Movie Tuesday: Interstellar
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| The ships in Interstellar weren't CGI. |
So the movie continues, and asks
you to accept that a wormhole appeared, implies that aliens put it there, and
that they flew people into it and discovered planets. This all was easy enough to accept, in a
science fiction movie. But then the
professor tells us he is working to create anti-gravity machines. Although it turned out to be a lie, at the
time, it was just a little too much to swallow.
So Cooper gets launched into space on the (rather un-aerodynamic
looking) “Ranger”, and we get our first good look at the best thing the movie
has going for it – the visuals.
Specifically, the physical models of spacecraft built and filmed with
real cameras. And it looked amazing, better
than any CGI spaceship. <3
After the all-too-short
intermission where the film is not
straining credibility, they have the planets orbit a black hole. Not that it’s impossible, just that the aliens
who built the wormhole couldn’t build one that lead to a better solar system? The
real problem with this sequence is that they had absolutely no plan.
Apparently they just built this multi-billion dollar spacecraft and
launched into a wormhole hoping the people would just figure it out. Generally expensive expeditions of any kind,
particularly space missions, are planned out in detail. Like which places they are going to go to.
Also, why did the Ranger have to get launched on a rocket at the beginning,
but it could fly onto orbit on its own later, on a planet with “130% Earth’s
gravity”?
But once you get over that, the
movie actually starts to get pretty exciting, with two genuinely intriguing
revelations. First that the professor
never thought the gravity machine was going to work, and that the astronaut
Mann lied that his planet was habitable.
The film picked up pace, raised thoughtful questions, and some of Mann’s
dialogue in particular was excellent.
The docking sequences were thrilling, and I thought the movie might just
make up for some of its weirdness at the beginning. Unfortunately the film makes the decision not
to come to an end. It then continues not
ending for a painfully long time, until it has been sucked dry of any mystery or profundity.
Final score: 6/10 Just About Faboo
What did
you think of Interstellar? What about space, science fiction in general? Tell us in
the comments, and have a so super faboo day!
