REACTING to *Interstellar* THIS BROKE MY HEART AND BRAIN!! (First Time Watching) Classic Movies 

What's your favorite Nolan movie? It might be this or next weeks movie: The Prestige for me!!!

Fun fact: They really sent those actors through a wormhole. Nolan really wanted it to be legit, so they made a real rocket and sent then to space. Crazy right?

The real gut punch about this is that from Cooper's point of view, considering he was asleep for the trip to Saturn, he left his ten year-old daughter behind just weeks or months before seeing her about to die from old age. McConaughey plays that so well when he's getting the bulk dump of messages from home after their very first stop on the water planet...that would damn near crush a person emotionally.

My thoughts on the love angle is that part of what makes humanity take risks is our ability to pursue something even if it is illogical. Murph's love for her dad allowed her to find the watch with the quantum gravity data. I also think the inclusion of the robots are used to contrast cold logic and "emotional beings". The scene in the tesseract when TARS asked Cooper how he knows Murph will find the watch was the payoff. Their love for each other allowed them to communicate across space and time. A computer would run the numbers and give up, but a human will fight impossible odds and accept death if it meant saving those you care about.

In the beginning you mentioned that they had a scientist on set to make things as plausible as possible, and then during the Gargantua shot you were talking about having physicists letting them know this is what it would look like. The combination of the physicist and the VFX studio implementing the data of what a black hole visually would look like, turned out to give so many more solutions to questions unanswered. It resulted in 3 new scientific papers to be published regarding gravity and black holes.

The "initiating spin" scene, when they were docking, is to this day still the ONLY scene in the only movie that had me SO immersed that after it was over, I caught myself with literal drool and a wide ass open mouth, in the same fashion that little kids do when they are in awe of something. Such a masterpiece

Fun fact: the rhythmic clock ticking every 1.25 seconds on the water planet is significant. Every tick you hear is one day passing on earth. So based on the length of the soundtrack, roughly 210 earth days passed just while they were running from the waves.

The Black Hole sumulation used in the movie is now widely accepted as what an actual black hole would look like... yeah the physicists went CRAZY

“Because my dad promised me.” Tears every time.

The movie is essentially saying: The things that are common across dimensions and galaxies are time, gravity, and LOVE.

Love the part near the end where he goes through the black hole and figures everything out. Space movies just hit different. Also it vaguely reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey which I highly recommend. 💕

Here's a fun fact Nolan went to a physicist and said "show me how black holes work" So he and his digital artists put in actual math and thats how we get that accretion disc look for the black hole. Of course they probably added particle effects to make it prettier but it also got a couple study papers out of it. It contributed to the science community. I think that's insane 🦖

Arguably one of the most, if not THE ONE, accurate film involving physics, quantum theory and so much more. As James says, it's a Masterpiece.

42:54 no it's definitely because of the spinning. That's how you train astronauts to withstand g's. They put them in a machine that spins fast enough to simulate breaking the atmosphere so they can learn to handle it

this may be the best movie i've ever seen.. directing, acting, writing, and soundtrack, all insane

"What are you doing?" "Docking." "It's not possible!" "No, It's necessary." Awesome scene!

SCIENCE TIME: All this is according to the book explaining the science of Interstellar, written by the Nobel prize physicist and co-author of this movie, Kip Thorne: 1) Miller's planet is as close to the black hole as it can be and stay safe, its orbit is stable. There are two balance points close to the black hole. Miller's planet is at the outer balance point, so if it gets pushed inward, to the black hole, the gravity will push the planet back. And if it gets pushed outward, away from the black hole, the centrifugal forces will push it back to its place. 2) He also said that in reality the black hole should cover half of the sky, when you look from Miller's planet, but for cinematic purposes Nolan decided to make it much smaller and save the real, huge look for the climax of the movie, when Coop goes into the black hole. 3) The tesseract (the library thing) was put at the edge of the singularity inside the black hole by "them", the bulk beings, who are just evolved future humans living in 5 dimensions. The book explains that in our 3-dimensional world the black hole is 10 billion light years from the Earth, but in the bulk it's just at the Sun - Earth distance. So while Coop is falling, he is very fast traveling through the bulk to the Earth. 4) In the tesseract, Cooper can't enter our world, our universe's 3D membrane. He can just look inside, but can't communicate: he sees younger Murph, because the light from her can travel to him, to the future, but his light can't travel back in time to her. The only thing that can travel back in time is gravity, so he uses it to give her the message. 5) After Coop transmits all the data to Murph, the tesseract starts closing, carrying him through the bulk to the worm hole, where he gravitationally touches Brand's hand and as the tesseract disappears completely, he is seen floating in the space close to the worm hole, where he was probably found by the people.

fun fact: every ticking noise you hear on Miller’s Planet equals a day on Earth

It's all about the last scene with Dr. Brand. She was right - Edmond's planet was habbitable, and she knew it.... she felted it, because she loves him. Loves is the one thing that transcends space and time - not gravity itself, but love. In the end it's all about love, even if we don't understand it yet.

something about watching cooper just sob while watching the tapes his family sent him made *me* sob the first time I watched it. just seeing an adult murphy suddenly appear on screen made me really feel for cooper. like damn, he's stuck in space and missed so much time. his crying was a mixture of joy at seeing his kids again and devastation all in one.

I studied at the university where Kip Thorne, a main scientific consultant for this movie worked as a professor for many years. He got the students an early screening of the film and it was awesome! From what I understand, they got several papers published on gravitational lensing, funded by Nolan and the movie budget when they predicted what a blackhole would look like.

YEEEEES YEEEEEEEEEEES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES Yeah the black hole animation was created specifically for this film with new and improved mathematics at the time :) corridor digital did a video on it in one of their good vs bad cgi vids :) so it was state of the art black hole physics animation at the time :D

Right around the 45 minute mark, you guys asked what the structure it was that he fell through. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be the multiverse, if you look into the Multiverse theory, you'll see a photo of what most of what scientists believe the multiverse would look like, and if you watch carefully when matthew is falling through space and passes through multiple orb like structures, they are identical to what scientists believe the Multiverse looks like.

This is probably my all time favorite movie, it checks all the boxes for me. The visuals are also stunning, I've a interstellar metal poster of Gargantua at home. PS, each tick in the music on the water planet supposedly indicated the passing of one day back on Earth, which was approximately 1 day every 1.something seconds

my mother's therory was that love is a vibration that we can sense and feel as well like someone stomping their foot on a wooden floor we all feel that and look twords the vibration. and the music of nature around us calmes our soul and opens us up to that virbration, to clam us. and that we precieve joy and hope from that.

as a Physics student, this is my most favt movie of all time .... Love from India

A book was written in conjunction with the professor that consulted on the movie explaining how each scientific phenomenon in this movie is possible. Highly recommend, was super fascinating and written in a way that made it digestible

55:23 anything can happen past the event horizon as the gravity is so strong that the laws of physics break which means theoretically anything is possible, and im sure that these 5 dimensional future humans would've had something to do with cooper getting out of the black hole through the wormhole back to saturn

fun fact: Hans Zimmer wrote the music for this movie without knowing what it was about and before Nolan made the movie, so Nolan created the scenes and film around the music which is why it’s so impactful since the music drives the story

Fun fact: they actually planted the cornfields for this movie. They are all real

Cannot believe you guys haven't done this one yet. Amazing film.

Nolan had those cornfields grown in order to shoot the openings shots. After production, they harvested the corn, sold it, and made a profit.

The beginning of the movie takes place in 2067.

The organ music is so epic! And it creates such an aweinspiring feeling and underlines the eeriness of space. Also this film is heartbreaking, especially when Cooper's children are talking to him and he watches them grow up, but he cannot answer them! 😭

This movie was soooooooo good on the big screen. The combo of the soundtrack and tension in the docking scene are one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Nolan is the man. Thanks for reviewing guys!

Omg i can’t- i lose it everytime when cooper see the old murph like in his eyes she’s still his little girl yk 😭😭 i literally sobs watching it w u guys here

34:12 people on reddit said their theaters were like '?????' when Matt Damon appeared. I saw Interstellar in Nanjing China when it came out. Even in my theater the audience audibly mumbled to each other like 'wtf Matt Damon?' 😜 I just thought that was cool to know that weird star power transfered over

Interstellar might be my favorite movie ever, it is an absolute feast for the eyes. Not to mention that the emotional scenes get to me every time I see the movie.

I like the anecdote that they had famous physicist Kip Thorne as an executive producer for this movie and he would give the vfx artists numbers and equations to put into their computers. And when they used those numbers to render the black hole, everyone thought there must have been a mistake, this doesn´t look right. And then Kip would look at the screen and say "... Of course!...." So epic. SCIENCE!

My favorite movie! The score for this film Hans Zimmer’s finest work of his career! This is the only movie I’ve ever seen where the music alone brought me to tears. Nolan’s finest film imo! PS: The physicist you were talking about at the beginning is Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Kip Thorne! He helped Nolan write the treatment for the story!

This movie has a special place in my heart. Glad you two watched it.

I worked at an IMAX Dome theater when this movie came out, and lemme tell you it was a sight to see on a screen that big. The visuals on screen plus the surround sound we had in the theater made this movie absolutely stellar (pun intended).

TIME is very occuring theme in Nolans movies. Watch "Dunkirk" - the same story is told across three timelines.

I had gone to see this movie without any foreknowledge, and I left the theater with silence reverberating in my head. I've never even watched the trailer up to this date. It was one of the best random choices of my life.

At 9 minutes when you're discussing what it is. He says it's Gravity because the dust is settling in lines. He throws the coin toward the gap between the lines and it flips in mid air and lands on the dust, showing us that the lines of light have no gravity and the shadows between have gravity. Took me until my third watch to realise what had actually happened

One of the most impressive things about this movie, is how they found a woman and a young girl that legitimately look like the same person at different ages. The disaster is like the "dust bowl" from the 30's, but planet-wide. Something like this actually happened in the plains states and Canada.

Towards the begining of the film when they are talking about the dust storms and wearing scarves over their faces, they are referencing a period of American history when a sever drought in the southern states caused dust to drift across a large portion of the Midwest causing crops to fail across a large portion of the country. In real world history this event is referenced as the dust bowl which was the above drought which lasted from 1930 to 1936. The fact that they reference real events make this movie so interesting to watch.

fun fact: the depiction of the black hole in this film is the most accurate depiction of a real one, super terrifying, also when they are on the planet with the water each tick you hear is a year passing on earth

It's crazy even being a space movie, a lot of it is very practical. The things they did with the corn farms, any director would use cgi for that now. Chris asked zack snyder about how he grew that much corn in man of steel

Gravity anomaly open up a wormhole, all of nasa is focused on solving a gravity problem, then one of their ex-pilots shows up at a secret facility claiming he was told how to get there by a gravity anomaly. And nobody at nasa thought of checking out his house. You would expect they would be on the look out for paranormal events that might be further communications from the aliens.

I love how they incorporate actual interviews of survivors from the dust Bowl thru the 30s! This movies is amazing! Imagine all the work that went into this

To Ninetailedbrush: Look for "The Science of Interstellar | Kip Thorne", he's the physicist involved in this movie. He explains everything even the things that didn't make it to the final cut.

So the idea is that Cooper was picked up beyond the event horizon by the 4 dimentional beings and placed within the tesseract so he could spot the point in time and communicate the data to his daughter, and then when he had done that they sent him back around Saturn where the wormhole was.

and it traveles through space and time. and changes form when we pass and is moved along through space and time.

The way the black hole works is, it still spagettifiies you and kills you and such, but due to it's size and stability, the zone that happens is within the point of no return so something going through it at a angle could survive a long time.

one of my top favorite movies of all time personally. after finishing the movie, for days i was left with a lingering sense of admiration and reverence for the universe and how crazy life is as a whole. really enjoyed the reaction

The computer program made to generate the black hole actually stunned scientists, when it produced the image all they could say was "woah"

A world class thoughtful movie! X

Even the blackhole cgi has an equation that's provided by Kipp Thorne (and other researchers/physicist). That's why it's so good.

The interviews at the beginning, except for the one with Old Murph, are from a Ken Burns documentary about the Dust Bowl that happened here in the USA during the 1930's.

Fun fact: the constant ticking noise heard during the scene on planet M (the ocean planet) represents one earth day passing per tick

Fun fact the first planet they landed on the water one is basically in the shape of a football and the waves go only from side to side hence why they seem like mountains I don’t know why but that creeped me out

Those last scenes always break me down into tears 😭😭😭😭

This channel KEEPS getting better guys. Love it!

Well…this was definitely one heck of good way to start my day when I saw this video pop up in my notifications this morning. To answer your question first: this is my favorite Nolan film. For you to call this a masterpiece describes it best: because it really is. Everything in this film is about as perfect as it can be: the acting, the story, the visuals, the movie…it’s all this combined that makes this film truly epic. I definitely know what you meant about your reaction to seeing this film the first time. I knew I had seen something really cool, but at the same time I couldn’t understand it enough to appreciate it fully. This is, like most Nolan films, a movie that becomes better each time you watch it. As for me it really is one of my alltime favorite sci-fi films. I loved you reaction to it, and the discussion afterwards. Love definitely is a central theme, but also humanity in general. Not everyone is a hero, and some people go to great lengths to save themselves. This film once again demonstrates that very fact. Well done guys! 😊👍

After what Matt Damon did, You should watch the movie - The Martian. Equally good space movie. And I still hope to be able to see Yours reaction to Alita: Battle Angel😅😄

Centrifugal force is a thing. Even in zero G if you spin fast enough you can still feel gravity.

The fact that James is so excited, impressed, laughing and emocional, while Ninetailedbrush is just trying to follow what is happening, tries to formulate a opinion without completing any sentence. lool At 42:44 he didn't even realise they were fast spinning to dock on Endurance and James just went like "ye ye, it's the gravity"

have you guys seen the Martian? with Matt Damon? it’s one of my favorite movies, and personally I think it’s the best space movie!

I like how Ninetailedbrush immediately knew that Miller's planet was dangerous. The dumb thing was that the scientists should have known as well. If you consider how far the moon is away from Earth, yet its gravity still impacts our tides, you would have had to consider that the gravity from Gargantua would have made any planet near it uninhabitable. Brand's initial logic was really sound when she tried to convince them to go to Edmond's planet. The fact that Mann's planet was close to Gargantua meant that it was likely to have been impacted by its gravity and made it hostile to human life. Her love angle was interesting, but her initial estimate that Mann's planet would be bad because of Gargantua was spot on.

I'm hitting dabs watching this with y'all at 3:38am thank you guys for the amazing content and enjoyment y'all provide 🙌🔥

I think when this reaction started I had a whole host of things I wanted to say, but by the end of it y’all actually covered a lot of it, and that’s awesome because most people I’ve talked to have not latched on to or agreed with a lot of the non-obviously sciencey stuff.

Imagine tom cruise & Chris working on a movie together? 2 guys who love to do everything practically.

I feel utopia This feeling is amazing I can't explain

TTo answer a couple of your questions- 1) Yes, they would be able to send messages through the wormhole (otherwise they wouldn't have been able to receive the information from the initial astronaughts about the planets on the other side. The way they explain it is a satelite near the wormhole that receives the signal from the other side and relays it to Earth. And 2) When Cooper goes into the spin to dock with the endurance, yes, they would feel it. The spin is creating an artificial gravity, but, because of the extreme rate of spin, it is quite a bit beyond Earth gravity.

One of my all time favourite films.

Wonderful reaction to an amazing movie, guys. You really REALLY need to watch and react to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was a huge influence for Nolan...he even had a hand in the most recent restoration of the film. And, like Nolan, Kubrick used every resource known to the current science of the 1960s to create a very realistic depiction of space travel.

Black/worm hole answer From Google: He ended up in the hospital bed because he went unconscious when the Tesseract was closing, and the 5th Dimensional beings transported him out of the black hole and assisted him through the Saturn wormhole. He was then found by rangers from cooper-station, and was taken into medical care.

I get why people dislike this movie, but I have a serious soft spot for it. While Prestige was all about the dangers of obsession, this one is about the necessity of human emotion and connection in furthering our understanding of science. There are some people who see it as love vs science, and dislike it on those grounds, but I disagree with that interpretation. I also get how the tesseract at the end loses a lot of people, but, like most Nolan movies, he tends to include one hurdle you need to buy into to enjoy the movie, and I bought in. Added bonus is the earth scenes were filmed near where I live, which is cool. Corn doesn't actually grow well here, so they grew all those fields specifically for the movie, and then sold it as cattle feed, since they didn't grow enough to produce crops before winter hit.

My all time favorite movie! Great reaction, so much fun seeing others enjoy this amazing film.

This movie is amazing and makes me cry

The wormhole and the black hole are indeed separate things. The reason Cooper survived for so long going into the black hole is because the black hole is so supermassive and has such a slow spin; any spaghettification factor is spread out so stretched it's not noticable. Artistic licence comes in when he enters the tesseract created by the same future-humans who created the wormhole. The emotional content of Cooper's life allows him to anchor himself at a specific moment in space while having access across time; the future-humans lack the emotional context to pinpoint where would be the place to get a message across back to humanity on earth with their limited influence (limited to affecting gravitational waves across time). I think Nolan is saying that love provides both the impetus and the direction for human survival, as well as presenting a sort of fairytale for his kids about where humanity can go if we choose to evolve past our base desires - terror and selfishness - towards pursuit of a sort of emotionally-in-touch scientist-pioneer archetype he invents here with Cooper. Once he finishes his task the future-humans close the tesseract and, since they exist in a higher spatial dimension above ours, can easily pluck Cooper out and drop him off nearby to Saturn and Cooper Station.

42:55 - centripetal acceleration can simulate g-forces, and considering the required RPM was 68 on a ship of that size, the fact cooper had training as a pilot before is why he didn't pass out, but he only bought himself like maybe a minute more

I had the same reaction to Timothée. I recently re-watched this movie and was shocked to find him in this.

Nolan had an expert in Astrophysics for this movie. Expert is Kip Thorne, Ph.D. in Astrophysics make science real in this movie.

I just watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago, so I find it interesting that you guys chose now to review this! cool!

I love astronomy and this movie made me love it even more

Matt Damon has some great moments and lines, notably that 'There is a moment' right before he gets blasted right out into orbit. But I also love the way he pauses and considers before 'Those are the best odds in years'

When you called Dr.Mann a coward I remembered that the soundtrack that was playing that time was named 'Coward'. 😂

after some thinking, there might be reason why the end of the wormhole near Saturn is situated next to Gargantua, like you would need extreme amount of mass to distort space to let you get out of this higher dimension trip through a wormhole ( we never saw this "spherical hole" near gargantua, space just weirdly flattened out in this system after trip 22:15) so wormholes lead to chceckpoints-black holes in this interpretation

You two + Interstellar = EPICNESS!!

this movie gives me a headache each time because I can't stop crying. Christopher Nolan is all about time... he's insanely creative

Yeah apparently they created entirely new programs and stuff and math to create that black hole.

Y'all definitely need to watch Memento. It's not next level mind twisting like Tenet or Inception but it's a serious mindfuck in its own right. It's so good.

I think the hardest part to understand to me at least is how could he have gone to that moment and place of all options? Because if it’s live or thought that controls where you go, I have a tough time thinking the theorists didn’t just make that up.

You guys are awesome! Wish I was watching these movies with y’all ! Keep ‘em comin

Don’t know if someone else said this here but that black hole visualization took them 2 years of computer modelling to do. Craziness

1:05:39 The astronomy channel “Astrum” with Alex McColgan released the second video in a series about Interstellar only 2 days ago.

Me and my girl watch you guys all the time and we are shock you guys don’t ball your eyes out 😂😂every time something super sad, you guys are like flat face 😂😂😂it’s incredible

Omg I literally watched this movie yesterday