I don't mean to stir anything whatsoever, just healthy conversation about this film.
Despite my earlier complaints, i enjoyed this thing a lot! But for those of you on here who have said that you really liked this thing/had less to complain about, did the following bother anyone else as much as it did me (SPOILERS AHEAD):
Okay, so the one big emotional tie in this movie is the bond between father and daughter. Nolan has been talking a lot about this relationship in his personal life, that's what he tried to instill onto Matthew Mcconaughey in their first meeting, and it's what the majority of this film involved. So skip to the end, his daughter finally sees him. And she shoos him away after the briefest of conversations, just like that. They've been apart for what, 60/70+ yrs....she's about to DIE, as in she definitely won't see him again after this. From Vulture's website on Interstellar: "
The elderly Murphy Cooper spends two years in a space-travel cryo-freeze, apparently two of the very last years of her life, to finally be reunited with her father — and she more or less chases him out of the room after a couple minutes." I found this scene a huge heart-breaker. As in, after that 3 hour/lifelong build-up, if i were either the father or the daughter in real life...that is definitely not how our reunion would have went. At all.
What do you guys think? I seem to be on the outside looking in here. I honestly believe that in terms of this scene's significance towards the entire film's message, this was such a poorly executed scene.