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That’s interesting. Why do you hate it?
I love that movie. I also love weird German movies from the 1920s as well.
Spoilers ahead.
I didn't like the pacing, but whatever, that's a style decision.
But the whole twist at the end that justified anything that happened before just ruined it for me. It's heavily suggested that it's actually the humans from the future who try to save their own kind by opening the wormhole and giving humans a way off their doomed world. But the whole idea that there are ethereal beings from the future that can open multidimensional wormholes in the past but lack any way of then communicating with that past is just dumb. If you can send an interstellar superhighway through space and time, I'm sure you can send information.
Adding insult to injury at the end they can send information. But the best thing those hyperbeings can come up with is to just take a dude into their multidimensional superphone and let him throw books and wiggle some clock hands in his daughter's room? Like... what? That's their plan to save humanity? "Hey, man, now that you've entered the black hole, nice to have you here... you can now be a haunted spirit in your daughter's past. For a few minutes. Do something to save your people's future. Your time starts now." The only explanation I have come up with so far is that future humans are sadistic fucks and that this was their equivalent of taskmaster style reality TV, with them throwing popcorn at the screen where the nasa farmer struggles to somehow try to send three words that could save all humans but has to do that with the dumbest means some asshole producer could come up with. "Aaaand he wiggles the clock!! I can't believe it!" and the audience goes wild.
It just destroyed the movie for me. It felt like I was sitting through the last hour of that movie in utter disbelief that this was really the great explanation, the great twist the movie was gearing towards. It's not often that I get angry at movies while I'm in the theater, but this movie started quite well imho, just to then take turns that made me so mad about having wasted all that time on a story that was so utterly nonsensical that I was in the end no longer wondering about what was going on but only why I hadn't picked a career in writing just to prevent that kind of crap from happening.
Huh it made total sense to me. It's like love is an attracting force, a sort of fifth element if you will, that humans have some dim like nascent control over. That's all I needed to buy it.
But if you don't buy that woo premise then it all falls apart. I can see how it's a sort of rug pull given the science babble earlier in the movie.
Obviously your opinion is correct for you. I thought it was perfect for the themes on display the rest of the movie. It's absolutely on the softer lofi end of sci-fi, which is not everyone's cup of tea.
Reading what I wrote, I guess it sounds a bit condescending. No intent to insult here, sorry if I was too harsh.
Of course I can see the appeal of the movie and I understand that of course people are free to like whatever they choose. Interstellar is still a bit special because it really has everything I usually like. I went in there with high hopes and was really happy with how much my desire to like that movie had no problems being fulfilled at all. Until that last hour. With bad movies, it's just a bad movie for me, but this one felt like I got betrayed after having already decided to love it.
But yeah, it's just a movie and I shouldn't be too invested. Great for you if you like it, I really wish I did, too.
I've definitely experienced this with other movies, so I understand the disappointment.
You're good. I don't think you came off as condescending. It's clear you were having a rant. And if you can't have a good rant on the internet where is there left!
I think what you are missing is that in the Fifth Element, the movie was intentionally cheesy so the ending being some hamfisted and contrite deus ex machina where love saves the day is consistent with the campy themes. For a movie that was up until then a rather serious science fiction thriller that spent most of the film world building and where the audience is presented with a mystery, to then solve that mystery in a very easy and contrite way is insulting because it makes all the world building meaningless and completely flips the tone of everything. It reeks of lazy writing, which is honestly is on par with much of Nolan's work. In my opinion great world building scifi tends to resolve the conflicts by the characters finding ways to exploit the rules of the world. That's what separates the serious works from the popcorn.