Interstellar

VarunaTT

We saw it this weekend.  I didn't hate it, but I have no pressing need to see it again.

The acting/writing is phenomenal.  The action scenes are really well done.  I was fascinated by the planets.  The shots on those are incredible.  The action shots are also really really well done and exciting to watch.  The black hole is phenomenal looking and the science behind how they designed it is amazing and interesting.  DH and I loved that the robots in the movie aren't anthromorphized, they're very utilitarian in their design, but have some of the best special effects in the movie.

However, there is no need for this thing to be 3 hours long.  There are a lot of things that don't necessarily further the story that extend the time.  After awhile, I was like, "Okay, any sci-fi fan has seen shots like this before, let's go".  Also, I suspected and found out later, there are some shot-for-shot replications from 2001.  I don't mind the homage, I mind that it was done for no real reason and just made the movie take longer.  I see a lot of YAY female scientists and good science.  Well, the female scientists were basically foils to the male characters in the movie and underutilized.  Anne Hathaway's character had one moment that would've been marvelous, ruined b/c it was all about her lover and her arguing for love.  B/c y'know that's what a woman would do.  And just b/c the science is solid and good...well, that's not enough for a movie to me.  I mean, yay that it made a pretty picture, but I already subscribe to NASA's photo of the day.

So, worth watching in the theatre, overall good movie, and don't pay for an IMAX upgrade like we did.

SBmini

**Spoilers below**

Hey- I saw it this weekend too. I only got about 5 hours of sleep last night because I couldn't stop thinking about it. I hear you on the Hathaway scene, but Mcconaughey also made every decision in the movie based on seeing his kids again- so he was WAY more emotional than she was. Plus Hathaway ended up being right on the logical reasons for going to the other planet too.

I liked the movie a lot and didn't feel like there was that much fluff. I thought the story was well put together, and if they just journeyed out into space and the first planet they found was the one, that would not have made sense. The story goes along 90 years, so I thought it was fine that it took them 2 hours and 40 minutes to tell it. Maybe they could have shaved 20 minutes out, but that isn't too significant with a movie that long.

The one problem I had with the movie was the wormhole vs black hole. So the wormhole is around Saturn and pops them out next to this black hole. Fine, I'll roll with that. However, then, when Mcconaughey enters the black hole, he comes out next to the worm hole. Does this mean black holes and worm holes are one in the same? And if he and Tars made it out, then why aren't asteroids and planets just materializing near Saturn? That I had issue with. The messing with time thing, fine, I'll take that. Not being pulled apart by gravity as you really would be in a black hole- what ever. But the parallel paths of the black hole and the wormhole I find inexcusable. 

And then you get into the whole thing of if he convinced himself to go in the past, then who was the first of him to do the journey? That's a mind trip that I can't wrap my head around. 

VarunaTT

I actually told DH that if they had just given her an "I told you so" moment, I might've been happier.  But there was never any acknowledgement that it didn't matter that she was in love, she WAS RIGHT b/c she was the expert and it was her field!

Ah well.  I'm the odd one out amongst my friends about this one, but I'm rather used to it.  I loved teh ending to BSG!