In the Scooby Doo cartoons and various crap movies, there's often a scene where the heroes are chasing villains and they come to a fork in the road. After the suspicion of a delay, somebody points and shouts, 'they must have gone this way!'
There's a similar device in other crap movies, particularly the comic ones, where, in order to avoid the necessity of actually resolving all the threads, there's a load of action, plenty of smoke, a bit of magic and somehow all is OK. Nothing is actually explained.
Exactly that happens in Interstellar.
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A lot of recycled material in it, including from 2001, visuals from Nolan's earlier Inception, and premises and plot devices from The Martian (hell, it even has Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain). I did like that Matt turned out to be the bad guy though!
The black hole thing was probably the most interesting and original bit, not really enough to make up for the other shortcomings.
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And was the black-hole stuff original and interesting? I thought that was just a bit of 'then the fairy produced a magic black hole and time-stuff and other magic-stuff and the big astronaut clicked his heels and said "there's no place like home" a bit and then it was all OK.'
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I liked this film despite many valid (and invalid) criticisms. I think it comes down to that I could listen to McCaughanghangheney talking all day long and then a pompous Hans Zimmer soundtrack as well, there's almost nothing else needed really but they throw in some space things and a bit of imagining other planet surfaces.
I enjoyed it all the way through to the end. I can put up with a great deal of unlikliness and cod science if the story moves along and this one did - right up to the end. Then everybody seemed to sort of 'I know, libraries and books are full of clevers so we'll have a few of them,' and 'pretty lights are good' and it all works out because 'gravity' and 'future people' and stuff as though 80% was directed and filmed by one film crew and the final 20% by the Jumanji film crew.
To be fair, it wasn't quite as awful as the inexplicably dreadful silicone rubber baby at the end of 2001.
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I thought it was very entertaining despite pervasive silliness and being far too long. Not really one of Nolan's best though. The father-daughter angst was a bit much.
Oh yeah and the most annoying robots since Lost In Space's Class B-9-M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot
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I didn't think it'd win any awards for amazing acting or plot or anything like that, but it was otherwise a definite worthwhile watch for me, and I enjoyed it. I echo Milko's thought about Matthew McHhhhngnngey though.
