And so the movie tries to illustrate this effect at the water planet where the crew goes down to the planet surface for several minutes (less than an hour) and when they return they find their crew mate that had stayed with the ship has aged nearly twenty years. And he's not too happy about that. Plus they find that the water planet won't be suitable because of the huge and massively destructive tsunami's that seem to be a regular feature of it.
This is where the movie started to drag down my spirits as well as the crews.
The soppy angst between father in space and daughter back on Earth. It seemed far too over-wrought and over dramatic. Yet these two characters are key features of the plot which features both as Earth saviors. Another downer. So much sadness and depression.
The Michael Caine character. Man am I getting tired of seeing the geriatric actor playing another grief stricken sobbing character. Not fun to watch. And that Dylan Thomas quote; 'Do not go gently into that good night.....' He must have emoted that line at least three times during the course of the movie. Once might have been enough. Jeez.
Mann's planet. Ice fields and glaciers. Dr. mann attempts to murder Cooper so he can hi-jack Endurance and carryout his crack-pot scheme. Matt Damon seemed mis-cast for this role. I did not see any spot for him in this movie. Square peg, etc.
The gradual decline of livability on planet earth. Another downer. the movie starts out a downer and then spirals down from there.
But there is hope. A space station, currently buried underground just needs to conquer gravity and launch into space as the 'plan B' to save just a few remnants of humanity. And, naturally, Murph solves the equation that makes it all possible. Wow, what do we do, create an anti-gravity device? Just in the nick of time, I gather. ;-)
Then what about the Tesseract thingie...
animated gif of a tesseract
Gosh....my brain's starting to feel like that Tesseract looks...
Ok so this is an attempt at a 'good' sci-fi movie,... but man there was so much depression in so many scenes that it was starting drag down the audience in that imax theater where I saw it.
It did end kinda upbeat with Cooper speeding off to find Dr. Brand on a planet which may be humanity's best hope....
whew. I put too much effort into trying to get into this movie. In the end, I can't say I care about it. There's no fun in watching it.
Nope, I did not buy the blu-ray.
-Steve
