Trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar Suggests Grapes of Wrath in Space
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Frankly, Matthew McConaughey would be an excellent Tom Joad. But I’m not sure that what you were expecting from Christopher Nolan was a movie focusing quite so much on McConaughey reiterating how much he loves his kids, while the Earth has a harsh summer.
Nolan has enough control over his stuff that I’m hoping – hoping – this is all first-act stuff because he doesn’t want to spoil things. Because if this were a trailer for any other movie by a less-known director, it’d be giving me Contact vibes, where, to quote South Park‘s Mr. Garrison, you wait the whole movie to see the alien and it turns out to be her goddamn father (this is making me think aliens will manifest as his kids). If that’s still a spoiler to you all this years later, I’ve saved you some time.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist