A stunning journey of possible real catasphrophy and thought experiments

Rating: 8/10 (21 November 2014)

So I just saw Interstellar, and in relation to the premiere, quite late. Since there's no IMAX theatre in range of at least 500 km of where I live, I couldn't watch it in that format and in the cinema I watched it had already been (surprisingly) downgraded from the biggest screens with 3d capability to just a smaller 2d screen.
That colored my entire experience of the film. Just like Gravity, it was obvious to see how this film was meant to be watched in 3d and nothing else (except also IMAX).
But even if it's an obvious downgrade, watching it in 2d allowed me to look beyond the visuals of the film and really think about it's plot and world.
I thought it was a entertaining piece of what-if, stretched to the max and the beyond it, science fiction masquerading as a vision of the future. The drama between the main characters was exceptionally well done for a sci-fi and even in 2d, allowed me to get sucked in to their hypothetical reality.
However, and this is where the spoilers come, so beware, it felt extremely constructed and unnatural whilst attempting to appear at least possible.
We barely know if wormholes exist, and if they do (which is somewhat likely, granted), you certainly couldn't survive them as a human organic being. And while black holes are pretty much proved as much as they can be without any human having ever seen one without a secondary device, the ending that happened in "Gargantua" was downright impossible, at the very (!) least in the given context (a 5th dimension and warping of space-time is theoretically possible, but impossible practically, and if it makes it any clearer "200 %" impossible as organic lifeforms). Also, the saving of the earth was left unexplained even though that might actually conceivably be possible and certainly is much easier to explain. But no matter, even if it's "only" an artistic reference to the psychics of our universe and the current research, it's still a very long step in the right direction and way away from Star Wars or even Star Trek if you want to see a vision of future actual intersteallar space travel.
It has to be said, with the concerns of using metaphysics and pseudo-science, it was a visually stunning movie even in 2d so I can not recommend everyone to go watch it in 3d if they can. The space travel besides the hyperspace stuff was also well done, and so where the 2 (3) worlds we get to see. The phenomena there are actually completely in line with the observations and data from modern astronomers.
Finally, I think this movie's biggest force is not that it's a thrilling (yet unrealistic) journey through space that is also visually amazing, but that it actually get's people talking (about practicality vs. theory, for instance), inspired and to be considering the topic of space travel, and least but not last, climate change.
Both things are incredibly important for our future survival on earth, and with Interstellar there's really no excuse for this generation to be wilfully ignorant about it anymore. Don't defund something as important as space science because you want to fund more wars or petty consumer spending loans, and don't say climate change making our planet unlivable is inevitable and thus we have no responsibility to do anything when there's still room for us to stop the crazy path of self-destruction we're currently heading towards.