..."meh." Actually it was more "blah." I didn't like it. I didn't hate it either, I didn't have the same visceral reaction that I had to some of my most loathed movies like Armageddon, Die Another Day, Tommy or Gone With The Wind. Just "blah." And maybe that's worse, because at least those turd burgers DID elicit a strong reaction to me, even if not a positive one. Mostly I was just disappointed with Interstellar, even after I rejected all of the hype and didn't go in expecting the best thing ever. I was at least expecting to be somewhat entertained or intellectually stimulated and the movie failed on both accounts.
I'm not going to take much time writing about this movie as it really doesn't deserve that much space. Matthew McConaughey annoyed me. The rest of the actors disappointed me - even Michael Caine seemed to be phoning it in. There are way to many Hollywood Theatrics for a supposedly hard sci-fi movie. The abysmal score by Hans Zimmer is too loud and refuses to shut up. The film is somehow overly pretentious and cutesy - one of the characters is even named "Murphy" after Murphy's Law (really). Characters do things irrationally and out of the blue not to illustrate human fallibility or be realistic but to provide cheap Hollywood "Drama". With all of the shouting and tears and glurgy music you can tell that this movie is trying to manipulate you emotionally, it's not subtle like, say, Conan The Barbarian (yeah, I just went there).
I do not have a degree in science but even I could smell BS on some of the "science" in this film - I doubt that entry into a black hole would result in what happens in this movie. Even without the scientific factor, there are just way too many plot holes and stupid moments and stupid things that bring up way too many questions... why is a man who last piloted a plane 10 years ago *perfect* to fly a new spacecraft into another galaxy? Why did the aliens (or whoever) who supposedly want to help humanity put a wormhole out by Saturn when it would have been waaaaaaay more helpful and expedient to put it closer to Earth - say, closer to Mars or the Moon? For that matter what's up with the propulsion technology of the future? They use a three-stage rocket to launch the spaceship from Earth and it takes this craft 2 years to reach said wormhole at Saturn (which is about how long it would take using today's technology) but their landers have Star Trek shuttlecraft anti-grav and propulsion technology and can land *and* take off on their own. If they have sufficient AI to make sentient, wisecracking robots, why couldn't they just send advanced robot explorers out to this other galaxy instead of people who are fated to die (they try and explain away this one but it's bullshit)? For that matter if the Earth is dying why don't the humans just immigrate to orbiting space colonies (oppa) Gundam-style? You don't strictly need a planet to live, and they even show an O'Neill type cylinder at the end! Arrrrrgh!
Alright, as usual I spent way to much time ranting about this. This is a movie I never want to see again. I'm only providing one screenshot for this. I had to watch another sci-fi movie, any other SF movie, to get the bad taste of this out of my brain. I ended up watching Planet of the Vampires, which is actually a much better movie than Interstellar - and this is a 60s film that has Italian space zombies in leather gimp suits. Hey, there's an idea - why don't I review Planet of the Vampires?
Next Time: Planet of the Vampires
