A guy on imdb has posted all the flaws in Interstellar in a long list. These were exactly the flaws that I had noticed too (well, most of them anyway). Such a film cannot be called BRILLIANT! :P *Spoiler warning* 1) Those clearly historical dustbowl interviews were just annoying and didnt fit. 2) All of the vehicles and things looked like present-day or old, yet its supposed to be far enough in the future for the world to be imminently and irrevocably doomed and for us to have the technology to make spaceships to take us to Saturn and beyond. 3) How is the world so endangered so quickly? They mention blight, but only show the American midwest; surely other crops are viable in other parts of the world, as is fishing and other food sourcing. Earth is still a viable planet, much more so than trying to start all over on some unknown planet. The whole premise is not believable. 4) No one looks like theyre starving. 5) What was the point of the scenes of them chasing the drone? That could easily have been excised from the film without losing anything; the film was overly long due to very poor editing. 6) How did Cooper conclude the binary numbers were coordinates as opposed to something else? 7) Shouldnt the fact that the coordinates were using our earthly system be a tipoff that They were from earth? 8) Why did the NASA folks claim the base was super ultra secret when it was fairly easily accessible, you could just drive right up to the gate? 9) How did no one know about a huge multi-billion-dollar facility with thousands of workers and surely tons of food and materials deliveries? 10) Why couldnt NASA find Cooper, who lived within a few hours drive of their facility, if they needed him so badly? How coincidental is it that within a day or so of Cooper finding NASA that they are ready to take-off, with no additional build time, no instructions, no training or practice at all? 10.5) I was also amused at the blackboards filled with equations - because SCIENCE! 11) The film keeps talking about saving the entire human race, but strangely features just Americans, even to the point that all the bases had an American flag. News for Hollywood: Theres more to the human race than just Americans, and any project involving the whole race ought to include and represent same. Its especially laughable since America has fallen far behind in the space arena. 12) Are they really talking about sending millions or billions of people off into space?? Even with anti-gravity technology (seemingly easy to implement and taking not long to distribute to ships world-wide), the manpower and resources to build all those huge ships, with working ecosystems... it makes no sense at all. And if they could build viable self-sustaining ecosystems in the spaceships (as shown at the end)... why not just do that on earth? Why leave at all? 13) With space travel, space and weight are at a premium when designing ships and their contents. Would they really be using huge monolith robots that are big and heavy, the opposite of what they need? 14) Theyve somehow perfected some sort of human hibernation, spacecraft and systems that operate for decades without failure, and can deal with all the issues of long-term spaceflight such as lethal doses of radiation (especially near a black hole), but cant solve crop failure? 15) The wormhole leads to someplace in another galaxy... why that far? Why not just another solar system in our own galaxy? 16) They can plainly see detailed, colourful nebulae which would not be possible (there is insufficient light for the human eye to detect colour). 17) They can easily send video messages but cant manage to get anything other than simple signals from the potentially habitable planets? 18) The test pilot farmer guy knows more about complex orbital mechanics than the scientists? 19) Did they really spend decades and multi-billions of dollars to send these people to another galaxy, only then to wing it when it came to deciding what to do? I realize they supposedly got more data once through the wormhole, but wouldnt they have done some mission planning based on potential outcomes? Or do they just let the literal-last-minute farmer pilot say hey, lets do this!? 20) When faced with choosing which planet to explore first, they choose the one with the enormous time dilation and tidal forces? And only after they land do they think about the fact that due to the time dilation, the first ship had only just landed moments before? Uh... are we sure these are scientists? 21) Did they have no basic radar or even visual ability such that they could not detect a water-covered planet with massive tidal waves? 22) I take it the water planet had a solid surface just below the water? How did they know that, but not about the tidal waves? How did the tidal wave not draw water from the shallow shelf, exposing the hard surface? How did the scientists ever imagine a planet with such strong tidal forces (as they would have known back on Earth just from the planets proximity to the black hole) could be hospitable for long-term habitation? 23) Why did they have to include that jerk Matt Damon? I hate that guy. p.s. Ice clouds on that 0.8g planet? Yeah. No. 24) What the heck was all that nonsense about Love as a universal force, or whatever? That was really quite wacky and out of place. 25) What made them imagine that a robot could somehow transmit data even at a quantum level from inside the black hole? Nothing escapes. There is such a thing as quantum evaporation, but it conveys no information. 26) How did they avoid the intense tidal forces so close to the black hole, which would tear anything or anybody apart atom by atom? Really, the whole deus-ex-machina nonsense at the end with the tesseract, time travel (ahem, -- no), and Coopers miraculous survival and transportation to safety were pure fantasy, utterly ridiculous. 27) If they spent all or most of their fuel executing the slingshot maneuver, how did Brand slow down the craft enough to orbit and land on the final planet? 28) So one of the driving themes of the film was Coopers love for Murph, but after all they went through, when they finally get to see one another, they chat for about 1 minute then go on their separate ways. A bit odd. Also, if one of the driving forces as discussed in the film was humans seeing their progeny succeed, then Cooper was very strangely uninterested in his direct descendents (Murphs family, which is also his), and likewise his own grandchildren etc were strangely completely unintersted in him, a legendary figure and family member. The lack of family interaction undermines the whole children are so important aspect that was emphasized earlier.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:12:14 +0000