What did I just watch?

Rating: 1/10 (8 September 2015)

As others have done, I'm giving this a 1 to counter at least one absurd 10 given somewhere out there from behind a bookshelf in the fifth dimension. I won't go into the plot here, there are thousands of other reviews that have done so, I'm simply going to comment on why this movie is so not a 10 star flick. Other than Christopher Nolan stalkers loving from afar, this movie is a 3 hour exercise in endurance. Once I start to watch a movie, even for all of the faults I may find, I typically watch to the end...only with Interstellar it just wouldn't end. It was torture. I'm a huge believer that sci-fi movies are fantasy, an escape from the every day, a time to allow the improbable to take over...but they still have to make sense. The disconnect from scientific theory in this movie is of epic proportions. For example, I couldn't get over the complete avoidance of event horizon as the film wrapped up. I found myself completely irritated by this because the film relied so much on general relativity to develop the story line, and then just bastardized the entire premise of the theory so that the main character could survive was a total rip off. The acting was so over the top it was, at times, comedic. The character development was so poor that, as an example, I have no idea what Topher Grace's role even was, I was just like, "hey, Topher Grace is in this movie"? Given the fact that the viewer was offered the opportunity to visit a different GALAXY, it was a total snoozer to see that all that is out there is Waterworld, Iceland and the Grand Canyon. I could go on, but I won't. I've lost enough time in my life to this awful film.