Marmite

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2015)

I would like to start by saying I have done nothing but blow smoke up this films backside from day one. It seemed like an eternity from the first online Nolan rumblings to the cinema release, which is ironic because time doesn't actually exist! :/ The wait was more than worth it thus I continue to blow smoke up this films backside.
Aside from an ageing, dithering Michael Caine, the cast were, er, cast perfectly. Matthew McConaughey plays a blinder. He has kind of fallen into being typecast a little, his characters seem to be all based on late 20th Century Texan cowboys, kind of "yee haw" -ing and such. Not a bad thing, just saying. The emotions he projects were stunning and I fail to see why some reviews have ripped him apart for this. I do understand however, why some reviewers don't agree with how good this film is, as its a kind of Marmite film. To some this was over the top ridiculousness that made no sense. To me it was the complete opposite. Why? - I'm not able to explain it without sounding like a hippy that had been left in the desert to go mad! Fundamentally, the way it explains time and dimension hit a chord with me. I get where the film wants us to go. I have read a few articles on how the black hole Gargantua defies all current theories and that the time scales depicted when going back and forth simply do not add up - so what, its a movie, its not supposed to rewrite the four laws of thermodynamics or try to win a Nobel Prize in physics - the best it could hope for is an Oscar. And it did, just one, which makes me happy as, if it cleared up, like the hideous Gravity did, I fear it would have fallen into the commercial cheapness of film history. Thankfully, it didn't break box office records, it upset a lot of critics and it confused the f*** out of most who watched it, result in my book! A grower that will have fanboys creaming themselves for years.
This film will please and excite you / This film will annoy and irritate you (delete as required) 10/10