Movie Review (Interstellar)

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I Saw Interstellar tonight. Dumb! Dumb! Dumb!

Not a huge Matthew McConaughey fan and I didn't find his acting in this movie to be exceptional.

Anne Hathaway came across as rather dumb for a scientist. To me she seemed like a token female sent along for the ride as part of "Plan B" of the movie's plot. I was so annoyed by her character that I kept hoping she would be dropped into space and just left there!

I thought it was going to be somewhat "Star Trek-ish" but it's anything but.  It is almost 3 hours of often indecipherable and confusing plot and dialogue made more annoying by a horrible musical score that is so loud in many parts that you can't hear the dialogue at all,  which given the melodramatic script, could be considered a good thing!

For the first time in decades of going to movies in a theater, I actually got up and went to the bathroom in the middle of a movie.

I give it 2/5 stars only because one part momentarily scared the crap out of me! Or should I say an overly loud punctuation of music over an already too loud score, did that.

Save your money and read the Wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_%28film%29

I would say your expectations may have been off track.

This movie is not an "action" movie like Star Trek or other SciFi movies.  This is a "space" movie:  it has been compared with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

While Interstellar is still fictional, and therefore classified as Science Fiction, the director (Christopher Nolan) actually consulted with top astrophysicists to make sure the science in the movie was up to date and within the realms of possibility.  Check out this article  

I, for one, am looking forward to it. 

I'm also looking forward to Big Hero 6.   

Furmonster Mom said:

 
While Interstellar is still fictional, and therefore classified as Science Fiction, the director (Christopher Nolan) actually consulted with top astrophysicists to make sure the science in the movie was up to date and within the realms of possibility.  Check out this article  

I, for one, am looking forward to it. 

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I'm sure that some will find some things to like about this movie, but believable plot and scientific accuracy definitely are not among them.  There is a great deal of narrative liberty taken with  the "scientific truths"

Yes, there is some science in the the movie that is based on fact and to our scientific knowledge, true. But there is a lot of speculative, and whole lot of "probably not real" thrown into the mix too. It is science fiction after all

I don't watch movie trailers because I find they give away all the best moments of a film.  When I read the synopsis, "Star Trek-ish" came to mind. I didn't go there expecting to see Captain Kirk and a crew of hundreds flying around in space battling Romulins.  

However, my thoughts about "Star Trek-ish" vs "whatever this turned out to be" doesn't change the fact that it is a boring, melodramiatic soap opera, with far too loud of a music score.  Definitely turn up your hearing aid if you want to hear any of the dialogue in several parts of the movie.

So I'd say take a big gulp of disbelief suspense, check your physics knowledge at the theater door and by all means, if you can, enjoy the rest.

I didn't go it but my husband saw it with a friend (both are astrophysicists who love scifi) and they said it was awful. They really wanted to like it, too. They almost left an hour into the movie, but decided to stay and give it a fair shake. Evidently that was a mistake.

SwampWitch said:

 
I didn't go it but my husband saw it with a friend (both are astrophysicists who love scifi) and they said it was awful. They really wanted to like it, too. They almost left an hour into the movie, but decided to stay and give it a fair shake. Evidently that was a mistake.

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An hour into the movie I had looked at the time 3 times. The first hour there was no indication that this was even a space movie!  It looked like a soap opera set in dusty corn farm country. I half expected the children of the corn to make an appearance! 

I'm going to see it tomorrow.  i heard mixed reviews, feel like ill either love it or hate it.

My cousin went to see it today. I told him to read my review on Facebook before he went. He didn't.

He got back from the movie and said:
 

"Long movie. Hard to follow at times, but I left the theatre completely mind-$%^@#".  

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And then:
 

"In all honesty, no I didn't enjoy it. Should've read your review before I wasted my money lol."  

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And that is coming from one of the biggest science geeks that I know!

A lot of people are getting tripped up on the fact that there was a physicist involved in the creation of this movie and thinking "realism", which there is very little of, and in the end it becomes downright cheesy!


 

Natalie_ca said:

with far too loud of a music score.  Definitely turn up your hearing aid if you want to hear any of the dialogue in several parts of the movie.

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The director is now claiming that was deliberate. : You're not SUPPOSED to hear Interstellar dialogue: Director Christopher Nolan brushes off complaints

Interstellar director Christopher Nolan has reassured moviegoers that there's no need to worry if they find dialogue in his three-hour space epic practically inaudible - because that is exactly what he intended.

The British director responded to concerns about poor sound quality in the £105 million blockbuster by praising cinemas for presenting the film just the way he wanted.

Audiences have complained about drowned out dialogue and muffled conversations, with an overbearing soundtrack that obscures major plot points.

But what they do not appear to have realized is that they were experiencing the 'impressionistic way' sound was mixed in the movie.

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