Beautiful nonsense

Rating: 6/10 (16 March 2015)

Interstellar is a truly beautiful film, everything from the cinematography to acting works really well, its just a shame that the story is complete nonsense. Really good sci-fi is usually really good because it adheres to or expands our understanding of some portion of the physical universe in which we live. Even when huge jumps are made in logic we can recognize something in them that rings true, and that happens in Interstellar as well, but it also contains some mind bogglingly stupid assumptions, which for me completely and utterly destroyed my ability to believe in it. Firstly, the blight - we are supposed to believe that 50 years from now an organism evolves on Earth which not only breathes atmospheric Nitrogen, but simultaneously destroys every crop we grow for food. This is a complete contradiction, any organism that fixes gaseous Nitrogen has to metabolize that Nitrogen into a fixed Nitrogen compound such as Ammonia or Nitrate, those things we actually use to grow our crops. How or why the blight destroys all our crops is never explained, yet it is for this reason only, that the premise of the film exists. We have to leave Earth because of this organism. Poppycock!
Secondly - the first thing our explorers do on entering the new galaxy is to visit a planet which they know will cost them years in time back on Earth, when the next alternative is only a couple of months away and the third a year away. They could have checked out both other worlds in 2 years, so why risk losing 20 years? Again complete rubbish from the writers.
Thirdly- and less important, but still stupid is all of the space stations are made out of concrete! Wow really, concrete space stations, they couldn't do better than that.
With just a little more thought I might have been pulled in, but as I said good sci-fi works because it is believable in some way, and this film just is not believable in any way.