re: I Finally Watched Interstellar Today (Spoilers)

My initial reaction was Wow, what a cool movie. But now the more I read the critiques in this forum, the worse it gets.

But in retrospect, there were a number of issues both with the plot and the casting. This was not a particularly good role for Matthew McConaughey from my perspective. His mumbling under his breath gets old and his interaction with his daughter felt strained and became tiresome. I thought Matt Damon was fine as Dr. Mann. Damon is an a-hole and is good at portraying assholes.

And yea, the Plan A ploy was unnecessary melodrama. They should have just said: look, we are stuck on the gravity equation so if you happen to run into your mystery gravity buddies out in space, please let them know we need help. If you don't want to save the world by implementing Plan B, then frick you very much. Maybe we will all be reincarnated into aliens on some other world, whatever.

The whole paradox associated with future human survival being dependent on a wormhole created by future humans sucked as well. They should have just had a contingency plan for a limited survival on earth. The future humans could then have created the wormhole and assisted with Plan A (increasing the total number survivors/increasing the gene pool) without the paradox.

Come to think of it this movie did pretty much suck but I have enjoyed worse scifi movies and this one at least had some big name actors.