Saw Interstellar tonight. Loved it, though the friend I saw it with brought up a good question, although I think I answered it to myself on the drive home.
Basically
why if Coop could just take a ship out to get to Anne Hathaway's character hadn't anybody else done so. The answer I arrived at was that he'd basically just woken up after who knows what and hadn't gotten around to telling anyone about her. And then his daughter told to go to her, so he did. Terribly sentimental, but the movie was very sentimental in a Nolan sort of way.
Also, can I just say - I want a
TARS of my own for Xmas, please please PLEASE! Chunky but one of the best robots ever!!!
Also, on a completely different note, we saw it at the Chestnut Hill LUX theater which is exactly that. D says he never wants to got to another theater ever again, but while it was definitely LUX, I thought the staff moving around, while they were very, very discreet and good at what they did were still distracting as hell. Also, I'm not sure I really enjoy eating dinner during a movie. On the other hand, there was the thing of seeing a movie in nice theater in the equivalent of a Lazy-Boy which was nice. But I think I'll leave that to D and his wife unless circumstances are perfect like they were today. Too expensive and for the movies I generally see, I don't get the rowdy crowds (and for the ones that I do, I choose my theaters carefully).
Also, dear lord, what a cast.
ETA, can you tell I REALLY liked this movie?
Just saw "Foxcatcher" and found it good but oh so very lugubrious. The entire film takes place in the universe of No Fun Ever. Really strong performances, though.
TARS - OMGYES. Love. And CASE too.
For a movie whose entire premise is
time travel & relativity,
there are some serious problems with
the timeline. Not just the ending, but setting up when the whole movie begins. MM is old enough to have been an astronaut before the blight, and enough time has passed that NASA is an underground organization of 8 people AND everyone has forgotten the moon landing happened...but he's only 33? So we're talking maybe 10 years have passed since the end of his flying career and the start of the movie?
Like most Nolan plots, it works emotionally but falls apart as soon as you try to apply logic. But I love it anyway.
Heh, I hadn't even thought of THOSE logic points. But agreed that it works on an emotional level like WHOA.
Also, somewhere along the way, Matthew M became one of my favorite actors. Didn't ever expect THAT to happen.
Wonder Woman
director chosen: [link]
I'm super excited about this. I've been wanting her to get a superhero movie for ages. Wish Marvel had picked up before now.
