A Few Things About Interstellar.....

So, I watched Interstellar yesterday (loved it, by the way) and I noticed a few things:

-Hans Zimmer is scoring movies as if he's trying to dethrone John Williams.

-When your movie is so star powered, Matt Damon is the unbilled star, that's a REALLY star powered movie.

-Matthew McConaughey's character, Joseph Cooper, for him to be the "practical one," was like the happy go lucky version of Rustin Cohle from True Detective.

-As right brained as Christopher Nolan's work tends to be....he's kind of a big softie. For a space movie, the teary eyed close-up scenes seemed to steal the show. The scene where Matthew McConaughey is holding his weeping, angry daughter seems to be the moment that serves as the driving force for everything they both do from that point onward. The movie spends every bit as much time on philosophy and feelings as it does on quantum physics. Anne Hathaway has a whole monologue where she ponders whether or not love can transcend time and space (which is the sort of thing, I'll admit, I'm a sucker for in movies). Having said that....

-If Neil Degrasse Tyson can learn to let go, we can all learn to let go. We are a cynical generation that can't enjoy a movie if it has the smallest of plotholes that don't really matter to the story as a whole. If America's Science Czar can note the scientific inconsistencies and still enjoy a movie that, in its own way, embraces love as a science unto itself, so can we. Granted, let's not get crazy. When you have too many plotholes that leave you asking wildly unnecessary questions, you end up with Transformers 2 and 3. Still, learning to let go is an integral part of the moviegoing experience.