Haven't read any comments coz it's been a busy few days. Just got back from a conference in Honolulu. I will read after I've posted.
Thoughts in general:
That robot is really awkward. It makes no sense to me how he walks so smoothly. Like the way the pads of his feet land on the ground should not result in such a rhythmic gait.
Boy can he run though. Actually he looks kinda cool running. Does he rust? Ooooh - I love that you can program his personality! While I don't like people with attitudes, I love that the robot has one!
If I had a robot I would program her to be:
100% funny
100% snarky
100% sarcastic
100% loving
80% honest - sometimes I may need her to tell me my tush definitely does not look big in those pants.
100% responsive
What personality would YOU have your robot be?
I really, truly enjoyed it when the robot turned into an asterisk and went to the rescue!
That was the first properly cued up video I have ever posted!
Such effective use of silence in this movie. Loved the contrast between the violent events happening in space with the utter lack of sound. It made the explosions seem even more intense and highlighted the isolated nature of the events happening on screen.
MCCon*&%#%*)(^ (I'm not gonna even try to spell it) doesn't speak. He draaaaaawwwwwwls. Even when he isn't dressed like a cowboy. Soooooooooooo American!
Cartoonish Saturn. Does space really look like this?
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There sure are a lot of long loving, loitering shots.
Old boy's tan is holding up real well in space
Hmmm. They just hopped in that ocean. I guess they must have known the temperature, composition and depth of the water. Did they not know about the waves?
The waves were awesome! Love me some waves. But wait, why is the water where they are standing not being sucked in?
That is not how water works, dammit!
I really wanted to see the water as they lifted away from the planet. I bet it would have looked amazing.
I find the whole “
they” acceptance to be quite strange. Who are
they? Extraterrestrials? Gods? Why do they care about people? Not sure i'm buying this whole Coop hanging out in that other dimension looking at his daughter bit....
Nice to see a Hollywood actor with wrinkles! He can actually look worried.
How does a frozen cloud float? Why are our clouds not frozen? They are up high enough that they should be....Can gasses freeze? No comprendo. I may need to use the Google....
How does that hibernation chamber work? You can't just stick people in a liquid and then seal them in plastic using the immersion method like you are getting ready to sous vide them! If he’s not alive in that hibernation chamber, would the bag turn into a human soup? Just kinda gross all the way around.
This is much more my speed!
I get that those aluminum blankets are warm, but they sure ain’t cozy.
They lost me on the black hole discussion.
So if plan B was the point all along, it makes no sense they would only send one woman. I know they said they could incubate 10 babies to start off, but they also talked about surrogates later on. Just not logical. If anything they should have been all women except for Cooper, since he was apparently the only one capable of flying the vessel.
Nice little Chekov's gun when Lois says Murphy’s room is the same it always was except for the sewing machine. Was not surprised when she went back to investigate and it became central to the story.
Why can’t Coop get up? Does inhaling ammonia make you lame?
Second time my Jeep has been on a show lately
'cept I have a soft top and bigger tires
Ah- so that was why they belabored the difficulty of the docking before. To set up the impossibility of this guy trying to do it.
Favourite lines of dialogue, just coz they were terrible...."It’s not possible!" "No. It’s necessary!"
It’s a fucked up thought to make a decision knowing that a result of this decision is that your family will have been dead for 40 years 20 minutes after making the decision and taking action.
That is freaking heartbreaking
Brutal crying in the wall scene. Gotta give it to him, old boy can act. Honestly, I never have wanted to like McCon$%&@ coz he is like a giant cartoon version of what a chisel-faced Hollywood heartthrob should be, but he can act. He was brilliant in Dallas Buyers Club. But then was a totally believable dumbass in Dazed and Confused. He should have been perfect for Walter in Dark Tower, but what a wreck of a movie that was. And then of course we have some Matthew McNaughty! Not complaining about that role
He is even cool in those stupid car commercial he is in currently.
And it takes a lot to make a Lincoln look remotely cool IMHO. What a fuddy duddy company.
The science at the end of the movie made zero sense to me. How did Murph figure it all out? She went so quickly from angry to enlightened. How?
And what happened to Cooper's son? What was the point of his existence? To fill us in on the passage of time via the video messages? He was such a lame character. He could have been left out for all the impact he had.
How long do you think went by in the movie for Cooper? I don't really have a good sense. I'm just wondering how much time passed since he left his daughter and he saw her as an old lady? It felt a little cavalier that he was able to see her and then walk away from her. Again.
Overall, I mostly liked this movie. I do think it was longer than it needed to be. There were definitely some scenes that ran on.