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Interstellar 2014

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So... we live in an age where Nolan now has THREE movies in the IMDB Top 20. Figures the word masterpiece is thrown around. I'm not exactly sure anymore what the requirement to achieve that is but I fail to see how Interstellar can be one by objective means anyways.
The movie to it's credit is ambitious and has some visually impressive scenes in there but the it isn't really that much about interstellar travels but is loaded with very simple 'mainstream' american themes which lead to the excessive runtime.
The problem the people on earth have to overcome and leads to everything happening is actually interesting but is handled very poorly, painting mankind as rather stupid in progress but whatever your excuse is for having to make plot happen... right?
I don't want to get spoiler-y so lets just say that after an hour it gets to magic land and is riddled with exposition, dumb scientists and predictable waste of screentime. The whole thing stands on such a weak foundation it is sad really. No matter the scale, I don't think I recently saw something as full of plotholes as this.
I'm not calling the movie terrible but it's a flawed mixture of things other movies did better.

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@sp1ti Glad someone else doesn't think this was the second coming of christ. I'll go one further and say I hated this movie and I think it WAS terrible. And this is from someone who likes most of Nolan's previous works and went in expecting great things.

Some decent visuals and a few well executed scenes did not excuse the overall terrible dialogue and ridiculous plot contrivances. As you say, after about an hour they throw any notion of hard science out of the window and do whatever the "plot" demands of it. That would be fine if it were billed as soft sci-fi from the beginning, but it has pretensions of being the next 2001 or something. It gets really, really dumb.

And don't talk to me about the stupid ending either. That was just awful.

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