I agree with much of what you wrote save one – The two alien worlds aren’t "well design" at all. While I did praise the music, it also made me very intense. While this may work for a few scenes, it robs most scenes of any kind of gravity, and creates plot holes. Scenes snap at the pace of an caffeinated kitten, leaving the audience jumpy and felling like they fell through an wormhole. Not since that French Special Forces movie have I seen a jumpy mess of a film. It also doesn't help that the music simply overpowers the dialog audio track, and drowns out the spoken word, especially at critical points. Often I felt that the dialog fails to move the plot or the central ideas forward, and they often discuss other things in oddball ways. The scenes back on Earth are much better than once the action switches to the Endurance. Where Interstellar falls flat on its face, is the story, where it goes, and what the actors say between them. If you notice what I said about the good of Interstellar, it was not the script or the overall story nor the dialog. Truly, one of the great moments in science fiction cinema. All-in-all, Interstellar is one hell of an visual/auditory feast that has a creepy air to it. It is an moment that needs to be experienced on an IMAX with the speakers pumping. However, the greatest moment of the film comes when the Endurance enters the wormhole. This is also applied to the oddball robot designs that appear to be out of the video game Minecraft, however they work on-screen and are impressive in an odd way. The ship, Interstellar, and the Ranger landers are also done with real-science and real beauty. When it comes time for the time to travel millions of lightyears away, the distance and the nature of deep space is surprising realistic that allows the audience to travel emotional and mental to those very distance points of light, The two alien world environments seen on-screen are very well designed allowing the audience an instant and real alien vista to look upon that seems alien and hostile. To add that layer, Nolan mines the PBS documentary on the Dust Bowl (which I watched), and uses it with great effectiveness. What will the crew and LEGO robots of Endurance see on the other side of the wormhole? However, some rouge underground scientists have been constructing an space vehicle called Endurance to travel through the looking glass, the bulk of the film starts, the major plot points are revealed along with other weirdness. The only thing is that the US government axed NASA years ago due to budget issues. Hope arrives with an unknown wormhole forming near Saturn that could allow humanity to explore the cosmos to locate some vacant real estate in another galaxy. Added to this that the bulk of the food crops are failing all around them, and human life on Earth is about to go out. Humans and all life on Earth are suffering through an environmental collapse that has left human civilization in an emergency agrarian society mode, with governments and society at large, just hanging on. The future is not pretty, and Terra is not a happy world. Oh, and I ended up seeing Interstellar and Big Hero 6 in the same day. Interstellar is directed by the peerless Christopher Nolan, with the script written by Nolan and his brother with help from noted theoretical physicist Kip Thorne. Given that and the subject matter, I went to see Interstellar late Saturday night after my first week of teaching at an local Dallas IMAX theater, It is my hope that this blogpost signals the return of FWS back to regular traffic. Much like the film that Interstellar is patterned after, 2001: A Space Odyssey, this film could become the standard by other future science fiction films are set by. As I've said before, science fiction is a collective social cathartic experience, and it seems that we, as a species, are concerned about the future of our little blue world. Sound familiar? It is not just the plot of the latest Christoper Nolan film, but also one of the most recent newly-common tropes in science fiction, and works like Virtuality, Earth 2, After Earth, and Titan AE. The Earth is dying, and the future of mankind rests on a band of intrepid explorer-astronauts to locate an atmospheric standard world.
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