space time in an original package

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2015)

Interstellar had some very interesting topics, for one that we're ruining our planet. It's probably the closest thing to reality in the entire movie, but it's worth taking at least that message.
Interstellar reminded me of the grandeur shots of 2001: A Space Odyssey, music included. The power chords blew through the speakers in the cinema was quite deafening. But I can only say the cinematographically speaking, the movie is excellent. The only thing I miss here is some overview shot of the solar (or black hole) system they've entered, yet they make it up by at least letting you see a (limited) view of the planets they visit. Which brings me to the next topic, because if they would have spent less time on useless discussion, plot lines and just plane slow story development and more into the outline of the galaxy, the movie would probably by far better.
Yes, the slow story is very, very annoying and I frequently had the feeling: "move along already!"
The relativity of time was nicely put into view though I have question marks about some presentations of it. Eg. If I was a scientist I would visit the planet closest to the black hole as last. Since they lose years by the minute the consequences of something going wrong is far too high. The other two scientists could die, humanity could have been extinct, ... I also wander if the scientist on board of the Endurance would have kept his sanity during the long waiting time.
Also they were pretty close to the remaining scientists and could have sent signals to keep contact.
When they slingshot by the black hole Gargantua Cooper falls into the black hole and this is were I found the movie totally going off. Even if he would survive until he reached the event horizon from that point his body would literally be ripped apart. When he reaches the library I a had feeling of utter annoyance of how the story was developing.
I must admit it was clever of the director on how they pass back and forth through time and how Cooper showed his daughter what to do, but the nagging annoying feeling didn't leave me and even came back when Cooper woke up on the space station that appears to be close to Saturn and which didn't make sense to me. Earth was seriously lacking resources so how were they able to create such a flourishing space station at that point in space and in less then 100 years (Cooper's daughter is about to die, so even if she reached a very old age, the time span between him leaving and the building of the space station is less than 10 decades.)
An uplifting from other space movies must have been TARS and CASE. Not only have they got an original design, but I was silently expecting one of them to crash or behave erratically like in 2001: A Space Odyssey or Alien and that didn't happen.
All in all Interstellar is not a bad movie, be it annoyingly slow at times.