope that the entire planet is a flat sea with no land masses, ANOTHER reason why it's a shit planet. And wow this other report we got is from a planet with a negative 150 Celsius average temp, so his reports seem really off, perhaps we can consider reasons why he might be fabricating false info?" Stuff like that.

The technical aspects of the science fact and science fiction related concepts are very closely related to the core drivers of the plot. For example, in Interstellar, you need to have a somewhat basic understanding of the concepts of general relativity in order to grasp the urgency for why/how/when they're doing some of the things they're doing to drive the plot along. In Project Hail Mary, special relativity is important to certain aspects of the world building and character development, but you don't need to know what it is in order to follow along. But, if you do, the movie becomes that much more rich and interesting.

Interstellar very much needs to be a sci-fi movie. Project Hail Mary's entire genre and setting could be switched to fantasy, but the core aspects of needing to save the world via means of Macguffin A and being helped by unlikely partner B would be largely unchanged.

Let me put it this way - I've watched Interstellar in English (no subtitles) with people who were not native language English speakers and they had a hard time following along, which hampered their enjoyment of the movie. I saw PHM with a non-native English speaker and she followed along just fine and loved the movie.

 

[jason10mm]

Let me put it this way - I've watched Interstellar in English (no subtitles) with people who were not native language English speakers and they had a hard time following along, which hampered their enjoyment of the movie. I saw PHM with a non-native English speaker and she followed along just fine and loved the movie.

That's because Interstellar is a shit movie. There, I've said it. It has a nonsensical premise and retarded characters all to serve a mystical and mumbo-jumbo gimmick.

PHM, the book at least, adheres to the rules of good sci-fi by having only ONE fantastical element (the astrophage) and then trying to stick to known science and physics for the rest. There aren't a lot of leaps of faith or the need to suspend disbelief to get to story beats, other than the sheer willpower for the character to spend weeks and weeks on tedious tasks but we know people will do this if survival is on the line and/or drugs are involved (the main character being hooked on Adderall would have been a nice touch).

 

[Rentahamster]

That's because Interstellar is a shit movie. There, I've said it. It has a nonsensical premise and retarded characters all to serve a mystical and mumbo-jumbo gimmick.

PHM, the book at least, adheres to the rules of good sci-fi by having only ONE fantastical element (the astrophage) and then trying to stick to known science and physics for the rest. There aren't a lot of leaps of faith or the need to suspend disbelief to get to story beats, other than the sheer willpower for the character to spend weeks and weeks on tedious tasks but we know people will do this if survival is on the line and/or drugs are involved (the main character being hooked on Adderall would have been a nice touch).

I don't think Interstellar is a shit movie. I think it's brilliant. The non-native English speaker example was to show that Interstellar required more effort from the math/science/logic regions of your brain to follow along, whereas PHM did not. Both Interstellar and PHM were both very emotionally driven movies at the core too, but PHM could be followed along and relatively understood with only those emotional cues.

 

[Rentahamster]

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Could they not have given this movie a different name? It sounds like a Capcom videogame in pre stage development. Project Ryan Gosling.

 

[Rentahamster]

Could they not have given this movie a different name? It sounds like a Capcom videogame in pre stage development. Project Ryan Gosling.

Project Fuzzy Pickles

 

[AJUMP23]

That's because Interstellar is a shit movie. There, I've said it. It has a nonsensical premise and retarded characters all to serve a mystical and mumbo-jumbo gimmick.

PHM, the book at least, adheres to the rules of good sci-fi by having only ONE fantastical element (the astrophage) and then trying to stick to known science and physics for the rest. There aren't a lot of leaps of faith or the need to suspend disbelief to get to story beats, other than the sheer willpower for the character to spend weeks and weeks on tedious tasks but we know people will do this if survival is on the line and/or drugs are involved (the main character being hooked on Adderall would have been a nice touch).

Both movies are good, one does not have to diminish one thing to like another. But I will say Interstellar is much better if you just skip the first act. Just get people into space and ride.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Project Fuzzy Pickles

 

[GateofD]

I don't think Interstellar is a shit movie. I think it's brilliant. The non-native English speaker example was to show that Interstellar required more effort from the math/science/logic regions of your brain to follow along, whereas PHM did not. Both Interstellar and PHM were both very emotionally driven movies at the core too, but PHM could be followed along and relatively understood with only those emotional cues.

I mean half of PHM is Ryan Gosling miming to himself and a beepbooping rock puppet with legs, so of course a non-native speaker would understand the context easier than one that requires specific word language

 

[RavenSan]

I saw it today and thought it was absolutely fantastic. Loved it.

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

Could they not have given this movie a different name? It sounds like a Capcom videogame in pre stage development. Project Ryan Gosling.

Probably not because it is based on a book, titled "Project Hail Mary"