RAVE - Interstellar

I love long movies. They allow a story to really be told, and characters to properly be developed. But during the nearly 3 hours of Interstellar, I had plenty of time to think of other things, like the last time we saw comic Eddie Izzard.

He explained some of the many things that are wrong with the way people use language: Imagine the first manned space mission to Mars. After the rocket blasts off from Earth, and powers out of Earth's gravitational pull, the crew performs its systems checks and secures themselves in the cryogenic sleeping pods that will keep them in suspended animation during the seven year flight. When those years have passed, and the craft nears Mars, computers wake the crew. They emerge from their pods, stretching as they gradually wake up. They make their way to the front of of the ship and there, laid out before them, is the red planet. Now THAT is awesome.

A damned hamburger is NOT awesome!

Interstellar was awesome, in it's breadth and scope. But several times I could hear chuckles from the viewers around me as another leap in logic, reason and space was made by the director and crew. It's apparent that director Chris Nolan wanted to pay tribute to Stanley Kubrick and his 2001. So just like 2001, Interstellar was in part tedious, part illogical - or at least tough to explain, and in part "awesome".

Matthew McConaughey powers through wormholes and ripples in the time-space continuum as he leads a mission to uncover a new planet for earth's inhabitants to occupy. The kind of thing the U.S.S Enterprise has been doing for thirty years, without anyone aging faster than anyone, or any thing else.