Interstellar
Saw this yesterday. I like Nolan's non-Batman films, but this was not his best.
*some vaguely spoilerishy comments below*
It's not actively painful to watch as long as you don't want to think too much, and as long as you don't care that they repeat the same things over and over and over again - how many fucking times do I have to hear Do Not Go Gentle, or to hear someone tell me that time is relative, for fucks sakes? But it's a shambolic mishmash
The first part, on Earth, in the future-dustbowl, I thought was actually OK film-making (although all kinds of question about the future come up, like, if they have all the technology to have fuel in 2050, or whenever it is, how come nobody's designed a vehicle that doesn't look like a Jeep Wrangler? Also, why are the only three crops anyone eats Wheat, Corn and Okra? Okra? Really? Okra? Why hasn't there been an aubergine blight, huh? Couldn't you eat tomatoes or turnips?).
The second part was too much plodding around in space trying to look like Gravity, but with much less success because there wasn't the gentle grace, but instead lots of noise and Anne Hathaway's face wobbling around a bit.
And then the big coup-de-grace ending (which had another utterly pointless ending tacked on afterwards) was utter, utter bollocks, really. Possibly more so, even, than the usual tosh you get when film-makers try and muck about with time.
Saw this yesterday. I like Nolan's non-Batman films, but this was not his best.
*some vaguely spoilerishy comments below*
It's not actively painful to watch as long as you don't want to think too much, and as long as you don't care that they repeat the same things over and over and over again - how many fucking times do I have to hear Do Not Go Gentle, or to hear someone tell me that time is relative, for fucks sakes? But it's a shambolic mishmash
The first part, on Earth, in the future-dustbowl, I thought was actually OK film-making (although all kinds of question about the future come up, like, if they have all the technology to have fuel in 2050, or whenever it is, how come nobody's designed a vehicle that doesn't look like a Jeep Wrangler? Also, why are the only three crops anyone eats Wheat, Corn and Okra? Okra? Really? Okra? Why hasn't there been an aubergine blight, huh? Couldn't you eat tomatoes or turnips?).
The second part was too much plodding around in space trying to look like Gravity, but with much less success because there wasn't the gentle grace, but instead lots of noise and Anne Hathaway's face wobbling around a bit.
And then the big coup-de-grace ending (which had another utterly pointless ending tacked on afterwards) was utter, utter bollocks, really. Possibly more so, even, than the usual tosh you get when film-makers try and muck about with time.
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