I did not like
INTERSTELLAR at all. I am a sci fi purist I guess and I hate it when films
combine that with metaphysics and new age nonsense. I don't even like 2001 for
that reason and this is far worse. Also it's dreadfully long, very dull, and
full of uninteresting characters. It
wouldn't have hurt to have Anne Hathaway eaten by some kind of alien lifeform. Only good thing I can say is it's always nice
to see Michael Caine in anything.
Getting back to the
introduction of metaphysics into sci-fi, it’s quite a tricky thing to pull
off. Generally, to work it has to be grounded
in the world of the real, of science.
SOLARIS (the original) and BLADE RUNNER are two examples where the
notion of something more than the immediate story works but what is there, a
self-aware planet and self-aware robots, is explainable by the film’s take on
science.
I have never cared for 2001
despite its overwhelming visuals, sound, narrative switches. The whole thing at the end with Keir Dullea
becoming an old man is just ridiculous to me. It’s pointless inscrutability
ruins even the good parts like HAL’s breakdown. In the end, it’s just another
black monolith of meaninglessness for the monkeys to throw their poop at.
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