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Kip Thorne signed off on their artistic license plot device of having spacetime collapse into the “tesseract.”

Well, then, I guess it's all perfectly real and believable. Next time I see a clock rattle or a bookshelf shake, I'll know what's up.

If it's not in black and white, with two middle aged French people sharing a cigarette after some loveless sex while looking out a window and quoting poetry, I don't want anything to do with it.

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Nolan's a highly talented auteur cinematographier.

He's doing Magical Realism with SciFi pastiche, he's always got a great cast, infinity zillion dollar budget with stunning special effects.

Absolutely nothing clever or interesting to say with his work. It all ends at the level of two DudeBros snorting a line of coke and pretending to be smart.

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Very obviously an inspiration for Doctor Manhattan.

Solaris was genuinely very difficult to follow. As an avante garde Sci Fi piece, incredible. You can draw a straight line from Solaris to a hundred Star Trek and Dr Who and Battle Star Galactica episodes. Absolutely littered with cool ideas.

As... entertainment? It was a bumpy road. The execution was rough, even by the standards of the era.

Okay, come on. The trips out to the three candidate worlds were cool. It was a very slow build up. And then the post Black Hole climax was silly.

But the middle of the movie was good.

The physics are accurate.

Space ghosts from the fourth dimension can give you physics advice by wiggling your books?

Well, there's your problem. Woody Harlson was the one that delivered on TD.

Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time.

In fairness, the enthusiastic astronauts were all reckless, foolhardy, narcissists who nearly flub the whole mission.

Going through a black hole but it's just a fisheye lens having gravel flung at it, because you forgot to budget for this particular special effect

But don't worry, you can absolutely pass through the Event Horizon in a man made spacecraft just so long as you have the singular force that defines the shape of the universe: ~~gravity~~ Love.

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Trust But Verify is a good policy regardless of where your code comes from.

"AI" code is still human code in some capacity. Human code is what it was trained on. What would you do with a module you grabbed off GitHub or a script you found on Discord? Hopefully the same thing.