12 Giant Plot-Holes You Didn't Notice In 2014's Biggest Movies

4. The Crops - Interstellar

So, basically Interstellar's whole plot hinges on the fact that the Earth is dying thanks to blight wiping out all of the crops and leaving only corn (a clever allegory about the enduring strength of popcorn movies? Probably not), which requires everyone to leave Earth to go and find a new place to live to ensure the survival of the species. Clearly, growing crops on Earth in another way, rather than just in fields isn't an option, or the NASA geniuses would have thought of that... Except then at the end of the film when they're all in the O'Neill cylinder they've clearly grown crops in an artificial environment. So why couldn't they just use greenhouses to grow crops on Earth instead of moving wholesale somewhere else. That way they could have invested all the money NASA were using up on trying to develop a cure for blight? Interstellar is in fact riddled with plot holes: for instance, why did NASA wait until Coop found them to get him involved when he's clearly the ONLY man on Earth qualified to pilot the mission? He lives like two fields away. And while he consulted James Cameron on the issue of time travel film-making, Chris Nolan still fell down the same plot hole that Cameron did with Terminator: if your future self would be dead without the intervention of your present self, they can't come back in time to help said present self save the future. It just doesn't bloody well work that way.