> fact that people think it's realistic is just a kick in the pants
The story is science...fiction. not a documentary on space travel. The realistic bit is obviously hyperbole, no one thinks you can take off a planet that easily. But it was good to move the plot forward. The part people like about that it felt like science anyone who has read popular mechanics (and heard about Hawking-
'S work and something about general relativity & time dilation) can nod their head during scenes that have payoffs that are "intellectually" satisfying.
Now now. Satisfying in that with space travel there are no free lunches and the universe in general is a pretty grim and hostile place.
And the black hole visuals were cool AF. That's a good movie.
You are projecting your beliefs. The popular science crowd thought it was incredibly realistic [1-3]. As you say, the movie is ingratiating to the people who have heard something about time dilation. But even the movie itself gets it horribly wrong. I remember there is a scene of a crew in the orbit of the planet growing old while those on the surface don't because "it is near a black hole" which is true, but the distance between the surface of the planet and the orbit to cause such massive time dilation would imply the humans should liquefy in their suits. Overall, I found Interstellar to go out of the way to use science to explain events in the movie and then asked the viewers to ignore applying the same principles to other parts. I have no problem with science fiction, but if you try to explain the fiction, you have to keep the universe consistent.
An actual incredibly realistic film would be very very boring. Now let's follow Bob as he runs vibration testing on a small sensor in the rocket for the 12th time.
And now the crew spend 12 years travelling through space with nothing happening.
Maybe we can show some people debugging the AI code for the robot
> fact that people think it's realistic is just a kick in the pants
The story is science...fiction. not a documentary on space travel. The realistic bit is obviously hyperbole, no one thinks you can take off a planet that easily. But it was good to move the plot forward. The part people like about that it felt like science anyone who has read popular mechanics (and heard about Hawking- 'S work and something about general relativity & time dilation) can nod their head during scenes that have payoffs that are "intellectually" satisfying.
Now now. Satisfying in that with space travel there are no free lunches and the universe in general is a pretty grim and hostile place.
And the black hole visuals were cool AF. That's a good movie.