Review of Interstellar (2014) by Jaybird1944 — 24 Jun 2015

Sorry to all who loved Interstellar, but I'm a retired engineer and hard core science fiction fan, and I spent half the movie flinching at the repeated absurdities and lapses in logic, The black hole sequence alone contained 4 whoppers: nothing, repeat nothing, gets back out past the event horizon (that's the definition of the term), so no communications; the tidal effects around a spinning black hole tears apart anything that approaches too closely into its constituent atoms, if not quarks; the centrifugal force created by the slingshot pass would at the very least spread the people into a thin film of paste inside the ship; and, because of the violence and turbulence of the infalling matter, everyone and everything, would instantly have been fried by radiation.

All in all, the Harry Potter films are just as realistic.