November 17, 201411 yr Has anyone seen this movie yet? What are your impressions? The premise of a failing ecosystem on earth and plunge in population with the hope of colonization on far away planets is intriguing. But the film was so darn confusing that I got lost in the first worm hole. The overbearing sound track just about ruptured my eardrums and some of the dialogue was so boring I almost fell asleep. As far as the effects of Einstein's Relativity that sort of made some sense except they never traveled at speed of light instead slipped through a worm hole. The film got some good reviews but too it was disappointing.
November 17, 201411 yr While I could keep up with almost all of it (some took some reviewing on the way home) it WAS a convoluted series of sequences, but since I usually shun "spoilers" I won't mention any specific parts. I, too, found the sound was overwhelmingly loud; occasionally it was difficult to hear some of the dialog. I'd not checked the running time so had to give my bladder control a test, because with the usual glut of previews we get in the USA it ran a bit over three hours. There were a few scenes that reminded me of "2001".
November 17, 201411 yr I've watched it and, for me, it neither stands out as a very good nor as a very bad movie. But it's at least 30 minutes too long. Oh, and I didn't like the ending and would have preferred another outcome (<SPOILER EDITED OUT>), but that didn't surprise me.
November 17, 201411 yr Quite simply a thank you to whoever edited out the spoilers ( whether that by the authors of the post of a Mod) as I'm as guilty as the next man of chatting away about a film whilst forgetting others may not have had the time to sit down and watch it yet - which is the case for me for this film - so thank you, spoiler edit appreciated !
November 18, 201411 yr Author Having seen the movie I still am not quite sure what the ending was! Thinking back over many of the scenes I realize that few of them made any sense such as the robot drone, the robot combines, and on and on without spoiling anything. Also how were a few colonists supposed to "incubate" 10,000 fertilized eggs as if they were chickens.
November 18, 201411 yr Author Just came across this article in NYTimes entitled Interstellar - The Cinema of Physicists http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/science/interstellar-the-cinema-of-physicists.html?ref=todayspaper
November 21, 201411 yr Author It seems that Interstellar has even made it to the Op-Ed pages of the NY Times with an interesting perspective on the film. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/21/opinion/david-brooks-interstellar-love-and-gravity.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region
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