| Indeed. There are plenty of supposedly top-notch movies that would be no better than the dross if it wasn't for shed-loads of cash and better acting. As my first witness I call Interstellar which was launched as some sort of high-concept equivalent to 2001 A Space Odyssey. Well, tbh I have my doubts about 2001 other than it being a being a pretty amazing feast of visuals, but Interstellar is a definite stinker plot-wise. It has all the hallmarks: plenty of clever scenes, a big bag of ideas, but a resolution that is so fuzzy and blurry in its smoke and mirrors nonsense that they might as well have had Gandalph appear, wave a wand and declare that it's all OK now. When I look at the serious debates around nonsense like this or the mangled Reader's Digest philosophy of something like Arrival, I can't help but notice the contempt poured on a film like Jupiter Ascending which never aspired to being more than entertainment. never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead |
