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GreatMartinNov 8, 2014

I don’t know at what point I stopped caring about the main characters in “Interstellar” but it must have been upon losing all interest as to whether they ’make it’ or don’t. Or it may have been at the one point a crew member is lost and theI don’t know at what point I stopped caring about the main characters in “Interstellar” but it must have been upon losing all interest as to whether they ’make it’ or don’t. Or it may have been at the one point a crew member is lost and the reaction was, “So what?”

The film is long, at 169 minutes, with a lot of forgettable science verbiage that is forgotten by most of the audience before the credits start running. Will even the science nerds in the audience remember the dialogue regarding the black hole or the worm hole? Isn’t it enough to say that one hour in space will equal 7 hours on earth without getting into quantum theories? I’d rather hear how Anne Hathaway’s hair stays so sculptured after having a space helmet on for a flight, walking in water and on ice plus the gravity experienced, which is talked about but doesn’t seem to affect hairdos!

Director Christopher Nolan and co-writer of the script with his brother Jonathan, seem to know what they want to say when dealing with family relationships but when the abruptly take off space they seem to get lost. “Gravity” set the bar high for filming in space and spaceships and “Interstellar” comes nowhere near those scenes and feelings. The Nolans, along with the Director of Photography Hoyte van Hoytema, get the feel, sights and sounds of earth drying up and the possibility of the end of earth is made believable as are the various family relations, but once the movie blasts off to space everything comes to a halt except for a robot that seems more livelier than the humans.

The cast do what they can with what they got but Matthew McConaughey as Cooper, former test pilot who is brought back to lead this mission to find a place that the humans on earth can move to before they die, is fine in the father and daughter scenes but does not bring much to the hero aspect of the film. Oh, and a side note, he does need to put on some of the weight he lost for “Dallas Buyers Club”. Anne Hathaway has a thankless part while Michael Caine as her father gets to repeat Dylan Thomas”s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” a few times. Murph, Cooper’s daughter, is played by 3 actresses and as the 10 year old Mackenzie Foy is a stand out while Jessica Chastain as Murph in her 30s has nothing to do but being angry.

David Gyasi and Wes Bently as the crew working with McConaughey and Hathaway, along with computerized robot voiced by Bill Irwin, are more than adequate. They are 3 other actors, not to be named, in the film so as not to provide spoilers. Also Casey Affleck, as Murph’s brother, in an underwritten role does what he can with it.

Ah yes I must give credit to Hans Zimmer for the too often loud music, signifying nothing, for keeping me awake in the last hour of “Interstellar”.… Expand

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foxgroveNov 8, 2014

Here we go again reviewing yet another failed giant which clocks in at a butt numbing 169 minutes. It's an ambitious but flawed venture that is big in concept, big in budget and explores big themes. Sadly what this all adds up to is a bigHere we go again reviewing yet another failed giant which clocks in at a butt numbing 169 minutes. It's an ambitious but flawed venture that is big in concept, big in budget and explores big themes. Sadly what this all adds up to is a big disappointment. The story, full of as many holes as there are black ones in space, is a mish mash of ideas which never really gel and one never quite gets a hold of what the point of it all is. The actors don't offer much by way of compensation either. Anne Hathaway shouldering the worst of the dialogue is the biggest casualty here, but Michael Caine is also tiresome as is Matt Damon who adds nothing. Matthew McConnaughey is better, but whatever emotion or empathy the film generates, and there are some very moving moments, are purely due to the wonderful Jessica Chastain. The film's biggest asset is her performance, although it's good to see film legend Ellen Burstyn showing all the others how it's done in just one tiny scene.

The banal dialogue is often gibberish and causes the rolling of one's eyes in disbelief or embarrassment. Nearly all scenes are over extended and often one is inclined to tune out long before they are finished. The special effects are good, but aside from a couple of sequences (a huge wave and the final set piece involving McConnaughey and Chastain),there really isn't much that we haven't seen before. The music comes on strong and sounds like an extended version of Mike Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells' from 1973's 'The Exorcist', co incidentally starring Burstyn in one of her finest roles.

The sound is very loud and effective during the set pieces, but is then often inaudible during simple dialogue exchanges between characters. I have no idea what Anne Hathaway was mumbling at the end in so pained a manner.
There are some marvellous compositions of the outside of the spacecraft filmed in complete silence, which are then judiciously cut with the sound included inside the ship. More of this and less dialogue would have been appreciated all round. Another gimmick that serves little purpose was the almost inevitable inclusion of the robot TARS. I would have recommended the removal of his power pack.

Director Christopher Nolan is certainly full of ideas but, unfortunately, they are never fully realised. He comes over like a young boy trying to communicate a passion or a hobby that no one else gets. His direction is over indulgent and left me confused and bored. Perhaps after two dramatic failures (Inception was very similar in style, but an even worse film!) he should try his hand at comedy. After all laughter in a cinema in infinitely preferable to sleeping.… Expand

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MikeWritesNov 7, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. *** spoilers ***

While visually stunning, this is one of the most flawed films in recent memory. Flawed, because more time was spent rendering out the special effects than developing a screenplay worthy of the cast and budget. When you're a filmmaker who can make anything you want - on film - there is no excuse for your films to not bring something new to the table and work at a basic screenplay level.

Interstellar does not ask new questions and with a script that literally feels like a first draft --I'm just shocked that Nolan didn't develop this more. The entire core of this film is the relationship between our lead Cooper and his daughter - but this is so rushed and honestly, extremely cheesy, that we don't care what happens. They spend far too much in time in space - with a ridiculous plot involving Matt Damon - and cut back to Earth is sporadic cuts that pull us into so many directions. There is no focus in this film.

This film proves that the Nolan brothers can not handle a couple of things: writing females and writing emotional characters that we're attached to. The dialogue was laughable - over the top in many places - and basically just a ton of one-liners.

We cut from Cooper learning he has to go to space - says goodbye - boom on the rocket - NO ATTACHMENT. There is zero development here - just get him to space, which fails to tell the core story well - which bites this movie in its ass in the third act. There are countless films that do this way better - Apollo 13, Close Encounters (they don't even go to space there) - if you want the audience to care about your characters then you have to spend more time making them care - not as much with the science and pizzaz - and I know everyone will love this movie, but it's not just minor flaws here - it's gaping holes in both motivation and development.

Forced. Rushed. However you want to put it - I'm sorry folks - it's not a great movie - not even a good one. Everything is spoon fed to the audience - no, not just the science - the twists - I didn't know on the nose screen writing was so acceptable in Hollywood - guess it is. They talk about ghosts so many times within the first act that anyone with half a brain KNEW there was something there - and if you know anything about space travel, black holes - or any of the stuff that is talked about in the trailers - you can put two and two together and call the major twist in the FIRST ACT. I literally turned to my girlfriend and called it - as did the other 5 people we were with...

And yes - I understood all the underlying themes and motifs he was playing with - love/gravity etc - but it wasn't enough to save a script where the characters aren't given room to breath.… Expand

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XiongNov 9, 2014

The more you know, the stupider this film seems. If you passed any high-school science class or played Kerbal Space Program for a few hours, you will want to retch. Some of the SFX will impress people who think loud music means drama. This isThe more you know, the stupider this film seems. If you passed any high-school science class or played Kerbal Space Program for a few hours, you will want to retch. Some of the SFX will impress people who think loud music means drama. This is a fraud, an insult to the notion of science fiction.… Expand

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schulbertNov 10, 2014

My first review for Metacritic. inspired to join to record my disappointment with this film. And I wasn't the only one. People were leaving to go to loo thoughout the film, often a bad sign. I honestly thought the film was 4 hours long.My first review for Metacritic. inspired to join to record my disappointment with this film. And I wasn't the only one. People were leaving to go to loo thoughout the film, often a bad sign. I honestly thought the film was 4 hours long. Long scenes of boring dialogue. Like other reviewers, I found it astonishing that one astronought would have to explain to another what a worm hole was. And the robot was so unweildly. We conveniently skipped how it got in and out of the spacecraft. I love a good space movie. But give me Moon, Gravity or Apollo 13 any day.… Expand

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ManborgNov 5, 2014

Terrible performances and even worse writing, filled with gaping plot holes and over wrought direction. It's a clunky mess of film. Such a shame. It had so much potential.

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DannyGNov 8, 2014

3 Of Us Fell Asleep, 6 Of Us - Out Of 7 - Hated It! That's the score from a group of 7 friends who went to see Interstellar tonight. If I hadn't been with friends I would have walked out!

The only friend who liked it said she enjoys soap3 Of Us Fell Asleep, 6 Of Us - Out Of 7 - Hated It! That's the score from a group of 7 friends who went to see Interstellar tonight. If I hadn't been with friends I would have walked out!

The only friend who liked it said she enjoys soap operas. That pretty much sums it up! IF YOU LIKE SOAP OPERAS YOU WILL LOVE INTERSTELLAR!

There are so many plot holes several of us were cracking jokes by the end of the movie. So many parts of Interstellar are so ridiculous or makes no sense -whatsoever- it borders on camp. Sure the cinematography is magnificent. But in the end it's nothing but pretty wallpaper when the story is drawn out, tedious, annoying, maudlin, nonsensical, irrelevant, dopey and depressing. (I heard way too many violins in the soundtrack! LOL!)

All I can say is when the only food humanity has left to eat is corn & corn products, then you are going to end up with a very corny movie!… Expand

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HappyThugNov 28, 2014

So... many are going to disagree with me: but... Interstellar sucked. 50% of this was due to the soundtrack. It's not that I'm super picky about what amazing tunes should play during my movies. It's just that I don't think they should make meSo... many are going to disagree with me: but... Interstellar sucked. 50% of this was due to the soundtrack. It's not that I'm super picky about what amazing tunes should play during my movies. It's just that I don't think they should make me vomit my brain out of my skull. The droning, overbearing-soundtrack featured everyone's favorite instrument: The Dial-tone-xylophone-pipe-organ-flute. This usually hung on one note in a very high pitched whine, or, if you were lucky, it would be featured in a cord that replayed over and over again. Not just replaying though, but getting louder and louder over time, so loud that one might seriously consider burying their face in molten lava, if only to escape the assault on one's ears. So loud that the words the characters are saying can not even remotely be discerned, even in a very high-class theater, with state-of-the-art audio. However, remember, this Soundtrack-for-Masochists was only half the reason the movie sucked.

The other half was bad science, overplayed space-movie-tropes and extremely questionable character decisions.

First we have the blight, it's killing every plant on earth with dirt. Yes ladies and gentlemen, the final blow to humanity will come in the form of a clingy dust that just won't wash away. Why, or how this came to be is never explained, but it's killing all the plants and getting stuck in our lungs, and for some reason it's going to end humanity because everyone seems to have forgotten how to grow indoor hydroponic food like with already do with a number of crops. Also, the blight is somehow, kinda-maybe a biological plague that feeds off nitrogen... or is it dirt? I don't **** know at this point, and the movie doesn't really help you understand if one is causing the other, or if their the same thing, or what.

Add to that, some excruciatingly poor, or at best implausibly unvetted decision making, toss in some random space-madness, and after about the halfway point, the movie became a chore to watch. As Interstellar gets closer to the end, it starts to seem like a contest in a game of "wouldn't it be cool if" before it blessingly concludes with, everything is fine now because of blackholes and gravity, yaay.

Save yourself some money by putting on some headphones and plugging them into a light socket while watching the most contrived and nonsense episodes of Star Trek. If you can't hear half of the dialogue because of the painful whirring in your ears, you have succeeded in simulating Interstellar.… Expand

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netflicNov 27, 2014

I happen to like Sci-Fi and to work for NASA. This movie is a huge mess. It is amazing how many positive reviews it gets. The script does not make any sense at all. The story is convoluted. Everybody is using astrophysics lingo but thatI happen to like Sci-Fi and to work for NASA. This movie is a huge mess. It is amazing how many positive reviews it gets. The script does not make any sense at all. The story is convoluted. Everybody is using astrophysics lingo but that cannot cover the complete absence of common sense. I even caught myself thinking maybe it was a black comedy or a parody... Alas, it was serious, grim, boring and pathetic. Such a waste of time and money.… Expand

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hdbflyNov 19, 2014

Overblown rehash of movie tropes with excessive jibber jabber to cover up the huge gaps in any logic and all the non-sensical leaps. There were acres and acres of green corn and a reservoir right there, so where was all the dust coming from?Overblown rehash of movie tropes with excessive jibber jabber to cover up the huge gaps in any logic and all the non-sensical leaps. There were acres and acres of green corn and a reservoir right there, so where was all the dust coming from? He's floating inside a black hole with only an oxygen back pack and "someone" "picked him up" just before he ran out of oxygen--someone else went in the black hole? If he hadn't shown up at the secret NASA place, who would have been the captain of the spacecraft? The four people on that spaceship were "the finest examples of humanity"? Dr. Mann lied; Prof Brand lied--it's a wonder they could do anything. The other beings! Wait, they're us. Time is a fifth dimension! Wait, only we can control it! From behind a bookshelf! Tars figures out all the stuff in the black hole, and is somewhere floating, and Cooper reports all that info to his daughter through morse code, one dot and one dash at a time. And then, when he's done with all that--remember he has only one oxygen tank--he floats off into space and someone finds him. And people in the not-so-near future wear exactly the same clothes as we do now, and wear exactly the same kind of hospital gowns. Oh, and mostly everyone is white, and everyone is American, except for Michael Caine. It is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It felt like 6 hours long.… Expand

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jaybird1944Jun 24, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sorry to all who loved Interstellar, but I'm a retired engineer and hard core science fiction fan, and I spent half the movie flinching at the repeated absurdities and lapses in logic, The black hole sequence alone contained 4 whoppers: nothing, repeat nothing, gets back out past the event horizon (that's the definition of the term), so no communications; the tidal effects around a spinning black hole tears apart anything that approaches too closely into its constituent atoms, if not quarks; the centrifugal force created by the slingshot pass would at the very least spread the people into a thin film of paste inside the ship; and, because of the violence and turbulence of the infalling matter, everyone and everything, would instantly have been fried by radiation.
All in all, the Harry Potter films are just as realistic.… Expand

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PotterJay7Jan 12, 2015

I was actually really disappointed in this movie. The acting was poor, storyline was mediocre, and the ending was, for lack of better word, just stupid. The plot took way, way too long to take off. I saw it with a friend a few days ago andI was actually really disappointed in this movie. The acting was poor, storyline was mediocre, and the ending was, for lack of better word, just stupid. The plot took way, way too long to take off. I saw it with a friend a few days ago and was asleep for the first thirty minutes. I saw a few people crying in the theater when a character would die and I just didn't understand why. The actors had little to no chemistry and I didn't feel any kind of attachment to the characters like I have in previous Nolan films. Inception is one of my all time favorite movies, and I hear people saying that Interstellar was better, and maybe I missed something while I was sleeping but it came no where close. I learned nothing in this film. No morals, no lessons to be taken away, nothing. It was just nonsense.… Expand

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MoviecrtiqueMay 18, 2019

Movie's score/soundtrack is wayyy too loud for this movie, the director should have made a decision to edit this but no.. this entire movie should stop distribution, have the sound track more leveled and turned down about 7-18% and recut.Movie's score/soundtrack is wayyy too loud for this movie, the director should have made a decision to edit this but no.. this entire movie should stop distribution, have the sound track more leveled and turned down about 7-18% and recut. Terrible score in this movie.. movie plot thought is great just taken away by the insanely loud music… Expand

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Instant_PalmerApr 13, 2023

Tedious Pacing, Unrealistic Sophomoric Dialogue by "Scientists". Over-Rated. Script verges on ridiculous with simplistic patronizing dialogue as though it was written by grade school students. Music adds even more sense of ongoing ploddingTedious Pacing, Unrealistic Sophomoric Dialogue by "Scientists". Over-Rated. Script verges on ridiculous with simplistic patronizing dialogue as though it was written by grade school students. Music adds even more sense of ongoing plodding along towards inevitable epiphanies. Perhaps if film was cut to 2 hours… Expand

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SuperbuddhaNov 28, 2014

Boring lame and cliché. I didn't stay to watch the film in it's entirety. As the first hour did not managed to get my attention I just stopped watching. In a film what I like most is the storytelling, and in this case the plot doesn't reallyBoring lame and cliché. I didn't stay to watch the film in it's entirety. As the first hour did not managed to get my attention I just stopped watching. In a film what I like most is the storytelling, and in this case the plot doesn't really make sense and the characters are not interesting enough to relate. Interstellar is over ambitious, pretentious and ultimately a bad vanity project overblown by the media.… Expand

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jgzegerApr 3, 2015

One of the hokiest pieces of sci-fi crud I have ever seen. It is sort of a mash between Gravity, Star Trek and The Matrix except that these movies had more credulity. If you think that love is one of the basic dimensions of the universe alongOne of the hokiest pieces of sci-fi crud I have ever seen. It is sort of a mash between Gravity, Star Trek and The Matrix except that these movies had more credulity. If you think that love is one of the basic dimensions of the universe along with space and time, you'll probably love the movie. If not, give this show a miss as you'll puke at all the sentimentalism. Regarding the acting, Matthew McConaughey is awful as an astronaut with a southern drawl, and appearing in this movie hasn't helped Jessica Chastain's and Anne Hathaway's career any. They should have known better.… Expand

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BertoflyingfoxJan 24, 2015

More bloated exposition and drawn out yawn-inducing scenes of nothing happening. There's about 45 minutes of film here worth watching. Everything else is forgettable, melodramatic, and full of itself.

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Rex_richardsDec 22, 2014

If you thought prometheus was intelligent, engaging and credible, this is the bore fest movie for you.
If you understood everything Bane honked through the cheesgrater on his face in the last batman, this is the mishmash mess for you.
IfIf you thought prometheus was intelligent, engaging and credible, this is the bore fest movie for you.
If you understood everything Bane honked through the cheesgrater on his face in the last batman, this is the mishmash mess for you.
If you think superman really exists, and that we should be grateful for such thought provoking super science as his allergy to kypton, this is the 'science' movie for you.
If you never, ever, wonder why characters do utterly ridiculous things in movies and feel annoyed at incomprehensible plots, buy a ticket today.
if you don't feel a bit annoyed at a director deliberately mixing music and dialogue so NO ONE can hear what is being said, buy the t shirt.
If you have any kind of independent cognitive processes, and don't blindly follow the critics, really, honestly, skip it until it comes out onlne/disc and you can skip past the most boring bits.… Expand

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euuNov 8, 2014

This is the most stupid sci-fi movie since Prometheus at least and definately Chris Nolan's worst movie so far. I had very high expectations from this movie considering all the talented people involved in it's production and thought that IThis is the most stupid sci-fi movie since Prometheus at least and definately Chris Nolan's worst movie so far. I had very high expectations from this movie considering all the talented people involved in it's production and thought that I would get to watch a film that asks some interesting questions and delves ito complex ideas, instead what I got was just another story about how love beats reason and science. Which in the hands of a more subtle director wouldn't have been so bad, but Nolan tends to make every character explain how he/she feels instead of just showing it. 90% of this movie is just expozition or characters holding speeches about how they feel which makes it very hard to relate to any of them. But the good visuals and great music makes this whole mess pretty tollerable. Until the last 20 minutes at least. You really need to see to believe the black hole of stupidity that is the climax of this movie. Those were the most nonsensical 20 minutes I saw in recent memory. All logic and reason is tossed aside to make some lame speech about the power of love. I don't know what mind altering substances Nolan consumed when he wrote that ending but it sure as hell it didn't fell like something the guy who wrote Inception and The Dark Knight would come up with. All in all: if you are someone who just want to watch a smart sci-fi movie or even a good film in general avoid this pretentious mess.… Expand

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gft4Nov 9, 2014

There was a movie named "Contact" which pretended to be a science fiction movie, until its fantasy/religious ending when the protagonist goes to heaven, says something about how poetry is more important than science and meets her dead father.There was a movie named "Contact" which pretended to be a science fiction movie, until its fantasy/religious ending when the protagonist goes to heaven, says something about how poetry is more important than science and meets her dead father. Very much like "Interstellar". If that's your idea of a SF movie, go ahead. I actually hated it. Don't be fooled by Christopher Nolan's previous work - it's his worst film ever - or by the name of the physicist Kip Thorne in the credits ("Contact" was also based on his - and Carl Sagan's - work, and see what happened). Some examples of the movie's "physics": A) scientists send a robot into a black hole so it can send data back to them from BEYOND the event horizon, B) planets orbiting a dark black hole (and nothing else) are illuminated by sunlight (!), C) the gravitational pull of the black hole rips everything apart, except the astronaut's body (magic!). More importantly, the reason why all humans must leave the Earth? Well, there are dust storms like in the 1930s in the middle of the USA, and some particular crops are affected by diseases. And that's pretty much it.… Expand

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hixpixNov 15, 2014

This is the worst movie I have ever seen. I understand relativity thank you very much. If you think this movie is based on real science you don't understand it. But forgetting the science this was still s horrible movie. It could haveThis is the worst movie I have ever seen. I understand relativity thank you very much. If you think this movie is based on real science you don't understand it. But forgetting the science this was still s horrible movie. It could have been half as long and still would have been crap. Two hours in I was hoping the human race would expire because it had produced this garbage.… Expand

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WindupgirlNov 20, 2014

I'm a big fan of hard science fiction. This movie is an absolute mess. I'm amazed at so many positive reviews. Pure trash in my opinion. Give me a Neill Blumkamp, Ridley Scott or James Cameron scifi movie anytime...

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pniklasNov 9, 2014

The overall quality of the movie is far below what one would expect. The story has a weak logic and the representation of scientific theories (e.g. extradimensional world) is rather unsatisfactory. The movie is lengthy and boring. I cannotThe overall quality of the movie is far below what one would expect. The story has a weak logic and the representation of scientific theories (e.g. extradimensional world) is rather unsatisfactory. The movie is lengthy and boring. I cannot rank it at the level of Contact or Apollo 13.… Expand

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inandoutNov 8, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How many roads must a man walk down...to see so much corn? This is a rough and tumble, big chunk of a film that I really wanted to love: such potential. And to a great degree it is lovable work despite some of the miserable dialogue, miscasting and simple mumbled silly confusion that it is. Nolan does not equal Kubrick. Really, you have to want to love it - and I do not want to discourage anyone from going to see it because there are some true hidden gems. But the true potential was not reached, not even with help of a wormhole, a black hole, the talented Mr. Ripley or all the magic of the 5th dimension. If love is the answer, you have to go through a heck of a lot of corn to find it. SOS...if you listen clearly I am sending you a coded message from another dimension. Save 3 hours of your life - or we can assume that this is also relative. Good luck, safe travels and don't forget to set a wake-up from the big nap on the way to Saturn.… Expand

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UncleBuckApr 12, 2015

Please let a black hole swallow all copies of this movie. In fact, I will attempt to travel back in time and prevent it from ever being made. Quite possibly the worst movie ever. I teach "space school," enjoy space movies in general, andPlease let a black hole swallow all copies of this movie. In fact, I will attempt to travel back in time and prevent it from ever being made. Quite possibly the worst movie ever. I teach "space school," enjoy space movies in general, and really enjoy adventure stories, but this is very poorly done. DO NOT purchase this on DVD, Blue Ray, or streaming service. Save you money and your 2 hours, and 20 minutes.… Expand

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llevinNov 22, 2014

This movie was a complete let-down, to say the least. The fact that over 1000 people thought this movie was good is scary to think about. Not one part of this movie made sense or became believable. Now we understand why Matt Damon didn'tThis movie was a complete let-down, to say the least. The fact that over 1000 people thought this movie was good is scary to think about. Not one part of this movie made sense or became believable. Now we understand why Matt Damon didn't want his name to appear anywhere. Horrible, don't waste your money. If you do decide to chance it, the first 20 minutes will clue you in - don't hesitate like we did, just leave and slip into a different movie. I give this movie a negative 5. Oy Vey… Expand

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raporgiFeb 22, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Incredibly boring and self indulgent! Why do "space opera" movies have to be such a slog. Anne Hathaway kept driving home the fact that she's supposed to be a scientist and in then middle of the movie starts all this crap about involving love into the equation. WTH was that? Matt Damon serves to real purpose in this movie, in fact most of the peripheral cast is useless and one note in this feature. Subtlety is definitely not Nolan's strong point as he sees fit to explain a lot of details in such a scripted and droll manner almost like people are simply reading off the cue cards. This movie is 1 1/2 hrs too long. The robots are really laughable and cringe inducing. I feel embarassed for Nolan especially the part where Hathaway's character gets herself into a jam due to stubborness and stupidity. That scene was really awful and the way one of the characters died was pathetic. Just watch this on Blu-ray so you're not forced to sit throught the whole thing. Collapse… Expand

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ryecaNov 23, 2014

Comparing this movie to "2001" is like comparing a turd to chocolate ice cream because they are both brown. If somebody tries telling you that this movie is somehow related or equivalent, don't talk to that person again. They don't know.Comparing this movie to "2001" is like comparing a turd to chocolate ice cream because they are both brown. If somebody tries telling you that this movie is somehow related or equivalent, don't talk to that person again. They don't know.

I'm just happy to know that when we are all out of food, we will still be able to kick back, look cool in our Carhartt jackets, and drink a beer on a porch.

This movie actually tries to play the "You're the only man for the mission" card, because apparently their highly intelligent robots can't be sent into space because they made them clumsy as hell.

The music is really loud (though really good, and powerful) to cover up poor dialogue.

You have to ignore the plot holes, otherwise you will want to pull your hair out.

Pretty much, this movie is beautiful **** Also, Nolan, come on - don't do the upside-down world parlor trick again. We saw it in inception. Move on.… Expand

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gokellyNov 10, 2014

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I was really looking forward to this and it started out well enough but deteriorated quickly. As soon as Anne Hathaways character started talking about love being some 5 dimensional yoke I dismissed the movie as yet another 'sci-fi'SPOILERS
I was really looking forward to this and it started out well enough but deteriorated quickly. As soon as Anne Hathaways character started talking about love being some 5 dimensional yoke I dismissed the movie as yet another 'sci-fi' written by someone that hasnt a clue about science. Seriously,are these creative types so insecure they have to constantly remind everyone that 'love' and 'creativity' trump reason and intellect? And yet again the main scientists turn out to be evil or supremely arrogant - apparently its a prerequisite if you have any desire to understand how the universe ACTUALLY works. Watch this one on blu ray - dont bother with the cinema.… Expand

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flemieuxNov 10, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Too dumb for nerds, too smart for jocks, this movie panders to those between but suffers from too many incoherent lapses in reality to sustain disbelief and not enough explosions to keep the masses entertained. This movie fails on so many levels you may actually feel the effects of the relativity of time as its three hour span drones one for what seems like ten years.
The science of the movie is a mish mash of poorly conceived ideas and concepts the authors obviously do not understand and anyone with an iota of intelligence tunes out the minute they realize it takes rockets to actually sent the shuttle out of Earth's orbit but that the nifty little craft can hop onto and off any other planet with ease (even ones with significantly stronger gravities).
I don't need science to be perfect in my sci fi flicks. Fact is, I'd rather do without (the best sci fi usually does). However, if you're going to use science as a main plot element, you have to get it right or make it fuzzy enough to remain plausible. The ironic pseudo science of Hitchihiker's Guide to the Galaxy is actually more believable than the drivel served up in this fiasco.
The few highlights of this film are those reminiscent of Gravity and Apollo 13 and even these are not as poignant or well done as the originals.
But above and beyond all of its failings, this movie fails most utterly because it is ultimately boring.… Expand

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pianoseedsNov 21, 2014

This was a fabulous movie.......not! How's about a coherent story line to start with; eh? What would possess big name stars to even consider acting in this dog? Wow. Or should I say (bow) wow.

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TitaniumDragonDec 16, 2016

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. If there is one rule of a work of fiction, it is that you must care about the characters, because if you don’t care about the characters, it is very unlikely that you are going to care about what happens to them.

And, alas, I have to admit, I wasn’t left caring about the characters by the end of this movie – the only characters I really ended up caring about were the faceless robots, who seemed to have more personality than the human cast did. And given that the movie itself was resolved with a deus ex machina, it is really hard to recommend.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The movie opens with some farmers, and it becomes clear a ways into the movie that this is a sort of post-apocalyptic Earth. The movie doesn’t do a great job of showing this in shorthand, and ultimately, the problem is that magical nitrogen-breathing microbes are, apparently, killing everything.

Thus, humanity needs a new planet, and would-be-NASA Astronaut Joseph Cooper, who has turned to farming in the face of a global crop blight, needs to go to space to save the world by finding a new planet. But not just any sort of space trip – he’s going to go through a wormhole that someone has conveniently placed next to Saturn.

Interstellar is ostensibly a sci-fi movie, but it is ultimately fantasy. The beginning of the movie has Cooper is lead to the secret NASA facility to become humanty’s savior by aliens from beyond space-time sending him the coordinates by writing in dust in his house and knocking books of the shelves of his daughter’s bookcase. A wormhole conveniently appeared next to Saturn to give humanity a way out of the solar system.

And while this is all okay as setup, the movie continues to make contrivances. The ultimately solution to humanity’s plight is a deus ex machina delivered by aliens from beyond space-time – or possibly future humans. Whatever the case, it is a solution that comes not from the characters in the movie, but from an external force, meaning that, ultimately, all of the characters struggles were resolved by magic as well.

If the characters had been interesting, this might have been okay. But they weren’t. The central conflict of the movie – Cooper having to choose between saving people who already exist, and providing for a potential future for the human species – was potentially interesting, but ultimately, the movie doesn’t really go anywhere with it. Cooper is upset, certainly, but in the end nothing Cooper did really ended up resolving that conflict – it was resolved in his favor by external forces, and there’s no actual human resolution to it. Without any other personality to speak of - just these two character traits - he's not really a very interesting character.

His costar is Dr. Amelia Brand, a fellow astronaut who seems generally nice and sort of focused on the future. She is in love with one of the astronauts who was sent out before them and hopes to rescue them, but the most important thing to her is the future of humanity. However, there’s very little real personality here – again, I can’t list off more than a couple of character traits. She’s rather flat as a character, and just sort of is there.

And this problem is endemic to the cast – most of them feel like they’re just kind of there, and have maybe two personality traits tops. Only Michael Caine’s doctor character and Matt Damon’s Dr. Mann, the astronaut survivor who they find, feel at all like real people – and in both cases, it is quickly undermined by the plot. Dr. Mann in particular is problematic – he notes how lonely he felt and how scared he was of dying alone, but then tries to murder people for no real reason while talking about saving humanity. It is bizarre and nonsensical, and consumes a big chunk of the movie’s run-time for no real reason.

TARS and CASE, the two robots that are brought along on the spaceship, show more personality than the entire human cast – TARS is snarky, and the back-and-forths between TARS and the human cast are the best character moments in the movie. TARS and CASE feel like the real heroes to some extent, and honestly leave me wondering why they didn’t just send robots, as they are apparently both clever and adaptable. I enjoyed their wise-cracking, and their roles felt like the most interesting ones.

Sadly, they were not enough to carry the movie, and we’re left with a plodding 2 hour and 40 minute long film that doesn’t leave earth until 42 minutes in. My lack of concern for the characters meant that their success and failure didn’t touch me, and the constant contrivances meant I couldn't care about the plot. In the end, it felt like I was being drug by the nose through something full of puppets on strings, attempting to tell an arbitrary story without much real substance to it.… Expand