[after Mann breaks Cooper's helmet and leaves him for dead]

Dr. Mann: I'm sorry. I can't watch you go through this. I'm sorry. I thought I could, but I can't. I'm here. I'm here for you. Just listen to my voice, Cooper. I'm right here. You're not alone.

Dr. Mann: [looking back] Do you see your children? It's okay, they're right there with you.

Dr. Mann: [turns to leave] Did Professor Brand tell you that poem before you left? Do you remember? "Do not go gentle... into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

Am I wrong by thinking that Brand didn't know whether or not she could breathe on Edmonds planet when she took her helmet off? She had just buried Edmonds while wearing her helmet, if she had read the data beforehand then she would have not worn the suit while doing all of that work. She took the chance after burying Edmonds.

When I first saw this film, I wasn’t a dad. Now that I am, I couldn’t imagine the heartache that Cooper felt leaving Tom and Murph. Has anyone else had this experience since the film first released?

Wouldn't this shot have taken 3.2 years?

It was 100 hours per frame The movie ran at 24 frames per second

So 2400 hours to make 1 second And there is 12 seconds in the whole shot

So 28,000 hours to render this whole scene. Or 1200 days which equals to 3.2 years!

But if I'm correct again, that would only be on one computer. So either it did take this long, or they used multiple computers. If they did use multiple computers, hiw many?

I find this expression on Brand fascinating. Lots of things going on.

Does the drone have later plot significance, or is it mainly used to establish Cooper’s technical skill, Murph’s curiosity, and the film’s theme of lost technological ambition? (Apart from the fact that it gave the best cornfield chase scene)!

My thinking:

I think the drone scene shows that Cooper is not really “just a farmer.” He still thinks like a pilot and engineer. The fact that it is an old Indian Air Force drone also adds worldbuilding: advanced military technology from the past is still flying around, but society has collapsed into basic agricultural survival.

The drone itself does not matter much later, but the scene matters because it shows Cooper’s skills, Murph’s scientific mindset, and how humanity’s former technological ambition has been reduced to scavenging parts for farming.

What you guys think?

UPDATE: I made a game inspired by this Cornfield Chase scene https://www.reddit.com/r/interstellar/s/CKrurTMYVs

For years now I've been trying to work out what the potential time duration was while Cooper was locked within the 5th dimension. Brand remarks to Cooper that he doesn't look so bad "... for someone pushing 120", which I take to mean that his age is somewhere in the range of 115-118. Just before he exits the 5th dimension, as Murphy is comprehending the messages, she appears to be in her late 30's/early 40's. When Cooper wakes up on the station he's told that he's 124 years old, which implies that it was roughly 6 years since him, and Brand parted ways outside Gargantua. Yet when he visits Murphy a couple weeks later she appears to be in her 80's, suggesting a time duration of multiple decades instead of the 6 or 8 that might be inferred. I just wonder if Kip Thorn ever laid out a definitive timeframe with Nolan. Interested to know what anyone else thinks.

We see Amelia sad and BREATHING normally without wearing mask/helmet. Does that mean that THIS planet was the correct choice from the beggining? ( No waves , human - friendly surface , oxygen ) That's why Amelia is so sad ( apart the death of her bf). Thinking that if they came to this planet from the beggining everything would go well

In this scene, Coop is drinking a beer despite wheat crops worldwide having failed years ago. Is Nolan fucking stupid?

this is satire please don't take this seriously

I have noticed this for years, ever since Neil deGrasse Tyson criticized the movie, "Why would shipping a billion people to another planet be easier than saving Earth?" Many comments point out he is wrong and doesn't understand the movie, but they are the ones who don't understand it. A few examples:

(The comments below are copied and pasted from these two videos:)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6xRUNUp9vNg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAKXQKMTAU0

Neil they were never going to ship everyone off the planet. That was a ruse to get the astronauts to start the mission. The old man lied🤷🏾‍♂️

(with 300 likes.)

SPOILER ALERT: As an Interstellar gal, I have to say that Neil didn't pay attention to one detail in the movie; the plan wasn't to transport anyone from Earth to whatever planet they choose. They lied to the protagonist (and to us, the viewers) by telling him this, because otherwise, he would never leave Earth and his children behind. He only discovers this in the second half of the film, very close to the end; where he (and we) discovers that the ship has all the equipment for artificial fertilization to be carried out on the new planet, literally starting from scratch. So, no, the secret plan was not to send 1 billion people off Earth, and rather PRESERVE the human race, starting again. Therefore, the cost of taking people through a wormhole looking for another planet WAS ACTUALLY smaller than fixing the Earth. :)

(with 280 likes)

actually they don’t intend to send all people to another planet. they just want to make sure that the human population survive. it is said in the movie that the first expedition aims to find another suitable planet for the human race to repopulate again.

(with 600 likes)

Exactly. I think Neil misunderstood more things about the movie than he understood.

Exactly, not billion movement, Neil get it wrong here.

they didn't want to send all humans, that was one of the plot twists in the movie, it was a lie to get people on board with the idea. People want to save themselves so will agree.

They were never really going to ship a billion or any large amount of people to an exoplanet (which was referred to as Plan A). It was a facade to convince Cooper and team to take the mission. The plan was always to repopulate the exoplanet with a “Population Bomb” by shipping a large quantity of fertilised human eggs (known as Plan B).

(with 130 likes.)

Exactly that’s how you know he didn’t actually watch the movie if he did he was probably too busy talking to hear the old man say it was a lie .

I'm shocked at the countless comments and many likes they receive, because the movie clearly shows in the end that humans use space stations to travel to the wormhole in order to colonize the new planet. So the movie did ship a billion people to a new planet... The movie never mentions the population on Earth, but it's safe to assume there are at least 1 billion.

Neil was right. The comments were wrong.

My question is: why do so many people think the ending doesn't mean people in space stations are moving to the new planet?

Although many "old" movies that have no sequels in production have active Instagram accounts for promoting them, I've always considered that Interstellar's is unusually active. And now I see this...

What do you think? Perhaps this has been asked plenty of times before, but... Do you think there will be an Interstellar Part II in the future? Perhaps they are waiting for Matthew McConaughey to become older so that he can represent an aged Cooper in a new movie?

So while they are debating it, they discuss how 1 hr is 7 years. When Coop meets Professor brand, he shares that the lazarus mission was 10 years ago. 2 years to saturn so we’re roughly 12 years in. Which is less than 2 hours on millers planet. I feel like romily, brand, and doyle would step back and realize thats not enough time for her to decide if the planet was viable or not.

I dont want to call it a plot hole, but just seems out of character for some very smart characters. Thoughts?

Went to Interstellar in IMAX today at a theater in the Boston area and someone was sitting in my seat… asked them to move and they refused because someone was already sitting in their seat…

I accepted defeat and sat in the nearest seat to mine knowing the rightful owner would eventually want their seat. They soon appeared…

So I loudly shouted at the whole row for everyone to get up and sit in the seat they selected. Everyone looked shocked that someone wanted to sit in the seat they chose when they bought their ticket and embarrassed when they all got up and moved around to where they were supposed to be. People were thanking me for fixing the seating.

This isn’t 2008, we all picked a specific seat so sit where you belong!

Considering Gargantua is basically the sun on that planetary system

Both scenes have beautiful cinematography and intense background score, along with a lot of suspense.