Interstellar (2014)
★★★★½ — Interstellar (2014)
Christopher Nolan made Interstellar on the back of his enormously successful Dark Knight trilogy, and the project had an unusually tangled origin: Steven Spielberg was originally attached to direct, with Nolan's brother Jonathan having written an early draft of the screenplay. When Spielberg departed, Christopher Nolan rewrote the script substantially and took the helm himself. Made on a substantial $165 million budget (justified, given the ambition of the practical effects and large-format IMAX photography), it was a genuine swing at hard science fiction, with theoretical physicist Kip Thorne serving as executive producer and scientific consultant. The film shot across several countries, including Iceland standing in for alien landscapes, and arrived at a moment when prestige blockbusters with serious intellectual pretensions were again finding large audiences.
As a Scientist... This is SUCH a realistic movie. Our generations 2001 Space Odyssey. I love Interstellar. It's right up my street because I love learning about the science behind the cosmos. I learnt about Gravitational time dilation through this film. I learnt more about tesseracts through this film. Matthew McConaughey absolutely CARRIES this film. That scene at the end where he's screaming Murph is SO hard to watch as a Father. The soundtrack is so powerful it's being used widely on social media right now as a means to invoke emotion. In the future they'll consider this film to be our generations 2001 Space Odyssey.
Rating: ★★★★½ | Year: 2014 | Watched: 2015-06-11
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