Interstellar - saw this last night, probably should stick a spoiler warning on here first of all................I went into this without reading any reviews on it at all, as from the trailers I had seen, and my interest in the subject matter, nothing was going to deter me from checking it out............scoping out Rotten Tomatoes this morning, Interstellar has got a pretty fresh score, but I have to say, I reckon this is more to do with the fact that Christopher Nolan is directing than anything else................ok, firstly, its three bloody hours long, and I reckon for at least half of that time, I was sitting in my chair rolling my eyes at either the uber-mushy bits, or the scientific dialogue (or thinking that I would like to punch the bloke next to me, who kept snorting through his nose when he laughed at summat his bint said to him)..................way too long...............so, the brief synopsis........Matty Mcconaughey and his family are farmers at some point in the recent future........Earth is screwed, due to an agricultural blight that is wiping out all the juicy crops, and therefore, rather than humanity focusing on advancing scientifically, and continuing to reach out to the stars, we are instead wholly consumed with the best way to produce corn........and nothing else. The message - dont spend all your time growing corn, it tastes crap, and you cant digest it.............so anyway, Mcconaugheys bookcase starts communicating with him, for reasons I cant be arsed to go into, summat to do with parallel universes........and gives him instructions to get in his jeep and travel to what turns out to be a secret NORAD installation, where Michael Caine is knocking up a rocket to travel to another planet with better corn-growing conditions...........as soon as he rolls up, Mcconaughey is recruited as the pilot for this mission, as Caine reckons the existing pool of astronauts are baboons........Mcconaughey agrees, says goodbye to his family in rapid order (mainly his annoying daughter, who cant fathom that saving humanity is quite a noble thing, she wants COOOORN........and this bit is plenty corny), and he literally immediately blasts off with Anne Hathaway in-tow (who also should win a golden raspberry for one of the most punch-worthy performances of the year), and also an AI robot called TARS, who resembles a giant weetabix box, and is about the most ludicrous robot since the one from Lost in Space....DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER!.......anyway, so the craft is heading for a wormhole thats conveniently opened up near Saturn (which is connected to the talking bookcase from earlier), and from hereon in, we follow the motley crew as they explore various worlds via the wormhole to try and find one that might be hospitable (one of them has Matt Damon on it, which turns out to be as annoying as you might imagine).............this is one of the big annoyances with Interstellar, for this chunk of the film, the cast are discussing the science behind it all, of warping space-time, and travelling over the event horizon of black holes as if none of them have ever seen a royal institution christmas lecture, let alone be astro physisists................all of the space travel stuff, that you would imagine would be awe-inspiring, is actually all pretty forgettable, and instills none of the amazement that Gravity managed to conjur up................so anyway, after a few hiccups, they find a lovely planet, manage to find a way to get back to Earth via a black hole, which took less time than the Witham to Braintree bus, and humanity is saved!...........overall, I would say its poorly cobbled together, far too long, and utterly unmemorable, certainly not worth watching on the big screen. Sorry, 2 out of 5 wormholes for this one
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:27:20 +0000
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