(Interstellar) Today I finally understood the charm of film....

[aly324]

Sounds like almost every serious movie.

Also, going into it, I had no idea that the film was going to be dealing with such theoretical concepts, so, once I realized that, I stopped caring if things were realistic, and just more about how they felt. It is a film, like all the others. A fantasy. Complete fiction. But going into it, I had assumed they were staying to closer to reality, but quickly realized it was conceptual fantasy, as is Christopher Nolan's typical fare. Something he can do in a film, but not in reality. It is fun. It is dreamy. It is not the History channel, it is taking us out of reality, and letting us dream, and making us feel a little.

As a movie, I felt the flow of the film was more emotional and organic than many of the other 'big' films I saw this year.

For me the realistic (or 'truthy') scientific tone, established by (relative) visual restraint, use of film, and connection to that Caltech theoretical physicist and (albeit baldly written) expository lines within the movie, actually made a salient difference. Inception was hollow fantasy / effects extravaganza, this was touching because almost believable. I mean the premise of worldwide dust thing is fantastical and vague of course, but the actual follow through is not.

Also I sorta intuitively felt that Nolan put more of himself into this movie, both in emotion and ambition. It really strove to do something different and new with the extremely familiar genre. And that striving resonated with the characters' striving.

 

[TheDingo]

Story was thin and holey, suspense of disbelief was for me not even close to passable.

All in all, it's a movie that tried really, really hard to be "deep" and to me came off as not even remotely.

...While I agree with most of what you wrote I still liked this movie, though I do think that you have to shut-off your brain to enjoy this movie.