What I liked: It was pretty cool. And NASA saved the day. And the special effects were cool. And it was in outerspace. I liked the characters who went in the space ship I thought they all played their parts really well. Murph was a very cool scientist. Yay science. I liked the robots with seemingly endlessly extending appendages. I kept expecting them to go Hal, but they were actually remarkably helpful. And I now have the dream that on my way to school someday I will be able to chase down an Indian Military drone through corn fields using an truck, a mini satellite dish, and a laptop. Also the worlds that the animators got to create were pretty cool.
What I didn’t: Several major concerns. 1) if the world is running out of food because of crop blights and we are launching massive science undertakings to try and fix the problem, wouldn’t it be easier to bioengineer new food than to launch a mission through a wormhole to look for planets we could colonize? Not that I’m advocating the Asimov approach where everyone eats yeast. I love NASA being the heroes but it just seems like someone should have tried making pesticide or something. 2) The residual bad taste of humanity on an individual level being bad. Dr. Mann was repeatedly referred to as the best of humanity and yet isolation took an enormous toll on his sanity. This leaves the impression that if left in isolation individuals become barbarous. This does not bode well for Damon’s (who played Dr Mann) The Martian coming next year, in which he will once again be stranded on an alien world. I have a bad feeling about this. Also can we talk about Dr. Mann’s plan for a minute. Under what circumstances does moving all the supplies to the surface and blowing everything up and then leaving the planet to the empty space ship make any sense? For being Earth’s best and brightest this was a profoundly terrible plan. 3) Random bookshelf labyrinth. This is creepy. and weird. and confusing. How is this better than just quantum coupling the watches? The information would still get back to her but you would not need...whatever that was.
Who should watch this: Everyone who loves science fiction and or Christopher Nolan. I feel like this was cool effects of Gravity with an interesting, if incomplete, plot.
Would I watch it again? Yep. But I’m still rooting for some good genetic engineering.
What I liked: It was pretty cool. And NASA saved the day. And the special effects were cool. And it was in outerspace. I liked the characters who went in the space ship I thought they all played their parts really well. Murph was a very cool scientist. Yay science. I liked the robots with seemingly endlessly extending appendages. I kept expecting them to go Hal, but they were actually remarkably helpful. And I now have the dream that on my way to school someday I will be able to chase down an Indian Military drone through corn fields using an truck, a mini satellite dish, and a laptop. Also the worlds that the animators got to create were pretty cool.
What I didn’t: Several major concerns. 1) if the world is running out of food because of crop blights and we are launching massive science undertakings to try and fix the problem, wouldn’t it be easier to bioengineer new food than to launch a mission through a wormhole to look for planets we could colonize? Not that I’m advocating the Asimov approach where everyone eats yeast. I love NASA being the heroes but it just seems like someone should have tried making pesticide or something. 2) The residual bad taste of humanity on an individual level being bad. Dr. Mann was repeatedly referred to as the best of humanity and yet isolation took an enormous toll on his sanity. This leaves the impression that if left in isolation individuals become barbarous. This does not bode well for Damon’s (who played Dr Mann) The Martian coming next year, in which he will once again be stranded on an alien world. I have a bad feeling about this. Also can we talk about Dr. Mann’s plan for a minute. Under what circumstances does moving all the supplies to the surface and blowing everything up and then leaving the planet to the empty space ship make any sense? For being Earth’s best and brightest this was a profoundly terrible plan. 3) Random bookshelf labyrinth. This is creepy. and weird. and confusing. How is this better than just quantum coupling the watches? The information would still get back to her but you would not need...whatever that was.
Who should watch this: Everyone who loves science fiction and or Christopher Nolan. I feel like this was cool effects of Gravity with an interesting, if incomplete, plot.
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