Unironically, why did Dr. Hugh Mann do it?

Did he end up pushing the jolly red candy-like button?

Yes. You could say he finally spaced out.

this + he didn't know how they would react when they learned he'd basically fucked the human race

It's time to admit this movie was utterly trash and no matter what redditors say, nothing will change that

he'd basically fucked the human race

How so? Can't remember anything about that guy except him breaking the comms and suddenly attacking

it's been a while but IIRC he signalled that his planet was good for habitation when it actually wasn't, because he was lonely and scared and wanted to be rescued. he knew the resources and time required for a mission like that would endanger the entire species, with the earth rapidly falling to shit

Love

If they had provided a painless suicide method do you think they would have opted for that once they knew their planet was shit? Or would they still have been a bitch and pushed the button? They got chosen because they are honorable people or some shit right?

I couldn't hear anything due to Nolans bad audio mixing
Am I right reddit? ;)

which is why it makes no sense. If the people who finally mount a rescue mission and fly a colony space to his planet realize that he just fucked the whole species over he should be getting the death penalty anyway or the equivalent of it, socially. I don't believe that it makes sense. I know what the writers thought but somebody in that position would think of the social shame and wouldn't press the button because it would be biologically ingrained into him not to want to be cast out of the tribe. Which means pressing the button would net him nothing. At most he'd get to say hello before they leave him stranded just as a punishment.

He signaled them to come rescue him which was a massive waste of mission resources given that he had lied and his planet was not actually habitable, and with any even slightly worse luck it could have caused a complete mission failure where they were unable to reach anywhere else

why didn't character just do thing that removed all conflict and trivialized the plot

there isn't a more worthless template for discussion than this

no you aren't, use a proper sound system
crazy how people don't understand the concept of dynamic range and loud things being loud

t. laptop or headphones user
Meanwhile at home, pic related

The problem with that is it gives them an easy way out, so they're not guaranteed to try everything possible but yeah that would have been a decent option. The dude could have jumped off a cliff or something at any point so I still think he would have pushed the button regardless

i think the chance at living, however shamedly, outweighs the gauranteed prospect of a slow, lonely death. i don't really have a problem with his actions, as i would expect at least some people to crack under the circumstances presented in the movie.

Who knows... Lemme eat my beloved icecream bar in peace.

Eats soap bar

except he can always kill himself fairly quickly and painlessly. There is no way that the uncertainty of how people will react to having their species doomed by you outweighs the far easier path of just taking your helmet off and jumping down a cliff, head first.

For an explorer and an astronaut, he was cowardly. I guess that's why he put himself back to sleep in sci-fi pod. He was so afraid of dying that he was willing to kill and abandon everybody to get back to Earth.

I haven't watched this in ages but did they ever explain why it had to be just one person to each planet? That robot easily weighed more than 2 or 3 humans. Sending one person alone seems incredibly idiotic. Did they not watch the first episode of twilight zone?

The absolute dumbest part of the movie was deciding to go to the black hole planet at all, but especially first. They're like "oh, it will take months to go to these other planets, but black hole world is right here! Don't worry that if we go down it'll be at least seven years minimum!" Like they completely forget that the original astronaut would have just gotten there. That one whole day on the planet would be everyone on Earth long dead. That at no point ever could people viably live next to a black hole. But it was a fun scene showing the mountain waves!

Why would they need to send two, and how many astronauts did they have at their disposal when the clock was ticking down mankind's demise?

Yeah, by far the dumbest scene. And she literally just sent the thumbs up within minutes of landing. Didn't even Fucking do a quick survey of the planet to see if it was survivable.

How did the original humans survive into the future long enough to discover fifth dimensional wormhole technology and send it back in time? Why would they link that up to some shitty dozen uninhabitable worlds? Why would they even care about humans millennia before like, "Oh this is a few thousand years ago back when there were a bunch of humans that died off. We should open a wormhole back then so more of them can survive and fuck up our current time period!"

It's not explained but one can assume NASA didn't have an abundance of trained astronauts available. Same reason they immediately beg Cooper to pilot the next mission for them

Because they needed to teach the humans the power of love

The causal loop is paradoxical from our perspective but not from theirs, I guess.
Maybe they wanted to improve things and were creating a whole new set of circumstances than the unseen one they came from.
Also possible that a) Cooper's speculation was wrong and they actually are aliens, not advanced future humans or b) the future humans got an assist from aliens who ascended to the higher dimension and manipulated time first. It could be a gift/status that advanced civilizations bestow upon others they deem worthy. If you try to do the Zerg or Flood or Harvesters etc thing then you're shut out of the club

He went nuts after years alone. No one could survive such isolation by themselves especially without any pussy.

I feel attacked

coopercels really believe this

HAHAHA

Bruh

Why did you do it?

I'm only Hugh Mann

KINO

But his name would be forever ruined as he would be remembered as the guy who would rather risk the entire human race going extinct than die alone himself. His only option was to kill everyone involved and erase all records of his betrayal so he could rewrite history and be the savior of humanity.
Really, that side plot of Interstellar could have made for an excellent horror film.

Afaik the beings do 2 things, place the wormhole near Saturn and add the tesseract in the black hole's singularity. Because the future is locked I'm still not sure what would force them to communicate with the past in the first place. I mean, if the beings exist surely it means that the past humans in their timeline managed to live through the dust storms and other extinction events. It could be an accident, where they invent a way to change gravity in the past and to test it they end up choosing this specific time and place?
Or it could be multiverses and beings from another timeline decide to lend us a hand. For now humans want to be multi-planetary, then multi-galaxy, then hopefully multi-dimension etc

He had to get it on

What makes you think his plan wasn't always to kill all the rescuers eventually, and then erase all evidence of his betrayal before anyone contacted NASA? He already faked data for the planet and rigged the TARS to blow up so he clearly has the technical knowledge rewrite the official record of what happened.

Dont tell me he's actually called "Hugh Mann."

He is.

Good lord. What's fucking next, Nolan?

You haven't been tested like he was

How did the original humans survive into the future long enough to discover fifth dimensional wormhole technology and send it back in time?

No, you retard, the ones who do that are the humans born on Edmunds planet. It's a closed loop

How the fuck did they reach Edmund'e planet without aliens' help in the first place, retard?