From: nmassello@yahoo.com   
      
   J. Clarke  wrote:   
      
   > One thing that interested me about the reaction to that movie was that   
   > the things that were right people often complained about becuase they   
   > disagreed with popular-science level descriptions.  But the same   
   > people had no trouble with the real howlers.   
      
   Just about every SF story asks us to swallow a MacGuffin or two for the   
   sake of the plot. The problem with Interstellar was that it kept   
   stacking the speculative physics higher and higher in the assumption   
   that the viewer would never bail. It didn't help that the whole thing   
   had a rather cold tone. Compared with Contact, which was   
   thought-provoking *and* entertaining, Interstellar came off as   
   pretentious water-cooler bait.   
      
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