My reason is I can’t stand the reluctant hero trope. Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time. I don’t remember exactly what interstellar’s version of this was, but that’s where I bailed. No disrespect to anyone who likes it. I’m pretty picky. There are a lot of really common tropes that I avoid and I abandon movies all the time.
Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time.
In fairness, the enthusiastic astronauts were all reckless, foolhardy, narcissists who nearly flub the whole mission.
Yes, though to be fair those are much more in line with a typical Lemmy user. People around here seem to despise anyone who appears to be actually competent.
Dude was not “a farmer who is the only one who can fly the ship”, he was a retired NASA pilot (forced into retirement after the government shut down NASA) who became a farmer at a time when a global food crisis was threatening extinction. He was grouchy because farming isn’t his expertise.
It’s fine if you don’t like the type of character though. I love these types of characters played by Matthew McConaughey. His character Rust Cohle in the first season of True Detective is one of my all time favourite characters.
Woody Harrelson is amazing, but the reason he’s so good is that he’s a foil for Matthew’s Rust. It’s a 2 person play. Neither character works without the other.
My reason is I can’t stand the reluctant hero trope. Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time. I don’t remember exactly what interstellar’s version of this was, but that’s where I bailed. No disrespect to anyone who likes it. I’m pretty picky. There are a lot of really common tropes that I avoid and I abandon movies all the time.
In fairness, the enthusiastic astronauts were all reckless, foolhardy, narcissists who nearly flub the whole mission.
Yes, though to be fair those are much more in line with a typical Lemmy user. People around here seem to despise anyone who appears to be actually competent.
Dude was not “a farmer who is the only one who can fly the ship”, he was a retired NASA pilot (forced into retirement after the government shut down NASA) who became a farmer at a time when a global food crisis was threatening extinction. He was grouchy because farming isn’t his expertise.
To each their own I guess.
It’s fine if you don’t like the type of character though. I love these types of characters played by Matthew McConaughey. His character Rust Cohle in the first season of True Detective is one of my all time favourite characters.
Well, there’s your problem. Woody Harlson was the one that delivered on TD.
Woody Harrelson is amazing, but the reason he’s so good is that he’s a foil for Matthew’s Rust. It’s a 2 person play. Neither character works without the other.
Hard agree, McConaughey was the perfect cast for both.