These Are The Best Parts Of Interstellar We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, Matthew McConaughey says in the first act of Interstellar, Christopher Nolans new epic adventure. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt. That sentiment is what propels Interstellar, a movie about a near future where Earth is down to its last crop (corn), the atmosphere is suffocated with dirt clouds and humanitys capacity for exploration has been pounded into dust. Enter McConaugheys Coop, a former pilot, and the last remnants of NASA (embodied by Michael Caine and Anne Hathaway), all of whom team up to find the residents of Earth a new home planet. (Thats the other key theme in Interstellar: Mankind was born on earth. It was never meant to die here.) Hype for Interstellar has been building for months, but does Nolans latest blockbuster deliver? It kind of does! But not in the ways you might expect. Ahead, the four most effective parts of Interstellar.Renesmee From Twilight Is Better Than Jessica Chastain Jessica Chastain is a great performer -- and shes got a couple of really affecting moments in Interstellar -- but shes not even the best actress playing her own character in the movie. That title belongs to Mackenzie Foy (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), who plays Chastains Murph as a youngster. Foy has a lot of heavy emotional scenes with McConaughey, who plays her dad, and those bits act as a foundation for what Chastain does later. Shes a revelation, and while not as highly touted as Chastain, McConaughey and Hathaway, its the 13-year-old star who gives the films best performance.That Water Planet Is Dope You know whats cool? Giant waves that look like mountains. The water planet, glimpsed in the above trailer, even allows Nolan to make a vague Star Wars reference: Those arent mountains, theyre waves, says Coop, with a tone that recalls Obi-Wan.The Ambition Is Contagious Its dumb when people compare movies to roller coasters, because roller coasters move and movies do not. But Interstellar is so immersive that it does feel like a theme park ride. Thats cool! Its an ambitious movie, stuffed with ideas both smart and silly and visuals that might make audience members dizzy (especially on an IMAX screen). Its rare that a filmmaker takes such a big swing in this era of homogenized blockbusters. Love Interstellar or merely feel like its the equivalent of the shrug emoticon, Nolans mere attempts here are reason enough to enjoy it.Finally, A Movie Thats Pro-Humanity So often, movies about the end of the world focus on the evil that springs up from the chaos. Not Interstellar, which treats our impending doom in a relatable way and makes a case that humankind is truly exceptional. Sure, our own failings led to the situation at hand in the first place, but who better than a scrappy bunch of people to clean up the mess? Interstellar believes in the best of us, even when were being the worst. Thats commendable in 2014. Why not us? Interstellar asks. Well, why not?
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:29:41 +0000
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