Everything about the end of humanity on Earth seemed stupid, like okay we don’t have armies or guns anymore and everyone is just eating corn in-between dust storms but somehow people still drink beer on the porch at night and drive cars to work. What?
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If they have enough energy to go space...I dunno, I never put much thought into that. I'm not a stickler for practicality in fiction idk
Coop does some good pilot shit and embodies the tenacity of one (few movies do, and will immediately break the spell, just like when it's obvious an actor has never used a gun), so it resonated with me. One of my top movies.
I actually liked the element that we were technologically advanced but humbled by the fact that we were all going to die if the soil was ruined. And they also didn’t go deep into why, just basically suggesting it was possible (unless I’m remembering the movie wrong I didn’t remember much explanation). But there were plenty of other things I had issues with. That one wasn’t prominent for me, especially since it was just a reality to set the stage and not part of the puzzle of the film itself.
Apart from that, I found the other plot devices to be very unsubtle and heavy-handed. Everything had an explanation. There just wasn’t much left to the imagination.