So, I went and saw “Godzilla” today. It was… ok. It was not what I’d hoped, where Godzila would have been some Lovecraftian horror from beyond, but instead… big lizard. So if you like movies about giant monsters beating the tar out of each other, this is your lucky day.
Before the movie, they showed a new trailer for “Interstellar.” Explains a lot more about the movie than the previous teaser. In short… it seems to be based on a very depressing premise. At some point in the near future, apparently the crops fail, and things look grim. Things are bad enough that apparently the *Indians* are sending solar-powered recon drones over the Midwest. But then Alfred uses the funds of the Wayne Foundation to fund a deep-space (beyond Saturn) manned mission to a wormhole that I guess leads Elsewhere, for reasons that are unclear.
I’m not sure what to make of it so far. The earlier teaser made me think that it’d be a pro-space exploration movie, but it’s looking more like a “oh, crap, we *gotta* go into space or we’re gonna die” movie. And that’s fine, but it’s perhaps not the best “message movie” to get regular folks all excited about space.
But so long as it’s a “doom approaches,” movie, I gotta say that the tagline hits just the right note for me:
MANKIND WAS BORN ON EARTH
IT WAS NOT MEANT TO DIE HERE
While that sounds kinda doomy… it also sounds *defiant.*