Comment Re:So it is not an accurate Documentary Film? (Score 1) 289
The movie has enough plot problems for several movies. Most of the first half of the movie is pointless and adds nothing, NASA apparently built their meeting room UNDER the nozzles of a rocket motor (ala James Bond Moonraker where they use a similar set to try to KILL Bond), and despite tons of contractors working there, nobody knows about this NASA base.
Then there is the preexisting spaceship (huh?) and the wormhole we blindly trust even though nobody knows how it got there. Going through said wormhole it inexplicably has the same "clanking boat winch" sound effect used in every other Hollywood movie -who knew wormholes sounded like cheap clanking?
And once they find Dr. Mann, he's (golly gee) gone nutso and of course has a sabotaged base waiting. Nobody but Hollywood would do this. An unstable astronaut like that would never get into space. And despite being in space alone for decades he somehow knows how to fly the lander ship and attempt to dock.
But that's OK, later on the hero steals a ship from the far future and somehow knows how to fly it, too. Alone. Back into the wormhole where nobody else in the future has apparently bothered to look, not even once. Huh?
Anyway, the soundtrack is actually fantastic. It holds a huge amount of the angst of the movie, and listened to alone, it stuck me that the film is held together by the moodiness of the music. All the somber, grim bleakness comes from the music because frankly the plot and acting can't hold it together alone. I would not go see the movie again -it is pretty but not worth a second viewing. However the music is going to be on my favorite lists for a long time, but ONLY when I am already in a good mood. Some of the tracks are just so depressing and hopeless.... it takes courage to listen.