My view is a little more negative because of all the hype it gets but only a little. It's just a bad movie.

SPOILER WARNING

To understand the plot structure (such that it is) in Interstellar, you have to start with the writer's desire for the emotional ending of the main character with his daughter, who is now old. Everything that happens in the movie is a really forced way to reach that outcome.

The whole watch time-travel thing was more of that illogical nonsense in service of that conclusion.

The time dilation to make all this happens just doesn't work that way. You have to get to a significant percentage of c before time dilation becomes really noticeable. For example, at 0.9c you're still only at ~2x time dilation [1].

The gravity effects of the black hole don't make sense either.

The "science" of Interstellar is no more realistic than Star Trek or Starship Troopers.

[1]: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html

I mean I agree, on the other hand if it's no more realistic perhaps this means that the fiction part of science fiction actually takes precedence despite coming second and thus is actually not any sort of evidence of its being a bad movie.

Odd. I didn’t like interstellar either, but time dilation in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole is way, way less controversial than being able to build a wormhole large enough for a ship to get through.

Possibly you’re confusing stellar mass black holes and super massive black holes?

Time dilation doesn’t only occur at high velocities, so your link focusing entirely on velocity is accurate, but I think not really relevant.

The physics was pretty reasonable for the time dilation. Possibly off by an order of magnitude or so, but not ridiculous on its face.

Except for the wormhole.

Countless SF films. I found Interstellar very middle-drawer. I didn't hate it but certainly wasn't wowed by it.

It was a fine excuse to have a few big-budget sci-fi themed FX spectacles.

Could have stood to be a full hour shorter, though.

Arrival, BR2042, Dune Pt 1. I’m beginning to see a pattern here.

I'm with you. Arrival is an absolute classic. BR2042 needed some suspension of disbelief IMHO, but it was as good as you could hope for in a BR sequel. Dune pt. 1 ... it's one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made.

I was also baffled by the "interstellar is trash" line. Maybe I watched it wrong.

I didn't love Interstellar the first time I saw it.

When I watched Inception for the first time I walked out of the theatre in love with that movie (and I still am), but, leaving Interstellar I felt confused and underwhelmed.

Perversely I think I was actually very overwhelmed by Interstellar because after seeing it many times in the almost a decade since it came out (oh my god how has it been 10 years) it's become one of my favorite films, but, there is just so much going on that it was difficult to connect with it on the first viewing.

I had a similar experience. It is one of my favorite scifi movies, and it gets better with every viewing. I think it also resonates especially because I have a young daughter myself. The soundtrack though, that clicked right away. I never get tired of that soundtrack. In fact, I would say it is my favorite soundtrack of any movie ever made.

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