I saw Interstellar last night. WARNING : Contains Spoilers
It was “great”. It wasn’t “excellent”, but it was pretty damn good.
WHAT BUGGED ME (Minor):
What bugged me about the movie was that it was made with the support of scientist Kip Thorn (Google him) so that certain visual effects look exactly as they should. Unfortunately they let some other physics slip aside. This really bugs me because movie makers, even the usually awesome Chris Nolan, treat the movie audience like complete idiots. Cases in point:
At one point of the movie, a character has to explain the concept of wormholes. Of course it is really meant to explain it to the audience, but in the movie context one character has to explain it to another. So who do they explain it to? Cooper the pilot, played by Matthew McConaughey. ARGH! The pilot should already know this as he’s about to fly into a wormhole. A much better idea would have had Cooper explain the Wormhole concept to his daughter, Murph, instead. Why? She’s young and may not understand what a Wormhole is, and since she’s already science-minded, this might have given her character yet another reason to pursue science later in life.
SPOLIERS:
There are a few other issues such as : The smaller space ship stopping the larger ship’s rotation (It was done too fast and should have damaged or destroyed the small ship or at least the coupling), fiery explosions on planets that don’t have enough oxygen, etc. The robot was too weird.
Now the Good: The very, very good:
The acting is excellent. All A-list actors including 6 Academy award winners were cast in this movie for the emotional impact Nolan wanted, and it works. Though I wasn't too emotionally involved in the characters at first, the ending was a tear-jerker for sure.
MINOR SPOILER ALERT!
The Science Fiction of the movie is fantastic, wonderful, incredible. For me at least, it has every element in science fiction that fills me with Awe: Space, Worm Holes, Black Holes, Time Travel, Tesseracts (4 Dimensional Hypercubes) and Multi-dimensional thinking. As soon as I pushed the “just for the movies goofs in physics”, I was completely into the movie. The visual effects and visual representations of the Black Hole, Worm Hole and Tesseract were very thrilling for me.
For Chris Nolan fans, you won’t be disappointed. It’s got that “something else is going on” feel, and it keeps is secrets almost hidden. It makes the best use of the IMAX format that I have seen to date. The music is excellent. Many points remind you of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Clever use of sound / no sound for the space scenes (think “Gravity”). Thankfully NOT in 3D.
It’s really worth going to see especially in IMAX. Don’t skip the movie because someone says it’s bad. This is one of those movies that you have to see for yourself and make your own decisions on.
PS: For the Visual Effects super-fans like me:
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To creating the wormhole and black hole, Dr. Kip Thorne collaborated with VFX supervisor Paul J. Franklin and his team at Double Negative. Thorne provided pages of deeply sourced theoretical equations to the team, who then created new CGI software programs based on these equations to create accurate computer simulations of these phenomena. Some individual frames took up to 100 hours to render, and ultimately the whole CGI program reached to 800 terabytes of data. The resulting VFX provided Thorne with new insight into the effects of gravitational lensing and accretion disks surrounding black holes, and led to him writing two scientific papers: one for the astrophysics community and one for the computer graphics community.
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- IMDB