Good Call: Interstellar Edition

Welcome to our shiny new segment where we try and slip pass the zeitgeist to discuss and explore the truly important elements of recent films. We're talking about stuff that takes true courage to talk about. Stuff that gets us shouting "good call" in no particular direction, and at people who can't actually hear us. But perhaps, if we shout at the right wavelength and through the fifth dimension, they'll go "hey, what the hell was that?"

Noop: Mr. Two For, if you could pick only one thing you absolutely loved about Nolan's Interstellar, why would it be Topher Grace?

Two For Grace: Funny thing, you'd think with my namesake being what it is I'd be a huge fan of The Topher. But the truth is mama and papa Grace bestowed the name on me a good decade and a half before Topher came to fame. Any similarities are entirely coincidental (and legally food).

What nightmares are made of for all the wrong reasons

If I'm being completely honest I've never been a big fan of the guy. Rarely could I sit through more than 5 minutes of "That 70s Show" without getting completely annoyed, and I'm pretty sure when Sony was making Spiderman 3 they told casting "hey, ahhh, finda guy dats da least like Eddie Brock in dose comic books. Nobody reads dose tings anyways." I'll let you try and figure that accent out on your own time.

That said, Topher was actually pretty excellent in Interstellar. That isn't to say he couldn't have been substituted with many other actors, the character was pretty background- to the extend he could have probably not existed and the story wouldn't have changed, nor my high regard of the film. But he didn't take away from the film in any way either. It was very pleasant not having a movie use romantic love as a central focus, but does use it in the background, mostly off camera. It adds humanity to the characters. They have real lives off screen, falling in love and paying taxes and brushing teeth between ears of corn.

Great job, Nolan, for including Topher Grace in a film and not it any way making me cringe! That man (Nolan, that is) can really do no wrong!

What's your "good call," Noop? Was it the solidified clouds? Or perhaps when that rectangle turned into an asterisk? 

Noop: All this Topher Grace talk makes me want to make like an elephant in the savanna and go watch Predators. 

Sean Bean 2.0?

While that asterisk was beyond dope, my shout out goes to Wes Bentley. First those poison berries in Hunger Games, now death by Waterworld? At this rate and with that kind of deathversity the guy might be the new Sean Bean. On top of that, Nolan is apparently working his way through the cast of the vastly under appreciated film, The Four Feathers. We already had Ledger as the Joker. Now there's Bentley. And my knee caps are telling me that Matthew McConaughy was only cast because Kate Hudson was unavailable, after all, they are only one degree removed (I'm talkin' How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days, people). As the old saying goes, share a rom com lead, you basically have the same pee. 

I'm on to you Nolan. Although casting Djimon Hounsou or Michael Sheen in your next film wouldn't exactly be a bad thing. Good call, Topher (Nolan, not Grace.)