I think the music is incredible and the story itself was amazing… but the whole film is a slow trudge to get to its point. I wish it had more substance instead of just dragging us along on sidequests to get to the climax.
When Anne Hathaway’s character started going off about love being the most powerful thing in the universe or something, I started tuning out. You have all these scientists, supposedly logical and rational people, who are fighting to save humanity from extinction, and you wanna trust in an emotional concept like love to guide you?! Nope, credibility revoked.
If memory serves, I think her argument was to save a loved one who was sent on a potentially suicidal mission by himself to another planet. Instead of picking a logical course to a planet that might be good for humanity, she wanted to go after her lover and save him. Which might doom humanity.
I agree that the “love” argument was poorly stated, and framed in a stupid way (as a force, really?).
But I think it ultimately makes sense, in a Richard Dawkins’ Selfish Gene kind of way. Our species has strong pro-social tendencies, where we are willing to put in huge amounts of labor, resources, and sacrifice for loved ones. In the aggregate, across large populations, that can add up to some pretty powerful emergent group behavior that adds up to something that is difficult to model through its individual components. Our species has done some amazing things, and will probably continue to do amazing things, motivated by a bunch of emotions that include what we call “love.”
My wife and I walked out of the first iron man movie. It was so stupid and cheesy. 1 gazillion dollar franchise later, I still don’t get it. People had fun with those movies and I’m glad for that.
I thought the first one was entertaining and pretty good. The ones that follow are very bad though, and still massively popular. They get so stupid that I just can’t suspend disbelief any more, and have to turn them off.
Felt similar when a girl I was seeing in college dragged me to Ant Man. Afterward, the entire group of people we went with were raving about how good it was,am and I was left wondering if we all saw the same movie.
I loved this movie when it came out, but you’re right, there isn’t much worth in it if you think about the plot or the science for more than 2 seconds. Soundtrack is still one of my favorites, though. Last time I watched it, I was high as a kite, and that made it pretty enjoyable.
Emotionally, I think it does a great job. Logically, it’s pretty stupid. The music, the effects, and the plot all work together to make you feel something, but the plot doesn’t really make sense when you think about it at all. I don’t think that should be a requirment. There are plenty of stories that do the same thing.
I think the issue is that it’s sci-fi, which has a certain expectation of logic. The characters are all scientists, but then they just ditch logic. I think it took themes from another genre and put them into sci-fi and it did it fairly effectively. It’s just the sci-fi is usually there to make you think, but Interstellar you’re just supposed to feel and not think.
It is useless to read these review of movies that target certain market. People who love science fiction would glorify the movie, while other who don’t care will not bother writing or thinking about it.
I went to see it in a theater, and left half way through it felt like a waste of time.
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I think the music is incredible and the story itself was amazing… but the whole film is a slow trudge to get to its point. I wish it had more substance instead of just dragging us along on sidequests to get to the climax.
When Anne Hathaway’s character started going off about love being the most powerful thing in the universe or something, I started tuning out. You have all these scientists, supposedly logical and rational people, who are fighting to save humanity from extinction, and you wanna trust in an emotional concept like love to guide you?! Nope, credibility revoked.
If memory serves, I think her argument was to save a loved one who was sent on a potentially suicidal mission by himself to another planet. Instead of picking a logical course to a planet that might be good for humanity, she wanted to go after her lover and save him. Which might doom humanity.
I agree that the “love” argument was poorly stated, and framed in a stupid way (as a force, really?).
But I think it ultimately makes sense, in a Richard Dawkins’ Selfish Gene kind of way. Our species has strong pro-social tendencies, where we are willing to put in huge amounts of labor, resources, and sacrifice for loved ones. In the aggregate, across large populations, that can add up to some pretty powerful emergent group behavior that adds up to something that is difficult to model through its individual components. Our species has done some amazing things, and will probably continue to do amazing things, motivated by a bunch of emotions that include what we call “love.”
I thought it was a pretty good mid-season episode of TNG.
My wife and I walked out of the first iron man movie. It was so stupid and cheesy. 1 gazillion dollar franchise later, I still don’t get it. People had fun with those movies and I’m glad for that.
I thought the first one was entertaining and pretty good. The ones that follow are very bad though, and still massively popular. They get so stupid that I just can’t suspend disbelief any more, and have to turn them off.
Felt similar when a girl I was seeing in college dragged me to Ant Man. Afterward, the entire group of people we went with were raving about how good it was,am and I was left wondering if we all saw the same movie.
I loved this movie when it came out, but you’re right, there isn’t much worth in it if you think about the plot or the science for more than 2 seconds. Soundtrack is still one of my favorites, though. Last time I watched it, I was high as a kite, and that made it pretty enjoyable.
Emotionally, I think it does a great job. Logically, it’s pretty stupid. The music, the effects, and the plot all work together to make you feel something, but the plot doesn’t really make sense when you think about it at all. I don’t think that should be a requirment. There are plenty of stories that do the same thing.
I think the issue is that it’s sci-fi, which has a certain expectation of logic. The characters are all scientists, but then they just ditch logic. I think it took themes from another genre and put them into sci-fi and it did it fairly effectively. It’s just the sci-fi is usually there to make you think, but Interstellar you’re just supposed to feel and not think.
I had the same exact impression of it. It’s so refreshing to see other people thinking the same of it.
It is useless to read these review of movies that target certain market. People who love science fiction would glorify the movie, while other who don’t care will not bother writing or thinking about it.
I went to see it in a theater, and left half way through it felt like a waste of time.