This is one of my all time favorite movies and I recently watched it again.
While reading through some of the comments here and on IMDb I can only assume some people are on a personal vendetta or something. The negative comment I read most is: "This movie is scientifically inaccurate".
My answer to those: Go watch a documentary then!
This is clearly a Science-Fiction movie so I don't get why you even would concider comparing it to real science. No one did something like that with Star Wars. So why all this stupid nonsense criticism. If you don't like the movie - fine! You don't have to like it just because the majority does. But not likeing it because it's scientifically inacurate or a C. Nolan movie is just dumb. You are just robbing yourself of 3 hours of staggering CGI worlds, a good plot, one of the best OSTs there is and sublime acting.
This movie is just giving you the illusion that it wants to be accurate, obviously it isn't. That's the beauty of this art. Just take it for what it is!
Everyone keeps suggesting there is a paradox concerning the 5D future humans and their ability to save humanity in the past. It's really not a paradox at all. Everyone assumes humanity survived to ascend to the 5th dimension but how could humanity exist in the future if not for the actions of Cooper.. who was guided by future humans (begin endless loop).
Did anyone ever consider the other important character in the movie? Amelia Brand carried on with the rest of her mission (thanks to Cooper). I postulate that Brand used the human seeds as intended and set up a colony. A colony that would thrive and eventually evolve beyond human. Thus Earth is of little importance, and may have indeed died. These colonists, and the generations that followed, would have been told the story of a great man (Cooper) who saved them from extinction. With the ability to manipulate space-time, they would pay homage to their hero "God" by helping him in the past so he may fulfill the mission most important to him, to once again see his daughter. Plan B worked beautifully. But the 5d humans, having the power to bend space-time, decided there's no reason why Plan A had to fail.
saw it earlier tonight in the cinema. what a great movie, awesome sound effects and great pictures. that is what cinema means. movie of the year. 'nuff said... WATCH IT!!!
Interstellar was alright.
To start with, the opening was very clunky. Obviously some exposition was necessary but it wasn't done naturally at all. Here, meet Cooper, just your average, every day engineer-scientist-quantum-physicist-drone-programmer-explorer-pioneer-farmer-pilot. Avoiding information dumps isn't really either Nolan's strong suit and while later on, especially on the space ship, expository dialogue is definitely necessary considering the subject matter, it still comes across as awkward. Cooper is occasionally an expert on things that should be beyond him (which, of course, he conveniently explains for you), while at other times he's completely clueless about things that he should really know about in his position (which, of course, somebody else conveniently explains for you). Cooper isn't the only one guilty of this though, everybody else on the spaceship likewise seem very ill-prepared for such a trip.
Speaking of characters who aren't Cooper, everybody else's characterisation is terrible. You don't know anything at all about two members of the crew, and somehow you're meant to care about one of their completely avoidable deaths (come on, he got to the ship first, he could have easily gotten in without getting in the way of TARS)? Somehow you're also meant to care about My Cocaine's death (which I'll get to in a moment) because he's a father of somebody? They're not even shown to have a close relationship or anything, it seemed more just an excuse to make a big reveal (which I'll also get to in a moment). His daughter, Anne Hathaway's character, also doesn't seem to have much of a personality until it turns out that hey, she's actually in love with this person you've never met. Even this "aspect" of her otherwise bland character seems to just have been added in as a lazy way to flesh her out and add unnecessary conflict. On the subject of unnecessary conflict, both the children, Murph and Tom, make really irrational decisions. When Murph tells Tom that he should move to save his family, he gets really upset because... who knows? And then even though he's given up hope on his dad, it's magically all okay later on when, after burning his crops, Murph tells him some nonsense about "hey, it was him all along, it was him, our father sob". Prior to that of course, Murph's been holding a grudge against Cooper for like three decades, even though she knew for a large chunk of that what he was up to, after she began work at NASA. This relationship gets all sorted out when she has her magical realisation that the ghost was Cooper all along even though that's just a huge leap of faith and there's nothing to indicate that might be the case, unless, of course, it was ~love~ (which, yes, I'll get to in a moment too).
Back to the death bed scene. It had terrible sound mixing as you struggled to understand what My Cocaine was saying at all, but even worse it lacked any emotional significance as mentioned above, instead serving to make the reveal that he never wanted to go with Plan A all along. Of course, like all final words, it also ends with a very convenient moment where, instead of letting Murph know that her father didn't know anything about this, he decides to recite a poem because you gotta have that pointless ambiguity and conflict. This big reveal about it ends up removing any tension that might have happened when you get told the same twist later by Matt Damon; there's no emotional impact as you were just told that ten minutes ago and you've had that whole time to let it sink in. Instead, you're just sitting there for a couple of minutes waiting for the characters on screen to come to terms with it.
Now to the script. The script was terrible. The expository dialogue was really bad, as mentioned above, and there were just so many cheesy lines in it. All the idealistic things that were being spouted out just made me roll my eyes, with all the "we're pioneers, humanity was born here, but we weren't meant to die here" crap. And of course love transcends time and space and everything. Anne Hathaway knows that one planet is better than the other because of ~love~. The whole reason Cooper can contact Murph and all that is because of ~love~. Love conquers all, man.
For some more minor things, using Morse code to be able to communicate data related to astrophysics and then magically using this to "solve" gravity is just dumb. Messing with time didn't always work out like somebody casually waiting for 23 years and then acting like it's nothing when they see humans for the first time again, or how Jason Bourne can sprint back to the station in five minutes when it clearly took at least an hour to walk from. A lot of the things with planets wouldn't really work: all the waves stuff, how shallow the water is and their drop, solid ice clouds, the fact that they can escape from a planet with 130% gravity just in their spaceship, but whatever, I've tried to avoid criticising the science because it's not really a big deal and even though it's sort of set up as being a realistic film, it's still just a movie. Besides, the science is mostly theoretical and speculation anyway so who knows, they might not be wrong about anything at all (they are). How come nobody cares what Cooper got up to in the 100 years he was gone? Also that's not what Murphy's law is.
Of course, it does a lot right, in particular the visual effects were really good and the score was absolutely outstanding, it definitely added a lot to the atmosphere, as did the use of silence. The docking, the way the takeoff was handled, entering the wormhole and some other scenes were really well-done too. TARS was great.
Now, despite having written all that, I'd still recommend watching it, especially in a cinema. I can definitely admire the film's scope and I'm really glad that somebody's able to attempt something like this while still having it be considered mainstream cinema. However, the people who are saying it's one of the best films of all time are absolutely kidding themselves; I'm yet to see Insomnia, but otherwise Interstellar is Nolan's second worst film, ahead of only TDKR. Of course, the fact that I've written so much about it obviously means I care and it certainly was thought-provoking and visually splendid, so even if I had a lot of issues with it, you should watch it if you haven't already and who knows, maybe you'll love it. At the very least, it's definitely Nolan's most ambitious film to date.
I spend 3 hours of my life crying a lot
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar may very well be one of the best movies that have come out in the year of 2014.
The film starts off by more or less depicting what the near future Earth looks like. Much like in the movie The Martian all the technology looks futuristic, but it always seems like it could already exist today, if only as a prototype. The directors manage quite well to bring across the massive problems and the looming threat of extinction the human race faces by simply showing us the daily life of ex-pilot, engineer and now farmer Cooper and the problems he faces. We see the distant crops burning away, giving us a sense of the increasing scarcity of food, as crop after crop is being destroyed by the blight and only corn can survive. We see the plates being turned down on the table, as the dust has become omnipresent. We see the shift of society, as the teachers of Cooper's misbehaving daughter try to convince him that the Apollo mission did in fact not happen and they make it quite plain that in this society no engineers, astronauts or scientists are needed, but farmers, and that is what he should teach his children to be. Not only does this set up the world quite perfectly, we also get characterizing moments. Cooper, as the film quite often states, is out of place in this world. He looks skywards, whilst the rest looks at the dust and earth below them. The shared moments with his children show his love and affection for both of them, he respects their interests and treads them accordingly. The seemingly paranormal sightings also characterize our second main character at an early stage, Murph. She quite literally follows his footsteps and adopts the scientific ways, she is curious, intelligent and more than anything stubborn. The family grows on you amazingly quickly and his farewell scenes are made all the more hurtful.
It is here that I would already like to mention Nolan's attention to detail and love of practical effects. He literally bought acres of corns to avoid CGI as much as possible for just a few scenes. Whenever CGI is used, and of course in a movie mainly taking place in space there has to be a lot of it, it could just as well be practical effects, by all you know, if only some of it wouldn't be possible. The visual effects are simply stunning and most importantly not noticeable.
As we are being shot into space with Cooper, we run into a few minor problems Interstellar has. After he stumbles onto the secret NASA facility, giving us another glimpse at the world building, that may not be complex but it certainly gives us the illusion of complexity, he gets to pilot a spacecraft in space without getting into shape or ready for space in any way. Having arrived on the space station, the movie struggles to find ways to explain the complex science behind what they are trying to do and so they resort to a scientist explaining the concept of wormholes (exactly the way the teacher did it to the kids in Stranger Things by poking a hole into a sheet of paper) to another scientist. The same happens again later in the movie when the same guy explains to Cooper that time is relative. Nevertheless, even if the exposition may at times be wonky, the actual use and depiction of science is spot-on and nothing like I've ever seen in another movie on such an...interstellar scale. The plot and premise of Interstellar is so unique and amazing precisely because it explores the unexplored aspects of physics, like the concept of wormholes and black holes, and just rolls with it. Every scene in space or another planet looks fantastic and the sheer size of everything, whether it's the massive tidal waves caused by the black hole, the vast ice desert or the black hole itself, really makes you feel helpless and small, whilst still being overtaken by its beauty.
Probably the most emotional scene of the entire two hours is established using the previously mentioned relativity of time. After spending unintended three hours on the black hole-orbiting planet, they return to their station, to their colleague, realizing that decades have past. We are now forced to watch Cooper sit there and have to undergo decades worth of emotions in a few minutes, as the computer displays all the messages his family had sent over the years. It was truly a test for the wonderful actor and if you haven't felt for the protagonist, who more or less carries the movie along with Murph, before you certainly have after this scene. The other side-characters do indeed feel a bit one-sided and unexplored, but that's okay, it's not their story and you always realize the stakes for every character, adding weight to every decision they make. The comic-relief, a robot names TARS with a humour setting of 75 - 100%, is surprisingly likeable and funny, adding the much needed light-hardheartedness.
Parts of the movies do eventually get a bit silly and some scenes feel out of place, like when Dr. Brand talks about love being the only thing that can travel through dimensions next to gravity and two scientists fist-fighting in another galaxy on another planet. The plot concerning Dr. Mann was fine and a murder attempt does actually fit, but the fist-fight was unnecessarily ridiculous.
Following this, however, we get to the most thrilling scene of the entire movie. The spacecraft trying to dock a space station, spinning out of control, by spinning with it. It's here that I would like to mention two things: the score and the lack of sound. You don't see many movies taking place in space that actually show the lack of sound in space and even fewer that use it as a way of instilling fear in us, fear of the vast emptiness and apathy of space. Then, the score. I know a few people that get annoyed by Hanz Zimmer's style of music but many more absolutely ravel in it, as do I. The soundtrack is most of the time idle and you can feel the stellar, spacey aspects of it but when needed it erupts into what you imagine a burst of creativity must sound like. On top of that he brilliants made most of the beats hit every single second, imitating a clock, since time is the main aspect of the movie. Sometimes, in fact, he even uses a clock for his music.
At last, the movie ends with Cooper meeting his dying daughter, creating an arguably even more emotional scene, before eventually ending the film on an optimistic note, leaving you with tons of emotions inside and probably only noticing now that you have to pee, because you had been glued to the screen for the entire time.
I finally got around to watching Interstellar after all this time last night and boy... I thought that the movie was just fantastic. I'm kind of baffled at why there is so much hate for the movie. There are maybe a couple of plot holes and inconsistencies here and there while some things go beyond the scope of "believable science" but damn if it isn't one hell of an enjoyable movie.
It's definitely on the long side but I was so engrossed throughout the entire movie that I just didn't care. Great performances by the McCounaghey and Anne Hathaway in this one along with a fantastic soundtrack. Don't listen to all the hate and watch it if you're up for one hell of an adventure (albeit a long one).
A cinematic masterpiece and benchmark for movies to come.
In "Interstellar", a film written and directed by Christopher Nolan,
climate change has decimated most of the world's food supplies.
Towns are regularly ravaged by fierce sand storms, and
everything is covered with thick layers of dust.
A very select group of scientists set out to embark
on humanities most ambitious mission: travel through
a newly discovered wormhole into another galaxy.
They hope of collecting the necessary data to either move
many people onto a new experimental gravitation spaceship, or find a new Earth altogether.
I have now watched this movie twice at an IMAX.
After my first viewing, when the credits rolled,
I sat there perplexed and was unable to move. I was paralysed
by what I had seen. I looked around, I was not the only one.
Unquestionably, one of the greatest movies I had ever seen.
I was almost ashamed to admit it, because it felt like I had no
say in this decision whatsoever.
There are many moments when "Interstellar" transcends into
something so artistic, you are left speechless and are moved to tears.
The cinematography and directing is, even by Nolan's standards,
his best work so far. I think his talent is even too profound for
the Academy of Motion Pictures, hence why he has yet to receive an oscar
for directing. Personally, after watching "Interstellar", I consider
him to be the best director that is currently alive, only rivalled
by Kubrick and Hitchcock.
Hans Zimmer wrote the score and I really recommend to read how
he translated Nolan's fantastic ideas into music.
I get goosebumps just thinking about the high-speed docking scene,
and you will, too! The sound engineers did an amazing job contrasting
the cosmic silence with Zimmer's incredibly ethereal music.
During the rocket launch, the entire theatre shook and you were
really feeling the thrust.
If I was forced to describe the score, I would say it was
heavily influenced by Johann Strauß, Philip Glass and Bach.
Truly a masterpiece that deserves to be revisited many times and
among all the great soundtracks he has ever done, this is simply
on an entirely different level. His most intimate work.
The visual effects were breathtaking - quite literally.
The on-screen silence during certain parts of the movie
was only rivalled by the complete and utter silence
of my fellow IMAX watchers. Nobody said a word, nobody moved.
Just hundreds of mesmerized people staring at the screen,
or digging their fingers into their armrests during
some of the most tense moments I have ever seen.
"Interstellar" depicts astrophysical concepts that
have never been seen or discussed on-screen before.
"Awesome", in its most literal sense, really describes it.
When I set out to write this review, I really tried to
avoid superlatives, and give you a more nuanced opinion
of why I think this movie deserves to be ranked among
the best, but I now see how I have failed.
I recommend to watch "Interstellar" at an IMAX,
or the best movie theatre around you.
It's not something you should rent at a Red Box or watch on Netflix.
"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light." -Dylan Thomas
The basic idea behind this film is quite good, it's just that the script was obviously written by a typical hollywood idiot. A former Nasa pilot that is 'so called' perfect to lead a mission into deep space after he stumbles in the door? Or the 'so called' genius who spends 23 years doing nothing?
I wouldn't even mind if they remade this film completely, left the script and acting exactly the same, but can they please get some actors in that can actually speak?! OPEN YOUR MOUTHS AND ARTICULATE!!! I had to turn the English subtitles on just to understand what everyone was saying!
Yes good visuals and the sound effects were quite good, but if I can't hear the dialogue, what's the bloody point?!
Mankind was born on Earth. It was never meant to die here.
I had a privilege to experience in the theater in a freakin BIG SCREEN. I wasn't a movie buff nor I used to go to the movies when this was released. But we had a screening at our place, and I freakin loved it.
It's a bold, beautiful cosmic adventure story with a touch of the surreal and the dreamlike.
It’s damn near three hours long. There’s that. Also, Interstellar is a space odyssey with no UFOs, no blue-skinned creatures from another planet, no alien bursting from the chest of star Matthew McConaughey.
Just as his Batman trilogy was far more philosophical and knottily plotted than the average superhero movie, Interstellar is sufficiently grand and challenging to bear comparison with those two touchstones of mind-bending epic sci-fi: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Tarkovsky’s Solaris.
Hans Zimmer’s music makes the film seem even more colossal than it would otherwise: Zimmer invokes the original meaning of ‘pulls out all the stops’, rattling our teeth with reverberating pipe-organ chords. And the acting is as full-blooded as anything you’d find in an earthbound drama.
Next comes the wow factor that makes Interstellar nirvana for movie lovers. A high-tension docking maneuver. A surprise visitor. A battle on the frozen tundra. A tidal wave the size of a mountain.
Newton's third law – the only way humans have ever figured out of getting somewhere is to leave something behind.
Oh, wow, this is difficult to rate. It's technically very good but I don't really like it. So I'll go with a 7/10.
The good stuff:
The bad stuff:
So in the end it was an interesting movie but I don't really feel good after watching it. The drama is kinda fine because it's basically there from the beginning to the end so I didn't start to really care about any of the characters anyway (which is normally a bad thing but in this case I prefer that). The thing that get's me though is that it shows how much we humans don't know and unfortunately that's very true (so my thoughts signifficantly amplify that). We could even be living in a simulation. We basically don't know what living/existance is. We can observe our environment and create models for how things work and use that to predict the future but we don't know how the universe was created, if there's only one, how long our universe will last, etc. And that makes me question the meaning of life. I like living but does it even matter in any way at the end? Will humanity have a lasting impact or will we just be some dumb virus in our galaxy that tried to spread but failed.
Quite scary to think about such stuff... So I'll better end this review now :)
This is one of our favourite movies - a stunning way to spend a couple of hours. The scale of the vision here is breath-taking and you feel as if you've been all over the universe by the end. The visuals and music are spot on. But for us this films best moments are the most human moments, around love, duty, regret and redemption. HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend
A beautiful, ambitious riddle that tackles the weighty topics of time displacement, space exploration, fatherhood and the end of life on Earth. Not necessarily in that order. Like Christopher Nolan's preceding mind-stompers, Inception and The Prestige, it's a crafty, sprawling creation that feeds and grows based on sheer conceptual might. I found it less accessible and rewarding than those two, however, overreaching in the third act to reel us back in after a few digressions.
Most of the climax feels like an ill fit, too, discarding two hours' worth of rigorous scientific detail in exchange for a trippy, convoluted plot device and a fairytale ending. In a lot of ways, it's like a mainstream adaptation of the finale seen in 2001: A Space Odyssey, a clear inspiration, in that it's bright, blurry, colorful and confusing. Only this time, the static leads to a cookie cutter epilogue, not a blank canvas.
Such complaints notwithstanding, I greatly enjoyed most of the ride to reach that point, even if it has a tendency to belabor a point. Nolan's vision of a near-death civilization on our home soil is vibrant and real. His emphasis on the pain of separation and the dizzying potential of galactic time-shifts are powerful and moving. It's a real visual stunner, too, making hay with staggering CG representations of theoretical deep-space star configurations that left me slack-jawed more than once.
As a space nerd, that was very cool to breathe in, and seeing practical demonstrations of so many abstract concepts is wonderful. It's excellent at many things, frankly, but perhaps a bit too overzealous for its own good.
This is my favourite movie. It has everything. Survival, sci-fi, action, horror, drama. Movie can be about anything you want. If you want it to be about space explorations it will be, if you want it to be about romance between two lost souls it will be. All in all it has true argents that helped me get into science world...
BEST MOVIE EVER
darn, I just want TARS to have humor settings in 100%; loving that stupid robot!
I've seen this movie a couple of times before. Watched it on a tiny laptop screen both times and it broke me.
Tonight, I've finally had the privilege to see it in theaters. I HAVE NEVER been moved so much by a movie or music. Chills all the way. Interstellar was in my top 3 movies of all time. Tonight it rocketed to first place and I can hardly imagine a movie ever taking that spot. Thank you Mr. Nolan. Thank you Mr. Zimmer. The combination of your work created an absolute masterpiece.
“Newton’s third law. You gotta leave something behind.” -
If I could give it a 100 stars, I would.
Brilliant! How an almost 3 hour movie kept me locked in and engaged for the entire runtime, but this accomplished it. Matthew McConaughey was so freaking good in this, one of his best performances of all time. Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain were incredible. Really everything about this movie is fantastic, the only bad thing about it is I wish I would have watched it sooner.
Rating: 100%
Verdict: Masterpiece
What a complete borefest this was. Worst film I’ve seen in a long time. Totally over-rated. Confusing storyline and no idea of what’s happening in space or what they’re trying to achieve, or even if successful. Did not care what happened to any of the characters. This is only for science fiction fans, as I only watched it thinking it had to be good cause of the high rating, but I was cheated. I give this 1/10.
The idea of space travel is frightening and daunting. I personally would never be able to do the things that the characters in this film do. Imagine the claustrophobia within a space ship knowing that the expanse of Space is right outside the porthole. Regardless of whether you believe in God or any form of an afterlife, one of my sincerest hopes is to somehow witness the wonders of the Universe firsthand. "Interstellar" offers a glimpse into that possibility but is grounded in the limitations of Man's science and technology. Even though this film trumpets the need to explore the galaxy, it tethers itself by choosing to hammer home the message that the force of Love is greater than that of Gravity.
I am a parent that has watched one of my children grow into adulthood while the other is still a teen. It was very heartwarming but also sad to hear Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) talk to his daughter Murphy about how, the moment you have kids, you become nothing but a memory to them. A ghost. It turns out that this plays an important role in saving the world, but it emotionally pulls on you. It created tears that felt a bit manipulated. Most moviegoers put a lot of value in how a film affects them emotionally and "Interstellar" provides this in abundance. It wasn't to the abhorrent levels of, say, the final moments of "Toy Story 3", but it really killed what I ultimately hoped would be a greater exploration of the unknown. Cooper, the great explorer, is as much of a sentimental fool as I am. This is the biggest miss of "Interstellar". If I had wanted something this overwhelmingly emotional, I could have watched "Beaches" or something. Did people really see "Interstellar" to get a weepy drama?
My opening thoughts read as though I disliked this film. Fact is, I mostly enjoyed it. I was amazed by its use of sound more than the visuals, which I thought were purposely dulled. The color palette for space was nearly black and white but I tend to believe that space isn't "Star Wars" shiny, anyway. The planet-scapes were massive but a little disappointing. The wave world seemed to only exist within the context of the film to reinforce the plot's insistence on impacting the characters with the passing of time. The success of this is illustrated by the effect of time on Romilly back on the docking station. While Cooper and crew are only on the surface of the wave world for a few hours, they return to Endurance to find he has aged over 23 years! This moment hit me more than all others. Imagine being totally isolated for so many years. Romilly even chose to forgo cryo-sleep for the most part.
The TARS robot is potentially this generation's R2D2 and C3PO wrapped into one. At first it seemed like a clumsy square box, but it certainly was no such thing. It was the greatest creation the film offered. The teamwork of TARS and Cooper docking their ship had me leaning in my seat trying to help them lock on to the Endurance. Then, the two of them team up to battle the ominous black hole. And considering that moment, the sequence made astounding use of sound. I've read and tried to comprehend theories of what happens when you enter a black hole, but I've never considered it to be noisy. I thought there was no sound in space, but the on-screen action made me not care about such things. Since so much of time and space is theoretical, you can roll with Nolan's interpretations here.
The second act and its inclusion of Dr. Mann doesn't seem needed except to provide a couple of action sequences.
The final 20 minutes were pretty muddled and hurried. There are too many twists to comprehend and let sink in before the next one pops. A little less time crying and a little more time plotting would have been appreciated.
The dimensions of space and time as we understand them must be expanded here to allow additional theorizing, which was difficult for me even having the most rudimentary understanding of "how things work" (turns out, Math is hard).
So the bottom line is that "Interstellar" mostly worked for me. Since Christopher Nolan is held as one of the current great directors, I feel forced to compare his works against each other. This film was not nearly as successful to me as my favorite Nolan-work, "The Dark Knight", or even its prequel and sequel. It doesn't rank with "The Prestige", either. And honestly, I'd have to watch "Momento" another ten times to know what I think of that mind-bender. This does easily bypass the make-crap-up-as-you-go delivery of "Inception", though.
It is good to see someone being allowed to make big-budget films like this. While I have been complimentary and critical, I certainly lack the ability to do anything approaching this accomplishment. One of the most encouraging things about Nolan is that he's making movies that require people to pay attention in a culture that's losing the ability to concentrate and focus. Odds are that mankind's future is more "Idiocracy" than "Interstellar", but there may still be some hope for the latter.
"Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light".
The story is about a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Christopher Nolan once said that 2001: A Space Odyssey was his all time favorite film and how he wanted to do a small tribute to he's next film. And then comes a movie called "Interstellar" that will put a smile on Kubrick face if he was alive today, because Interstellar is one of the best movie of 2014 and the best movie experience I've had at the cinema.
I saw this movie in IMAX and all through out this film I felt like I was in space floating around with Mconaughey and Anne Hathaway. I had that feeling that I was going deep into space just like are main character's, going deep into space just like the viewing auditions and me.
The visual effect's in this movie are some of the most stunning, beautiful and Jaw dropping effect's I've seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey. The performances were brilliant, The cinematography was breathtaking and hard to look away. The directing by Christopher Nolan and let me get this out there, this man is a true director; he knows cinema and knows how to interested people into seeing he's films and I'm still shocked that he hasn't won an Oscar yet.
Now most people or critics have said that last third of this movie ruined the movie for them, but I actually like the ending to the movie. It's new for Nolan because he always ends on a deep and cold note, but this movie didn't and I didn't mind it.
My only nick pick with the movie is some of the character's in this movie wasn't all that interesting. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain are the only character's that to me were interesting and I cared for them, but the rest of the character's I didn't really care for.
Overall Interstellar is a mind-blowing movie with fantastic visual's, interesting story line and the movie will keep you interested till the end.
So I just saw Interstellar and I have mixed feelings about it. If the only factor in this review was what I saw visually, then I would give this a 10/10. With Christopher Nolan he has such healthy blend of practical and computer generated effects that it's often hard to tell which is which. Part of what I love about him is that whenever he has the opportunity to use a practical effect over a computer generated one he'll take it. And when he executes a practical effect he does not skimp out.There's a scene in which the truck goes off the dirt path and runs through a cornfield. If the same script was handed to a different director it's difficult to imagine that it would have been done with as much effort. With Christopher Nolan you could see the path being created by the vehicle in many overhead shots. And because it's a practical effect you have a limited amount of opportunities to get the shot just right. Many directors would show the truck going in to the cornfield but then limit the shot to only being within the vehicle from that point on. I'm happy to say that Christopher Nolan puts effort into the shots that he's filming instead of taking the easy route.
I really loved the movie visually and I thought the concept was pretty cool, but, alas, there are other aspects that make up a movie for me and some of these aspects were not done as well. Most of the performances were pretty great, but unfortunately the child actor playing Murph had a few slip-ups. Yes, she was able to cry from her tear ducts, but her performance was not really convincing. During what should be crucial and emotional scenes, her emphasis and enunciation was so off that I wasn't really able to get into them. Matthew McConaughey's performance held up nicely, so those scenes weren't completely lost, but it was distracting to have one performance stick out like that when everyone else was doing so well.
The score by Hans Zimmer was pretty great as usual. It's not his best score and it did get used pretty repetitively, but it was pretty great overall. I really liked the robots in the movie. Now, I'm aware that the design of these robots is so incredibly impractical that it would never happen in real life, but it was cool to watch them perform different tasks and use their bodies in sort of a Swiss army knife way. Their characters were very humourous and added a lot to my enjoyment of the film. And I'm a little forgiving when it comes to the impracticality of the design because it is clearly an homage to the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The biggest problem I have with this movie has to do with the script. I can't think of a single other Christopher Nolan film that had so many moments that I would call 'sappy'. In many ways it seemed as though this story wasn't all that original. It was clearly inspired from films like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Sunshine",and I'm not sure I would call it better than either of those films. it is quite the pet peeve of mine when love is used to save the day.And in a Christopher Nolan movie I kind of expected better than that. So when Anne Hathaway's character started speaking in a way that seemed as though it was setting up some sort of future reincorporation saying:"Oh, love transcends all dimensions!" I was seriously hoping her character was just crazy, despite the tone of the movie explicitly implying that it would be reincorporated seriously later.Unfortunately, I was right and it was reincorporated later seriously.When you're going to reincorporate something it's best if you can't call out which scenes are going to be reincorporated before it happens.Like, seriously, as soon as Anne Hathaway started talking about it, all I could think was: "Oh God, please no." Yeah, love is totally not a chemical reaction in our bloodstream that exists to coerce reproduction. Love is magical and it transcends space and time! And the worst part about them not only including but reincorporating that line about love transcending dimensions,is that the movie could have been the exact same without that ever being mentioned and the logic would not have been changed at all. I don't see how the film's logic would have made any more or less sense if they didn't mention that. Like, when Matthew McConaughey was fucking around with the past,he was attached to a specific room and not a person.Like, if she didn't go back to that room as an adult then they would have been fucked. Like, if love for your children was the determining factor in this space equation, then shouldn't you have been attached to her and not a room? I got the impression that the outcome of that scene depended on specific coordinates, so I really don't see how love transcending dimensions had any effect on anything that happened.
Also, did no one find it weird how she immediately jumped to the conclusion "Oh, you're my ghost"? Like, is there any person, especially a scientist, that would ever come up with that conclusion? Like, of course nobody believed you!There were no logical steps that would be taken to come up with that conclusion. I just love it when characters pull things out of their asses that happened to be 100% fact and ultimately decide the outcome of the film.It never feels cheap at all no matter how many times it happens.
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie overall and I found it to be worth the price of admission. If you find yourself heavily weighting a film's visual aestethic into your overall rating, then go see this film and I'd imagine you'll really love it. The small issues I had with the plot aren't bound to affect everyone, so go see the film and judge it for yourself. Conceptually, I really loved what this movie did with time, and it made for some really emotional scenes. Even though I thought this movie was visually fantastic, overall it didn't wow me in the way that I hoped it would. That's pretty much all I've got to say about it for now.
Great movie, awesome photography.
*TARS: best quotes!
Oh. My. God
This movie is at a whole new level, I regret having this on my watch later list for years
I have to watch it again...
First time rewatching since initial viewing upon release. Was able to see a 4k imax Dolby vision copy on a 65" OLED.
Spectacular doesn't do it justice. I love the mingling of science fiction with fantasy and good ol' family drama. There are things many choose to nitpick ad nauseum , but for me it checked so many boxes. The only difficulty I had was with the level of strobe like effects in the final third. Im particularly sensitive to those unfortunately. What a masterclass of cinema. 9.4.
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I don't know what to say. This movie truly left me speechless. I didn't think any film would have the ability to surprise me to this degree anymore, but this one did. This was, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the best two hours and forty-two minutes of my life.
Christopher Nolan has already given us successful formulas that inspire the viewer to analyze his film down to the smallest detail, so I was going into this film with high expectations. It did not disappoint, quite the contrary.
Every performance was practiced and every detail was studied down to the tiniest detail. It is to be commended how good this cast was, and how good the cast was, during the film. Since "The Lincoln Lawyer" I have loved any performance by Matthew McConaughey, this one simply surpassed them all. I was able to overcome my phobia of Anne Hathaway's mouth (see my review of Roald Dahl's The Witches to understand) and added another film to the long list of excellent films Michael Caine has been in. The all-star cast did not disappoint.
Hans. Zimmer... One of the best soundtracks ever. That's all I have to say.
Everything about the plot was thought out in the smallest detail, from the evolution, to the twists and turns, to the pacing.
Inception has always been my favorite film, both Nolan's and ever. However, I believe this one may have surpassed it in Inception... In these two aspects
Lastly, I would like to praise Interstellar for achieving what no Star Wars movie has ever achieved which is: THE EXPLOSIONS IN SPACE HAVE NO SOUND, FOR GOD'S Sakes. As my FQ teacher used to say: Star Wars is extremely unrealistic, because in space sound does not propagate, so you shouldn't hear the explosions. So, kudos to Interstellar for not having sound when Dr. Mann's (Matt Damon) ship explodes.
P.S.
Star Wars is still awesome, even if you don't pay attention to those nerdy details
One of the most stunning since the legendary "2001: A Space Odyssey," which overwhelms the viewer with science fiction, experimental film, psychological drama, psychological thriller, and a background knowledge of physics. A blockbuster that is the white-hot best of Mr. Christopher Nolan's work. To be honest, "Inception" and "The Dark Knight" are not my favorites, but the truly astonishing ending is a real eye-opener. The beautiful computer graphics technology, combined with the development of the story, creates a brilliantly shivering universe that stands as a masterpiece of science fiction thriller that towers over the long history of American cinema.
Refreshing and really moving movie. Couldn't help but cry tears of joy
8.7/10
such a fantastic movie, best science fiction out there, man the emotion of every characters damn fantastic movie, I recommend this to you all folks, watch this DAMN MASTERPIECE!!!
I gave this movie a 10/10 it was perfectly done in every single way for sure you need to understand a little bit science to understand the movie but If you know what you need to know in the movie you are gonna enjoy this movie and I fell like the characters development was well done it was not the best part of the movie but was still great and the main character development was perfect and you were feeling his emotions in every part of the movie but the best thing about the movie is the visual and the emotions the visuals were perfect as well as the movie was pretty sad the last 30 min of the movie were perfect
This deserve 10/10 by far this is a Masterpiece by Christopher Nolan
inevitably one of the best movies that were ever made, and one of my all time favorites, Christopher Nolan i f*cking ADORE you for gifting us this movie, and don't even get me started with the legend Hans Zimmer.
the use of '''Time,,, in this film is one of the concepts that make me fall in Love with this movie, also the excruciating and incomprehensible pain it can have on a person was so well portrayed throughout the whole two hours and forty minutes, yet, it's also such a beautiful concept
just like the portrayal of love
the visual effects were amazing
the music was phenomenal
the fore shadowing, out of this world
Matthew's performance, incredible
i loved it all the more on a second rewatch, after so many years, and i cried soooo much, can't wait to rewatch it again after a few years
96 | Interstellar gives hope for humanity to look beyond for the future. It also gives a meaning for love that connect us in this mysterious universe. I couldn't believe I cried twice, It did not happen when I watch this film for the first time. In my opinion so far, Interstellar is Christopher Nolan's Magnum Opus.
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25%: 2.5
50%: 3
75%: 3
100%: 3
Total × 7.3 = 83.95
1st favorite character:
Joseph 'Coop' Cooper (3)
2nd favorite character:
Murphy 'Murph' Cooper (3)
3rd favorite character:
Dr. Amelia Brand (2.5)
Cinematography: 3
Loved it. Started out a little bored, but I always am a fan of seeing different people's ideas of what it's like out in space. Contact is still my favorite though.
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Top bucket, plus it's one of those movies everyone needs to see.
Nothing, nothing of this film, falls in set "A Movie", everything go directly in set "B Movie wannabe"
I don't know why, but the entire time I was watching this I kept feeling as if the director really didn't want to make a science fiction movie, but wanted to make a psychological thriller and couldn't get that funded so had to wrap it in the trappings of a science fiction movie in order to get the cash.
I..... MIND BLOWING!!!!!!!!!!! My head hurts, I can't overcome this
Great film. Filled with complex postulates and wonderful actors. Watch it. Well worth the time. A bit surprised it wasn't more critically acclaimed, but then, most science fiction isn't.
Nolan is one of the few directors who can manage to tell a complex story and intertwine it so elegantly through the lens of a summer blockbuster, all while retaining the emotional gravitas of his characters and their motivations. A simply gorgeous movie that is equally coherent as it is dramatic, one of the best movies of the last decade.
I am watching this movie second time but nothing has changed. In fact, musics and fellings are combining and hitting you harder.
Nolan Fanboys: if you don't like the movie, you're just to dumb for it.
I think, if a movie spend most of the time with boring explanations and most of the people don't get the ending, maybe it is something wrong with the movie, not the people. And yeah, there are some wrong things in this movie. It is way too long, the scenes on earth don't have the emotional impact that Nolan wants (maybe because he never learned how to write good female protagonists). The space scenes are wonderful and Hans Zimmer is still the GOAT of movie scores, but again to many explanations, to many scenes that are in the movie because because they are beautiful and a Matt Damon character that doesn't fit in the rest of the movie. The acting of nearly all actors is definitely on point.
Nolan Fanboys will keep ignoring the flaws of the movie and hate on everyone who doesn't like it, and Nolan haters will just pointing out the flaws. I think the right rating of the movie is somewhere in the middle.
"Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light".
The story is about a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Christopher Nolan once said that 2001: A Space Odyssey was his all time favorite film and how he wanted to do a small tribute to he's next film. And then comes a movie called "Interstellar" that will put a smile on Kubrick face if he was alive today, because Interstellar is one of the best movie of 2014 and the best movie experience I've had at the cinema.
I saw this movie in IMAX and all through out this film I felt like I was in space floating around with Mconaughey and Anne Hathaway. I had that feeling that I was going deep into space just like are main character's, going deep into space just like the viewing auditions and me.
The visual effect's in this movie are some of the most stunning, beautiful and Jaw dropping effect's I've seen since 2001: A Space Odyssey. The performances were brilliant, The cinematography was breathtaking and hard to look away. The directing by Christopher Nolan and let me get this out there, this man is a true director; he knows cinema and knows how to interested people into seeing he's films and I'm still shocked that he hasn't won an Oscar yet.
Now most people or critics have said that last third of this movie ruined the movie for them, but I actually like the ending to the movie. It's new for Nolan because he always ends on a deep and cold note, but this movie didn't and I didn't mind it.
My only nick pick with the movie is some of the character's in this movie wasn't all that interesting. Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain are the only character's that to me were interesting and I cared for them, but the rest of the character's I didn't really care for.
Overall Interstellar is a mind-blowing movie with fantastic visual's, interesting story line and the movie will keep you interested till the end.
I have never watched a Sci-fi movie with this amount of drama. You get attached to it to the point that you found yourself really appreciating what are you watching even though you don’t quite get some of the science theories that are within the movie. Really amazing soundtracks and the ending was perfect. That one scene at the end where Cooper walks into the hospital room where he meet his daughter again afer all these years is a scene i don’t think i will ever be able to forget.
I keep loving this move more at each iteration!
“I need to fix this before I go.”
You have to talk to me. So, don’t tell me no.
I need to exist – I can’t be their ghost,
I have to go, because I love you the most.
You have a strong heart – Don’t let it crack,
I love you forever, and I am coming back…!
No time or space can separate us,
But you know gravity and what it does.
Out there, time is gonna run more slow,
But I’ll do all I can to keep my vow.
This is not a goodbye – don’t see this in that track,
I love you forever, and I am coming back…!
I know what you mean – but I just can’t S.T.A.Y,
Because ‘they’ did choose me – This is the only way.
I may be travelling miles away – thousand or lakh,
But that will not stop me from seeing you back.
Because it is your love that I am going to pack.
I love you forever, and I am coming back…!
It looks beautiful, sounds beautiful, and an all around amazing movie. Everything from the story, to the characters, to the visuals and soundtrack was top-notch and made Interstellar a great and immersive experience.
Love? Really? I was entertained, but....
I have no words to describe how amazing this movie is. Starting in the effects, the twists, the amazing "love" based-story. I'm really not into this kind of moveis, and I think that's what made this movie so great. I just don't know what to say. Watch it and enjoy.
First of all, what a great movie! Great acting, interesting screenplay, great graphics, lots of hardcore science done "right", great emotions.
Plot: (minor spoilers)
Earth is dying. Humans are trying to survive, but crops fail them and they face extinction. Their only chance of survival is finding new planet that is habitable. This is possible due to warmhole located near Saturn. Scouts have been sent in past to explore several options, but due to communication fault one more mission needs to be sent to confirm the right planet.
Story: (medium spoilers)
Copper (Matthew McConaughey; story protagonist) is a father, ex NASA pilot, living with his family as farmers, trying to survive by producing last grow-able food corn. He cares deeply for his children, but upon discovering NASA hidden station he faces decision to go to space, to find/confirm new planet human race could live on.
What the protagonist wants in the movie from the start is to get back. This is for me interesting screenplay. Cooper decision to go to space was almost given to him. He know that was what he needed to do, what he was born and trained to do. Saving human race for me is the background of the story. He promises to his daughter (Murphy) that he will return to see her.
She is his relationship character. She wants him to stay with them, not to go. Something that the protagonists fails to see in fullest, he know he wants it, but puts it aside for greater good, the mission. This part is important for the emotional side of story and is very strong!
As for antagonist: this is the universe, and the physical laws. Mainly time relativity. The movie nicely depicts the realities of any possible space travel and its implication to our exposure to time. This is the main obstacle to the antagonist to reconcile with his goal, to go back, to see his daughter, because she would die of old age before he would return back. So he is racing against the time, will he make it?
My summary and opinion:
Really great movie mainly due to screenplay that is well executed by actors and cinematics. Main strength i see in the "hidden" true story, that coincides with the fore-front story of saving human race. The resolution of the movie is well timed to coincide in three elements getting reconciled (The antagonist goal, the saving of human race, and emotional reconciliation with the relationship character (daughter) )
Well done!
That this movie, at the time of writing this, holds an 8.8 rating at IMDb is simply beyond my understanding. Needless to say I did not really like this movie. The story is not very good, the science is ludicrous and the visuals not all that impressive. Maybe the latter would be better in a big theater (I watched this on my home cinema system which has a relatively large screen by European standards) but I am not really sure about that either.
Be warned that the rest of this review might contain a spoiler or two.
The movie starts of with the usual “I told you so” wet dream of the green fanatics on a dying Earth so it is off to a depressing start right away. That is an overused concept today as far as I am concerned. Then they pour it on with a school official claiming that he Apollo missions and moon landings never happened. What the f…? If they wanted to depress the audience right from the start they succeeded, at least with this audience.
The story proceeds with our heroes finding these gravity waves in the sand and by a huge stretch of imagination decrypts them to mean coordinates which leads them to the secret NASA base. Once there Cooper is told that he is their best choice of pilot for a “save the human race” mission through a wormhole. Yeah, right! This guy was former NASA. His whereabouts could hardly been unknown to them. If he was their best choice why would they entrust a mission to save the human race to someone else until he stumbled onto their door? Typical Hollywood nonsense!
The movie is full of this kind of rubbish. Romilly wastes 23 years of his life doing pretty much nothing except deciding not to go into the sleep capsule. The supposedly highly trained and vetted professor that they do find turns out to be a psychopath as well as and idiot almost blowing up the ship when trying to proceed with a docking that all the systems tells him have not succeeded. Then they proceed to dock with the main ship and stop its spin as well as bring it out of orbit around a planet with the shuttles engines. That is one hell of a powerful shuttle not to mention the strength of the docking mechanism! This just goes on. When someone is not doing something illogical or stupid (or both) they sit around talking, philosophizing and dragging the movie forward at snails pace. 169 minutes is way too much for this movie.
The movie ends up in one big time travel mess (okay they do not travel in time, just sends messages through time but still…) during a bunch of psychedelic scenes while traveling through the back hole. Science? Not so much. And what about this totally ludicrous massively illogical and inefficient robot design?
The one good thing I can say about this movie is that the performance of most of the actors, especially Matthew McConaughey, are quite good. For the rest, not my cup of tea.
This movie is OK at best. It's one of Nolan's better ones at least. But, it has some serious issues. See Krauss talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pG89gREWyI&t=1m12s
It's too long - he's right. The oxygen blight is completely scientifically silly. The entire basis of the plot (that Earth will run out of oxygen in tens of years) is unbelievable. This put me off from the start. There's some "formula" that Michael Caine worked on and half-solved, but it took data from the event horizon of a black hole (which also makes no sense scientifically) to solve it. Sorry, if you approach a black hole, you don't end up behind a bookshelf in your old house in the past - I have no idea how they can claim this is a movie about science. It is FULL of religious symbolism, though, so if you're into that, you'll be right at home. Apparently humans evolve out of the 3rd dimension too ... sure. There's one thing that was definitely right - outer space is quiet - FINALLY.
The cinematography is pretty good, and I liked how the dude went crazy on the barren planet, but this film would have been a lot better without the sappy happy ending. I mean, really - transporting all the way back from inside a black hole? Armageddon had a much more realistic ending than that, and it was SO STUPID! It would be great if someone fan-edited this into something scientifically accurate (dub over the lines about what's wrong with Earth replacing it with a feasible problem, have him crushed to death in the black hole, show Brand on the planet at the end all alone, FIN). I don't know how people can give this a higher rating than a 7/10. I wouldn't consider it to be a classic at all. It's at best a see-once blockbuster, just like Armageddon was.
The best film I have ever seen. It is as much a majestic piece of art as an open door to the questions of science. It will break your heart and the next second it will take you to the most beautiful places, to the limits of reality and imagination; the place they meet to become science, and maybe, the future. A must watch.
For such a long movie, I never get tired of watching it; and I am not someone who watches movies over and over again. I love Interstellar.
There are some parts of this movie that are incredibly stupid (i.e. "Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.")
It doesn't matter, because 90% of this movie is head and shoulders above anything else I've ever seen. Absolutely awe-inspiring. Just hearing the score is enough to give me the chills. And no matter how many times I see it, I will always cry at the scene where Coop watches the messages from his children after 23 years have gone by. I'm getting emotional just writing this.
The Earth is dying, and technology a luxury. People live as farmers for the most part to produce food for mankind.
In these times, the protagonist, a former NASA pilot, gets by accident into a progressive NASA program with the goal of finding a replacement planet for humankind.
Pretty slight spoilers (not much more than you likely know about the movie beforehand anyways):
A wormhole was discovered in the solar system, which alien forces have laid off and sending signals to the Earth. In the search of a new home for humanity, the team passes through and is going to investigate planets which scouts did discover before.
In-depth spoilers, better read only post-watching:
The first planet to find was pretty weird, I think. Because landing on there makes the time ratio 1:7, but this doesn't seem to count for the ship in the orbit of it? When you are so close to a nuclear star, it seems pretty unbelievable for me that that tiny distance difference would bear such huge consequences. Additionally, it looks like for each hour on the planet not only 7 years pass on Earth, but also for the ship in the orbit - Which doesn't make sense, especially considering it is near a nuclear star. This is more of a scientific note, it does not make watching the movie worse in any term.
I also failed to understand how the robot did fall through to Earth and how that did happen as well as him being "picked up by scouts", where even?
The ending is pretty creative, in any case, independent on how you think about it personally.
I think one among the best movies I have ever watched.
Rating: 10/10
as another Nolan's movie this movie is great too , his prediction about Black hole now became reality
This movie is breathtaking. Visually stunning and emotional. The sound editing is insane and the score is fantastic. One of Nolan's best.
While it isn't a perfect film and the ending could have been improved, Interstellar nevertheless is an ambitious, character driven, epic space drama that offers fantastic visuals and terrific performances and is a true heir to 2001 a space odyssey.
I'm not a fan of Space Movies. And this film does not make it better. Towards the end of the film is too crazy. The special effects are really great, but that's about it.
A typical Nolan movie where you scratch your head going.. WTF did I just watch!!!
I fell into my own trap with this one. I always say don´t led a trailer fool you, don´t build up expactations ´cause in the end you might be dissapointed. In a way that´s what happened with Interstellar. It was absolutely not what I thought it to be which in the end left me kind of confused and wondering what to make of it.
I see a lot of resemblence to "2001" in the whole make up of the movie but like "2001" I´m not blown away. Interstellar is a good movie with a good and interesting storyline that has it´s flaws if you look at it from certain angles. That´s the movies, Personally, I think the end was to much Hollywood in it´s conclusion. I think Nolan once said he placed emotion above science for the end and that´s my biggest problem - the typical happy-end. It´s especially tragic since so much effort went into making this scientifically sound. Having Kip Thorne as a consultant is a big asset and it showed in the movie until that point. Than Hollywood won over Science.
The movie could have been 20-30 min shorter which might have helped the pace. The visuals are really good, it all felt believable (that is beside the fact that the whole idea itself provides that you buy into it).
It was not a complete bust or waste of time - but I don´t think this is a movie I will watch repeatedly.
"Interstellar" is Nolan's best work so far. Absolutely brilliant with a perfect balance between the narrative and the amazing technique and skills of one of the best directors of the modern cinema. An emotional/humanely journey escorted by a flawless photography and Zimmer's stunning score. Audacious, intelligent and masterful. "Love is the one thing that transcends time and space". Love is the ultimate dimension.
Possibly the best film I have ever watched
Just watched this awesome movies!
This movie, the story, the science and the insight will stay with me for the rest of my life! It was beautiful!
Amazing film of this year! Mixing of all sciences, astronomy, physics, chemistry...it's a movie to be watched more than once. Thank you Matthew and Anne for their roles in this film
the best Sic-Fi movie I have ever watched also best movie of 2014.
With a score of 8.8/10 on iMDb I was somehow expecting more. yes good effects, yes good performances but glacial pace of progress allowed the fidgets to set in.
Overly long and for me too confusing. Best movie of 2014 for some, but not for me!
Visually is great, and the direction -as always- of Nolan is excellent but I have to say that the plot wasn't too good and that the Nolan brothers have a big imagination but maybe they went too far with this one... I liked that they show the things about Albert Einstein's theories of gravity fields and all that but I don't know. I although would have like it to see what happens with Brand and what she did, I'll have to assume that what they show at the end is her set in the colony and all that.
A brilliant '2001 space oddisee'-like real science fiction movie we haven't seen since the first Matrixx movie.
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.
Don't deserve all the 10 he got !
It's good, but not a "masterpiece" or else.
Too long ! 45 minutes too long to begin with.
In the end...speechless ***** TARS *****
You've done it Nolan. It's not perfect but it's basically a move made specifically for me in every way, with so many individual scenes, moments and ideas that make my heart whir. Space, guys! Space.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Simply amazing.
Still at this day and age, BEST MOVIE EVER!
The knowledge of how accurate the science is in this movie tells you how much care Christopher Nolan put into this movie. While the ending might not stick with everyone, Nolan's amazing use of the concept of time as a tool cannot be overlooked.
I saw this film at the cinema on release - stuck in traffic that was worsening, I took the sideroads and went the cinema to pass the time more usefully... I liked it then, didn't love it.
I still don't love it but I've watched it again since then. Once more when it came out on Bluray and just now, some 6 years after release.
The bits that annoyed me then only grate on me now.
They are:
- the dialogue volume is atrocious. McConaughey mumbles and growls for the whole film but it's across the board. Just raise the damn volume of the dialogue...
- The soundtrack isn't to my taste. Too emotionless a pallette for my tastes.
- though it seems like you need a degree in physics to watch this, you don't. The scriptwriters are just using the concept of more physically-manipulable dimensions to write their way out of a hole.
Personal irritations:
- The meet-up with the daughter irritates me. He's been away for 90 years or so, I believe. And they spend less than an hour meeting before he takes off again...
- Anne Hathaway. I get a feeling of insincerity off her and don't rate her as an actor. When you see her being interviewed, you see how faux she is in normal life and it is exactly visible on screen. However, what she takes from the screen, Jessica Chastain returns with interest! She does fantastically with a role that she shares with other actors.
I think it's an excellent movie. It just isn't perfect. But it is far better than say Gravity and less enjoyable as a film as The Martian. It is a more serious affair yet it relies on cheap thrills so it cannot really consider itself a superior effort.
8.25/10
The only reason I am not giving this a 6 is because of the last 30 minutes - the rest of the film wasn't that good. If the last 30 minutes weren't there, this would be given a 6 at the highest. I'm actually quite sad this wasn't better because I absolutely space films, and this one is just nowhere near as good as people make it out to be. It's overrated. I had many problems with it and several parts were just flat out stupid. One of the more worse space films I've seen.
I can't stand Anne Hathaway in this movie.
What kind of argument is that? "We love people who have died. What's the social utility in that? - None." Why would that mean it means "something more"? It could just mean that the emotional system we call love, as it has developed through evolution, cannot exist without persisting after the person it binds us to has died? Or perhaps it actually needs to persist after others' deaths because one aspect of it is to ensure the survival of groups and not just individuals and hence, if we stopped loving people as soon as they died, there would be no reason to ensure their survival? Also "Love is the one thing we are capable of perceiving that transcends time and space." I'm sorry, but that's absolute nonsense. We 'perceive' love because it is an emotion. In other words: it is INTERNAL. That we love people who are far away or long gone doesn't mean it 'transcends' time and space in a physical way any more than a photograph of Neil Armstrong on the moon does.
Also, why does one planet orbiting the black hole have massive time dilation and the other doesn't? And while we're at it, why would anyone even consider settling a planet orbiting a black hole? That seems like a terrible idea for many reasons. Though, on the other hand, if you use that planet as a starting point to look for others to colonise, the time dilation might actually be beneficial - after all, imagine if it had been the other way around and in the, what, 4 years the Endurance was gone only 40 minutes had passed on earth? Still, no one really mentions any of this so it feels lazy.
And then there's the ending with the bookshelves. All absolute physical ridiculousness aside, it was obvious it was him all along, and he thus had to signal "STAY", but how the hell did he not remember that was exactly what his daugher told him the message said? And then, you know, why did he have to use the watch for anything? (And why did it keep repeating the message, but that's another question). If he had access to any moment in that bedroom, why didn't he just go to the one where Murph came back there and threw down books again or something? And hell, if THEY (us) have control over time and space, why did they have to transmit the information in such a convoluted way at all? Why not drop in at the earliest possible moment in human history, give them the information, and done?
All in all, this movie is very much like The Prestige in that it contains some very interesting ideas, stunning visuals, and satisfying twists, but it's also extremely aggravating in that it pretends to be realistic (especially in the way it is shot, all the death and misfortune that occurs, and of course all the technobabble) and seems to wrap up nicely, and yet if you spend more than a second thinking about it nothing much in it makes sense. I think I would have found it actually more satisfying if in the end, everyone died (except maybe for Dr. Brand).
Not bad, but it's too typical making it predictable in many ways. By taking a step towards a new level of knowledge, we have to put the other foot on a new moral rung, and this is not respected in the movie.
Questions like this: "What is the reason that moves the human being to continue with his determination to know, despite having recognized the impossibility of reaching the truth?" They remain unanswered. If you expect a deep message, it's not your movie.
Masterpiece! You have to know some things about science especially about physics and what black hole is so you can enjoy it more.Nolan wrote a sick script and with his powerfull directing made this brilliant movie..
OMG!!!! What a MASTER PIECE from Christopher Nolan!!! I absolutely loved this movie
The Plot was Amazing!!! The Characters.. usually Pacing would be a problem but this film was so Great I scored it a 1.
Anne Hathaway WOW what a performance!!! Of Course Matthew McConaughey Showed UP!!! Great Cast!!!!
This Just bumped American Sniper for Movie Of The Year in 2014.. A perfect Ten In my opinion. I'm speechless how great this movie was Christopher Nolan Really Directed and Wrote a Masterpiece
One of the best movies I've ever watched. It captured my attention throughout and it's been a long time since I last cried as much as I did watching this. 10/10
Rewatched "Interstellar" for the first time in 4K now and what can I say...It's my all-time favorite. What a brilliant movie Christopher Nolan made. The story is intriguing, the special effects are out of this world and the Soundtrack is one of the most beautiful scores I've ever heard. Love the cast too btw.
And I really recommend watching this film in 4K. The IMAX scenes are just mind blowing.
One of the best movie ever
Can't describe in words i mean its just the best space movie i ever watched till now ive watched it like 15times lol
Wow! First let me say, that this wasn't first time I tried to watch it, because it's kind of a slow start and it didn't help that I knew it would be almost 3 hours, as I am not a fan of long movies.. But I am so glad that this time I watched through as it was so so so good! Once the story gets going it's really interesting journey of hope and survival. And kind of sad too, because of the family.
I am so happy that this movie was recommended to me (several times!), really enjoyed it.
I am so conflicted about this film. Beautiful moments interspersed with bad writing. Argh.
I avoided this movie like the plague because it looked so, so, so boring. Then I finally got around to seeing it and it was great. And touching. I like this more than Inception. I'm not crazy about Inception.
Is like: "Exogenesis Symphony: The movie. "
I can see the movie and see it again and again... Just amazing story and producers!
Love this movie....2 second time
Just wow, i just finished it, if you haven't watch now!
Shout by BenVIP OG 13BlockedParent2013-03-21T17:49:47Z
A Christopher Nolan movie about Albert Einstein's theories of gravity fields, wormholes and several hypotheses :O :O :O
Yaaaahoooooooo - I CAN NOT WAIT!