Movie was good...but far from Nolan's best work...
The only characters I found to be more than plot devices were Cooper, Donald, TARS and CASE...
TARS and CASE borderline stole this entire movie to me...
Also, and I guess this is just a pet peeve of mine, but I absolutely HATE when a movie is based around scientist...and the movie goes out of it's way to make them seem smart with all the technical and philosophical talk, and then they habitually show poor judgement that undermines their intelligence as scientist...
The entire movie was like this...cooper is the only person who showed even a little bit of common sense...
When they went to the first planet...why on Earth did Amelia and Doyle even get out of the craft...they should have let one of the robots get the beacon in the first place...and in the end what ended up happening?
They had a serious argument about not wanting to waste 7 years and they end up wasting over 20? And Romily actually stays. And then when the logical thing to do is have him say he gleamed some information from the black hole, he says he gleamed very little info from it? So why stay? Then to top it all off, they go through this big explanation of how you cannot get any info about time from the black hole without being in it, which begs the question WHAT WAS ROMILY DOING UP THERE? The same guy who says he is going to stay and study time in the black hole is the same guy who turns around and says you cannot study time unless you are in the black hole?
The entire part with Matt Damon seemed as if Nolan owed Damon a favor and cashed it in by casting him in this movie. His entire arc made no sense. The crew comes in and scrape off pieces of "frozen cloud" and then Matt Damon convinces them of the world being habitable, while ever square inch of it is fukking frozen? Why are they even asking him? Why not fly the ship around the planet to take a look for themselves? The whole explosion was so telegraphed as to not even be funny. Only good thing about this entire detraction from the movie was it did have one of the best responses to a statement I seen on film in quite some time...
Cooper: Dr Mann there's a 50/50 chance your going to kill yourself.
Dr. Mann: Those are the best odds I've had in years
And the whole airlock thing...I don't understand how Damon's character didn't know that...
Why you send only 1 person to each place is beyond dumb to begin with...
The whole way it ended...how Murphy discovered everything...no real plan of action just staring at old books and having an epiphany...
Somehow Murphy was smart enough to figure that out in about 20 minutes but not smart enough to see through Dr. Brand fake equation...
Movie was good but for a director who has a track record as stellar as Nolan...this is easily his weakest film...
Hopefully he switches it up because he has gotten as heavy handed with philosophical symbolism as Josh Whedon is with pop culture references...
