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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Can 10 million viewers be wrong?: Interstellar

God knows why but I did watch the rest of Interstellar last night and I feel as if I went through one of the gravity holes or whatever they are, as if I was about 40 years older by the time the movie ended. I wasn't 100-percent right in predicting the ending, I admit, but the ending certainly held no important surprises - not that anyone cares. Can anybody follow the plot line here, with all these ridiculous time warps, McConaughey talking to his daughter across all sorts of time dimensions? And does it matters? I watched the whole damn thing to see Iceland location setting and got to see about 20 minutes on a glacier that might as well have been a studio set of a digital manipulation. There is nothing in the least original about this movie - neither its apocolyptic premise (plant must be saved from peril), its team of experts (direct knockoff of that scifi thriller - Asteroid? - of a decade or so back), even the friendly robot companions are a weak-tea version of the bos from Star Wars and a million sequels. Christopher Nolan and brother Jack Nolan used to make smart, small, literary films (Memento) that nobody watched and now they make huge, bloated, preposterous, boring films with major stars, major budgets, and everybody watches them - so can you blame them? I can only recall an NYT book review in which the reviewer, writing about some international bestseller, quoted the promotional copy that said: Can 10 million readers be wrong? And the answer is: Usually, yes.

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