Interstellar Movie Review - With Major SPOILERS

With our time on Earth coming to an end, 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. (C) Paramount

[Qpacalypse]

Counter Review

1. Problem with McConaughey living.
The possibilities of someone dying in a movie is 50/50. Now if you get what you want and more people die at the end you just end up with people having a problem with it. So it really doesn't matter if someone dies or not, its good if they do because its a nice sacrifice but if they live its also nice because its positive.

2. Stoner level Sci fi?
Whats the difference between a mad man and a genius? Whats the difference between a stoner and theoretical physicist? probably a phd but they both come up with some mind blowing theories. gotta open your mind gents but not enough that your brains fall out.

3.Their days are numbered on the space station.
This is how i saw it. Their days are numbered for sure, but were still in the life time of the daughter by the end. And i think they are not done solving the issue, but they did solve the problem of getting a huge population into space. The data Cooper sent back to his daughter helped her solve the gravity equation. So now they have all these space stations near that wormhole and it looked like they had more spaceships getting ready to go out and continue searching. and maybe that's what a sequel will be, nothing wrong with that.

4. Not telling daughter why hes going/ Michael Cain lying.
He didn't want to tell his daughter because he didn't want a child to live in fear, but as an adult I'm sure he knew she would handle it better. Prof. Brand lied to her give some hope because why not if he knows shes gonna die on earth. Another reason is if he told her that they were all gonna die no matter what, it could have jeopardize the mission that Anna Hathaway was on. He didn't know what Cooper what of done if he knew he wasn't coming back, just look at how crazy Matt Damon got. NASA does this, they try and keep astronauts calm when they talk to them. they also have plans for them not getting cabin fever on the way to mars.

And now i give up on writing anymore after their problem with Murphy only having 4 sheets of paper, smh you don't know what is on the papers, how do you know how many papers she should have. Better not have a single hair out of place, this guys gonna think you're ugly if you do. And damn that Nolan is an idiot for trying to make a movie for mass amounts of people to see, he should make something no one wants to see. That way he makes the least amount of money and entertains the fewest people possible.

I liked this movie because I'm really into the science of space, and watching this movie had my mind thinking about so many things. Just loved the science behind the Theory of Relativity and black holes. this movie just thought provoked me, and just made me feel a lot of emotions, whether it was humor when the robot was around or the interactions with loved ones and thinking about having a daughter in the future. and thinking about having an elderly mother about to die. Pretty much every emotion. And all this in a beautiful setting in space. It may not be an art movie but I didn't go see this movie to watch an art movie, I went to get entertained and i felt i was entertained.

[RFLennon]

Here's why I think you guys are wrong and why the last act was brilliant IMO.

1. Human Beings have evolved into the 5th dimension therefore they perceive time as a physical space and can thus manipulate it. So when Cooper goes down into the blackhole and into the 5th Dimension he is able to see pockets of time scattered around in the form of Murph's bedroom and he can restart the bootstrap paradox. This was a great way to show a higher dimension on film. To show time as a physical space.

2. So by extension Plan B made Plan A possible. Plan B's new humans evolved in such a way that they could manipulate black holes and wormholes through the knowledge they received from the original humans b/c of Cooper giving Murph the info via the 5th dimension. So in essence the whole point of the film was that the basic instincts and emotions that make us human. The ingenuity of human beings is what saved our species. "We'll find a way; we always have". From the Wright Brothers to Neil Armstrong to Cooper, human beings just found a way to save themselves. The quest for exploration and the instincts of being human saved us.

3. If the Bootstrap paradox had not been implemented, Plan A would never have worked and by extension Plan B would never have. Thus Cooper never gets co-ordinates to NASA, there is no wormhole via Saturn and Human Beings die out. It was as much as an exploration film as it was a personal one. Exploration + human connection = DISCOVERY. 

The second act was clunky, we could've gotten rid of Matt Damon's part and it felt a bit rushed and the impact wasn't fully there but it nailed the message! It nailed what it was trying to do!

And come on you guys watch Doctor Who. 'Listen' was roughly the same thing although it was executed a bit better. 

[wakeruncollapse]

There's a major blindsiding spoiler for Oblivion in this. Just hoping someone reads this and doesn't get pissed off when it happens.

[DJSkandalous]

So for the general discussion purposes; "They" are not Aliens from this dimension or aliens at all. From what I gathered just based on the film and not reading any comments is that "They" are most likely the human race that has evolved perhaps millions of billions of years after the time within the film to the point where they are 5th dimensional beings. Now earlier in the film when I thought "they" were aliens or just time traveling humans, i began thinking...why not just send a vessel and transport people if you want to help? Why not send information to allow us to leave the planet or fix our issues on Earth? Why not put a wormhole closer to earth so it doesn't take 2 years to travel to, or why not just set it up where one wormhole takes us to one single galaxy that has a sustainable planet. These were all questions going through my head, which I began deeming the plot as unrealistic. But as the movie went on, seeing how they are outside our dimension, the only thing that can cross time is gravity. So what I think is that the evolved human race from the 5th dimension realized that back in the timeline that we were on the brink of extinction, so they set up in a way that a "present" day human would travel through the wormhole, enter the black hole gain the data...that they otherwise wouldn't have gained by any other means if they didn't go through the black hole and fill the watch with the data. The 5th dimensional beings I believe couldn't just send us information because they cannot travel to or send information from one plain to the other. The boring scene where they all talk about love being the defining thing, is actually what compels Murphy to comeback to the room and take the watch. Otherwise she would have never realized or got the information she needed.  In the end the reason why "they" helped us was not to only ensure our survival but their own as well...because without us...they would have never evolved into 5th dimensional beings and exist. But then the argument is like the God argument. If there is a god who created god? and who created god's creator and so on. But I guess since they live outside of our dimensional and since time is not a straight line...there is no beginning and end so that is why there is a paradox.

Any argument or counters? Feel free. I may be totally wrong with my idea of the film!

[Cblount]

You guys are acting like the critics who watched the 2001 when it came out at first.

[ApolloXL]

Once again Critics decide to pick apart movies (over-analysing something which is meant to be simply entertainment) instead of just enjoying them for what they are.

[bobo]

The first 90 mins are flawless, then when Matt Damen shows up, it all falls apart. I still appreciate the spectacle of the film and thought it was interesting that Mccohgnehey was her daughters ghost the whole time, but there was zero chemistry between him and Hathaway to even make me think they were falling in love. 

[myo]

I think that the paradox is solved by the fact that Cooper ensured that humans survived in the first place by making sure plan B was executed, so if you wanna dismantle this at a time-arrow level, the first iteration of this cycle would be those humans (of plan B) then created the first Tesseract to ensure the echo of plan A (the better plan) instead of B through infinity, knowing they carried the secret to the 5th dimensional understanding.

Also you forgot to mention that the reason they (the future 5th dimensional humans) can communicate with Cooper in the first place is because he’ll be trapped inside the Tesseract, now this would be the only place they could transmit the equation message because otherwise they wouldn’t be able to find him (and therefore deliver the message properly) in the infinite slices of space-time, he HAD to be there, but it is the cause of it’s own consequence, creating a time-loop that would have no other closure but the one that is portraited.

[starfoxu]

I've just been reminded about why listening to non physicists talk about laws and rules of physics causes me pain.

[DAN_I_E_L]

I loved this movie and it was all thanks to the visuals and the sound, I was fucking floored by it. Yes, some of the character stuff is weird, heavy handed and blunt but I just don't care in this case. Like Gravity this film isn't really about the characters, or they are not really important to enjoy the film and at least Nolan aims very high and gets a lot of things right in this film. I think this review is way too nitpicky, for a bunch of reviewers that gives films like Guardians of the Galaxy and every fucking Marvel film fantastic scores (even though they are mostly garbage) they now seem very disgusted by shallow emotional connections between characters or strange character decisions. And they complain about unrealistic endings and about characters not dying? Really? How come you complain about this now and not when you review the tripe Marvel vomits out every 6 months?

[gregdimmock]

I just saw the film today, and after hearing reviews that were bordering on disappointing, my expectations (not my excitement may I say) were probably grounded. Therefore, when I left the cinema this evening, I was just taken back by how special a movie this is. Yes paradoxes exist. Of course they will, it is a time travel film. But that still doesn't take away from the fact that this was a truly entertaining movie that succeeds on every level of both intellect, ambition and visual sceptical. Perhaps if our fandom wasn't so astronomically high in the first place we could step back a realise that Interstellar is a triumph of original cinema. I feel that much like 2001, this film will be initially thwarted by critics but soon will be considered a classic.  

[kjpg]

Nolan made a point of saying that your audience will accept a movie that plays with scientific plausibility SO LONG AS the movie remains consistent within itself. This movie does not do that.  

One huge glaring error, among the many, is that if the subterfuge was always for Plan B (the repopulation from embryo plan) then why is there ONLY ONE WOMAN on the ship? Oh, maybe they would suddenly reveal, as needed, that actually they have solved the whole male pregnancy issue. Goes along with the can't-build-MRI-machines plot point, and yet there's suspended animation and the humungous ship later on.

[Jack]

The final act was the best part. 
What these guys don't get is that you can't approach the final act with logic and scientific explanations, the ending was supposed to not make any logical sense (to us). It was a 4th (5th?) dimension where the evolved human race ("they") operated and pulled the strings.  For this very reason it doesn't matter if it looks like a paradox to us.
I thought the ending was great, they could've lost the Matt Damon action movie part as far as I'm concerned though.
Still give it a solid 8/10.

[bullzeye]

Can anybody agree that Anne Hathaway was miscast in this movie?

[TBH]

I thought the character motivations made sense entirely, which itself pretty much justifies the plot (despite the theoretical liberties taken).
Dr. Cooper: Driven by the desire to return home, and in the last third to save his daughter, no matter the potential sacrifice.
Dr. Amelia Brand: Driven by the desire to reunite with Edmunds, her lover. The heavy-handed sentimentalism of her speeches was driven by her extreme emotional attachment and desire to justify devoting effort to visiting Edmunds planet. (This wasn't a woman specific problem, as Cooper repeatedly exhibited strong emotions and could be equally as sentimental in conversation with regard to humanity's failing to pursue space exploration and later on with regard to being a parent.)
Dr. Michael Cain Brand: His plot was designed with the intention of securing the safety of his daughter and a guaranteed existence of the human race after the collapse of earth. He bought time all his life by pretending to pursue an equation he had already solved in order to prevent word from reaching the Endurance and botching humanity's final expedition, until he absolved himself of guilt and came clean with a deathbed reveal, not a terribly uncommon thing.
Dr. Mann: Driven insane by his lack of human contact, he shed all of the qualities that made him a great leader in a last ditch attempt to reunite with other people and ultimately to return home. His final plot was an extremely hastily created and reluctant one, hence the over-exposition and awkardness of his fight scene with Cooper. His moral compass was fluctuating rapidly and he ultimately kind of limped through his half-baked plan, which led to his death. He was, in the words of Cooper, a coward who could not keep his moral compass straight since his arrival on the planet, even in his final moments.
Tom Cooper: Ultimately a product of agricultural life. He put off letting go of his father until his forties, something that damaged him greatly. His disappointment caused by the seemingly failed Endurance mission and his position as a farmer hardened him into a traditional, extremely skeptical man stuck in his ways. This is why he fought the diagnosis of his son's terminal lung condition and refused treatment, as it would have forced him to leave the farm. He stuck his fingers in his ears and essentially tried to tune out the outside world so that he could continue in his way, the only path that offered him some stability and satisfaction. His conflict with the views of his sister resulted in the climactic family drama near the end of the movie.
Murphy Cooper: Following in the footsteps of her father, with whom she shared an obviously strong bong with, she devoted her life to attempting to solve the Theory of Everything in time for the return of her father, as Dr. Brand had promised. Dr. Brand's deathbed reveal briefly pulled her away from this goal. She was giving up on the mission as she left the Cooper farm, but turned around upon the watch revelation and one last ditch effort.
Romily: It was explained that he had few emotional attachments or family ties back on Earth. He was ultimately driven by the prospect of scientific discovery, something that was developed upon through the fairly one-dimensional nature of his character throughout the movie. The same goes for the underdeveloped, brief existence of Doyle.
Not going to bother proofreading that behemoth. There's probably a good bit of repetition and excess fat in what I wrote, but I tried to get my point across nonetheless.
I think this movie is much, much smarter than critics are giving it credit for. Not that these are groundbreaking characters unbound by traditional archetypes or anything, but I think that the great ambition of the plot was ultimately grounded by a pretty cohesive plot with sensible character motivations.

[jstoll]

For once, I actually agree with Alonso. Can't we have a big movie in which the characters dies?

As much as what most of you guys say is right... There has to come a point where you detach from all the over-analysis and enjoy a movie for what it is. This was a true cinematic experience!

[Lius]

As a astrophysics major I was super impressed somebody got the science fiction right. The physics was solid, the orbital physics was stretched a bit just like in Gravity (which these guys loved and all the inaccuracies completely flew over their head), though not that much and the "fiction" part was very creative and inspirational. We don't know if worm holes exist and what happens at event horizon, that is the place where they should have used their creativity and they did. This generations 2001 Space Odyssey.

But I guess what do we know compared to jaded critics and nerds who think watching Back to the future makes them experts in time dilatation and logical paradoxes. 


The science part was led by Kip fucking Thorne, this guy is a legend in our industry and his work in astrophysics and gravitational physics is amazing (though most of it is still too hard for me to grasp yet). 

This review is such an embarrassment.

[seal]

My gripes of the film was the whole Love can travel through the wormhole to cross between galaxies. When it was stated at the half way mark by Dr Brand, it just came out of nowhere. The other thing was the explanation of a wormhole to Cooper. That is highschool 1st year undergrad stuff. Cooper is an Engineer he should know it, or at least was explained to him before they launched. I felt as though they were treating the audience like children. 

[Ootini]

You dont get it. When he was in the bookshelf black hole, that was created by us in the future, because we crossed into a new dimension where gravity is the only constant. So basically when he was in that hole time did not exist, thats why he could fly through life and stick is hand through the window, because time DID NOT exist.