What an unholy cosmic stew of a movie! From the very first trailer we saw with Matthew McConaughey in his serious mumbling profound prophetic observation mode, we looked at each other and with spousal wordless communication shook our heads NO. but we became victims of the mass media onslaught praising this piece of solar system garbage as the best movie of the CENTURY.
The plot involves finding a place in outer space where all the people on a rapidly deteriorating earth can live. and that's it. The only tension in the movie was when the spaceship landed on one of Saturn's moons and a tidal wave came close to destroying the ship. Other than that, it was a plodding exercise in space related jargon and slow movements. The movie was almost 3 hours long and i felt like it was over 6 hours!!
I took several lengthy bathroom breaks and each time came back to find the same nonsense on the screen as when i left; a lot of equipment fiddling and instrument panel prodding and intense stares among the astronauts and shots of the sky and endless chatter about black holes and worm holes and relativity and perception and gravity and time warps.
Nolan, the director, seemed to want to put everything he ever knew in one movie; space exploration, a thwarted romance, a widowed parent, a coming of age tale, Einstein's theory of relativity, supernatural goings-on, wise old grandparents and the importance of NASA to our continued prosperity.
I gave this movie a 2 and Bill gave it a 6.
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