The first 2hrs 15min of this movie are going to blow your mind, in a good way.
The last half hour is going to blow your mind, in a rather unfortunate way.
Christopher Nolan is an incredibly talented Director. That is an established given. He is also an incredibly complex writer. Inception, for example, was surely convoluted and confusing and required multiple watchings to glean a true understanding, but in the end when it is all said and done the movie makes sense. Not so much with Interstellar.
But overall, very much worth seeing. Incredible experience on 70mm IMAX, plus acting and editing and all the other requisite goodies to boot!
***SPOILER***
The following is what totally didn't make any sense to me. I will try to keep this as concise as possible...
If the daughter solved the gravity problem, then why not follow Brand's beacon to the new world? Why just launch several human "pod stations" into orbit in Earth's galaxy? And if that was the goal, than why couldn't they launch human pod stations earlier, the same way one would launch any other rocket into space?
If it was revealed that McConaughey was "them", then who created the wormhole? A different "them"? Or when he went through the "dimensional zone" black hole was that in fact the wormhole, that in turn dropped him back in Earth's galaxy?
And lastly... love?! Really Nolan? Is that the moral of the story?
I cannot imagine life without movies, but am in no way what one might typically think of as a film student. I admit to watching and often enjoying foreign films, but to be perfectly frank I love nothing more than your down n’ dirty cheesy Hollywood action flick. Generally I watch all sorts of films so have a recommendation for almost anyone; except horror (no point with my eyes shut) or anything depressingly sad (film is for fun, not tears). This is raw “real me to real you” film feedback.
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