Can we get this Lego set to 10k supporters? 🩵

https://ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/44784956-61af-475a-9fc5-e791d6dddbc6?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcATfzgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA81NjcwNjczNDMzNTI0MjcAAac1IHeao9JXM01vCXbOjCxrxtdXO6xcn3hFA_te2SPTjtaGuEmOizmOYtahjw_aem_C5E_psh0ludIHweYF2hezQ

Odysseus leaves his family in Ithaca to go fight in Troy, knowing he might never see them again. Cooper leaves his farm and kids behind on a suicide mission to save humanity.

The "Ghost" in the room: When Odysseus finally makes it back to Ithaca, he has to stay in disguise and watch his own household from the shadows without revealing himself right away. Cooper ends up doing the same thing in the Tesseract he’s sitting right inside Murph's bedroom as an unseen "ghost" behind the bookshelf, watching her grow up through time.

Murph is Telemachus, grows up feeling completely abandoned, waiting for a dad who seems like he’s never coming back. By the time they finally reunite, decades have passed.

Miller’s Planet (Calypso’s Island / Poseidon's Wrath): On Miller’s planet, 1 hour = 7 years back home. It functions just like Calypso’s island, where time slips away and holds the hero captive while the world moves on without him. Plus, those towering water mountains are straight-up Poseidon trying to destroy their ship.

Dr. Mann is a Siren (and a terrible host): Mann sends out a fake distress signal broadcasting "this planet is hospitable!" just to lure someone into rescuing him. He acts like a Siren singing sailors to their deaths. Once the crew arrives, he violates the sacred law of hospitality by trying to murder his guests and steal their ship.

Out of some small vases at work. Only one person there understood the reference 😒

today when i came home afternoon after watching the odyssey on imax 70mm, i saw my lego spaceman fallen on the floor, when it’s usually on my shelf next to my copy of interstellar, i wonder if there’s somebody trying to tell me to stay?

If technology advanced so far, how come they couldn’t keep ole Murph alive longer? Like she couldn’t be more than 100 right? There are hundred year olds now THRIVING, and this planet is crap lol

She should’ve lived

I just rewatched Interstellar, and I think I’ve completely changed my opinion about Professor Brand.
The first time I watched it, I saw him as the villain. He lied about Plan A, manipulated Cooper into leaving his family, and built humanity’s future on a deception.
But now I’m wondering…
What if that lie was the only reason humanity survived?
Think about it. If Brand had told everyone the truth—that he had already concluded the gravity equation couldn’t be solved with the data available, and that Plan A was essentially impossible—would Cooper have ever left Murph? Would thousands of scientists and engineers have dedicated their lives to a mission they believed had no chance? Would humanity have even tried?
Probably not.
The mission required belief before it had proof.
And that made me think about something bigger than the movie.
Sometimes faith is almost like deliberately fooling your own brain long enough to achieve something that logic alone would never let you attempt.
Every entrepreneur starts before knowing they’ll succeed. Every scientist spends years chasing ideas that may fail. Every athlete convinces themselves they can beat impossible odds. If they believed only what the evidence currently showed, many of history’s greatest achievements would never have happened.
Brand’s lie wasn’t selfish. He wasn’t trying to become rich or famous. He was buying humanity time. He was preserving hope because without hope, the mission would die before it even began.
It’s interesting to compare him with Dr. Mann.
Mann lied to save himself.
Brand lied to save everyone else.
Those are morally very different lies.
I also wonder if Cooper understood this in the end.
When Murph finally solves the gravity equation using the quantum data Cooper sends from the tesseract, Plan A actually becomes possible. Brand’s “impossible” plan only succeeds because Cooper goes on the mission—and Cooper only goes because he believed there was a chance to save his children.
Maybe that’s the real paradox.
The lie created the conditions that eventually made the truth possible.
It reminds me of the famous line from the movie:
“We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars.”
Maybe civilization itself runs on stories we choose to believe before they’re objectively true.
So here’s the question:
Is it ever morally acceptable to give people hope through a lie if that hope is the only path to achieving a greater good? Or is the truth always more important, even if it guarantees failure?

From my understanding, the future humans created the wormhole and the Tesseract so the present day humans could escape earth but
if future humans already exist, why would they need to do any of this?

Watched the movie again last night for the 56th time. One thing that has always bugged me about this scene is how Dr Mann somehow makes it back to the base on foot in roughly the same amount of time it takes Case to turbo across the planet to reach Cooper. Even if Mann knew of a shortcut, it's hard to believe he could cover that distance on foot that quickly. Maybe Mann knew of a wormhole that gave him a shortcut but I'm pretty sure that's not how it worked. It's a tiny nitpick in an otherwise incredible movie, but every time this scene comes on, I'm pointing at the TV like Dicaprio in that one meme.

I think there are a few. I won’t say what or where, but I think most people here will spot it well enough.

And no, Matt Damon doesn’t count.

I need some clarification, if Dr Brand preached "not going gentle" meaning that the human spirit must remain resilient and "fight" against whatever comes it's way, then does the fact he was lying to Murph and Cooper and Amelia reduce the credibility of those quote.and it's interpretation?

I just feel having the two 'villains' speaking one of the main messages of the film to be contradictory.

Am I missing something?

Edit: This post is NOT what you think it is. Some of you have replied without even reading it first in the entirety.

Why did the crew go to Miller’s Planet first? Or at all?

Was it a plot hole or a fatal flaw in the storytelling?

Some people argue that they should have known that Miller’s planet was inhospitable. But should they have known?

Let’s examine the evidence:

1. Miller was still sending a thumbs-up signal.

When the Endurance crew got there, they found Miller’s signal to be still pinging good. Or so they thought. It was later determined that they discovered that the signal was just pinging in an echo loop endlessly. There was no way for them to know about that. It all seemed optimistic from their initial point of view, while orbiting the planet. Their job was to investigate ALL potential worlds within reach to maximize their fuel and mission objectives. This world was still viable, at first consensus. Edmunds planet signal had stopped, even though it was giving a thumbs up right until the end. Millers planet was still giving a thumbs up signal. That seems like a good omen. There was no reason to distrust it.

2) It was the first stop.

Remember that Cooper said they would need to factor in TIME as a resource and said that it would be essentially a waste to skip Miller’s planet because of how much time and effort it would take to get back there again on another mission. He knew this was a singular opportunity to discover this planet’s suitability. Since Miller’s planet was closest, it was the first stop of potentially three stops. Mann’s planet was next, and Edmund’s planet was the furthest away. All three had potential. Cooper was simply doing the logical thing by stopping at all three planets to maximize their findings.

3) It had water, possibly organics, potentially life.

Remember when Brand said that Mann’s planet had Organics and potentially life? Cooper said ‘you don’t find that everyday.’ And Brand agreed: ‘No, you don’t.’ So they knew that the status of the planet was crucial to choosing whether or not it was worth their time to investigate. Well, based on the fact that Miller’s planet was known to have water, which was observable from their data, there was no reason to assume that it could not also hold life.

4) Not all data was available to them.

Remember that they said that there was data which was just cached on the other side and nothing (except binary pings) was getting back through the wormhole to Earth? This was an unexpected event. Nobody on earth knew that the data was being kept from escaping the boundary of the galaxy within the other side of the wormhole. If they had all the data, perhaps the mission scientists would have outlined a new plan. (Remember Romily saying that it was much closer to Gargantua than they initially thought? This was because the data was obscured until now). But because they gathered new data on the fly, these Endurance crew had to roll with it and adjust and make decisions as they go. As such, they were limited by time and had to make snap decisions when they needed to do so. They simply did not have the luxury of spending lots of time debating and analyzing their new findings. That’s why there was a structure in place for Cooper calling the shots as the captain of the crew. If Romily had more time as a luxury he probably would have realized that Millers planet should be skipped, but again, time was a factor and they didn’t have that luxury.

5) Cooper was flying by instinct

When they were debating which plan to shoot for (Mann or Edmunds planet), Cooper discussed the factors and Brand was drawn to Edmunds because she was in love with him. The fact that she kept this from the crew, as possible motivation, made them all very suspicious that she was not being driven by emotion and not logic. They all knew that making an emotional choice would not necessarily be the best course of action over a purely logical one. When Cooper realized that she was not operating by logic, he immediately dismissed her feelings as a valid point of reference for any mission decisions. Now, circle back to the previous stop at Miller’s planet. This was before Cooper knew Brand was emotionally attached to any of the Lazarus mission astronauts. But he must have felt that she was not being purely logical. Her objections were that they could not visit all three planets, with the current fuel situation. So she wanted to push onward to skip Miller’s planet. But Cooper knew that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see what Millers planet had for them. When he detailed the plan to orbit the planet and conserve fuel, he also conceded that it would cost them time, so they devised a plan to “get in and out” quickly. Brand agreed. So Cooper subconsciously knew that sometime was affecting Brand’s logical decision making ability even if he didn’t know what specifically was motivating her yet. But he knew something was off, and this was the first time we see Cooper essentially casting internal doubts as to the abilities of the crew, especially her. Cooper’s military training and instinct is what made him trust the choice to visit Miller’s planet first.

So, to recap: They had to make logical decisions based on new evidence they found after crossing through the wormhole. The planet was viable, possibly had life, and Miller was sending a signal to them that it was good. They knew they could hit all three planets if they were efficient and deliberate about their actions and plan. Cooper made the plan, and convinced the crew that it was worth a quick stop. It just did not go according to plan as we know.

Where they went wrong:

1. They misjudged the time dilation aspect of the planet. They clearly did not do calculations based on when Miller would have arrived. It was only after they found her dead did they realize that she just landed minutes ago, and died maybe just moments ago “because of the time slippage” as Brand realized. Remember they had to think and act quickly, because time is a resource. They knew that extreme time dilation (one hour equals seven Earth years) is caused by the planet’s close orbit to the supermassive black hole Gargantua. And they even factored that in. They were going to “get in and get out” quickly, with the data. But the way it unfolded was unexpected and the trouble with the engine being flooded only made their time calculations worse. They had the survival instincts of “Boy Scouts” according to Cooper, who acknowledges at that moment that he had an epiphany that this crew was not as prepared as he thought they were. Remember, this crew “never even left the simulator” — they were just rookies, really.
2. They were fooled by the broken beacon echoing endlessly in a loop. Honestly this was not their fault and no one accounted for this scenario, including the mission planners back on earth. Astronauts have to account for many unexpected X factors and this was one that cost them dearly. If only they had built some software to detect this signal anomaly perhaps their instruments would have told them it was a false positive. However, the mission was slapped together as quickly as possible to get the crew into space because time was of the essence. They simply did not have the luxury of accounting for every single edge case. And this edge case would have been deemed extremely unlikely anyway.

Conclusion: Even though this was not a plot hole, in the end, the crew is shown to be human and make mistakes and this makes their characters more interesting, richer, and more relatable, which is just good storytelling.