Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Thoughts on Interstellar
Over the weekend, Christopher Nolan’s space epic Interstellar opened with a $47 million weekend — coming in second place behind Disney’s animated Marvel adventure Big Hero 6 — and ended up being a mixed bag for most viewers and critics, alike. A lot of folks loved it, but there were many more who thought otherwise.
Personally, there were isolated moments that blew my mind, especially when projected on a six story IMAX screen. This is clearly Nolan’s most ambitious project, and I admired his willingness to go big and heady for each scene. Unfortunately, those scenes didn’t add up to a whole, and I found the movie’s last act was emotionally distant (when it wasn’t supposed to be) and rang false and unearned (which is how I feel about the third act of most of Nolan’s movies, actually).
Anyway, there is one nerd whose opinion of Interstellar I was most curious about. Last year, Tyson was responsible for one of the more infamous twitter rants ever when the Oscar-winning Gravity was wowing audiences, Tyson once again took to twitter to share his thoughts on Interstellar.
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I respect his criticisms. But if science fiction could not play with what’s not possible we’d never venture into the unknown.
I always find deGrasse Tyson’s comments interesting. Here is an article I wrote on the tidal bulges seen in the movie. http://sciencevshollywood.com/surfing-on-interstellar-tidal-waves/#sthash.WidOoAHc.HhK9Nlca.dpbs
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