Saw Interstellar, another scifi film which deals with free will and predestination. This one involves a group of astronauts searching for a new world to set up shop in because we've sure messed this one up. The protagonist is this farmer-scientist-engineer who must be pulled out retirement to run one last mission. There's some business with his daughter and her feelings about this but this is the sort of film to suddenly cut to a hanger, or a nebula, or something with a sudden orchestral swell filling the soundtrack, so it's hard for me to care about her too much. There's space to see.
I enjoyed the business with the robots in the film. They are the expected kind of things, with sarcastic quips and stolid natures. I liked their non-humanoid appearance however. I also liked the subversion of the buck-rogers-style astro-hero. The astronauts here are respectable but full of human fallibility (and of course, frailty.) The film is sort of neat and tidy. It's fairly emotionless as films go, despite dealing with emotions a fair amount. It's much more interested in setting up and solving little puzzles than with exploring how the characters feel about them. The emotions that are on display I felt were kind of goosed and gaudy. Every tear is a tragedy, every smile is a song!
The film is good in the way that Transcendence was: there's not a lot of believable conflict, but it's so interesting to just see what happens next!
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