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Spoilers ahead.

I didn't like the pacing, but whatever, that's a style decision.

But the whole twist at the end that justified anything that happened before just ruined it for me. It's heavily suggested that it's actually the humans from the future who try to save their own kind by opening the wormhole and giving humans a way off their doomed world. But the whole idea that there are ethereal beings from the future that can open multidimensional wormhole in the past but lack any way of then communicating with that past is just dumb. If you can send an interstellar superhighway through space and time, I'm sure you can send information.

Adding insult to injury at the end they can send information. But the best thing those hyperbeings can come up with is to just take a dude into their multidimensional superphone and let him throw books and wiggle some clock hands in his daughter's room? Like... what? That's their plan to save humanity? "Hey, man, now that you've entered the black hole, nice to have you here... you can now be a haunted spirit in your daughter's past. For a few minutes. Do something to save your people's future. Your time starts now." The only explanation I have come up with so far is that future humans are sadistic fucks and that this was their equivalent of taskmaster style reality TV, with them throwing popcorn at the screen where the nasa farmer struggles to somehow tries to send three words that could save all humans but has to do that with the dumbest means some asshole producer could come up with. "Aaaand he wiggles the clock!! I can't believe it!" and the audience goes wild.

It just destroyed the movie for me. It felt like I was sitting through the last hour of that movie in utter disbelief that this was really the great explanation, the great twist the movie was gearing towards. It's not often that I get angry at movies while I'm in the theater, but this movie started quite well imho, just to then take turns that made me so mad about having wasted all that time on a story that was so utterly nonsensical that I was in the end no longer wondering about what was going on but only why I hadn't picked a career in writing just to prevent that kind of crap from happening.

Not OP, but my wife and I were incredibly disappointed by Interstellar after seeing how much praise it got.

SPOILERS BELOW!!!

First off, the pacing was waaay too fast. I felt like I was getting whiplash from how they spent like five minutes in each location. I hear people complaining about the long runtime (like the other comment that was just posted, lol), but I have exactly the opposite problem - I think this movie really needed like four hours to do everything they tried to do right.

The biggest failing for us, though, was how ridiculously terrible and inaccurate the science was, from start to finish. From little things like needing a full multi-stage booster system to break earth's gravity, but being able to effortlessly jet off the ocean planet with no help, to absolutely bonkers ridiculous stuff like just casually going beyond an event horizon without getting spaghettified in the process.

So yeah, valiant attempt, a couple of really cool story ideas, and some good (but overrated) cinematography, but, while I wouldn't go so far as to say I hated Interstellar, I would absolutely say that I didn't like it, and that it was actively painful to watch.

Not OP but I thought it kinda sucked, and I love most Nolan movies.

Interstellar is really episodic, and has this really weird tone problem between fun space adventure and daddy/daughter basic communication breakdowns. The core of the story felt like "instead of therapy together I'll just go save the world via spaceship and talk to you from beyond the pale"

Idk, I don't hate it or anything, it just didn't seem as good as the hype to me. Some cool visuals for sure.

My reason is I can't stand the reluctant hero trope. Where, for example, a grouchy misanthropic isolated farmer is the ONLY person who can pilot this spaceship and save humanity, so he does it but grumbles the whole time. I don't remember exactly what interstellar's version of this was, but that's where I bailed. No disrespect to anyone who likes it. I'm pretty picky. There are a lot of really common tropes that I avoid and I abandon movies all the time.

Even the scene with messages from the family?

It’s a long CGI tech demo, similar to Avatar (the blue people one)

Samesies :)

Everything I have read by Stanisław Lem was damn good. I should pull Golem XIV from the shelve and see if it aged well considering the current AI developments...