Interstellar is a Confusing Space Movie with Plot Holes

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Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway star in the sci-fi space thriller, Interstellar. Find out why this movie was entertaining, yet flawed and didn't make sense at certain places. The following may spoil the movie for you, so if you haven't seen it yet, this contains spoilers.

Plot Holes in the Confusing Space Movie Interstellar

There were a few big problems with the plot of the movie, Interstellar. At the end of the movie, the movie-goer is left scratching his head, saying "What?" rather than feeling that the movie was complete and made sense.

First Problem: Actor Voices Were Not Clear Enough

First of all, the movie opened with old people talking about something. Honestly, I can't remember what they were saying. Their voices were not clear, and they were talking about something.

I have really great hearing, and I was having trouble understanding the voices. I was also with a person that was having hearing difficulties, and she said she couldn't understand what they were saying. This is a problem. If you want the audience to know what is going on, have clear voices, and do voice-overs until you get it right.

If you want to thoroughly confuse the audience, start a movie with inaudible talking, and you might really get people scratching their heads.

Second Problem: Movie Started out Very Slow

I went into the movie expecting nothing. I thought it was a space movie, and the movie starts out on Earth on a farm. The movie did not seem to make a good transition to Matthew McConaughey (Cooper) finding NORAD because a ghost told him the coordinates.

The ghostly addition to the movie was odd. In the farmhouse, the ghost was communicating with Murph (the daughter), but she wasn't scared of it. I thought the ghost was the dead mother. We find out later in the movie that the ghost was Matthew McConaughey (Cooper) in space, which is weird.

Third Problem: The Ghost and How Did Matthew McConaughey Survive?

I'm still confused about how Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) survived the spaceship breaking apart.  He then floated in his space suit toward a planet and when he started getting pulled into its gravity, he fell down until he was suspended into a blurry library. It then showed that he was responsible for moving the books, and sending a coded message of "Stay" to young Murph. He was telling his daughter to make himself stay. It didn't work. So then, Cooper, does something to the watch on the bookshelf to give the middle aged Murph a message. It doesn't say what the message is, but we can deduce it is the coordinates of where he is floating in space. They find him with only minutes left of oxygen, and take him back to the floating space station near Saturn, where an old Murph is about to die. 

The whole movie, they talk as if an intelligent alien race built or guided the humans to space to find an alternate planet to live on. The confusing part becomes the fact that it wasn't aliens that built this spacial library where Cooper can communicate with himself and young Murph. 

What makes it even more confusing is that Cooper gets the coordinates of NORAD from the ghost, so why would he give the coordinates to himself, if he is telling his daughter to make himself stay.

Also, Cooper is attacked by Dr. Mann (Matt Damon) earlier on, and Cooper is left with his face mask depressurizing. Brand (Anne Hathaway) flies a space ship over to him, but he would be dead in that amount of time. Somehow Cooper survives.

Fourth Problem: Romilly Would not have Waited 23 Years

In the movie, Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway and the other guy go down to the water planet. She says for every hour they are there, 7 years passes on the ship above. So they finally leave the planet after it is a dud, and they get back and Romilly has aged 23 years. This is pretty out there. No one would wait 23 years on an away mission. This part was unbelievable.

What Did Work in the Confusing Space Movie Interstellar

The emotions in the movie are easy to connect with.  There is a message that you can miss out on a person's life, if you make certain choices.  I could connect with this.  It shared the importance that you should make every moment count, even if you are in a space ship trying to save the world.

In the end, Cooper races to go find Brand (Anne Hathaway), who is now alone on some planet.

I did not find the older people talking on the video screens relevant to the movie, and think it would have been far less confusing if they were not shown at the beginning of the movie.

These emotional scenes of separation, and the scars from it almost evoked tears from a movie goer I talked to. I could see that.

Overall, this movie was confusing and it is therefore deemed a Redbox movie. It is not worth paying movie ticket prices to get confused at a space movie like Interstellar.

Watch the Interstellar trailer below:

Sci-fi Show, 'The 100' Season 1 on the CW Gets a Season 2 with Ratings

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Sci-fi Show, 'The 100' Season 1 on the CW 

The 100 on the CW is a sci-fi drama based on a book series by Kass Morgan.

The show takes place in a future where the Earth was abandoned due to nuclear war 97 years earlier, forcing humans to look to space for survival. They built and live in a space station orbiting above the Earth, with the capability of coming back to Earth with shuttles. As food and water begins to deplete, the leaders aboard the space station have to make hard decisions. They first decide to send 100 of their delinquents down to Earth to see if it is habitable. In reality, the leaders knew this would be a death sentence, to give those aboard the station a better chance with less people to drain the ship's resources. To monitor #The100 on the Earth, each juvenile is fitted with a vital signs bracelet. As life signs abruptly end, the space station begins to think that The 100 are unable to survive on the Earth.

The 100 land on Earth (in once was the Eastern U.S.) and find out that the planet is habitable, and that there are humans that did survive on Earth this whole time. These humans appear to be feudal and aggressive toward outsiders, particularly The 100 that "fell from the sky."

For the duration of Season 1, The 100 mainly takes place at the base camp that they have built on Earth, and the scenes back up inside the space station. However, in episode 13, the surviving 100 members are gassed by an unknown group and the episode ends inside a quarantine unit inside of Mount Weather. This indicates that there was a group of surviving humans that still possess technology and modern equipment.

Which Character from 'The 100' on the CW has Developed the most over Season 1?

Watch the video below to see the answer.

The 100 Season 1 Ratings on the CW

The sci-fi show, 'The 100' on the CW ended with suspense, and the CW did not hesitate to pick up the show for a 2nd Season.

According to TVSeriesFinale.com, they partly credit the CW for airing The 100 right after Arrow as the lead-in show. The 2.7 million viewers on the Season 1 premiere was a great start for the sci-fi show, and ended with almost 1.7 million viewers.

Below you can see the Nielsen ratings for each Season 1 episode of The 100 on the CW.

Nielsen ratings for Season 1 of The 100 on The CW

Sources:
"The 100 Season 1 Ratings." TVSeriesFinales.com.

Immigration Problem Solved: 5 Ways To Stop An Alien Takeover

Alien artwork by Didier Konings

Illegal aliens and the immigration laws are all over the news. It's a hot-button topic in political circles with a general election coming up.

But domestic aliens are less invasive than aliens that attack from outer space.

So take a moment to consider the real threat of an alien takeover, and how you can prepare yourself, with some help from popular Hollywood films.

5 Ways to Stop an Alien Takeover:

1. Use knowledge gained about the aliens to take the upper hand. In The Darkest Hour (2011), Emile Hirsch plays a young entrepreneur that is taken surprise by invisible aliens that attempt a worldwide takeover. These electric emitting aliens can only by fought with microwave guns (that a brilliant Russian creates on a whim), and a little American ingenuity. In Cowboys and Aliens (2011), Jake (Daniel Craig) wakes up with amnesia and a high-tech blaster sealed to his wrist. Aliens attack and cowboys must team up with indians to ward off the gold-hungry aliens. Ella (Olivia Wilde) turns out to be a friendly alien, and they all learn the hard way that a bow-and-arrow is useless when fighting alien immigrants from outer space. They have no intention of learning English, despite working in a U.S. gold mine. A laser gun and a little dynamite works a lot better.
2. Run and let the angry birds do the fighting with biological warfare. In War of the Worlds (2005), the humans are ineffective against the alien invasion, however the bird flu is what sends the aliens packing. Look, if the birds of planet Earth want to fight for us, why stop them? Its about time they pull their weight.
   Note: This has nothing whatsoever to do with Angry Birds in Space.
3. Let the friendly aliens fight for you. In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), an alien friendly comes to Earth to prevent the G.O.R.T. robot from wiping out humanity altogether. If Keanu Reeves is on your side, who can be against you? Or how about in Transformers (2007) when friendly robots come from outer space to help defend Earth from the power-hungry robots that want use Earth for a new home?
4. Take an alien fighter ship and take revenge. In Independence Day (1996), aliens attempt a worldwide takeover, and an American fighter pilot – played by Will Smith – takes one of the alien ships back to the Mother ship and takes a surprise with him to blow them into oblivion.
5. Find an intergalactic Stargate and lead a ground-based rebellion against the alien threat. In Stargate (1994), Kurt Russell plays an army Colonel with a mission to destroy the gateway between planets to protect Earth. Unfortunately, he finds that the alien enemy must be stopped by blowing up the Pyramid-like spaceship first.

If you think you can add to this list, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom.