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[–] 13 points 1 week ago* (3 children)

My reason is I can't stand the reluctant hero trope. Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time. I don't remember exactly what interstellar's version of this was, but that's where I bailed. No disrespect to anyone who likes it. I'm pretty picky. There are a lot of really common tropes that I avoid and I abandon movies all the time.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Dude was not “a farmer who is the only one who can fly the ship”, he was a retired NASA pilot (forced into retirement after the government shut down NASA) who became a farmer at a time when a global food crisis was threatening extinction. He was grouchy because farming isn’t his expertise.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It’s fine if you don’t like the type of character though. I love these types of characters played by Matthew McConaughey. His character Rust Cohle in the first season of True Detective is one of my all time favourite characters.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time.

    In fairness, the enthusiastic astronauts were all reckless, foolhardy, narcissists who nearly flub the whole mission.

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