The whole movie is fraught with these sudden discontinuities, leaving the audience asking the person next to them, "what just happened?"įor example, as Cooper, Amelia Brand and crew hastily jumped on a spaceship to Saturn, we were quickly introduced to cryogenics. Immediately he has to say goodbye to his family, try to convince his sobbing daughter Murph that he's doing the right thing and then, bye bye Earth! In the future, it seems, astronauts need no training or preparation for spaceflight. Cooper, you see, was a test pilot - the best NASA had - until he experienced a test flight accident and quit the space agency. to launch on a rocketship through a wormhole, discovered 50 years prior, to explore a handful of potentially habitable worlds in a different galaxy. Brand explains that humanity's only hope is for Cooper et al. OPINION: Interstellar Earth: The Future We See In Our Stars Interstellar uses this ambivalence as its cornerstone and the IMAX audience cheered when engineer Cooper (McConaughey) shot down his daughter's teacher for telling him the moon landings didn't happen and the Apollo spacecraft were "useless machines."Īlthough this message pervades the entire movie, things quickly started to get unbelievable. So far so good, this was an obvious criticism of how NASA is funded money is cut, projects canceled all because the critical importance of exploration is misunderstood by the government and public alike. But it is still operating off the books, building rockets to save humanity. NASA has been driven 'underground' as a kind of secret organization - the public has zero tolerance for the 'excesses' of exploration, so Congress pretty much de-funded the US space agency. In Interstellar's future we stopped looking to the stars and we paid the ultimate price. The message is clear: If we stop exploring, we die, it's that simple. There's no time for space exploration, life on Earth is all about fighting disease, hunger and crippling climate change. The story begins in the future on a dying Earth. It had potential, but that potential was needlessly squandered. "Interstellar" missed an opportunity to do brilliant science fiction. Some of the back story was overdone, but ultimately it was forgivable.īut those elements were as churned-up as the matter falling into a black hole's accretion disk and even a team of Academy Award-winning actors couldn't pull it out of the event horizon's clutches. We also got to know the characters' histories, their family ties and enduring challenges. Michael Caine, playing Professor Brand (Amelia's father), was even on hand to do physics and quote Dylan Thomas! I'll never read Thomas' work again without hearing Caine's rendition of " Do not go gentle into that good night." It was a movie with all the right elements. In general, the casting and everyone's acting was good. As was Anne Hathaway's character, Amelia Brand.
Matthew McConaughey's acting was as to be expected deep, emotional and well executed.
The movie's storyline, editing and script were clumsy at best.ĪNALYSIS: 'Interstellar' Feeds off our Exoplanet and Wormhole Dreams It was an opportunity to showcase some real interstellar science in the public domain.īut the "Dark Knight Rises" director's space adventure failed to deliver, even though I was trying to see past its scientific shortfalls.Īlthough there were science errors, that wasn't the reason why I walked out of the IMAX theater dazed and confused. On the one hand, I was impressed with Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar." It was an epic movie with wonderful visuals that attempted to bring some tough astrophysics to a general audience.
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