my movie-buff brother is trying to decide where to put it on his top-5 list. Idunno about all that. But it was pretty good.

Did your heart beat to the sound of awe?

blackwater said
Did your heart beat to the sound of awe?

It's hard to describe. I was kind of expecting it to be like a visual feast sorta movie, like 'Gravity.' And sure, there were some amazing visuals involved (black hole horizon was nuts, frozen clouds, assorted special effects) but that just wasn't 'the point' of the movie. It was emotional and scientific and everything in between.... Very unique. I guess you could think of it like 'Inception,' except that Inception was all conceptual and Interstellar was practically a science book (relativity plays a massive role).

I have to say it was the best Space Film I've seen in a while. It was definitely ambitious, especially the Final Act, but I think Nolan pulled it off. The film is very good with it's science until the end (which pushes this film towards Science Fantasy rather than Hard Science Fiction) which is mostly based as far as I can understand on scientific theories rather than facts.

The sound on the film was a bit weird and at times I could barley hear the voices over the music. Might have just been my cinema but in a few reviews I've seen on line this was mentioned so I figure I'll say it. Considering the fact parts of this film need explanation so the layman can understand this isn't a particularly good thing.

Also the imagery of Space was amazing and made want to explore the universe, especially since the Wormhole and Black Hole in the film were based on real maths and are accurate models of what one would theoretically look like which is nice. The music and sound was outstanding, I especially loved the use of silence in this film to get across the fact sound doesn't travel in space. It was very ominous and accurately got that idea across.

All the actors in this film were very well cast; also a few surprise actors appeared I wasn't expecting. I didn't think something like that could even happen in a modern film, especially since one actor in particular is quite important, but I'm guessing we have to thank the advertising campaign for that. I have to mention the guy who played TARS, he was by far my favourite character in the film despite most of the characters being very good. Reminded me a lot of R2 D2. Also props to the very unique robot design, caught me off guard when I first saw it.

I do really give the trailers credit for not spoiling everything in space while still drawing me in, a few moments in space were spoiled but the vast majority of those moments were towards the beginning of the film still leaving the chance for us to be amazed by the most epic space imagery they could come up with.

Overall very good film and something I have to re-watch so I can process it all properly.

I'd honestly say it's one of my favourite movies to date.

K-97 said
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There was something up with my theater's sound too (or maybe just with the movie I guess). The treble range felt *brutal*, and straight-up hurt my ears at some points. Not in like an intensity-boosting kind of way, just like screechy bad digital sound. I want to believe that it's just my theater that sucks.