Really don't read this if you haven't seen Interstellar yet. Consider that a spoiler alert fair warning.
Facebook was going wild last week with enthusiasm about Interstellar and despite my initial reservations I was pretty excited about seeing it too. The cinematography was totally awesome. And honestly, I really liked the beginning it felt like something inexplicable and complicated was happening in the future world we were watching. Matthew McConaughey was actually great. I bought the explanations of relativity and that 1 hour on the planet they were exploring was 23 years on Earth - when Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey predictably got stuck on the planet - and then came back to the space ship to see their friends and family already grown old it was emotional.
McConaughey has totally perfected crying. Which is good, because he does it a lot.
I'm not sure if I would agree with all the reviews applauding the 'intelligence' of the film. Yes, there are brainy subjects confronted like wormholes, relativity, dimensions of space and time. But when you scrape back the self-congratulatory intelligence there's not a huge amount of substance left. For example the explanation of a wormhole was one guy holding a piece of paper folding it in half and then sticking a pencil through it. ha. ha. I feel like as an audience we could have handled more.
Either way it was good, I was totally on board. Right up to Matt Damon. It wasn't just the casting decision. Don't get me wrong I love Matt Damon and he wasn't bad in it. I think it was the collective groan from the audience as Matt Damon sat up from his hibernation in space that summed it up for me. The fact that I was in a tiny, little, half-full cinema in Salzburg and you could literally hear the pain from the audience at this point says everything that needs to be said.
It pretty much went downhill from there. Culminating in the particular low point of Matthew McConaughey being sucked into a black hole and finding himself in another dimension looking through his never-ending bookshelves at his daughter and communicating with her through gravity. I'm not really sure how he suddenly figured out all the equations that he communicated which eventually saved the world. And then he woke up in a hospital bed with his daughter an old granny. We need to just kill off characters with less reservations basically.
It's definitely worth watching - I did enjoy it - but expect to take a few moments rolling your eyes throughout.
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