I didn’t know you can drive a Lincoln into space?! You’re watching Beyond The Trailer’s
review of Interstellar...
Potentially inhabitable worlds, right within our reach.
It could save us from extinction.
Here we go...
You can't just think about your family now
you have to think bigger than that.
I am thinking about my family, and millions of other families.
Maybe we've spent too long trying to figure all this out with theory.
Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.
In addition to the fate of humanity, there are a number of Hollywood careers riding on
Interstellar. In front of the camera, we have Matthew McConaughey. Last year, Dallas Buyers
Club and True Detective were a one-two punch that resulted in an Oscar knock-out! But can
the McConaissance continue, or has it already become ripe for parody? A strong case was
made for the latter when Jim Carrey hosted SNL just two weeks ago and basically slashed
McConaughey’s tires in a brutally on target sketch. And while McConaughey’s Lincoln
ads survived a similar gag by Ellen, the Carrey spoof has so far been viewed almost seven
million times on YouTube - the actual commercials which Lincoln has ALSO aired on YouTube can’t
even match that number combined! And with this joke fresh in people’s minds, will
it effect how seriously they take Interstellar? Although, if Interstellar does get torpedoed,
it will be sweet justice leveled against McConaughey’s co-star Anne Hathaway, who lampooned Claire
Danes when she hosted SNL - Homeland never recovered... Now behind the camera we have,
of course, Christopher Nolan, one of the few newly minted superstar directors of our day
thanks to his Batman trilogy. A status confirmed by his payday for Interstellar, rumored to
be twenty million up front and twenty percent of the gross. But outside of the Batman trilogy,
Nolan wasn’t very successful, with each picture struggling to reach just a hundred
million at the box office. Even The Prestige couldn’t get a boost from Batman Returns,
despite Nolan reteaming with Christian Bale. But then came The Dark Knight, a film that
wow’d on every possible level. Nolan was able to leverage that film’s stunning success
with Warner Brothers - getting the studio to agree to make Inception in exchange for
Nolan agreeing to make a third and final Batman movie - but also with audiences, as they flocked
to see his follow-up to The Dark Knight. The results were...impressive. Yet still, for
Nolan, the Oscar has remained elusive. Interstellar is his own bid for the gold, but he might
just have to worry about maintaining his box office reputation. The Dark Knight Rises didn’t
impress audiences nearly as much as The Dark Knight, and Man of Steel - which Nolan produced
- might have also worn down not just the DC brand but potentially Nolan’s. Plus when
Inception debuted in July 2010, it has no blockbuster competition for the remainder
of the summer, while Inception will have to contend with Mockingjay Part 1, The Hobbit
Battle of the Five Armies, and perhaps even Exodus Gods and Kings. And finally, last year’s
incredibly well-received epic space drama Gravity might keep Interstellar from seeming
as original as Nolan and company would hope. So will Interstellar help McConaughey and
Nolan chart new trajectories for their careers? Or evidence that it will be
hard enough
to maintain their current paths?