Grow the crops on Earth
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Yeah, Interstellar has so much stupid illogical stuff in it, in fact the entire plot is clumsily constructed out of them.
But this, the Blight, is unforgivable, since it drives the movie.
1. Michael Caine shows Matthew McConaughey that not even his NASA people can grow crops in isolation, as they still have blight. He even shows him the blighted leaves growing in isolation.
2. YET, somehow, Michael Caine also "knows" that they can grow crops in space. This is no different from growing them in isolation. They're the same crops. You'd be bringing Earth crops into space.... How does he think the blight won't follow?
3. At the end of the movie, there are crops in space, and the blight is of course absent.
So the great NASA solution is a complete contradiction in logic, and thus at the end of the movie, the driving conflict simply disappears. As if you reached the end of Star Wars and the Rebels were celebrating because the Death Star simply vanished and no one says anything about what happened to it.
The movie can be picked apart with huge logic lapses just like this in nearly every scene. I mean that, it's from the beginning. Huge stuff, like people DYING from DEADLY DUST that simply BLOWS INTO THEIR HOUSES and builds up in huge piles.... Apparently they haven't heard of ventilation filters or window seals.
They can build airtight space ships and space stations, but they can't keep out the dust to save their lives, literally SAVE their LIVES. Oh and McConaughey also has a bunch of robotic farm equipment. But no seals on the windows, no filters on the ventilation intakes. They are helpless against dust getting in.
This is why I fail to get excited when they say "ooh , we may have found a planet like earth - we can all move there soon! its only 1000 light years away" (re finding new planet cos this ones broke).
Even when its Mars and they say "Definately found water this time - its frozen and 3 miles down - but you wont be short of a refreshing glass of the h2o when you get there"
To move to rocks that inhospitable , youd be living in a sealed glass dome , so you might as well do that in earth orbit , or better yet right here!
>So the great NASA solution is a complete contradiction in logic, and thus at the end of the movie, the driving conflict simply disappears. As if you reached the end of Star Wars and the Rebels were celebrating because the Death Star simply vanished and no one says anything about what happened to it.
"Somehow, Palpatine returned."