- He didn't seem that bothered that he was leaving his daughter in floods of tears, alone and refusing to speak to him, when he knew the risk that he'd never see her again. Only when he was in the black hole did he get frustrated by it.
Huh? He was shattered when he left, crying his eyes out as he drove away. It was one of the more moving scenes in the movie. Did you miss it?
- Her deciphering the morse code of what was clearly phenomenally difficult physics seems pretty implausible. It also seemed stupid that he send the message 'STAY' when he knew it wouldn't work.
People have queried this but I think haven't thought about this properly. When Coop initially spells out STAY he doesn't know what is going on and is doing so out of desperation. It is only later that he realises what the tesseract is and how he can help the world in which he tries to help the events go along as they did (NASA coordinates, etc).
Not sure why the morse code is implausible? Is spelling out complex formula in morse difficult? Probably very difficult. But not implausible, just time consuming - of which, he has a lot of.
- Why didn't they send the robot to carry the scientists around on the water planet, or indeed the other planet, until she was in trouble. Then, why the f*ck did the beardy astronaut loiter in the doorway of the ship until he was swept away?
The robots were picking up the wreckage to take back into the ship. Although I kind of agree with how stupidly Doyle gets washed away. Dumb but a small gripe. I guess it goes with the theme they had about Newton's 3rd law - leaving something behind to go forward.
- The most bothering though was the ice planet. Two HUGE questions - why would Matt Damon have attacked them all, particularly when he was well aware that MM was planning on going back to earth anyway? Why not just admit to being weak at the start - which would have been frustrating but probably understandable? I know the effect of being alone would be dramatic, but the other astronaut was alone for 23 years and just seemed withdrawn at the end rather than completely insane, particularly for someone who was supposed to be such a genius.
Because Damon/Mann had lied and didn't want them to know he faked the data. He wanted to take the ship and maroon them. He had passed the point of pretending to care about the human race and had acknowledged that he was a coward and only cared for his own survival. And that's the juxtaposition with Romilly. While Mann put forth this visage as a paragon of virtue and self-sacrifice - "the best of us"; he was inherently a narcissist and a sociopath. Romilly on the other hand didn't pretend to have any of these stated virtues, but was virtuous all the same.
Throughout the movie there are comparisons between a feeling and a knowledge and a refusal to put all the virtues on those that are from the latter or purport to represent the latter.
- Worse though - how far did they walk/roll/fall before Damon launched his headbutt assault?! Far enough so that it took AH a LONG time to get there in a spaceship, but at the same time Matt D walked all the way back to the base and stole the ship?
It didn't take a long time, though? Maybe I'm mistaken, but I am pretty sure where Amelia was and where the base was (or at least where Romilly was trying to fix KIPP) were two different locations. I'm pretty sure that was the case. And Mann was headed to foil Romilly, not to go to where Amelia was.
- And of course the line "That's impossible." "No, it's necessary." Doesn't make it any less impossible.
But the point was it wasn't impossible. TARS, while a robot with advanced AI, is not the determiner of possibility.
- I do think it would have been better if MM had died. I don't understand how he ended up back floating outside of Saturn (with JUST enough oxygen left). If they future people/whoever could send him anywhere, why not send him back to earth?
For one, the story is not about MM dying. The whole thrust is the survival of the human race and the spirit that we have for that aim. It's a celebration for that.
And why would "They" send him back to Earth? Everyone has left Earth because it is no longer suitable to sustain life.
- No-one seemed very excited to see him, given that he would be basically an international celebrity megahero who went through a wormhole and saved the world. They treated him like an idiot in the hospital despite acknowledging he was 124 (despite physically being in his 40s), and his daughter didn't seem that bothered spending a few minutes with the man she'd waited a lifetime for. Wouldn't she want to hear all about his trip?!
No one treated him like an idiot and those that knew him revered him. But ultimately he's someone who has come from the past to the future and would have a huge gap in knowledge of what has happened in terms of technology, etc. I think what is somewhat clear is that while Murph maintained that her dad helped her out; it wasn't entirely believed. In their world, the megahero is Murph.
