[RunningFree]

Originally Posted by StylinRed

To even compare it to 2001 is an insult imo
This failed everywhere 2001 succeeded in


Edit about the ending...

Spoiler!

I thought they would tie in what Anne Hathaway and Matt Damons characters were saying about love being a powerful draw and in the end McConaughey would see his kids because that's what he wanted most...(so he imagined the ending as he dies) but if that's what Nolan tried to convey in the end there it didn't play out how I would have expected as it not only ties in but also adds too much to the story be related, imho, to that concept.... so instead of tying in the long winded scenes of Damon & Hathaway, which would have made the movie pretty good, we get a kind of lame/quick explanation of 'oh evolved humans did it causing a paradox'. In doing so it really hurt the movie for me and caused me to dislike those scenes with Damon & Hathaway even more

But then if he didn't do that too many people would be bitching for an explanation about the 'ghost' and wormholes so I guess Nolan was damned either way...

But I wonder if in a way, Interstellar succeeded where 2001 failed... ie. Giant space baby.

I think for the most part, Interstellar managed to semi-neatly tie up it's loose ends. Even if those loose ends were drawn from plot devices that were way too hastily set up to have any emotional buy-in.

For example:

Spoiler!

"Hey Coop, you're perfect to fly this shit through a worm hole."
"Roger that NASA, I'm good to go. Fuck you kids, I'm outta here."

I think the only character I really had any empathy for was Dr. Mann.

Spoiler!

That dude got the short end of the stick. And while being a little too high and mighty during his speech, you could sense the desperation and his struggle with his humanity/guilt when he leaves Cooper to die.

The other major plot devices were pretty weak. Overall, I feel like it was some sort of visual tour de force that really had no substance behind it, other than an overly dramatic score that was really kind of annoying at times.

The one thing that did have me excited, only to let me down:

Spoiler!

The possibility of seeing Cooper pilot the new generation ranger ship, which kind of looked like it might a one man fighter with have combat capability (his flight suit was coincidentally military colored). This was interesting to me because at that point, man had been able to utilize gravity, and it's possible that the fighter/ship might of used a gravatic drive instead of using conventional (as we know them) engines. That would mean the ship could utilize a singularity to generate momentum and travel at near relativistic speeds! /end sci-fi nerd rant

*sigh* Ok it wasn't exactly as bad as I'm making it out to be... but even the people I watched it with, who aren't very critical viewers felt cheated.