I stepped in a pile of Interstellar

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2014)

I had expectations of an excellent thought provoking scientific drama based on reviews and the overall rating of this film (8.9 stars as of today) but they were dashed minutes into the film.
First the audio is horrendous it frequently alternates between the quiet mumbling of Matthew Mcconaughey's character to deafening sound effects and music, usually drowning out more dialog. And Mcconaughey truly does mumble his entire dialog (unless he's crying). I do not know many pilots that mumble unintelligibly let alone the best astronaut in the world as the script implies.
The "Science" of the movie is pure fantasy. The original blast off from Earth requires the equivalent of a Saturn V to launch into orbit, yet the ship is able to blast it's way off the water world orbiting deep in the gravity well of a black hole with no booster at all. The water world itself is about 2 feet deep yet has mile high waves which are impossible in only a couple of feet of water. The gravity required for a 7 year/hour time dilation would have crushed Mcconaughey to a fake tan orange spot. There are many more problems with the science but you get the idea.
Kip Thorne, an American theoretical physicist, may have consulted on this, but Christopher Nolan had final say on this piece of .... I imagine Thorne was looking to enhance his retirement account because it has surely not helped his reputation in the physics community. Maybe I should not be so hard on Thorne, perhaps he kept a magic beans scene out of the final cut.
The story is thin and characters are poorly developed, yet I would estimate 15 minutes of the film is spent with these weak characters crying and sobbing, and babbling a Dylan Thomas poem, yuck.
The specials effects are average. The worm hole scene has been done many times yet it is dragged out. The exotic exoplanets are puddle world, rock and ice world, and palm springs sans palms & springs, boring. Finally the robot looks like four or five Lincoln logs nailed together. I think when they got to doing the special effects for the robot they had run out of money. It was probably all spent on the fake tanning spray and hair dye for Mcconaughey.
If you want to watch a truly inspiring performance in Space, Google Chris Hadfield's performance of "Space Oddity" on the international space station and skip Interstellar.
I can not say enough bad things about this heap of fecal material. Don't waste your time or money. When I am dying on my death bed I will have one regret, that is having spent 3 hours of my life watching Interstellar.