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
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.
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?!
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.
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.
It's an excellent story, with excellent acting, and excellent photography. the only thing holding it back is the script. When exploring things that are illogical and comparing them to things that are strictly logical you either have to be quite vague about it or you have to pick the absolute perfect words to explain it. I do not have a problem with doing either of these but any time any character started spouting shit about Love being the only thing to transcend time it ruined the immersion completely and I (a person who has no scientific training whatsoever) could even tell that Nolan didn't know where the fuck he was going with it. The enormous leaps in logic aside, it is a very good movie.
One of my favorite movies, if not the favorite. STOP reading reviews and go watch it! I can even explain in words how good this movie was
Viene a estar a medio camino entre Contact, 2001 y el 3º arco argumental de "The Authority" con Jenny Sparks, todo ello con la grandilocuencia bien entendida habitual de Nolan, entre la aventura pura y el tono levemente aleccionador. No llega a ser la película definitiva sobre la búsqueda de otros mundos que muchos (yo) esperábamos por alguna concesión sentimental (para mi gusto) pero casi. Y como siempre, un entretenimiento de primera. Y a Hans Zimmer deberían mandarle YA el Oscar a la mejor banda sonora.
You will never see a film like this
A Christopher Nolan movie about Albert Einstein's theories of gravity fields, wormholes and several hypotheses :O :O :O
Yaaaahoooooooo - I CAN NOT WAIT!
Guys the movie is legendary and everything but beware of the details and do not be fooled by the beauty of the movie there are very important details such as dropping bombs from a certain layer in the atmosphere and this is really possible to happen one day beware and watch out people, pay attention to the details
"Interstellar," a cosmic voyage that equally fascinates and frustrates, embodies the ambitious storytelling of Christopher Nolan, blending stunning visuals with, at times, cumbersome exposition (to be honest I never got what the constant aspect ratio change is trying to achieve). The film commences in a future Earth, teetering on the brink of extinction, where we're introduced to Cooper, a multifaceted character portrayed as an engineer, farmer, and reluctant astronaut whose depth occasionally gets muddled by the film's reliance on expositional dialogue. As Cooper journeys through wormholes and beyond, the narrative ambitiously tackles themes of love, time, and survival in the vast emptiness of space.
Characterization varies, with some members of the space expedition feeling underdeveloped, reducing the impact of pivotal moments and emotional stakes. Nolan's choice to explore complex scientific concepts, like relativity and black holes, often feels weighed down by the necessity of explanatory dialogue. Yet, these moments are counterbalanced by breathtaking visuals and a score by Hans Zimmer that elevates the cinematic experience, making space feel simultaneously majestic and menacing.
Despite its narrative and auditory missteps, including a sometimes overly idealistic script and sound mixing that can obscure dialogue, "Interstellar" remains a testament to Nolan's directorial prowess and his ability to convey the enormity of space. The emotional journey of Cooper and his daughter Murph played with earnestness, grounds the film's grandiose ambitions. Scenes of genuine heartbreak, like Cooper grappling with the relativity of time as he watches years of messages from his children, showcase the film's capacity to resonate on a deeply human level.
"Interstellar" may stumble in its execution of certain themes, particularly the portrayal of love as a force comparable to gravity, and encounters with scientific implausibilities that may distract the discerning viewer. Yet, its visual spectacle, coupled with a narrative boldness to explore the unknown, cements it as a noteworthy, if not universally acclaimed, entry in Nolan's filmography. It's a movie that, despite its flaws, invites viewers into a conversation about our place in the universe and the lengths to which humanity will go to survive, making it a polarizing yet unmissable cinematic experience.
This movie should have won so many more Oscars. It still baffles me just how complete of a movie this is.
One of the greatest films I have seen to date!
The plot is very engaging, visually very well done, with interesting (albeit expensive) scientific solutions. The the script is however full of American sci-fi-style tricks to make everything working. It starts like a not so good Spielberg-like story, to improve in the second half.
Still one of the best movies I've ever seen. The soundtrack is a must!
Why? Just why? I'm sobbing so hard right now. This film is next level. I still can't believe how complex the story got, all while being heartbreakingly emotional. I still can't believe the score and cinematography and cgi and dialogue and plot and quality and everything. I just can't comprehend what happened and how I understood the jist of it. One of if not the best space movie of all time. The acting was phenomenal from everyone, although at times, the dialogue did feel slightly stiff. Hans Zimmer just has that special hand when it comes to matching sound to emotion. Christopher Nolans' perfect amount of sense with non-sense is so mesmering because you have no idea what's going on, but you do, you just nonstop think. Honestly, I'm still in shock, so I can't think of anything else to say. Just watch it.
Still one of my favorite movies ever. Simply amazing.
Great movie. Would definitely recommend for any sci fi fan.
What a cracker!
So glad to finally tick 'Interstellar' off my theoretical list, took me far too long to get around to it but boy am I glad I finally have done - sensational film! The most obvious sign of that being the case is how the ~2hr30min run time goes by in an absolute flash... insert joke about it like being aboard Endurance here
I'm obviously not able to add anything new to what many, many others have already said gushingly about this 2014 flick, so I can only say I'm sure I agree with the vast majority of whatever praise this has received. As one would expect from Christopher Nolan & Co., it's incredibly well made, sounds amazing and looks out-of-this-world (ha!) stunning.
Matthew McConaughey puts in an incredible performance as lead, most notably nailing all of the emotion-filled scenes - not that I care about these things personally, but I'm shocked to see the lack of high accolades that came his way from this... he merited more! Aside from him, there are very good showings from the likes of Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy and Anne Hathaway.
I will note one 'but', mind. I didn't love the bits at the end involving the dimensional tesseract, don't get me wrong at all it's still superb viewing... just a noticeable drop from all that preceeds it, which honestly simply says more about how outstanding everything else prior is really. I thought similarly about (the equally magnificent) 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', for example. In short: just a nit-pick, tbh.
All in all, phenomenal!
This movie is just at another level.
I can't describe it because there are no words to express the beautifulness of this movie. If you haven't watched, get some good headphones, a 4k TV and watch it. 100/10
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...
It’s by far the best movie I’ve ever watched
It's like Ghost with Patrick Swayze, just longer, less credible and more self righteous. No, really, Ghost made more sense than this film. But okay, let's set aside physics for a moment: The plot itself doesn't make sense. There's more: half of McConaughey's lines are irritatingly whispered for no reason. But the best is when Cooper ends up you-know-where (no spoilers): I remember myself repeating countless times: "Really...? No, Really?!"
I love Nolan but can't believe he did a mess like this. I can't believe millions of people praise this thing either!
Pretty dang good movie. Just bought a giant tv, it looks great in 4k!
Interstellar is a terribly pretentious film, attempting in every way to develop a plot that is both epic and intellectual, failing in both regards. The use of scientific consultations to 'create a realistic film' is laughable. There would be nothing wrong with creating a scientifically inaccurate film; in fact, the suspension of disbelief serves precisely this purpose. However, for a cinematic product to base much of its aura on the foundations of presumed scientific accuracy, only to then fall short of these premises, seems significant to me. Assuming that scientific accuracy is an added artistic value in cinema. The conclusion of the story (not of the film, so I am not spoiling anything) is that, from film to film, Nolan earns the title of a rigorously realistic, almost mathematical director. Want a real example of a 'mathematical' director? Watch a Kubrick film!
“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Christopher Nolan’s epic space odyssey Interstellar is a sweeping adventure that’s full of wonder. Set in an apocalyptic future where a blight is killing off plant life and transforming the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA launches a desperate mission to save humanity by exploring three potentially habitable planets that lie on the other side of a newly formed wormhole. The special effects are amazing, and Nolan presents an incredible vision of space travel. Additionally, the cast is especially good, featuring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, and Mackenzie Foy. However, the storytelling is a little muddled at times and takes on more than it can effectively cover; resulting in some plot holes and contrivances. Yet the ambitiousness of Interstellar is impressive and delivers a spectacular journey through space and time.
after almost 10 years from this movie was released, I got the chance to watch this masterpiece
to be honest if you want to watch this movie you should have a basic knowledge or understanding of physics but at times its a bit advanced I suggest to Google some physic terms from the movie to keep up with the movie because that's exactly what I did
overall the storyline is so incredible I really enjoyed it
I truly enjoy Interstellar. I've watched it multiple times in theaters and more again afterwards. As a Nolan movie, it falls flat in some plot points like the Love concept and the extra-dimensional beings but what it lacks there it holds up in effects, storytelling, and emotion. When I watch this, there are several key moments that get me teary eyed. The movie continues to be an experience, that is a certainty with Nolan films - it's always an experience to be witnessing the craft on the screen. And the soundtrack keeps that memory alive. For that, I love this movie.
One of my FAVORITE movies I've ever watched. I regret not watching this before.
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.
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.
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.
Still at this day and age, BEST MOVIE EVER!
“Newton’s third law. You gotta leave something behind.” -
what a great movie. i come back every year to watch it again. it's almost like a ritual at this point. if you're thinking about watching it, don't think, just watch it. it's that good
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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
This film was visually stunning. Nolan's ability to capture feelings of expanse and loneliness in interstellar travel was perfection. The plot felt messy toward the end, and the conclusion was underwhelming. In my opinion, the fact that Cooper escaped the tesseract lessened the emotional impact. Nevertheless, this movie was thought-provoking and emotionally driven. The soundtrack is a masterpiece.
Its overrated, i think. This movie is a victim of the popular culture.
Chef-d'œuvre absolu du cinéma. My favorite movie of all time, went to see it three times in cinemas. Nothing more to say.
I liked it. It's one of the few longer movies that didn't get me bored. Even though towards the end I was sometimes thinking about its length which threw me out of the "flow". Especially in longer scenes but I was still always thrilled and eager to know what will happen. As in many films you could guess there would be some kind of happy end but I couldn't predict about anything else. I got into this without any expectations besides people telling me it's a great film. What I liked the most about it is that it has a story I have never seen like this before. With all the sequels and remakes today it was really nice getting into an original story like this. And even though it was a bit long, it's still fascinating how Nolan told a story with such a long timespan in so "little" time.
This movie is one of those movies that make you feel emotional and amazed. This movie tells the story of a farmer who used to be an astronaut. An apocalyptic story where a group of scientists are looking for a way to find a replacement planet for Earth. The focus of this movie is based on the difference in the passage of time in different planets, which is well shown in this movie. The soundtrack of this movie is a masterpiece! A true masterpiece! By watching this movie, secrets will be revealed to you that will amaze you.
This movie is still incredible, the soundtrack and the story will always be so beautiful:sob::sob::sob:
I don’t think I understood it in the same way that a lot of other people did but it was amazing. I need to rewatch it
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.
A spectacular and awe-inspiring movie. Space is such an interesting tool to work with in cinema and Christopher Nolan did an excellent job using space to his advantage in this movie.
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.
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.
This is what cinema was created for.
Refreshing and really moving movie. Couldn't help but cry tears of joy
8.7/10
If I could give it a 100 stars, I would.
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!!!
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
Probably Nolan’s most technically impressive, and the performances are pretty great.
Terrific work by Hans Zimmer and Hoyte van Hoytema as well.
Some of the exposition is a bit poorly done (Cooper doesn’t know how a worm hole works when they’re already in space?), but the bigger problem is that it turns into a Spielberg film in the third act.
The movie suddenly stops being scientific and becomes a whimsical fantasy, which feels like a cheat. It really should’ve ended about 15 minutes earlier than it did.
It doesn’t ruin the film, but it’s a big stain on what could’ve been one of Nolan’s best.
8/10
One of the best of all time
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 :)
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.
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
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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.
Top bucket, plus it's one of those movies everyone needs to see.
Hollywood sappiness doesn’t work well with hard sci-fi with philosophical overtones. “Interstellar” is an entertaining film with spectacular sequences, moving moments, and thought-provoking themes, but at the same time, it’s brought down by easy narrative choices and ridiculous monologues that sound like they were taken from a Sailor Moon episode. I know that directors and writers have to make compromises when working with huge budgets, but I wish they could balance out the film’s two souls more tastefully. If the ultimate objective was to talk about feelings and family, something shorter and simpler would have worked better.
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What I was most interested in finding out; do I like this more than Arrival? Because a friend of mine told me this was much better. My answer is: no. But still a breathtaking film. And Jessica :star_struck:
It's one of my favorites.
Interstellar is undoubtedly an ingenious
masterpiece from Nolan. Starting from the storyline, characters, plot shifts, paradoxes of galaxies, enriching visuals, and intricate use of science, make this one a paragon in modern cinema. This Nolan film is mesmerizing, heartwarming, inspiring, dramatic, and at times shocking. In short, Interstellar is a mind-bending presentation of space and time with a soul wrapped with emotions.
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Nothing, nothing of this film, falls in set "A Movie", everything go directly in set "B Movie wannabe"
I watched it right after Zetsuen no Tempest and dealing with Novikov self-consistency principle, this movie just scalates it higher...
Great movie, for someone as me that HATES “Space" movies, it was very entertaining for a two and a half hour movie.
Yes this film is a cinematic achievement in every sense of the word - incredible screenplay, incredible cgi, cinematography, editing, directing and soundtrack. As mind-blowing and testing as the story manages to be, in the end what stays is the love between a father and a daughter. Science-fiction isn’t my thing so this could never really become a personal favourite, but I am happy to objectively praise its prowesses.
Great story with a great soundtrack!
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
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
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
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.
My first time watching it since seeing it at the cinema when it was first released. Some parts hit softer the second time round but for the most part it stands up well. An incredibly well crafted film: the cinematography, the acting, the music. All wonderful.
I have a problem with the development of female characters
Good nthat. What sucked was everything wrapping up so neatly
August 2020 - Coronavirus Lockdown REVIEW - I've just walked out of an IMAX showing of this movie and I'm exhausted but very happy. Interstellar is one of those films you have to be in the mood for and be ready to see it in the best way possible. The local Odeon IMAX screen literally shook my seat during this film. I found it mind bending and exhilerating, thoughtful and shocking, but mostly feeling thoroughly entertained... the 3 hours flew by. There's no doubt about it... Christopher Nolan is a genius and I am so looking forwatd to rewatching Inception next weekend and Tenet the weekend after. I can thoroughly recommend this movie - probably my best experience at a cinema... ever! 8.5/10
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.
A Masterpiece from Cristopher Nolan. The history, the Music, the conceps. The only
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.
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.
One of the best sci fi movies of all time.
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.
Good movie so sad I cryed
OMG! That's what I call: a fantastic movie! :clap::clap::heart_eyes:
There are a lot of great Movies made by mankind but this movie is probably the best I've ever seen to date. The pictures and the sound is just breathtaking. I 've seen this in cinemas when it came out and I wish I could unsee it and watch it again.
I'm struggling to put my thoughts together on this one. Overall, like Dunkirk, it was a disappointment. Whilst unlike that movie, it doesn't meander around for 2 hours, this time the first half of the movie is a wonderful, science-y movie with hard decisions about Earth becoming infertile. Somewhere along the way it loses a bit of focus and turns into a more cliche'd movie. McConaughey is outstanding in the role, as he was in general in this time period. The rest of the cast does their parts well. But something about it suddenly changing from slow silent space shots of giant white machines, drawing back to the original Alien movie, and then turning into tense action scene after tense action scene, while not bad, it was also not the movie that I had been enjoying up to that point. The final third in the end when the movie turns into their version of 5D with the paradoxical time loop of "we sent for ourselves" was a bit more interesting but then it led into a neat ending with a bow where he makes it back to his daughter, the driving thread of the movie, but is ok leaving her again, for good, after a 5 minute meeting with her.
You know, maybe it IS like Dunkirk in more ways than one. Beautifully shot, amazing Hans Zimmer soundtrack, and the movie itself has a major identity crisis. That's true for both films. Interstellar only being lightly better in my opinion because of the stellar first half.
7.5 rounded up
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.
Review by Serggyo AlejandroBlockedParentSpoilers2014-12-27T17:32:52Z— updated 2022-10-21T17:11:28Z
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.