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Originally Posted by Relentless
Emotionally involved with who?
The irrelevant son played by Casey Afflec?
The cold but poorly established Michael Cain character?
The guy on the ship whose only purpose in the plot was to be killed by a tidal wave like a redshirt on the Enterprise?
The black genius who had to explain really basic science to the Pilot?
The daughter who is insane/psychic/brilliant/dumb all at the same time?
John Lithgow who rides a rocking chair and offers lines of dialogue that amount to nothing?
These were all poorly established cardboard cutout costars because the main character of the film was supposed to be the Universe and Science... which is what makes it's most glaring failings to abide by known reality even more significant.
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These are all excellent points, I agree!
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Originally Posted by Relentless
Bad scifi movies ignore science. This movie was nonsense with ridiculous leaps in the plot like her knowing her dad is communicating with her, a poorly paced story, a string of useless characters, terrible sound mixing and worse. It wastes performances by great actors like Lithgow and Caine to focus on weak performances and takes 2+ hours to tell a 45 minute story.
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The pace of the film was all over the place!
The viewer is given pretty much zero back story about the mess the world is in, the first 10 - 20 minutes should have given the viewer a graphic insight into how desperate the situation had become. Resource wars, mass riots, martial law etc - I'd imagine if this was mankind's last generation on earth it would look a lot like the scenes in
Elysium (2013) or District 9 that show scenes of abject poverty and despair.
No no we get none of that, Nolan didn't even bother painting a bleak picture at all so we get no sense of urgency about the impending doom for mankind.
Then we go from a very slow pace with a lame ass backstory for the first 30 minutes to Cooper and has daughter finding this super secret NASA compound and within the next 15 minutes Cooper is flying the space mission with the fate of humanity in his hands, seriously?
This is a critical part of the film and needed at least 20 - 30 minutes for the pace of the story to flow, they fast forwarded and glossed over one of the most critical parts of the film!
Also the idea that Cooper would find the NASA base by accident and then 5 minutes later they'd pick him to pilot the mission is beyond absurd, it's fucking retarded!
I'd expect this type of ridiculous writing from some idiots creating some low budget rubbish but not the Nolan Brothers, not 2 of the most talented screenwriters of our generation!
I'm glad there are people slating the film because it does not justify it's current ranking on IMDB. Chrispher Nolan set the bar with
Inception (2010) which was his masterpiece, I expected something at least near this standard and it fell short.
Anyone who thinks
Interstellar (2014) is a masterpiece belongs to the blockbuster action movies crowd who leave their critical thinking at the door.
It's a great film until you start thinking about it...
I'll watch it again before making a final judgement but atm I think the film is probably a 7/10. It's a shame because I was really looking forward to this film, I'm a massive fan of Nolan but he really has let himself down with this film