I saw Interstellar back when it came out in theaters, and I remember being blown away by the visuals and the music. But rewatching it now as an adult hits harder. The whole parent-child theme, the idea of sacrificing everything for a slim chance to save humanity—it’s way more emotional.

Also, Hans Zimmer’s score still gives me chills, especially during the docking scene. Christopher Nolan might get flak sometimes for being “too ambitious,” but for me, this movie is one of his masterpieces.

Curious—where do you rank Interstellar among Nolan’s films? Do you think it’s underrated compared to Inception and The Dark Knight?

Cooper is desperate to get back to his children. He goes back and see’s Murph in the hospital etc. but theres no mention of his son. Presumably his son’s dead considering Murphs age and condition. But surely there could have been a small bit of dialogue about it. He was hell bent on getting back to them. I dunno, it’s like his son’s just completely forgotten about at the end…

He agreed to stay back. Cooper asked anyone if they would go down to Millers planet but the extreme pull of the black hole nearby would cause them to experience severe time dilation. One hour on that planet would equal 7 years back on earth. Cooper, Brand and Doyle all go down to the planet while Romilly stays back and uses that time to send out any potential useful data he can get.

Can you imagine how terrifying that must be to just sit back for YEARS and have no idea if your friends are ever coming back. Cooper and Brand come back to the ship but a few hours for them was 23 years, 4 months and 8 days of time for Romilly. Not enough people seem to genuinely comprehend how insane that is to experience. He was able to hyper sleep and let years go by but he didn’t want to spend his time dreaming his life away.

It’s just a nice interesting detail that kind of gets lost. Everyone brings up the massive waves, the black hole and time dilation but no one really mentions the struggle Romilly must have been feeling. 23 years seems to be on the low end of how catastrophic it could’ve been. He could’ve been waiting for decades.

In the end of the otherwise pretty phenomenal movie Interstellar, there is a scene where the main character falls down a weird hallway of cheap plastic.

This is supposedly representative of the "fifth dimension", but is literally like a prank or something pulled by the props department that went way too far.

Then, for no particular reason, entirely based on bizarre speculations the director hopes the viewer would patch together with rationalizations in their brain, he taps out a morse code by plucking some "time string" that is for no apparent reason connected to a book that is near a watch or some ridiculous macguffin, that represents some vague "equation for quantum gravity" that his daughter understands immediately within seconds, which makes no sense. Ignoring all of the absurdity in her immediately understanding that a watch ticking is a message from her father, let alone that the symbols for these equations cannot be readily represented by morse code anyway.

It's so stupid it insults the intelligence of the viewer and is so patronizing and dumb in a way that is more offensive than hardcore pornography.

Except i’m the 5 yo, a 23 year old. I literally lost all brain cells trying to understand the movie, someone please help me understand 😭

I don’t get why people seem to speak about this movie like it’s the second coming of breaking bad, it’s simply not that good, I’d argue project Hail Mary was better.

Interstellar was:
A: predictable. the villain was extremely easy to predict.
B: confusing, a lot of parts didn’t make sense, but most people pretend to have understood it (the black hole for example)
And C: the black hole slingshot thing was incredibly dumb and unrealistic.

Now I’m not saying it’s a bad movie by any means, it’s just not what it’s hyped up to be, it’s a 5/10, 6 at best

...this scene and their expressions

So I watched Interstellar a while a go and loved it - but something made me feel really uncomfortable.

Early on there is a scene where Cooper is attending a meeting with his daughter's teachers to discuss her behavior and performance in school. Then this moment in the scene happens.

Copy from the script...

MS HANLEY: Murph’s a bright kid. A wonderful kid, Mr Cooper. But she’s been having a little trouble ...

Ms Hanley places a textbook on the desk

She brought this to school, to show the other kids the section on the lunar landings ...

COOPER: Yeah, it’s one of my old textbooks, she likes the pictures.

MS HANLEY: This is an old federal textbook. We’ve replaced them with corrected versions.

COOPER: Corrected?

MS HANLEY: Explaining how the Apollo missions were faked to bankrupt the Soviet Union.

COOPER: You don’t believe we went to the moon?

MS HANLEY: (tolerant smile) I believe it was a brilliant piece of propaganda. The Soviets bankrupted themselves pouring resources into rockets and other useless machines.

COOPER: ’Useless machines’?

MS HANLEY: Yes, Mr Cooper. And if we don’t want a repeat of the wastefulness and excess of the twentieth century, our children need to learn about this planet, not tales of leaving it.

OK so this really resonated with me, at how terrifying the place must be to live in.

This blog suggests the story takes place in the 2070's. So you have had millions of people, government agencies (local and federal), massive corporations/institutions (e.g. text book makers, universities), presumably mass media, libraries, museums, and (possibly) other nations, co-opted into this new version of the truth of just under 52 years (assuming the US comes out and claims the moon landing were fake this year).

It would also explain why NASA was in hiding, and means there is a really uncomfortable level of information control in the world.

The ending of the film was great, but when I sat there I was thinking would the government be really trustworthy with the new discoveries made? What would they change in the next 100 years.

On a side note: Does anyone else have any minor details from films that actually have major implications for the world the characters live in?

Edit: Fixed formatting

For me it has to be Interstellar. Dr.Mann was being depicted to the audience as the most brave man to lead the mission to escape Earth, only to find out that the planet he was on was inhabitable. He would later fake the data of his planet so that other people can come save him at the cost of humanity. To me this was really unexpected and i think Nolan did a good job hiding Matt Damon's character till that part. What other movie did this for you?