Re: Interstellar
Maybe a spoiler............
Really a dud. What a shame. It had me from the title...but turned out to be only a poor rehash of Space Odyssey with a father-daughter soap opera plotline pasted in. I mean, really...he had to go to another galaxy to do the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe thing? (Substitute book shelf for wardrobe.) And the music...very similar to the Ligeti selections used in '2001'.
A very ambitious movie to be sure--a stewpot of ideas from environmental depradation to ruminations on the survival instinct to the theory of relavity/time dilation to quantum mechanics to hoaxed moon landing. Every 15 minutes or so the plot, such as it was, ground to a halt so the characters could unburden themselves of exposition about high school level science or pseudo science.
I tried, mostly successfully, to read and listen to nothing about it in advance. I had no idea of the cast members except Matthew McC. I readily accepted the inclusion of Lithgow, Caine and Hathaway, but as the adventure shuffled on, a sort of distracting game ensued as A list and sub A list stars kept popping up...oh, there's Jessica Chastain...oh, there's Casey Affleck...oh, there's Topher Grace...oh, there's, omg, Matt Damon. It felt like stunt casting.
For me, the movie completely lacked the quality of awe that made '2001' such a great film. And frankly, for my money, '2001' looked better.
Maybe a spoiler............
Really a dud. What a shame. It had me from the title...but turned out to be only a poor rehash of Space Odyssey with a father-daughter soap opera plotline pasted in. I mean, really...he had to go to another galaxy to do the Lion, Witch and Wardrobe thing? (Substitute book shelf for wardrobe.) And the music...very similar to the Ligeti selections used in '2001'.
A very ambitious movie to be sure--a stewpot of ideas from environmental depradation to ruminations on the survival instinct to the theory of relavity/time dilation to quantum mechanics to hoaxed moon landing. Every 15 minutes or so the plot, such as it was, ground to a halt so the characters could unburden themselves of exposition about high school level science or pseudo science.
I tried, mostly successfully, to read and listen to nothing about it in advance. I had no idea of the cast members except Matthew McC. I readily accepted the inclusion of Lithgow, Caine and Hathaway, but as the adventure shuffled on, a sort of distracting game ensued as A list and sub A list stars kept popping up...oh, there's Jessica Chastain...oh, there's Casey Affleck...oh, there's Topher Grace...oh, there's, omg, Matt Damon. It felt like stunt casting.
For me, the movie completely lacked the quality of awe that made '2001' such a great film. And frankly, for my money, '2001' looked better.
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