![]() It's executed flawlessly and is some of the most exciting action from last year. ![]() There's a sequence where Cooper has to dock with a space station spinning out of control. Nolan's visuals treat space as reverently and awe-inspiring as Terrance Malick's beautiful depictions of deep space during the Tree of Life. Cooper, along with Brand's daughter (Anne Hathaway), and a small team set out to find out what's on the other side of the wormhole. Viable worlds lay in wait on the other side. Extinction of the human race is inevitable if they can't find a new place to live. No matter how much corn they try to grow, humankind will eventually succumb to the Earth's dusty future. When Cooper learns that NASA has remained active, in secret, he's called upon by old friend Professor Brand (Michael Caine) to save humanity. Thinking of being separated from my son by millions of light years conjures up within me an eternal sort of dread. I hate to pull the "You have to be a parent card," but it's just so true here. The relationship between Murph and Cooper is certainly the crux of the movie. His young daughter Murph (young Mackenzie Foy, older Jessica Chastain), is a stubborn, thoughtful daughter who will no doubt be the key to the story as it unfolds. Though when food became scarce, traveling the stars in spaceships seemed like a gargantuan waste of money. What will we do then?Ĭooper is a corn farmer, however, he was really born to pilot NASA rocket ships. Though, it's just a matter of time before the world is out of food (though, curiously barley-based alcohol seems rather plentiful). One by one the world's major crop species are dying, leaving us hungry and relying on the last sustainable crop, corn. ![]() America is trapped in an increasingly dangerous futuristic Dust Bowl. The platitudes begin to wear thin right when the movie gets exciting, so it's easy to forget about the labored insistence of the screenplay to throw down eternally true witticisms. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), seems transfixed on coining a new phrase the future of the human race will use for eternity. Yes, it does have a tendency to over-explain itself, but what stood out to me this time around was the intention of the script to throw out as many deep thoughts it possibly can within the first 40 minutes or so. When I reviewed Interstellar during its initial theatrical release I said, "While stupendously broad in scope and epic space adventure, Nolan's "Interstellar" is also frustratingly jam-packed with so much explanation that there's little left up to the imagination." After seeing it a third time I'm not so sure I feel that way anymore. There really isn't a moment in the movie that you could point to and say, "Well, that's dull." Some might take issue with the on-the-nose nature of the Nolan brothers' screenplay, but the movie never lacks excitement. It's a continuously taut juggernaut of epic space action accompanied by Hans Zimmer's organ-infused score. Interstellar, no matter if you love it, or hate it, is indeed a whole lotta movie. It was my third time through, and I have to admit, she's spot on. "That's a whole lotta movie," gasped my wife after her first viewing of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. ![]()
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