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So it appears we've got a new Science Fiction film coming out from Christopher Nolan.

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

I'm pretty exited for this film and Mr. Matthew McConaughey looks like he'll be good. That gent just keeps getting better and better.




Loving the near future believable tech and interested to see where this goes. I'm imagining there's more of a twist after they go through the wormhole and it looks like his daughter has aged significantly in the trailer.

It's got Michael Caine in it, so I definitely think it'll be a good one.

Let's hope at least that there are no HAL 9000s onboard his ship

I hope they vacuumed sealed those humans, or else they might get freezer burn

Hope this generates more interest.


Can't wait for this.

I'm interested

This looks really interesting and I really should go see it when it comes out

Eye candy visuals can only be seen on the big screen. Means I need to get the 120" flat TV in the future

Ashton Kutcher is a surprise casting. I hope he doesn't ham it up!

The new trailer makes this look even better than I first thought it would've been.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Ashton Kutcher is a surprise casting. I hope he doesn't ham it up!

for serious?

I think that is the videotaping pot dealer guy from American Beauty.

Yeah. I'm an idiot. He's not in this.

I would blame the fever I have, but that would just be the easy way out...

I've seen a couple trailers but they all seem to focus on the earth drama stuff and that's not really my cup of tea.

The third trailer shows some of the beyond Earth stuff.

I'd imagine they're saving that for the actual film though. Their looks to be some weird alien metal construct in one of the scenes, where they are in the water.

I'm getting Forever War vibes a little with the time distillation stuff. Whatever, sci fi which might have a bit of intelligence? Yeah fair enough. Actually managing to watch it depends on what else in on in the cinema when it comes out (and well dramas tend to lose out to comedies when it comes to what I go see with people).

Most modern comedies are dogshit and are churned out fairly frequently. When was the last time we got a decent Sci-fi film? Elysium?

This reminds me of Contact in a not good way.

 Medium of Death wrote:
The third trailer shows some of the beyond Earth stuff.

I'd imagine they're saving that for the actual film though. Their looks to be some weird alien metal construct in one of the scenes, where they are in the water.

Crap. You serious? I took it for like a ship life pod

1.55 in the trailer

Unless it's some human technology. Doesn't seem to match the ship or technology shown.

After GotG this is the second most exciting movie this year to me.

That trailer #2 was pretty dang cool... I'm totally going to try to catch this in the theater.

Hmmmm, I'm getting distinct vibes of "power of love" wankery off this. You know just once, it would be nice to see a scifi movie in which all the emotional, weepy, "spiritual" drek ends up being wrong/the problem, and the hero is a straight-up scientist without any "down-home country doctor" affectations, "he's a daddy/religious/spends 99% of his screen time emphasizing that we can never be 100% certain, so he must be a good guy" characterisation, or "science-adjacent" specialisations like engineering or medical doctor just to prove he ain't one oh thum thar egghead types.

Wait, so you don't want the ship to come back after its 20ish year journey by entering the atmosphere to the tune of Huey Lewis?



I mean it might go in that direction but I still think it'll be interesting enough to watch.

I like the look of the technology but I'm not getting a "must see" vibe off the trailers. Perhaps due to that 'power of love' factor that Yodhrin mentioned.

I'm getting that as one aspect of the film. The central character does have to leave his relatively young family behind.

The other aspect I'm getting is the faith in exploration. The fact that we are becoming more and more focused on our little planet than reaching out to the stars. It's an attitude presented in one of the special features of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which the visuals of this film seem to be inspired by, where they produced the look of the ship/station/technology to reflect what they actually thought it would look like in 30ish years and how the hope for future space travel was certainly more optimistic in that era. Might be rose tinted spectacles from the film makers but it certainly seems like that now.

I guess Virgin Galactic is PanAm, so we have something... kinda.

After watching the trailer again I retract my alien claim as it appears that weird piece of technology is on the ship before they land.
So probably no aliens. Here's a video to make up for that.

I don't quite get how going off on a space exploration for 20 years would help solve the Earth's obvious environmental and social problems.

Perhaps the exploration message is a negative one -- kind of running away from the responsibilities at home to follow a dream.

That would be a good twist.

It's not really clarified what they want to get out of the journey specifically. I don't get the impression that it's a ham fisted Avatar "unobtainium" effort. Perhaps it's just finding an Earth like planet for colonisation. Kind of makes sense when you take Michael Caine's line that "We're not meant to save the world. We're meant to leave it".

If you have person to send into space to save humanity, why would you pick this guy?




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 Kilkrazy wrote:
I don't quite get how going off on a space exploration for 20 years would help solve the Earth's obvious environmental and social problems.

Perhaps the exploration message is a negative one -- kind of running away from the responsibilities at home to follow a dream.

Maybe they are looking for a new habitat for colonization.

Or just cruising for a Burger King. Take your pick!

Clearly he was chosen for his bright optimistic smile that keeps all around him cheerful in the worst circumstances.

The McConaughey mocking is very drole lads, but I think you'll find you're a bit late to the party.

I don't read all posts! I just skim thread titles! I can't read!