It blew my mind...

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2015)

You know, its been a couple of months and I am literally frothing at the mouth waiting for the blu-ray release of this movie, but I am literally flabbergasted at the range of reviews, some of which seem so superior, it seems having an encyclopaedic knowledge of science is what makes a movie good or bad. Someone even said that if you loved 2001, you'd hate this movie. 2001 is one of my favourite movies of all time, but Interstellar is up there, it certainly has more heart than 2001, but really they are different stories with different outcomes. Another reviewer pointed out that the movie "Contact" was inspiration for Interstellar. I love Contact. Seeing it on the big screen was stupendous. But Interstellar in IMAX trumped it. I don't know what people want anymore. This film had heart, a great story, good acting, spectacular visuals.... It was complex, at least to me it was, and I have no guilt admitting that. My gift is art, not astro-physics or film making, and looking at this film was pure entertainment and a work of art. The Docking scene... the scene so many people seem to go on and on about, is far and away the most exciting few minutes of cinema I've ever seen. The audience actually clapped at the climax of that scene, and Hans Zimmer's understated but gigantic score really unlined the tension. Of course, some would argue that film music shouldn't do this, that Kubrick used silence, that Hitchcock did this or that. I disagree. What is film music for then? Is it a throwaway thing that should be in the background. I don't think so. It made this scene. It was a wonderful partner to the movie itself.
Anyway, there is no accounting for taste, else none of us would be here writing reviews. Everyone is entitled to their opinion... and that was mine