Interstellar: A Cosmic Disappointment (spoilers)

Wallpaper of the film with one of the planets Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his team visit.

So we saw Interstellar yesterday. 

The hype we had towards this film when we heard about it was high and we were intrigued with how Nolan could deal with a space film. Eventually, more news came out and the film was being cast with promising actors such as Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway and so on. We got more and more hyped and excited to watch the film. Then came the trailers and our excitement was comparable to a little kid waiting in line for the new CoD.

Then came the day we went to see it. We were disappointed with the film. This film is ridiculous. Everything is wrong with the story and the science. 

In this film, the human species faces the biggest challenge it has ever seen with the world coming to an end since the food will run out any time soon. The only food source they seem to be able to grow is corn, which is shown to be dying out. After that, the humans will die from asphyxiation from the dust bowl. Meanwhile, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and Donald (John Lithgow) drink beer in the porch and attend a baseball game along with Coopers children Murph (Mackenzie Foy) and Tom (Timothée Chalamet). What a great way of solving the starvation problem. 

The first act basically introduces the premise of the story, the characters and the mission that Cooper needs to fulfill. Throughout the film Nolan tries to force the relationship between Cooper and Murph after their bitter end when Murph realizes that she may never see her father again. However, all his son can think about is if he keeps the truck or not. Later on the film we see for some reason Tom mad at his dad for leaving him when he clearly showed little emotion when they departed. They fucked up this part. And so many others. Somehow, Cooper and Murph stumble to a secret base led by NASA who were secretly planning a mission to look for planets that are perfect for sustaining life, yet with all their money to fund such a large project they couldn't have researched into something useful like farming as that was main priority of mankind. For example, when Cooper goes to a meeting with his kids teachers, he is very insulted on how Tom has no other alternative than going for Agriculture, as that's "what they need", instead of Engineering. 

In addition to this, we find it hard to answer a particular question. How come NASA during a very complicated starvation period has more money than the actual NASA from real life? How come they have so much money to spend on a very expensive mission that takes humans to travel through wormholes? It literally makes no sense. 

It hurts to write about the following line on the movie, but it's too depressing and stupid to not mention. The words are brought to life by Anne Hathaway, and it goes like this: "Love is the one thing that transcends time and space." 

Please. Fuck Christopher and Jonathan Nolan. They're writing makes no since and it's just terrible. For people who don't appreciate this kind of comparison -between love and time or space - it's an insult to hear this coming from a scientist. Yes, a scientist! If it was someone else rather than someone who is supposed to believe and agree with Science and logic I would understand, but coming from Dr. Brand (Anne Hathaway) was one of many reasons why this film was completely wrong in the first place.

Don't tell me this a masterpiece or that Christopher Nolan is the new Kubrick. This is the biggest lie I've ever heard since the Bible. And the Bible can actually be funny, while Interstellar made me feel sleepy and tired. 

The film is filled with ridiculous clichés and poor dialogues, which is current in Nolan's films. But what pisses me off even more is that they had the right material to make an excellent film. They could've made a really good sci-fi film but instead they chose to make an easy film for the audience to like and earn money. Fuck you Christopher Nolan for not making a film for its Art but for its money. This is exactly what the film industry doesn't need: directors who aren't directors for the passion of making films and masterpieces. 

The only good scene of this film doesn't even come from the creativity or originality of the writers, because they have none. It comes from the amazing performance of Matthew McConaughey when his character is confronted with all the videos his kids did in a twenty-three years period without any replies from their father. Of course I'm used to only amazing work from this actor, they could even tell him to do something completely ridiculous and he would still do it perfectly. The only interesting characters were a reference to the AI "HAL". One character that I really didn't understand the purpose of being in the film was Matt Damons character. I mean, we respect this actor but his character was pointless. At first he's emotionally unstable for seeing a human being after so long of being completely alone in another galaxy and in another planet and after thirty minutes (maybe less or maybe more, it's not exactly relevant) he decides that it's best to kill that very special human being that he cried so hard for. Plus, even on a different planet Nolan doesn't forget the typical fight scenes.

Even though the story of the film is bad, we have to mention the wonderful special effects that allowed us to see amazing shots of Saturn and its rings, the black hole, wormhole and the other planets. Visually it was beautiful to see. Another thing we should add is how loud the soundtrack was, so loud that sometimes we couldn't even hear what the characters were saying. If that was the idea then I don't get it. But don't get us wrong, the soundtrack was good. Just too loud on the wrong moments.