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I really wanted to like Interstellar, but that whole "love can transcend dimensions" thing just really killed it for me. I mean the notion is lovely and so on, but it'd been doing a pretty good job at being a hard scifi story so it felt like a letdown to have that sort of hokey nonexplanation for the big picture, like the Nolans just gave up with the script at some point
If you ignore that one monolog and just accept that the extra-dimensional aliens/future human entities didn't understand how to communicate with his daughter using only gravity, so they captured her father and had him do it, it makes a lot more sense.
And really that is what the script is trying to say... I think. It's just very ham-fisted and ranty which does happen in Nolen movies. Basically "these beings have all the power in the universe compared to us, but without knowing (loving) the person they're trying to reach they can't find a way to get the message across."
Honestly in my head-cannon, the dude just went from self-sacrificing by falling into a black hole to looking at his daughter when she was trying to convince him not to leave. He's more than a little emotional and we can't expect him to make perfect sense.
Ah yeah I get what you mean, that's a good take on it.
Despite what some people seem to have assumed, I do think Interstellar is definitely one of the best hard scifi movies to come out in recent memory, and I really do like many parts of it. I'll have to watch it again some day with this reframing in mind
Wow. First time I've heard this complaint in the last 10 years. 🙄
What's your point? Nobody's allowed to voice their opinions if they're not unique?
It's OK for me to not like some parts of the plot and say it out loud even if it's a common complaint, just like it's OK for people to like those parts.
Well I'm just fucking sick of hearing this specific complaint again and again and again. Listening to techbros at reddit getting uncomfortable because 'their' hardcore sci-fi movie had human emotions, expressed by a woman. I mean, ewww cringe, amirite? Talk about time travel and shit some more. 🙄
That's absolutely understandable, it but it's not where I'm coming from – which of course you wouldn't be able to know just based on what I wrote. I'm more of an emotional softie than not, and a feminine enby in addition to being a huge nerd, and while I really do love movies that give me feels, the Nolan ham just didn't work for me in Interstellar.