Godawful dreck

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2015)

I bought the studio hype that this was the most "intelligent" sic-fi film since 2001: Space Odyssey. What an insult to Kubrick. LIke the Dark Knight Rise, Interstellar is 3 long hours of torture, from the moment McCanaughey accidentally stumbles upon NASA's gigantic secret launch operation -- just happens to be in a cornfield a few miles from him, and they never noticed! And by the way, as long as you're here, could you pilot the mission? We just never had any plans for a pilot until you barged in! Christ, this is a plot device from Gilligan's Island.
The rest of this turkey might be summed up as "weepy soap opera in outer space." Too many schmaltzy tearjerker scenes for an "intelligent" sic-fi film. Anne Hathaway acts more like a chirpy cheerleader than a seasoned astronaut. And like Dark Knight, the plot is so convoluted that I eventually gave up caring. The final scenes, perhaps somewhat inspired by 2001, are lame and pretentious.
I'd rather be waterboarded than suffer through Nolan's dreck again. I'm giving this 1 star to balance the ludicrous spate of 9-10 star reviews. No wonder American film has gone downhill, when the audiences mistake a pretentious, poorly written fruit pie for the "masterpiece of a genius"