Overview of Interstellar *no spoilers*

Rating: 8/10 (7 November 2014)

For this film we really have to hand it off the the writing, space research, ideas and cg to make new dimensions. The acting was average, all though I was impressed by the young daughters acting. This movie succeed in what Nolan tried to create, which I felt many of the shots were very Kubrick inspired. The exterior space shuttle scenes looked very similar to 2001, and the shots within the warm hole were very much like the special effects of space travel in 2001. Obviously the shot of Matthew McConaughey, screaming and jerking his head in fear is a parallel shot of Dr. Bowman (2001) going into time warp. Hal also had many similarities to the robot assistants in Interstellar. Interstellar was composed of amazing writing, special effects, and an overall new look on our living dimension. The first half of the script which was written by Jonathan Nolan, stayed realistic and gave the audience a good knowing of the characters, the second half, which was Christopher's, seemed to stretch the plot points slightly but it is excusable due to the circumstances of the plot. Nolan's true style was really shown in this movie, for the Batman series wasn't even his idea, Nolan just needed money so that he can make his masterpiece. While I hold this film in high regards, we must not let or excitement for this film blind us from it's flaws. I found that the weightless shuttle scenes seemed cheap and unbelievable. I felt like I could guess exactly where the cords holding them up were, and it seems like the actors were very aware of their harnesses, you could really see the difficulty to act while attached to the ceiling. Nolan tried to do the weightless by himself, and it did not turn out well, we know better can be achieved simply from looking at Gravity. I also found that Nolan really avoided using a tripod for this movie. While the stabilization was smooth, some scenes still could have used a tripod steady shot.