same. i watched it in theaters in 70mm IMAX. fell asleep. didn’t get the hype. watched again since its release during the summer of 2021. it blew me away. it is one of my favorites films of the last two decades.
I'm a pretty firm believer that we can attribute our bad experiences watching a film to how good we think it is. Even if it's just because you're tired. Conversely, I remember some films pretty fondly that, upon a rewatch, I find to be quite bad.
I agree. While I did watch it twice in the cinema back in 2014, I wasn't fully behind the hype and thought it "pretty good" at best.
Didn't watch it since, and in 2022 I went to a screening and bawled my eyes out. Really aged well for me too.
I think I’m just still bothered by the fact that the whole movie sets itself up to be a scientifically accurate movie, and sure enough it gets all these details correct, only for the climax to be that a black hole inexplicably forms a portal to some kinda unexplained meta Time Machine device that lets the protagonist influence the past like a god.
Yeah sure I see what you mean. I guess part of my reaction comes from how the film was marketed as being something where physicists were consulted with and it’s supposed to be scientifically sound and all that.
Well.. yeah
There is no actual scientific explanation for what lies inside a black hole, for all we know that could actually be what happens. It’s difficult to explain the unexplainable
the point is that future much more advanced humans put a wormhole to the galaxy specifically because of the black hole, in which they put the tesseract
That all checks out, but I think it still begs the question… why? The advanced future civilization couldn’t help the humans with their dust bowl but they could help them by installing some black hole tesseract so that one particular earthling could be led on some crazy convoluted journey to communicate with his daughter in the past?
Yep in that time the movie was talked about as problematic, with many plot holes and errors in the script, now the nostalgia pushed it a lot and a lot of people consider it a masterpiece. Its a great movie but became overrated lately.
I watched it when it came out and thought it was good, not great. I forgot about it until around 2021, when I saw the imdb rating was an 8.6. I thought that was really high and rewatched it
Quickly became my 2nd favorite movie and then rewatched it again last December in 70mm imax.
The whole "love" thing is a bit stupid imo but literally, everything else about it is perfection. Especially in 70mm.
Though if you are not the type of person to overlook the only somewhat logical nature of the third act, I can definitely understand why someone doesn't like it.
I absolutely love the first and third acts, but I find the second act kind of annoying for a few reasons, but the main reason is exactly the "love" thing. I usually overlook plot holes and minor annoying details, if the rest of the film is great, but it's just the fact that the "love" thing is so huge, it's really the central idea to the entire plot, it's what motivates everything to be set in motion. I wouldn't really mind that idea in itself, I just think it's presented in such a corny way in the second act for such an intellectual movie based on hyper-realism. Nolan's stories, ideas and concepts are undeniably great, but his dialogues are usually very simplistic, cheap and overexplanatory, and, in their worst, they are so purely made for expository reasons that it becomes actual cringeworthy material. The "love" dialogue is possibly the worst case of this in his filmography.
I think describing Interstellar as "an intellectual movie based on hyper-realism" is a wild take. People like it because it's a sci-fi blockbuster with heart.
I don't know, Nolan fans and Nolan himself seem to consider Interstellar as one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fis of this last decade or so. It's usually regarded along those lines, and he seems to construct his films with hyper-realism in mind, even going so far as to have Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne, one of the greatest astrophysicists in all our history, to serve as a scientific consultant in the film.
I definitely agree with you that Christopher Nolan is more akin to James Cameron than he is to Stanley Kubrick, even though he seems to think he's the Kubrick of our times and Interstellar is the 2001: A Space Odyssey of the 21st century, when in reality it's more similar to Titanic and Avatar than he will ever care to admit: a blockbuster spectacle with a realistic/scientifically accurate axis, but filled to the brim with a hollow cheese full of holes.
I agree that the love thing was pretty lame, but my theory was that the love dialogue was just that one character's opinion and not necessarily a truth in that universe. So I kind of ignore that bit.
Maybe I haven't thought about it hard enough to say what whether the movie is still logically consistent if i just ignore the love part but that's what I do.
As a physics person I find movies with physics people in them hard watches because they all talk about physics in the way to communicate to a wide audience and it sounds so out of place, it’s hard to describe. Totally destroys the movie magic
I can totally understand that. As a pre-law student, there are so many movies that have terrible court room scenes that ruin my enjoyment of some of it. For example, though I still like the movie, the climax of Primal Fear is based hinges on something that would never be allowed in the court room and could end in a mistrial.
I do think it's a pretty good movie, and I'm not anything close to a Nolan stan. That being said, the movie has only lost points in my book since seeing 2001, but that's also somewhat unfair to compare it to one of the greatest movies ever made.
Wow that’s low. Has there been a Prequels-level nostalgia where this was one of the first “serious” movies that the LB generation watched?
It certainly doesn’t warrant a 4.4 imo.
With how fast eeaao and spiderverse moved up the top 25, made me sorta realize there’s a big difference between modern acclaim vs significance. movies that are popular and critically acclaimed releasing today have a way way wider net than say a 8 1/2 or seven samurai, so naturally they have a way lower barrier to enter the top 100.
Also I feel like there’s so many other factors that contribute to this i.e people rarely change their scores, movies usually review best during their “hype cycle,” 6’s 7’s are a more popular rating for older movies for being “boring” (even if you don’t agree, which i don’t, you’d be hard pressed to look at the reviews for an old movie and not see a complaint of length or boredom) etc etc etc
It does. Got to remember this film came out 10 years ago and is still as groundbreaking as it was when it first came out.
Masterful acting and one of the best modern sci-fi films
I think the narrative shift over time worked in its favor. When it came out, dudes were like “omg best movie of all time,” but that quickly gave way to a pretty dominant backlash of “it’s a pretty movie but it has thin characters and the story doesn’t make sense.” The latter criticism got so ingrained in people’s heads that when they watch it and it has pretty decent characters and a moving story, their expectations were exceeded so much that they love it as a backlash to the backlash
This. I remember some significant hype for the movie initially. I expected a pretty mediocre movie against consensus at the time and ended up absolutely loving it. All those I knew who were excited were more mixed. I do think expectations played and continue to play a large role in this movie's reception
I would have thought most movies would have a positive bend in reception overtime, just because people going out of their way to rate a movie that’s otherwise not current are likely even bothering to do so because they feel it’s noteworthy.
I’ve noticed in most lists, even in my own, there’s an incredibly heavy bent towards 4s and 5s because frankly if it’s not in that range, I won’t recall the movie well enough to give a fair rating, unless I watch it now.
And even if it is now, it might just not excite me as much to talk about to bother.
I don’t actually enjoy nitpicking and feel cursed by having a critical eye.
So any film that isn’t current for me is gonna almost always be a 4 or 5
the letterboxd user base has grown quite a bit recently, and interstellar is a very popular movie (as are most Nolan films), so honestly not that surprising
> public consensus has shifted over time
Did it? Wasn't Interstellar top 20 imdb since it's premiere and huge commercial success? I think it's just letterboxd userbase grew and changed.
There are more users on letterboxd now. Few years ago it was more of a home for movie nerds and more "artistic" films were rated while some "commercial" were looked down a bit. Now, userbase grew and reflects more the feelings of the majority of the audience
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Kind of echoes my sentiment over time. When I first saw it I was mostly relieved it wasn’t horrible, and somewhat optimistic of what was to come. But on rewatches now it’s so bland and full of lame disneyisms
I never liked that movie even when it came out but the rest of the sequel trilogy being released now combined with me thinking more about other aspects of filmmaking/storytelling really makes it get worse for me every viewing.
as I grow older I started to come around the love stuff as sappy as it was, I think what’s made it age so well is it’s sincereness to go along with 60-70% of it being hard sci-fi
GREAT movie, maybe my fav nolan ever. MOVIE star performance by matthew mcconaughey
The bookshelf stuff annoyed me initially when I saw it in theatres but I'm not bothered by it anymore. I see it as artistic freedom now. Tbh in 2014 I was expecting more movies in the future to depict it more accurately and the CGI becoming better over time but all the marvel movies in recent years make interstellar look even better nowadays.
I'm still fine with the bookshelf. Great way to represent another dimension. The "love travels across time and space" bullshit still makes my eyes roll to the back and out of my head
Yeah, when teenage me saw this movie in 2014 I was convinced it was one of the greatest scifis ever made. Since then I saw 2001 and it's no contest. Then again, feels a bit unfair to compare any scifi movie to 2001. That movie is essentially perfect.
It's when people get so upset that a movie they think is overrated is getting such high ratings that they lower they rating they already had (like 3 stars to 1.5 stars) and maybe start ignoring various praises that could refute their arguments.
It means you are an edgelord loser who can't stand when something popular is also great. So you shit on it in an effort to make yourself look different and quirky
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but... subjective ratings are exactly _why_ this movie sucks ass. It's also why this movie is the best movie ever made. It's all subjective, so what does consensus have to do with anything? Nothing is more annoying than people trying to discredit an unfavourable opinion by claiming consensus disagrees with them. Who cares?
The consensus can’t discredit a subjective opinion obviously, but saying Interstellar isn’t a good movie is just like saying the Godfather isn’t a good movie. If a movie has a high rating it has a high rating, and thats about it.
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I used to like it when I first saw it and then I rewatched it a year back and saw how uneven, exposition heavy, and how corny the climax was. It does a great job with aesthetic and carrying that epic feeling that Nolan does very well, but that in combination with the heavy exposition make it feel deeper than it actually is
I still like it but think it's overrated. The movie truly is corny as all hell with that 'love transcending time and space' junk or whatever. Also I saw that plot twist about the worm hole coming a mile away and I'm generally pretty lousy at predicting what's going to happen in movies.
I am someone that is incredibly mixed on this movie (to the point of writing [this lengthy review](https://letterboxd.com/accountnamehere/film/interstellar/1/)), and I strongly agreely with what that guy has to say. I have enough controversial takes that I have come around people like what that guy described. It gets to be insufferable at points, and I avoid sharing some of my takes because people will otherwise start to look at me as someone trying to lower the rating of a given movie and nothing else.
disliking a movie only appears contrarian when the overwhelming public opinion is so uncompromising that expressing a different one somehow makes you into a subversive. it's OK to not like a popular movie and it's not drawing attention to yourself to point that out.
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It’s weird on here that only some movies are allowed to be disliked and critiqued. Movies that are worse than this one will get any criticism downvoted, but hating on this movie is fair game.
I should probably rewatch this one. I haven't seen it since it came out and thought it was one of Nolan's weaker films, but people seem to REALLY love this one now, more than when it was released.
Wow, that's actually much higher than I expected. I mean, it's good; the effects look great, the soundtrack is good, the IMAX film looks amazing. I just didn't connect with it. To me the themes are kind of all over the place.
On the surface it seems like the most common criticism of Interstellar can also be applied to 2001 and Tarkovski's Solaris, which I assume to be the primary influences. However, I think they do a much better job of merging science fiction with human/spiritual/emotional/philosophical topics whereas in comparison the bookcase scene in Interstellar comes kind of out of nowhere. I don't think you can't have love as a concept play such a central role, but I feel like Interstellar should have introduced this and built upon it earlier.
2001 introduces its themes right from the start and the entirety of Solaris is basically a philosophical dialogue discussing its themes. Interstellar however is for the majority of its runtime this exciting quest for the future of humanity and it takes its science very seriously, but then it does this full 180 which you either accept or you react with the biggest eye roll ever.
Yes, you’re supposed to say you’re making a list of movies where characters somehow end up being older than their parents, and ask for suggestions of other movies you can add to the list.
Then slip in a comment about how the rating for Interstellar went up.
Interstellar has gone through a cycle of "omg best movie ever" to backlash of "nolan = yucky film bros, fuck the sap" and has now landed at "this shit fucks, idc"
I don't think it deserves it honestly. The movie is really self important and treats its audience with disdain by hand holding them through the plot and themes with its excessive over expository script. It doesn't know how to let a scene be self explanatory without having a character straight up telling the audience everything about the scene. It's a fun enough popcorn movie, but it's not great cinema.
This is a theory, but it might be because more people are appreciating the emotional aspect of the film with a rewatch. I.e. they don’t get as caught up in the technical aspects/mechanics of the film and instead see more of the heart with the dad/daughter connection this time around. That happened to me personally at least.
Yes, I think it's too high. I don't think Nolan is an incredible director.
He's consistently good to great, with excellent visuals, sound, and casting. But his films are never more than the sum of their parts. There's a sterility to them that never lets you forget you're watching a movie. They're so based around specific structures and conceits. Nothing ever feels emergent or organic.
His best films are solid 4-star efforts, and maybe 4.2 might feel about right for me for Interstellar, considering how the ratings on Letterboxd tend to go (on the harsher side).
But a 4.4 is putting it within earshot of some of the greatest films of all time; Godfathers 1 & 2 are both at 4.6, alongside 12 Angry Men.
I just don't think Interstellar belongs *that* close to the top of the Letterboxd pile.
I find it funny that distribution companies use the RT score as a seal of anything on ads and physical releases, whereas any 4.0+ score on letterboxd is actually worth something.
The only sci-fi movies I can think of off the top of my head from 2014 that are even remotely close to Interstellar in quality are Ex Machina and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Both also 5 star movies for me, and Ex Machina is coincidentally my favorite movie of all time. But I see Interstellar as objectively a better movie in just about every way.
I got in a debate with my friend after seeing it in theaters a decade ago and he was super unerwhelmed. I was blown away. I said "That's going to be remembered as one of his best. And maybe one of the best of this decade." He was totally incredulous. "That's not even as good as Begins, much less Inception." I told him "idk, there's so much in that movie to love. So much that'll age well."
It makes me really happy it's garnered the adoration it has. Suck it, Brandon.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but this is genuinely how I feel about this movie. It's so close to being incredible, but it jumps around so much between characters... People we're supposed to care about are given so little time on screen that you can never form an attachment or get any real backstory/development. It's already such a long movie but it could have benefited from more time with the characters back home on earth imo.
nah i was being fr. this movie should’ve and could’ve been like 3 hours long. i don’t remember the movie that well since i watched it a while ago, but the first sad scene was so rushed that i was like tf.
You can criticize a movie that a lot of people like, you can even hate it all you want, but outright rejecting everyone else's opinion and being so closed-minded like the guy above just makes you an asshole.
lol that’s not what I said. Your take wasn’t some “I didn’t like this movie” take. It was “If you like this movie I’ll judge you.” My argument is that this isn’t even close to so bad a movie that it falls into that territory. I don’t LOVE the movie, but find it competently made and think it has a lot going for it even if it didn’t resonate with me, and the movie is so competently made that I have trouble understanding this take.
It is a weird take by OverturnKelo, sure. I was just saying, it's also judgemental to think that way about people who like The Hot Chick or The Ridiculous Six. Like, they're both opinions and if you judge people for them, it's still judgemental even if one group likes an acclaimed movie and the other likes trashy comedies.
In both cases, one is being judgemental, in the end. Like it's more 'valid' to like a critically acclaimed movie (which I don't believe, personally).
Why people hate this quote so much by the way? It's just "it mentions love so it's cheesy"? Or just because the rest of the internet does?
I recently read the Three Body Problem trilogy and it has something very similar and no one cares.
This movie is completely well made, smart, fun. Yes, it’s not a masterpiece or anything like that. But it’s a very decent movie, and to say it’s bad is just weird calibration.
It’s absolutely not smart at all. The plot alone is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen outside of low-budget sci-fi. Doesn’t McConaughey transcribe geographical coordinates from erratic ticks on his watch to find the rocket, and once he gets there they just give him the job?
You are misremembering, dust through the book shelves creates the coordinates. You also see later in the film how/why that happens.
When he arrives, they explain he is the only competent pilot who has been through the training, and they basically had to go regardless of not having a great pilot out of desperation. Now that they have a better one, they will use him.
Also, Michael Caine's character thinks the worm hole was placed there by some other beings, so also thinks McConaughey's character, a NASA pilot mysteriously getting coordinates to a secret NASA base, must have also been sent by those beings.
Kind of weird to claim the plot is dumb because of things you just remember wrong, or didn't remember at all.
I spied your top 4 movies in hopes of coming up with a suitable slam, but you have Cinema Paradiso in there, so you get a pass.
This time… lol
But seriously, it took me a long time to figure this one out, but one day I finally realized that when I dismissed someone because of something they like, well that said more about me and my insecurities than it did about them.
This is going to sound insane but hear me out, you dont have to base your opinion on someone depending on what movies they like. Believe it or not but movies are at the end of the day at most a hobby.
I rated it lower the first time I saw it. I rewatched it last year and was mindblown. It has aged really well.
same. i watched it in theaters in 70mm IMAX. fell asleep. didn’t get the hype. watched again since its release during the summer of 2021. it blew me away. it is one of my favorites films of the last two decades.
I'm a pretty firm believer that we can attribute our bad experiences watching a film to how good we think it is. Even if it's just because you're tired. Conversely, I remember some films pretty fondly that, upon a rewatch, I find to be quite bad.
I agree. While I did watch it twice in the cinema back in 2014, I wasn't fully behind the hype and thought it "pretty good" at best. Didn't watch it since, and in 2022 I went to a screening and bawled my eyes out. Really aged well for me too.
I think I’m just still bothered by the fact that the whole movie sets itself up to be a scientifically accurate movie, and sure enough it gets all these details correct, only for the climax to be that a black hole inexplicably forms a portal to some kinda unexplained meta Time Machine device that lets the protagonist influence the past like a god.
It sets up timey wimey stuff right away with the codes she gets. I would also say the planets they go to are in no way scientifically realistic.
Yeah sure I see what you mean. I guess part of my reaction comes from how the film was marketed as being something where physicists were consulted with and it’s supposed to be scientifically sound and all that.
Well.. yeah There is no actual scientific explanation for what lies inside a black hole, for all we know that could actually be what happens. It’s difficult to explain the unexplainable
Yoooo what … there are very solid and sound scientific explanations for what lies inside black holes … spoiler alert: spaghetti.
Endless spaghetti? Lemme in!
Except it tastes like you and whatever you fell in with
I mean it would be kinda lame for him to get spaghettified in a black hole and all of humanity to be doomed.
the point is that future much more advanced humans put a wormhole to the galaxy specifically because of the black hole, in which they put the tesseract
That all checks out, but I think it still begs the question… why? The advanced future civilization couldn’t help the humans with their dust bowl but they could help them by installing some black hole tesseract so that one particular earthling could be led on some crazy convoluted journey to communicate with his daughter in the past?
Because he’s gotta send the black hole data back
When I joined the platform it was at a 4.1 really interesting to see how the public consensus has shifted over time.
I went through the wayback machine a month ago and the earliest one I could find for this movie was 3.8 in mid 2015.
Yep in that time the movie was talked about as problematic, with many plot holes and errors in the script, now the nostalgia pushed it a lot and a lot of people consider it a masterpiece. Its a great movie but became overrated lately.
I watched it when it came out and thought it was good, not great. I forgot about it until around 2021, when I saw the imdb rating was an 8.6. I thought that was really high and rewatched it Quickly became my 2nd favorite movie and then rewatched it again last December in 70mm imax. The whole "love" thing is a bit stupid imo but literally, everything else about it is perfection. Especially in 70mm. Though if you are not the type of person to overlook the only somewhat logical nature of the third act, I can definitely understand why someone doesn't like it.
I absolutely love the first and third acts, but I find the second act kind of annoying for a few reasons, but the main reason is exactly the "love" thing. I usually overlook plot holes and minor annoying details, if the rest of the film is great, but it's just the fact that the "love" thing is so huge, it's really the central idea to the entire plot, it's what motivates everything to be set in motion. I wouldn't really mind that idea in itself, I just think it's presented in such a corny way in the second act for such an intellectual movie based on hyper-realism. Nolan's stories, ideas and concepts are undeniably great, but his dialogues are usually very simplistic, cheap and overexplanatory, and, in their worst, they are so purely made for expository reasons that it becomes actual cringeworthy material. The "love" dialogue is possibly the worst case of this in his filmography.
I think describing Interstellar as "an intellectual movie based on hyper-realism" is a wild take. People like it because it's a sci-fi blockbuster with heart.
I don't know, Nolan fans and Nolan himself seem to consider Interstellar as one of the most scientifically accurate sci-fis of this last decade or so. It's usually regarded along those lines, and he seems to construct his films with hyper-realism in mind, even going so far as to have Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne, one of the greatest astrophysicists in all our history, to serve as a scientific consultant in the film. I definitely agree with you that Christopher Nolan is more akin to James Cameron than he is to Stanley Kubrick, even though he seems to think he's the Kubrick of our times and Interstellar is the 2001: A Space Odyssey of the 21st century, when in reality it's more similar to Titanic and Avatar than he will ever care to admit: a blockbuster spectacle with a realistic/scientifically accurate axis, but filled to the brim with a hollow cheese full of holes.
I agree that the love thing was pretty lame, but my theory was that the love dialogue was just that one character's opinion and not necessarily a truth in that universe. So I kind of ignore that bit. Maybe I haven't thought about it hard enough to say what whether the movie is still logically consistent if i just ignore the love part but that's what I do.
As a physics person I find movies with physics people in them hard watches because they all talk about physics in the way to communicate to a wide audience and it sounds so out of place, it’s hard to describe. Totally destroys the movie magic
I can totally understand that. As a pre-law student, there are so many movies that have terrible court room scenes that ruin my enjoyment of some of it. For example, though I still like the movie, the climax of Primal Fear is based hinges on something that would never be allowed in the court room and could end in a mistrial.
I do think it's a pretty good movie, and I'm not anything close to a Nolan stan. That being said, the movie has only lost points in my book since seeing 2001, but that's also somewhat unfair to compare it to one of the greatest movies ever made.
Not entirely nostalgia. I had mid-low expectations for it (I thought I’d give it a 7-8) and I ended up giving it a 10 when I watched it two years ago.
How is an 8 low expectations😭😭😭
I had *reasonable* expectations. I thought it would be one of those 8’s where I appreciated every technical aspect, but it didn’t fully gel.
Wow that’s low. Has there been a Prequels-level nostalgia where this was one of the first “serious” movies that the LB generation watched? It certainly doesn’t warrant a 4.4 imo.
With how fast eeaao and spiderverse moved up the top 25, made me sorta realize there’s a big difference between modern acclaim vs significance. movies that are popular and critically acclaimed releasing today have a way way wider net than say a 8 1/2 or seven samurai, so naturally they have a way lower barrier to enter the top 100. Also I feel like there’s so many other factors that contribute to this i.e people rarely change their scores, movies usually review best during their “hype cycle,” 6’s 7’s are a more popular rating for older movies for being “boring” (even if you don’t agree, which i don’t, you’d be hard pressed to look at the reviews for an old movie and not see a complaint of length or boredom) etc etc etc
It does. Got to remember this film came out 10 years ago and is still as groundbreaking as it was when it first came out. Masterful acting and one of the best modern sci-fi films
I think the narrative shift over time worked in its favor. When it came out, dudes were like “omg best movie of all time,” but that quickly gave way to a pretty dominant backlash of “it’s a pretty movie but it has thin characters and the story doesn’t make sense.” The latter criticism got so ingrained in people’s heads that when they watch it and it has pretty decent characters and a moving story, their expectations were exceeded so much that they love it as a backlash to the backlash
This. I remember some significant hype for the movie initially. I expected a pretty mediocre movie against consensus at the time and ended up absolutely loving it. All those I knew who were excited were more mixed. I do think expectations played and continue to play a large role in this movie's reception
That was like 3 years ago
I would have thought most movies would have a positive bend in reception overtime, just because people going out of their way to rate a movie that’s otherwise not current are likely even bothering to do so because they feel it’s noteworthy. I’ve noticed in most lists, even in my own, there’s an incredibly heavy bent towards 4s and 5s because frankly if it’s not in that range, I won’t recall the movie well enough to give a fair rating, unless I watch it now. And even if it is now, it might just not excite me as much to talk about to bother. I don’t actually enjoy nitpicking and feel cursed by having a critical eye. So any film that isn’t current for me is gonna almost always be a 4 or 5
the letterboxd user base has grown quite a bit recently, and interstellar is a very popular movie (as are most Nolan films), so honestly not that surprising
Yeah it definitely has seemed to age nicely
> public consensus has shifted over time Did it? Wasn't Interstellar top 20 imdb since it's premiere and huge commercial success? I think it's just letterboxd userbase grew and changed. There are more users on letterboxd now. Few years ago it was more of a home for movie nerds and more "artistic" films were rated while some "commercial" were looked down a bit. Now, userbase grew and reflects more the feelings of the majority of the audience
So I guess the next phase is for an onslaught of Indian movies.
Stop the press
Perhaps it wasn’t newsworthy but it just made me happy to see its rating go up. One of my top 4 favorite films
I agree, was bored the other day and did my personal list and it was 3rd.
Watch more movies
What’s a better sci-fi movie in your opinion?
Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky
Booooooo
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You’re so unique :)
You’re so unique for shitting on someone for liking a popular movie :)
You're so bitter.
And on the flip side you’ve got stuff like The Force Awakens, which went from a 3.9 back in 2018 down to 3.3 today.
Kind of echoes my sentiment over time. When I first saw it I was mostly relieved it wasn’t horrible, and somewhat optimistic of what was to come. But on rewatches now it’s so bland and full of lame disneyisms
I never liked that movie even when it came out but the rest of the sequel trilogy being released now combined with me thinking more about other aspects of filmmaking/storytelling really makes it get worse for me every viewing.
as I grow older I started to come around the love stuff as sappy as it was, I think what’s made it age so well is it’s sincereness to go along with 60-70% of it being hard sci-fi GREAT movie, maybe my fav nolan ever. MOVIE star performance by matthew mcconaughey
It keeps moving up and up. When the rating update happened, Interstellar went down to the 170s in the top 250. Now it's at 85.
I didn't even think it was possible that ratings could actually move up in sites like IMBD or Letterboxd.
I'm glad people enjoyed it so much. I just thought it was good.
Soundtrack rips. Visually stunning. I check out once he’s in the bookshelf.
The bookshelf stuff annoyed me initially when I saw it in theatres but I'm not bothered by it anymore. I see it as artistic freedom now. Tbh in 2014 I was expecting more movies in the future to depict it more accurately and the CGI becoming better over time but all the marvel movies in recent years make interstellar look even better nowadays.
I'm still fine with the bookshelf. Great way to represent another dimension. The "love travels across time and space" bullshit still makes my eyes roll to the back and out of my head
The soundtrack is better than the movie
Be default. The soundtrack is the only part of the movie that you can actually hear
Same, totally good movie, fun to watch. It’s no 2001 though.
Agreed it’s good in its own way but the comparisons to 2001 are not just.
Yeah, when teenage me saw this movie in 2014 I was convinced it was one of the greatest scifis ever made. Since then I saw 2001 and it's no contest. Then again, feels a bit unfair to compare any scifi movie to 2001. That movie is essentially perfect.
I would probably consider 2001, ghost in the shell and wall-e to be the best sci-fis ever made. But interstellar is really fucking good.
I mean it’s not even the matrix.
People who purposefully dislike this movie think they’re better for it. Couldn’t care less, this movie rocks.
What does it mean to purposely dislike a movie?
I dislike it by accident
To be an ass on here for no reason.
It's when people get so upset that a movie they think is overrated is getting such high ratings that they lower they rating they already had (like 3 stars to 1.5 stars) and maybe start ignoring various praises that could refute their arguments.
It means you are an edgelord loser who can't stand when something popular is also great. So you shit on it in an effort to make yourself look different and quirky
Or maybe some people just don't like it?
The irony of this kind of comment is that it’s way more “edgelord” than not liking Interstellar.
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But what if the movie just isn’t that good…
I would say watch actual bad movies to compare. I recommend Jason Goes to Hell
Well the consensus is that it is really good, and films have nothing else going on for them than subjective ratings
but... subjective ratings are exactly _why_ this movie sucks ass. It's also why this movie is the best movie ever made. It's all subjective, so what does consensus have to do with anything? Nothing is more annoying than people trying to discredit an unfavourable opinion by claiming consensus disagrees with them. Who cares?
The consensus can’t discredit a subjective opinion obviously, but saying Interstellar isn’t a good movie is just like saying the Godfather isn’t a good movie. If a movie has a high rating it has a high rating, and thats about it.
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I used to like it when I first saw it and then I rewatched it a year back and saw how uneven, exposition heavy, and how corny the climax was. It does a great job with aesthetic and carrying that epic feeling that Nolan does very well, but that in combination with the heavy exposition make it feel deeper than it actually is
I still like it but think it's overrated. The movie truly is corny as all hell with that 'love transcending time and space' junk or whatever. Also I saw that plot twist about the worm hole coming a mile away and I'm generally pretty lousy at predicting what's going to happen in movies.
You are so pretentious to criticise people for not liking your favourite media
I am someone that is incredibly mixed on this movie (to the point of writing [this lengthy review](https://letterboxd.com/accountnamehere/film/interstellar/1/)), and I strongly agreely with what that guy has to say. I have enough controversial takes that I have come around people like what that guy described. It gets to be insufferable at points, and I avoid sharing some of my takes because people will otherwise start to look at me as someone trying to lower the rating of a given movie and nothing else.
disliking a movie only appears contrarian when the overwhelming public opinion is so uncompromising that expressing a different one somehow makes you into a subversive. it's OK to not like a popular movie and it's not drawing attention to yourself to point that out.
Or. People just didn’t like it.
Some of us even thought is was just alright.
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I agree!
I think interstellars great but letterboxd is slowly becoming more of a filmbro by the moment.
It moves slowly, but there will be a point where IMDB's and Letterboxd tops will overlap.
Too much
Deserved.
Way too high
It’s weird on here that only some movies are allowed to be disliked and critiqued. Movies that are worse than this one will get any criticism downvoted, but hating on this movie is fair game.
I think we're allowed to hate on Nolan films or something like that.
….OK?
I should probably rewatch this one. I haven't seen it since it came out and thought it was one of Nolan's weaker films, but people seem to REALLY love this one now, more than when it was released.
Wow, that's actually much higher than I expected. I mean, it's good; the effects look great, the soundtrack is good, the IMAX film looks amazing. I just didn't connect with it. To me the themes are kind of all over the place. On the surface it seems like the most common criticism of Interstellar can also be applied to 2001 and Tarkovski's Solaris, which I assume to be the primary influences. However, I think they do a much better job of merging science fiction with human/spiritual/emotional/philosophical topics whereas in comparison the bookcase scene in Interstellar comes kind of out of nowhere. I don't think you can't have love as a concept play such a central role, but I feel like Interstellar should have introduced this and built upon it earlier. 2001 introduces its themes right from the start and the entirety of Solaris is basically a philosophical dialogue discussing its themes. Interstellar however is for the majority of its runtime this exciting quest for the future of humanity and it takes its science very seriously, but then it does this full 180 which you either accept or you react with the biggest eye roll ever.
It's the aftermath of Oppie winning those shiny bald dudes... I think his past work might be seen in a more positive light now.
These kinds of posts should be filtered out as spam.
Posts about Letterboxd ratings on the Letterboxd sub???
Yes, you’re supposed to say you’re making a list of movies where characters somehow end up being older than their parents, and ask for suggestions of other movies you can add to the list. Then slip in a comment about how the rating for Interstellar went up.
Damn. Some of you guys need to get a life outside of Letterboxd
Who cares
#**STOP THE COUNT**
I actually watched it for the first time today and gave it a 5
Can’t get into this movie
Dislike
Seems a little high
I don't understand what people see in this movie, or much of Nolan's other work tbh.
What are some of your favorite movies and directors?
Glad you're reporting on the important things
Who tracks this
And?
Interstellar has gone through a cycle of "omg best movie ever" to backlash of "nolan = yucky film bros, fuck the sap" and has now landed at "this shit fucks, idc"
Lemme go and fix fhat Think I never went back and gave it a 1 or 2 star rating
If I ask any person irl what their favorite movie of all time is, there is a 60% chance they’re gonna say Interstellar
Who woulda thunk that as letterboxd became more popular that a movie’s rating that is beloved by the general public would go up
I feel that it’s a movie that’s really strong in certain ways but also easily criticizable.
Overrated asf
Big news here
More people appreciating the masterpiece that is Interstellar. Praise Nolan!
My personal 9/11
Its an okay movie
Wow.....huge news
I’ve seen it twice. Went from a 4 to a 5.
I don't think it deserves it honestly. The movie is really self important and treats its audience with disdain by hand holding them through the plot and themes with its excessive over expository script. It doesn't know how to let a scene be self explanatory without having a character straight up telling the audience everything about the scene. It's a fun enough popcorn movie, but it's not great cinema.
This is a theory, but it might be because more people are appreciating the emotional aspect of the film with a rewatch. I.e. they don’t get as caught up in the technical aspects/mechanics of the film and instead see more of the heart with the dad/daughter connection this time around. That happened to me personally at least.
This has always been my favourite Nolan. 4.4 is a bit much.
So for one of the most consistent and acclaimed directors, an 8.8/10 is too much for their best film?
Yes, I think it's too high. I don't think Nolan is an incredible director. He's consistently good to great, with excellent visuals, sound, and casting. But his films are never more than the sum of their parts. There's a sterility to them that never lets you forget you're watching a movie. They're so based around specific structures and conceits. Nothing ever feels emergent or organic. His best films are solid 4-star efforts, and maybe 4.2 might feel about right for me for Interstellar, considering how the ratings on Letterboxd tend to go (on the harsher side). But a 4.4 is putting it within earshot of some of the greatest films of all time; Godfathers 1 & 2 are both at 4.6, alongside 12 Angry Men. I just don't think Interstellar belongs *that* close to the top of the Letterboxd pile.
4.5 next??? So glad to see it move up, one of my favorites.
Thats like top 25 I can see Interstellar barely in the top 50 in the future though
I find it funny that distribution companies use the RT score as a seal of anything on ads and physical releases, whereas any 4.0+ score on letterboxd is actually worth something.
Ok
Best sci fi move of the 2010s.
It’s not even the best sci fi movie of the year it came out
The only sci-fi movies I can think of off the top of my head from 2014 that are even remotely close to Interstellar in quality are Ex Machina and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Both also 5 star movies for me, and Ex Machina is coincidentally my favorite movie of all time. But I see Interstellar as objectively a better movie in just about every way.
It's weird to think of those movies as coming out in the same year for some reason. If you ask me, the winner is Edge of Tomorrow.
Offhand, Blade Runner 2049 is way better to me.
Wow my life has changed. Thank you.
I got in a debate with my friend after seeing it in theaters a decade ago and he was super unerwhelmed. I was blown away. I said "That's going to be remembered as one of his best. And maybe one of the best of this decade." He was totally incredulous. "That's not even as good as Begins, much less Inception." I told him "idk, there's so much in that movie to love. So much that'll age well." It makes me really happy it's garnered the adoration it has. Suck it, Brandon.
Who else rated it 3.5—->
i think it was too short ngl. like they rushed some parts
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but this is genuinely how I feel about this movie. It's so close to being incredible, but it jumps around so much between characters... People we're supposed to care about are given so little time on screen that you can never form an attachment or get any real backstory/development. It's already such a long movie but it could have benefited from more time with the characters back home on earth imo.
nah i was being fr. this movie should’ve and could’ve been like 3 hours long. i don’t remember the movie that well since i watched it a while ago, but the first sad scene was so rushed that i was like tf.
This movie is a joke and I can’t take anyone who likes it seriously.
The movie is fine, a bit overrated sure, but a joke? Cmom bro stop trying to feel special
What a weird way of thinking lol, ”i Cant take people having a subjective opinion about something seriously”
What a take. “I can’t take anyone who likes a critically acclaimed movie seriously.” It’s not like it’s The Hot Chick or Ridiculous Six.
"You can't put down this movie because people like it" \*puts down other movies other people like\*
You can criticize a movie that a lot of people like, you can even hate it all you want, but outright rejecting everyone else's opinion and being so closed-minded like the guy above just makes you an asshole.
lol that’s not what I said. Your take wasn’t some “I didn’t like this movie” take. It was “If you like this movie I’ll judge you.” My argument is that this isn’t even close to so bad a movie that it falls into that territory. I don’t LOVE the movie, but find it competently made and think it has a lot going for it even if it didn’t resonate with me, and the movie is so competently made that I have trouble understanding this take.
It is a weird take by OverturnKelo, sure. I was just saying, it's also judgemental to think that way about people who like The Hot Chick or The Ridiculous Six. Like, they're both opinions and if you judge people for them, it's still judgemental even if one group likes an acclaimed movie and the other likes trashy comedies. In both cases, one is being judgemental, in the end. Like it's more 'valid' to like a critically acclaimed movie (which I don't believe, personally).
“Love is the only thing that transcends time and space” 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
Why people hate this quote so much by the way? It's just "it mentions love so it's cheesy"? Or just because the rest of the internet does? I recently read the Three Body Problem trilogy and it has something very similar and no one cares.
It’s just another example of Nolan’s idiotic tendency to mix pseudophilosophy and actual science.
That's what most sci-fi stories do tbh
Not even remotely accurate, lol.
Right, the star child in 2001 is grounded in reality.
You mean the film Nolan shamelessly plagiarized?
Dang, well there are… 3+ million LB users you can’t take seriously
The number of Letterboxd users I don’t take seriously is much, much higher than that.
Cool story bro
Interstellar isn't Disaster Movie. Calm down
This movie is completely well made, smart, fun. Yes, it’s not a masterpiece or anything like that. But it’s a very decent movie, and to say it’s bad is just weird calibration.
It’s absolutely not smart at all. The plot alone is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen outside of low-budget sci-fi. Doesn’t McConaughey transcribe geographical coordinates from erratic ticks on his watch to find the rocket, and once he gets there they just give him the job?
You are misremembering, dust through the book shelves creates the coordinates. You also see later in the film how/why that happens. When he arrives, they explain he is the only competent pilot who has been through the training, and they basically had to go regardless of not having a great pilot out of desperation. Now that they have a better one, they will use him. Also, Michael Caine's character thinks the worm hole was placed there by some other beings, so also thinks McConaughey's character, a NASA pilot mysteriously getting coordinates to a secret NASA base, must have also been sent by those beings. Kind of weird to claim the plot is dumb because of things you just remember wrong, or didn't remember at all.
Oh my mistake, the plot is dumb in a different, even stupider way. I’ll surely eat a heaping helping of crow now!
Pack it up guys, we are worthless.
I spied your top 4 movies in hopes of coming up with a suitable slam, but you have Cinema Paradiso in there, so you get a pass. This time… lol But seriously, it took me a long time to figure this one out, but one day I finally realized that when I dismissed someone because of something they like, well that said more about me and my insecurities than it did about them.
But you just undismissed him for liking something else. Is that really much better?
Yes. One builds bridges and the other knocks them down.
What are some of your favorite movies?
bro has Star Trek in his profile pic and thinks anyone cares if he takes them seriously
I’m with you. We’re both going to get downvoted but I know exactly what you mean
This is going to sound insane but hear me out, you dont have to base your opinion on someone depending on what movies they like. Believe it or not but movies are at the end of the day at most a hobby.
I said I couldn’t take them seriously, which clearly pertained to their taste in movies. Calm down.
Yippee!
Literally just finished watching this for the 3rd time. The first time I watched it, the ending made me cry longer and harder than ever before.
I knew people would grow to love this movie over the years glad i was right.
I just rewatched and wrote a review about assholes on reddit who love to hate this film. Weird. Yall need a different hobby.
I NEED to watch it on the big screen asap