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Interstellar - late to the party - just saw it this afternoon

Posted by Chris from Lafayette on November 16, 2014 at 20:22:41:
Although I found "Interstellar" not too bad (if only because of its aspirations and the beauty of some of its visuals), I'm afraid I have to agree pretty heavily with tin and the other naysayers. I found some of the plot twists preposterous, despite all the wordy explanations (and I even like to feel that I can willingly suspend disbelief more than most!). As one critic said regarding the geek-speak, ". . . this sort of thing was done with more wit and panache in the “Star Trek” of William Shatner vintage than in either “Gravity” or “Interstellar”."

Someone on the production team also appeared to have the genius idea that if you turned up the music LOUD enough, it would somehow seem PROFOUND. (I found it funny that one of the subwoofers at the theater where my wife and I saw the movie appeared to blow out during the showing, and produced a sorry rattling noise instead of more floor shaking! No worries however - there were at least 12 more subs still blasting!) And yet, other parts of Hans Zimmer's score seemed like watered down Philip Glass (and that's pretty watered down!).

The motivations of some characters also seemed lame: I guess Matt Damon woke up on the wrong side of his suspension chamber, so he takes out his ill humor on Cooper and crew - that whole episode was a mess. And Michael Caine's motivations come from. . . where exactly? Oh yeah, he cares more about his theory than about humanity? Well, I guess it takes all kinds.

Overall, my problem with this flick was the opposite of the one faced by Cooper and his crew on the tsunami planet. There, one hour equaled seven years in earth time. But in watching this relentless trudge of a movie, I thought I'd been in my seat for days when it finally ended. But then I looked at my watch and found that only 3 hours had elapsed!

BTW, I enjoyed "Inception" (it was fun), so nothing against Nolan in particular.