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It's the near future and "Mission Control" has been taken down (presumably by a computer virus) and a blight is destroying our food crops. Environmental disaster is coming and our days are numbered on Mother Earth. Unfortunately the world is also consumed with an incongruous mixture of hyper-cynicism, conspiracy and hopeless optimism: living day to day, hoping for the best, shunning technology; existing in a perpetual state of damage control, rather than seeking new horizons. In the words of traumatised ex-test pilot, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), we have become caretakers rather than explorers and pioneers. In what appears to be almost an adaptation of the Queen song '39, Cooper leaves his loved ones behind to grow old (relatively) while he travels to another galaxy in search of a habitable world.
Now I'm no astrophysicist but science is dangerous to this film and I'm sure many a diatribe will be spewed forth debunking the film's silly notions of science, as was the case with Gravity. But there's a reason why science is bent in these types of films and that's because the reality is BORING!! And like Gravity, to get hung up on the science anomalies in this film is missing the point somewhat. Film is a creative medium and this is, after all, a science fiction story about how love transcends dimensions of time and space, how we give primacy to our own at the expense of the larger group, and how we willingly pervert all our reason in order to justify our personal hierarchy of priorities. It is not a text book on space travel.
After landing the supporting role in Robert Zemeckis' Contact, Matthew McConaughey now scores the starring role in Christopher Nolan's film of a similar idea. And Contact isn't the only nod here. The film is at times reminiscent of the Coens' A Serious Man in it's attempts to reconcile the supernatural with the scientific; and, most obviously, 2001: A Space Odyssey as the film descends into abstract WTFedness in it's closing chapter. The latter is a conceptual over-reach which perhaps could have worked with a little more pre-laid ground work in Jonathan Nolan's mostly impressive script. As it's presented here, however, it's more than a little hard to swallow.
Where it comes up short in it's abstract conceptualisations, it succeeds admirably at it's emotional core. The depiction of Cooper's departure from his family as he embarks on his odyssey is absolutely heart-breaking; an emotional touchstone in the film that will have devastating personal consequences for all involved (not to mention us, the audience). And it's a credit to the performances of all involved that this characteristic of the film is so engrossing.
Interstellar is a lesser entry into Nolan's canon of cerebro-films - Memento, The prestige and Inception are all better films. Despite it's ambitious attempts, it is probably more on par with Insomnia but, regardless, other directors would kill to have "lesser" films as good as this.
8 out of 10
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I've heard mixed reviews from my friends and I am really having second thoughts if I should watch it or not. Is it really good?
Certainly worth watching. Personally I thought it was a very pretentious film which didn't quite work overall, but it does have its moments.
Worth a watch if you have to fill in time
Didn't think much of it. An amalgamation between AI, Bicentennial man and Space Odyssey 2001, good up to when he went into the black hole.
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Watched it last night and i really enjoyed it.
over rated i thought
been ok if he has his batman suit on
coz bats like black holes
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I'd like to rate it, but honestly, one of the worst heaps of shit i have tried to endure!
Turned it off after 50min... Just couldn't go one.
What a load of dribble, crap predictable story line, B Grade actors....
How it ever got a 8.8 on IMDB i have no idea.
Last edited by ol' boy; 23-03-15 at 09:22 PM.
If u want to go on an expedition get a Land Rover, if u want to come home from an expedition get a Landcruiser!
I liked the cornfield part best!
Did that a few times myself, think I blamed it on tequila! or was it "corn" liquor?
watched it and thought it was shit and boring as hell
dont say linux if i wanted it id install it
ol' boy (24-03-15)
something about Matthew McConaughey with his southern drawl accent and scifi just doesn't go together
ditto wierdo redneck and space just dont mix, unless of course the spaceship is a Chevy with a shotgun behind the seat!
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