Spoiler heavy 2001 review

Rating: 10/10 (9 November 2014)

Went to watch interstellar yesterday at Imax in Manchester and was not disappointed. What i would like to bring up is some points that occurred to me when watching and later last night how much of a nod it was to Kubrick.
The Dustbowl vs space cold war. The first thing we see in 2001 is the nuclear weapons platforms where as interstellar starts with the earth proving to be the destructive force that threatens man. This seemed better to me than the cold war element as you can always argue that man wouldn't be silly enough to cause its own destruction and that in the future man will have to leave an earth that will no longer be able to sustain it or it will be destroyed by the sun. However interstellar does touch on this later in the film which i will go into.
The fake moon landings mentioned, a huge nod to Kubrick who was "involved" with these. Made me really chuckle in the cinema as I've been shining mad recently and the documentary room 237 explains the relevance. Give it a watch but be warned you will be drawn into watching the shining a lot afterwards...
The deus ex machina, the elephant in the room that will sour the taste for some of this film is the advanced gravity tech. It is rightly not explained in detail which will be difficult to grasp with coopers rescue/survival of the black hole. 2001 was much the same as it had very little narrative and was not an easy film to understand. It didn't feed the information to the audience. Kubrick did a visual film for people to take from it what they wanted. The monoliths were never fully explained nor what happened after the "starchild" arrived at earth.
The starchild in this film is Murphy, she using the information sent to her to advance the human race to a point where it has no boundaries and will never be risked with extinction. There in lies the paradox, if cooper hadn't been saved in the black hole to send the message then they would have the tech to save him. I like to think that the fact that Murphy could understand the message is why the loop occurred. Muphy's death also reminded me of 2001 and Dave dying in the human zoo bed.
Which pointed me to Coopers house in the space station being a museum which also made me chuckle as thats where Dave ends up in 2001. However the 2001 higher life forms are not seen. In interstellar it is the advanced human race around him and he is Dave being looked at as if he is a caveman sat on his porch drinking beer.
The Human vs AI element, in 2001 the real mission message was enough to send Hal insane. This was repeated in interstellar but it was not the robots that it drove mad which i liked once i got round how despicable they made Dr Mann. As soon as i saw the robot watching the message from Murphy i was "oh no....." but he relayed it word for word even with his truthful setting at 90% also made me laugh at the big nod to Hal the way the settings could be changed. The robots used as the comic relief was a good feature as I never fully trusted them until after the Murphy message was sent so they came off sinister at first. This was done well when he was captured when first going to Nasa for example as we didn't see the attacker only heard his voice. This meant it was on the planet when we first saw how powerful and fast they were which made them even more worrying to me. The fact they are boxes rather than androids takes any humanity they could have. Even Hal had an eye. But it turns out it was Mann (pun intended) that was the real danger.
Dr Mann and the evil we bring with us. Matt Damon confused me at first, with his long dialogue i knew it was going some where sinister but couldn't work it out as it made no logical sense why he would be evil. I believe he rigged the bomb as a means to kill himself as i don't think he set that on purpose as he only intended to rid himself of cooper. He needs "a human touch" was him saying he could end his suffering when he wanted. The knowledge that the human race on earth couldn't be saved had driven him to believe that he would do anything to establish the colony whereas he believed Cooper with his family ties would just try to get home. Hal thought the same as he didn't trust humans as much as himself to get the mission completed.
Of course also the monolith vs the worms holes. Squares swapped for circles. Although there is the belief of many that the monoliths are cinema screens to and the knowledge to the Dave in 2001 is that he is in a film looking back at himself, however ill ignore that when comparing to interstellar. A question i haven't been able work out yet is that if Murphy created the wormholes why do so many? The paradox needed to happen in order to save the human race. But the only reason for so many wormholes i can logically think of is to give cooper the exploration role once he returned and after she died. To spread humanity to these worlds or to simply save the astronauts that had gone there? I suppose exploration is the next step for the human race now its survival is assured.
I would be interested to know if any one else made the above connections or if anyone has seen any more. I for one will be looking forward to watching interstellar again.