Review of Interstellar (2014) by Tiberio S — 12 Jul 2016

Spectacular and painfully off, how this remains at 4 stars is even a bit beyond me, so there is something truly magical about this film. I don't know if I've ever felt so bipolar about a movie before, but I can't deny the level of heightened emotion Nolan had me at, the brink of imagination he took me to, and yet the dullness intermixed within it and political statements were so much to throw me off I want to go down to 2 1/2, yet nowhere in between! It's crazy. I will have to revisit this picture away from the Lincoln Square IMAX and see how I feel then... a year later I did, after the ellipses, and above it once said 4.5, but it dropped to 4. Between that it was 3, then I saw The Martian's zero imagination and it went back up! This is exactly how Nolan movies feel, he is the master of mixing hair-raising moments with cringeworthy ones. What the fuck was that whole dying Michael Caine plot twist where he kind of screwed them and all that plot complication? Hello, we're traveling through wormholes to other solar systems, does anybody give a fuck about that old geezer back on Earth and whatever he might've misled them with? Uh, no, but the film gets real busy caring about, blaring music and then making his words inaudible, supposedly an "artistic choice" - I think he was confusing himself with David Lynch making Fire Walk With Me, drowned sound in a nightclub making sense there, or Fincher's Social Network. Another slap my forehead Nolan moment, who often compares himself to Kubrick... really? REALLY?! Oh god, speaking of cringeworthy, Jessica Chastain and Casey Affleck as brother and sister, she's burning crops to force her point, eyiyiyi what a mess. Don't get me started on Anne Hathaway, couldn't she be the one sacrificed instead of McConaghey, one of the few characters I like in this movie? Did Matt Damon really need to be there? Did any of this character shit need to happen to rip our interdimensional experience away? NO! And yet the experience was so wonderful, I was nonetheless enthralled when the film let me be. I'm still curious how Spielberg's would've looked, I liked what I heard about his version of the screenplay before Chris Nolan jizzed all over it. And thanks Hans Zimmer, I don't know if my eardrums will ever recover.

The tesseract, which didn't at all seem to behave as one, is what genuinely caught me, and that's where most everyone else seems to have tapped out. Too bad there are such narrow minded folks out there, because this is the heart and soul, the everything of the movie, the device that ties up all the loose ends while creating new mysteries. I thought it was fabulous and that people simply fear imagination.