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Title: Interstellar
Director: Christopher Nolan
Written by: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine


In an interview last month, director Christopher Nolan stated that his latest movie Interstellar is "about human nature, what it means to be human."

It makes sense. All of the great science fiction auteurs -- Lang, Kubrick, Scott, among others -- were wise enough to weave terrestrial apprehensions and dreams among the distant stars. For all their alien life forms, inhospitable worlds, and cerebral scientific ideas, science fiction movies are a reflection of what is happening right here, on planet Earth. So too is Interstellar, which stands as the most ambitious and personal of Nolan's brilliant young career. It's also, in many ways, his most uneven.

Set in the near future, Interstellar tells the story of Earth on the brink of collapse. Devastated by blight and dust storms, the planet is slowly losing its food sources and its breathable atmosphere. One day, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a test pilot-cum-farmer, and his daughter Murphy (Mackenzie Foy) discover a set of coordinates via a gravitational anomaly in Murph's bed room. Soon Cooper is off to investigate, and, soon after, he's on a mission to save the human race far beyond the limits of the Milky Way galaxy.

Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway as humanity's last hope

Informed, emotionally, by Nolan's own fatherhood, and inspired, visually and thematically, by Stanley Kubrick's seminal masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar is a movie of colossal size and scope. Nolan, a virtuoso behind the camera, moves back and forth between the silent, alien blackness of space and the verdant, dusty cornfields of Earth seamlessly, piecing together a story that, quite literally, transcends time and space. Penned by Nolan and his brother Jonathan, the story and script of Interstellar are overflowing with heady ideas about mankind's place in the universe, about sacrifice, about love. And it's here, ultimately, where the movie stumbles.

Equal parts astrophysics and metaphysics, Interstellar never quite manages to find harmony between high concept science fiction and believable human drama. When the movie leans on its degree in theoretical physics, it gets lost in technicalities; when it focuses on its characters, many of whom are woefully underdeveloped, it gets buried under sentimentalism. There are a handful of scenes where Nolan comes close to piecing together the two halves of his space opera. One of the best moments of the movie is a simple, quiet shot of Cooper breaking down while watching years of footage of his children back on Earth. It's here, and in other scenes, that Nolan captures something essentially human, and fulfills Interstellar's raison d'etre.

 

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Nice review. So its not good but not bad either. I knew from the trailer that it wouldn't be that great despite having great actors and an amazing director.



    

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it has time travel in it right? if so I'm very interrested



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Veknoid_Outcast said:

I agree and disagree.

its one of those things that happen when you use very well known actors in an ambitious movie..you feel like watching one of your parents acting on the big screen thats where it stumbles. what im trying to say and probably im wrong is that if you didnt know any of the actors you would have enjoyed it a lot more. and theres also the nolan curse where every movie needs to be great or else it sucks.



Tsubasa Ozora

Keiner kann ihn bremsen, keiner macht ihm was vor. Immer der richtige Schuss, immer zur richtigen Zeit. Superfussball, Fairer Fussball. Er ist unser Torschützenkönig und Held.

chapset said:
it has time travel in it right? if so I'm very interrested


not really.



Tsubasa Ozora

Keiner kann ihn bremsen, keiner macht ihm was vor. Immer der richtige Schuss, immer zur richtigen Zeit. Superfussball, Fairer Fussball. Er ist unser Torschützenkönig und Held.

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Went to see it today and it blew my mind, I can't stop thinking about it! Going to see it again. 10/10



It might not be the perfect movie, but I'm not going to pass up the chance to see what might as well be the last feature length 70mm IMAX movie. I'm going tonight, hour drive to get to 1 of the two 70mm IMAX theaters that show it in Ontario.



Its a great movie but it gets a bit weird at the end. I'd give it 4 stars as well



Good review.  I really loved it but i can see where some of the imperfections are. It looked so good, sounded even better, filled with emotions and some existential questions about our lives itself. That Hans Zimmer score. Apparently he wrote it based on one or two lines of dialogue. 



SvennoJ said:
It might not be the perfect movie, but I'm not going to pass up the chance to see what might as well be the last feature length 70mm IMAX movie. I'm going tonight, hour drive to get to 1 of the two 70mm IMAX theaters that show it in Ontario.

Ya, definitely recommended. I thought all screens would be 70mm but than again i don't fully understand the tech behind that. Saw it in IMAX at Colossus Vaughan. I see now that only two theatres are the ones with 70mm, Scotiabank (Downtown) and Coliseum at Square One. 

Enjoy!