GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2019)

I rate this movie 11/10 to signify it's greatness. perfection. mind blowing. a workout for your brain. I want to have debates about it. I want to write research papers on it. amazingly unbelievably awesome, this is the kind of movie that opens up your mind. lots of amazing scenes with epic music. a killer story told flawlessly. perfect directing by the best ever. great cast with great acting. a deep psychological aspect explored for numerous characters.
the most renowned theoretical physicist who is an expert on cosmology was brought on to keep the science honest, as well as a retired astronaut who's been to space five times. One of the rare movies that is better the second, and even the third time watching. The only movie I have ever liked the most the fourth time I've watched it. I keep picking up on more things in the movie, and understanding better overall. So many parts are extremely moving and powerful. It does an awesome job of making you feel what the characters are feeling. (8 viewings, 2/26/2020)

SPOILERS

i was randomly thinking about interstellar, haven't watched it in at least 6 months. i thought about one hypothetical that intrigued me: what if the future ppl machine is such that it can only be placed inside an already collapsed black hole. if plan B was what "originally" happened and dr. brand survived, future ppl figured it out, and they want to save the ppl they left behind on earth, they need to find a love-link between someone who goes into a black hole and someone on earth smart enough to be able to solve the gravity problem = cooper and murph. doctor brand knows this because she knows cooper loves her, knows he sacrifices himself by falling into the black hole, knows his daughter grows up to be her dad's understudy, so she has the future ppl put the machine in the same black hole that cooper falls into, thereby making the entire plan work. INTRIGUING. will need to confirm on next viewing... after watching again, i like this as a viable theory, but it conflicts with another theory i had about the "original" mission being completed without cooper
lots of awesome concepts that made me think, like murphy's law not applying close to a black hole, human survival instincts and it encompassing your children, love being a quantifiable scientific force, the black hole and time relativity. the robots were cool and original. really awesome visuals of things i've wondered about but never really imagined. i liked the depiction of the 5 dimensions in 3D in the daughters room. the way everything connected was very awesome. the different planets were so interesting with ice clouds and giant tidal waves. the endings were perfect.
Something I noticed that I didn't realize the first time was the reason his son became dark and a little crazy. He was still a good person, even after experiencing the death of his daughter. However, once his wife convinced him to let go of the idea that his father was coming back, he gave up on everything in life and became a horrible husband, father and brother. The relationship between the father and daughter was the best relationship I can remember in any movie I've seen. The primary underlying theme in the movie was the love between a father and his daughter being able to transcend space and time, which is the key to her getting the information she needed to save the world.
From Interstellar group chat discussion:
-Or the other theory I had was that originally plan B was the one that worked and a colony survived and eventually was able to do what they did and wanted to save all the people that ended up dying on earth and try to make plan A work
-So she finds out that plan a was a sham. That the professor had already solved the equation years ago before she even met him. That he knew even with solving the equation that they couldn't figure out how to get the people of the earth. She found out that they knew that they were never gonna come back and they were going to let everyone on earth to die. So every day since she was 10 that she has been hoping her father would come home was a lie. She should have never been hoping. Her entire 20 years that she dedicated her life to working on this was a complete waste . that should break a person. murph is a beast
-The love between them was the only reason the world ended up being saved. It's the only reason she kept trying that hard after all those years. It's the only reason she went back to her house in her room. It's the only reason she saw the watch again. It's the only reason she figured out that the watch twitching was her dad sending the data
-They got the best theoretical physicist expert in cosmology to keep the movie honest. And a retired astronaut who's been to space as a technical consultant.
-Like I said before, the prevalent underlying theme is the love between a father and daughter which ends up making it possible to save the people on earth. Love is a quantifiable force that transcends time and space.
12/2/16 text to malik: I watched interstellar again wow. I found a flaw in my theory that in the original timeline they used Plan B without cooper, and then when they became advanced they went back to try to get cooper so they could save the people that died on earth. The problem is, how would they have gotten past the problems with re-docking back onto the spinning blown up ship after Mann owned them. It actually makes perfect sense because in the original timeline Cooper would not have convinced them to go to dr. Mann's planet, Brand would have convinced them to go to Edmunds Planet which was the right one anyways. in that "original" timeline, love still saved humanity since it helped her choose the right planet.