Great review and mediocre movie. I hope you escape the vitriol from Nolan apologists who scour the internet for honest opinions like yours.

I've seen the movie twice already. LOL. So watch out! I found it captivating but flawed.

The emotional themes are a bit heavy handed. They telegraph themselves right from the opening of the movie. The funny robots are, funny robots. Does a sci-fi movie have to have funny robots? And the much vaunted physics have terrible inconsistencies which ultimately all go away when you reference 5th dimensional hyper beings who can do magic. Bleah.

However, the sense of time in this movie is amazing. I love how it plays out over years and you feel the heart break of that from the point of view of those who aren't on the journey. I found the action good. Kind of a light version of Gravity. And, I particularly liked the scenes with Mann in the middle of the movie. Damon's portrayal is pitch perfect as the flawed scientist who is meant to be the "best of us".

What would send me into nerd rage if I took these things seriously, though, are the technical details. The ranger appears to launch from the center of an office complex on a traditional rocket from Earth and then just merrily lands and takes off from similar sized planets. The lander was also a bit confusing, another spacecraft similar inside to the ranger, but completely different outside. And, why do all the control chairs move around so much? I was surprised the black guy made it up to the spaceship both times I saw the movie because I somehow missed him completely in the launch sequence. Is the space station they are building on Earth seriously made of concrete (I guess because once they've "solved" gravity it won't matter?).

And then time, sigh. Even in a post apocalyptic version of NASA you don't just show up one day, talk through the night, drop your kid off, and return to fly a multi-year mission. The physicals alone would take weeks. Why can't they do a montage to let us know a few months elapsed? They get this right in so many other places in the film, why compress the beginning so much?

I also think Topher Grace needed more of an establishing shot. All of a sudden it's that 70's show.

Sounds like the future if the republicans stay in control. Sure glad I'm an old boofer and don't have to worry about what this next generation of clowns (republicans) have in store for the American people. Apologize for inserting my political review of this movie, I couldn't resist.

I don't understand how such a sentimental movie keeps getting compared to 2001. From what I've read, in all the important ways this is the opposite of 2001. (special effects and space are not the important ways). We've gotten so used to Hollywood pablum that this kind of stuff actually registers as comparable to great works of the past. It's like grade inflation for movies.

ugh, inception.

McConaughey is third on my list of reasons not to appreciate an otherwise good film. (oh if only they'd cast relative unknowns for these fine efforts. they are plentiful, capable, and far far cheaper; but noOoo)

Paul Constant: set sometime in the not-so-distant future, when the environment is failing and humanity is gently drifting into extinction.

longwayhome @3: Sounds like the future if the republicans stay in control.

I'd like to believe it was a deliberate act of marketing genius, and not just dumb luck, to have this movie open the weekend after the Republicans' comprehensive victory in the midterms. Between the American voters and the Saudi and Chinese leadership, it's like everyone has decided, "Hey, we need to hasten the collapse of civilization."

Just got home from watching this, and I can't recommend it enough. This is the most enjoyable movie I've seen all year, I'm sure of it.

Yes, you can predict much of the plot. But once the ending becomes obvious, you also realize it had to be the way the plot played out.

Just go see it while it's in the theater. You'll absolutely enjoy it.

If only I could stand to watch or listen to McConaughey. He makes my skin crawl. How many scenes is he in? Pretty much all of them, I'm guessing.

It's odd to walk away from a movie and say, "That was an absolute cinematic achievement . . . but it was a good movie, not a great one." But that was Interstellar for me.

You people don't seem to understand the underlying theme of this movie. We,as a race, are not meant to stay on this planet. We need to explore and expand our knowledge. You people are the exact reason why our species will die out. You miss the point, don't do anything for the greater cause and can't seem to see a movie without picking it flaws apart.As long as it stirs your imagination and makes you want to leave this planet in search of a better life, that is all that matters.

Hated it. In IMAX 4th row, it literally made me sick. Why, Nolan, did you use fake-shaky-cam, why?





I'm a great fan of science in movies, but going into a gravity well so deep that time is dilated by orders of magnitude - because it's somehow "closer"? (You'll get there fast, sure, but leaving is a bitch.) Not to mention how such a planet (and its sun?) could exist or would somehow be a good candidate for life. Bletch.





If it hadn't made me ill, I'd give it 3 stars for effort.





But "Contact" was SO MUCH better, thrilling, thought provoking, inspiring, beautiful, principled, and Foster and McConaughey's relationship was so much more interesting and believable.

Saw it yesterday it was entertaining if not a bit too long. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the special effects (no I didn't see Inception) and pleasantly surprised at McConaughey's performance not especially being a fan of his. Most of the other characters were throw a-ways especially Ann Hathaway and I concur that the overly preachy first half sounded a bit like a right winger sounding off.

What a turd of a movie, Constant is way too generous. Pure comic book science, comic book characters, comic book dialogue. Even the vaunted special effects, with a few exceptions, struck me as cheesy. Every one associated with this monstrosity (and there are many obviously talented people) has disgraced themselves.
This stands to me as the worst example of spending unfathomable amounts of money to make a really crap movie. What a waste.