Interstellar - Review Thread

No blackout option, though. The spoiler function here works exactly the same as the previous forum. Even without the button, you just use the bbcode tags [ spoiler ] [ /spoiler ].

Such a dirty mind.

Clearly he's picking his nose.

I don’t know how I feel about this movie. I thought there was a lot that worked and a lot that….didn’t. Ultimately the whole isn’t as great as the sum of its parts but there is enough to take away that I would recommend it to the casual movie-goer.

Liked:
-The effects were enormous.
-It’s enjoyable watching a science fiction space-travel movie that seemed real. You can tell there was great care in the craft of many areas of the screenplay.
-The score I thought was excellent. I enjoyed the variation between ambient sounds to thundering, futuristic sounding scores.
-Pretty much everything else people liked on a visual and story level.

Didn’t like:
-This movie commits my #1 most egregious movie crime – having a kid who’s really written as an adult. Think Dakota Fanning in War of the Worlds, an almost-movie-ruining performance that I think is my most hated by anyone in anything ever. These are characters that talk like adults, think like adults, talk to adults like other adults, and would never, ever be found in real life. They’re take me out of the movie almost instantly and almost always bring the movie down in a big way. Fortunately the young Murph doesn’t get a whole ton of screentime but she certainly gets enough to get the point across.
-Blatant exposition? In a Christopher Nolan movie? Get out of town! Sarcasm aside, the parent teacher conference scene at the beginning is almost unwatchable as it gives us almost the purpose of the entire movie. In a parent teacher conference.
-The movie asks us to make some pretty huge leaps in logic as well as understanding the decision making process behind each character. The ‘ending’ makes little sense even though it’s trying its damndest to be 2001.
-I don’t know who felt the same way but I found this movie to be extremely predictable. If you’ve seen a handful of sci-fi movies (and I’ve only seen a handful) you know exactly how things are going to play out well before they do. Between unthawing the scientist, ‘who made the wormhole?’ and even ‘who’s trying to communicate with us?’ it’s all pretty obvious if you let the power of deduction take command. It’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just…predictable.
-On the whole there was a lot of ‘fluff’ in the film. For example the climax with Casey Affleck coming back to the house was unnecessary and was only there to add conflict that didn’t go anywhere.

I went in with middling expectation for Interstellar and in some ways they were exceeded and in others they were just met in the middle. The scope of this movie is enormous but ultimately it’s a one-and-done film that I don’t see myself watching again. The Nolan brothers have great vision and gave us another interesting if bumpy movie.

B so says Doomsday

Sometimes exposition is needed. It isn't always something that's belabored ad-nauseum.

And the line tends to be tailored to the individual.

I didn't mean to imply the two were the same. I added spoiler tags, which yes throw the spoiler words into a blocked off section, exactly as it did on the old forum. Unfortunately there is no blackout option.

Guardians of the Galaxy? Captain America 2? X-men?

Uhh... I wouldn't consider those terrible by any in-fact I would put those 3 way above Interstellar.

Yeah but just because it had ambition doesn't mean the movie completely works.

All of the movies I mentioned worked completely and entertainment value is also much higher

I wouldn't say either Guardians or Captain America 2 worked completely. Both have their faults.

Days of Future Past is great, but I'd still put Interstellar ahead of it.