Comments on: Jonathan Nolan Says His Original Ending To ‘Interstellar’ Was “Much More Straightforward”

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

I absolutely loved this film but admittedly I was somewhat disappointed by the ending. It just didn\’t seemed to fit well for me and left me more confused than science ever could. So I would have preferred another ending, but it was still a great film!

By: pete

pete — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

@ SLEN The meeting between Murph and Cooper was more than "20 seconds." Nolan jump cuts, so that meeting could have been long as 8 hours — we would never know because this is movie time, and we have to keep CUTTING ahead to tell the story. What did you want, a 30-minute meeting??? The movie would have been 4 hours long.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

I wasn\’t expecting Cooper to survive at all, I was on edge till the end. Reminds me of Elysium, Matt Damon\’s character doesn\’t survive.

By: Spurdo

Spurdo — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

The first version of the ending would have been better. The love conquers all and moves thru dimensions and time was a downer. And what was with the brother of Myrphy? Daddy didn\’t seem to have any interest towards him after the first half of the movie. He came back and went to see his doughter and didn\’t even ask about his son…

By: Mark Staun Poulsen

Mark Staun Poulsen — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

Really I would just like to state one thing again: Read The Science of Interstellar if you have got quarrels with the science in this movie. There are fiction elements to this movie, but nothing that comes out of nowhere – there are logical explanations for it all, even if a few things are pure speculations (fifth dimensional beings being able to manipulate gravity and place a tesseract inside a black hole, holding a wormhole open for as long as they have).

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

I will never get why people view the end as romantic or love; I see him going to help Anne Hathaway as there\’s nothing left for him on Earth or on Cooper Station; the colony is where he belongs, where mankind\’s hope lies.

Not because he is romantically attached.

By: Paul MacKenzie

Paul MacKenzie — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

Nolan was a genius that movie was such a roller coaster any bad ending would have spoilt it. Movies don\’t have to spell it all out and was glad to be left wondering

By: andrea

andrea — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

i think that this movies was AWESOME!i enjoyed every second! i think the point of the movie is to show us how hard it is to find a planet like ours! and of course is amazing the way they show space, the black hole was one of my favorite parts. Best movie ever! ull never find a bad movie from Nolan

By: Kmon

Kmon — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

Kip THORNE and many other simple grammar mistakes.

By: epichuntarz

epichuntarz — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

I didn\’t hate the ending of the movie, but I didn\’t love it either. I get what C. Nolan was trying to do, but I\’m glad Coop didn\’t have to die in the end. Sending him after Brand felt great-it was just the stuff between his trip into Gartantua and that point that felt…out of place.

By: subodh UNiyal

subodh UNiyal — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

and there there life does not turn out how we think it will b,, it was a gr8 science fiction.. u guys are telling that Nolan ditched the actual science but forgetting that its a science fiction n journey through a worm hole is also a theoretical point.. that\’s why we call it a science fiction.. he made a great movie with great story n climax as he always do.

By: Prateek

Prateek — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

But in the film…he (C-Nolan) even explains the importance of love in the field of science relating it to the movie, to be more precise, science. So, I felt that the ultimate science he wanted to show in the movie is love and the motivation it gives to people. Hence an ending like this, though not completely scientifical which i would have loved if it was but even if its not, made a complete sense.

By: Saifur Rahman Mohsin

Saifur Rahman Mohsin — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

Yeah it\’s Einstein not Einstien…

By: Miles

Miles — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

@martin Nolan likes to tie a near bow at the end? Lol seriousl? Inception and Memento wave hello…

By: Nina

Nina — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

The scientific advisor is Kip Thorne, not Throne.

I do wish Chris went with Jonathan\’s idea of a collapsing wormhole… Though the actual gritty details of the science may be lost to the audience, I think most could understand if a pathway is lost.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

Actually that\’s why I liked the movie, after seeing things like the "Red Wedding" I needed a finale that wouldn\’t leave me depressed and eating ice cream under a blanket all weekend.

By: Eric Montoya

Eric Montoya — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

Although I had a few qualms with the story, overall I absolutely loved it. I understand Nolan\’s need to move the narrative along, which resulted in cuts to the original script. I also understand his desire to not alienate the average movie-goer who isn\’t science-literate. Jonathan\’s original ending would have left one helluva lasting impression though.

By: Whodatninja

Whodatninja — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

The ending was well done….except for hipsters that ALWAYS pop up to say how the downbeat endings are always better and wannabe cinephiles that seek out Nolan\’s name just to say how much they don\’t like his work. Oh look! A whole bunch are right here!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

I thought the ending in the film was perfection. Would have loved to see this ending on a director\’s cut.

By: Mark Staun Poulsen

Mark Staun Poulsen — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

If you read "The Science of Interstellar" you will read that gravity waves weren\’t discarded at all – Thorne explains them as the reason, why NASA found the wormhole in the first place.
However, Thorne uses "bulk fields" as an explanation to the gravitational anomalies that Murph and Cooper finds. Now bulk fields are only an speculation on Thorne\’s behalf. They haven\’t been observed, and they probably don\’t exist. Nevertheless an anomaly requires something fundamentally new that we do not understand in the laws of physics – that is what an anomaly means. Anyway, this bulk field is still described with various other theories and calculations. Nothing in this movie is just mumbo-jumbo – there are always explanations in some way. I urge you to read The Science of Interstellar. It is a very informative reading

By: David

David — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

SLEN: Actually, the draft of the movie when Spielberg was attached, had Cooper returning to Earth 200 years after he was gone, and his family was dead, the aliens actually made the tesseract and not the humans. Cooper almost dies since the Earth became a polar lanscape, but gets rescued, and we get the same ending as the one of the final movie.

MARTIN: Nolan never revealed what the ending of Inception means, and that\’s why he closes his stories like he did in TDKR and Interstellar.

By: luis

luis — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

It should have kept the science. The "love" finale ruined it for me.

By: JC

JC — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

The plot with the world turning into an environmental wasteland did not work for me. I did not see any reasonable explanation of how the ecological demise escalated so fast. The original low-budget "Road Warrior" did a better job by just running some stock news clips representing global chaos and catastrophe..

By: Matt Thomas

Matt Thomas — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

I can\’t seem to get over the utter lack of empathy Hans Zimmer\’s music score. It was by far the weakest of the elements in an otherwise brilliant film.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 23 May 2016 03:57:02 +0000

He definitely should have stuck to the original. It got far too far-fetched in the end and proves, once again, that Nolan has a difficult time pulling off a 3rd act. Of course, it\’s all relative but the ending was very weak to me. Such as the end of Dark Knight Rises. Just leave them dead. It\’s okay. It actually connects to the audience better because we\’re becoming even further disillusioned. The open ended endings are often cheap when not used for something like Inception or Shutter Island.