Interstellar

Interstellar

Okay everyone, go get your pitchforks, because I really don't like this movie.

I won't spend much time on the good, because everyone knows what is good about it. The effects are cutting-edge & breathtaking and it's possibly the greatest score ever put to the silver screen. I'm willing to rate it as high as I do because there is some absolute craft here. I had great reactions to the great moments in this too, I'm not made of stone. The spinning docking sequence & the waves both had me. The marine robots are also hilarious one of my favorite individual elements.

Now to why I am so jaded about this. I find the pacing in the first half of the movie really unpleasant. There a few sudden cuts that skip a small amount of time that are super jarring and completely interrupt immersion in the story. I think the dialogue is entirely clunky. I usually don't have a problem with the Nolan-exposition, but in this it got on my nerves really quickly. And I hate the phrase quantum data more than anything, I cringe at the sci-fi technique of throwing two science words together.

I know I've said previously that dads and space are the two things in movies that resonate super strongly with me, but in this I had a complete disconnect. A lot of that has to do with the ending, which is entirely deus ex machina. The reduction of love to a scientific concept is asinine to me, and if anything devalues the power of love in this world as nothing more than a quantifiable number.

Feel free to disagree. I can take on the entire 3+ million Letterboxd community.

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