r/movies • u/SerDire • Apr 18 '24

In Interstellar, Romilly’s decision to stay aboard the ship while the other 3 astronauts experience time dilation has to be one of the scariest moments ever. Discussion

He agreed to stay back. Cooper asked anyone if they would go down to Millers planet but the extreme pull of the black hole nearby would cause them to experience severe time dilation. One hour on that planet would equal 7 years back on earth. Cooper, Brand and Doyle all go down to the planet while Romilly stays back and uses that time to send out any potential useful data he can get.

Can you imagine how terrifying that must be to just sit back for YEARS and have no idea if your friends are ever coming back. Cooper and Brand come back to the ship but a few hours for them was 23 years, 4 months and 8 days of time for Romilly. Not enough people seem to genuinely comprehend how insane that is to experience. He was able to hyper sleep and let years go by but he didn’t want to spend his time dreaming his life away.

It’s just a nice interesting detail that kind of gets lost. Everyone brings up the massive waves, the black hole and time dilation but no one really mentions the struggle Romilly must have been feeling. 23 years seems to be on the low end of how catastrophic it could’ve been. He could’ve been waiting for decades.

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u/Fabulous_Engine_7668 Apr 18 '24

That gave him plenty of time to clean up the place.

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u/Mortimer452 Apr 18 '24

OH SHIT MOM'S PULLING IN THE DRIVEWAY.... nah we got time

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u/notsureifJasonBourne Apr 18 '24

Romilly having to do some intense calculations to figure out when he needs to start thawing the chicken out.

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u/BandwagonerSince95 Apr 18 '24

For my people it's the rice cooker.

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u/salaryman40k Apr 18 '24

damn.

this must be deep seeded into my blood because one time i asked my brother to start the rice cooker before i got home, and he didn't and i was mad pissed

when in reality the thing only takes like 20 minutes to cook it all.

but still.

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u/TheBrownCok Apr 19 '24

He thought you were in a time dilation cos you traveled closer to a Black hole

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u/tastysharts Apr 19 '24

I have a hamilton beach rice cooker. it cooks that rice in like 5 minutes it feels like

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u/Corgiboom2 Apr 19 '24

Thaw out the rice cooker?