I just read the first couple sentences. It was not good enough for a $12 movie ticket. I'll wait for the DVD.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Nov 14, 2014 9:44 PM, "Chuck McCown via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry for spoiling it but I wish now that I had waited for it to be on > satellite TV. > The story itself is OK. > > I just cannot turn off my tech OCD spotting of familiar stuff. And the > energy management/Newtonian physics have to be within the realm of > possibility. Military robots are not metal boxes stuffed with green > circuit boards that are connected with ribbon cable and just loosely > floating around inside. > > If they had use the CGI people that made Gravity it would have been much > better. Gravity had great effects but a silly implausible story. At least > this story works if the technology was there. > > *From:* Josh Luthman via Af <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2014 7:38 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Movie Review - not positive - some spoiler info > > > Damn. Thanks for saving me a couple hours, though! > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > On Nov 14, 2014 9:29 PM, "Chuck McCown via Af" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Interstellar >> >> meh >> >> Cheap ass sets. Old HP test gear (circa 1975) in the wall of a space >> station, also primary flight instruments from an airplane. Wrinkles on the >> outside of the spacecraft and the ablative fabric. Cheap weightless >> effects. Robots with CLI screens scrolling text. Robots that interface >> with spacecraft that was built 100 years apart. Setting green corn fields >> ablaze. Having lots of new tires and gasoline in a dire survival of >> mankind situation. Farmer just happening to have a laptop, RF gear, >> antenna etc to take control of a random drone that appears in the sky. >> Then he guts the drone for a controller for his tractor... Landing only >> type craft having enough fuel to take off again and get back to a space >> station. Two astronauts walk a mile or so but it takes a spacecraft >> several minutes to get there. Something the size of a Saturn V taking off >> inside a missile silo with lots of people in it. Ceramic tile on the >> hibernation tanks on a space station and space craft. All of the >> spacecraft bobs and weaves like it is in turbulence or a rough sea. The >> relative motion between spacecraft is ridiculous. Flags surviving the wind >> for 20 years. >> >> Other than that it was great. My wife loved it. >> >
