An epic in the desert

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2014)

I am torn while writing this as I'm not sure if my experience of the movie is due to how good the movie was or due to how abysmally bad movies these days have become.
It is the first in a very long time were i forgot I am sitting in a cinema and was truly living what was going on on screen. I am 32 and haven't experienced that since I was 7 or 8 and for me that is truly amazing.
It's not perfect from the overtalked science perspective but it does a hell of a job of trying. Some facts are adjusted to allow the movie to make sense, others are based on pure speculation like surviving the fall into the black hole. But even the pure speculation aspects are not fished out of thin air but based on scientific theory.
My experience with Nolan over time has been mixed. Memento was a masterpiece, Inception a disappointment, not because it was a bad movie but because it was for my taste too tailored to the casual viewer and thus fell short of my expectations of it. The Batman series... a good effort to make a niche subject into a mainstream success but surely no masterpiece.
I can't even blame low expectations because my expectations of the movie were sky high and that is more often than not a recipe for me hating the movie.
The sound and visuals were stunning with a 'real' feel to them, maybe also due to the overuse of CGI in recent movies that makes everything look cartoonish.
All in all I go back to the initial question and wonder: is Interstellar truly the masterpiece I perceived it to be ? or is it just a drop of water in the desert of mindless, endless Transformers sequels which bank solely on blurry CGI, 0 story and 0 emotion. On the other hand movies with depth are confined to indie projects filmed with shaky cam and thus limit their scope. Interstellar seems the best of both worlds, an epic from all points of view. It clearly stands out, in fact it stands out so much that it shows what is very wrong all around it.