I'm still trying to decide whether I liked this movie or not.
It was certainly a visual treat, once we got past the visions of Earth As Neo-Dustbowl About To Die and out into space. And as I'd heard, it was certainly chock full 'o homages to "2001," not the least of which is a spaceship-docking scene that really rocked the socks off of "CGI state of the art." I guess my main reservation is that Christopher Nolan seems to have spent the lion's share of the movie trying to inspire in me a profound emotional reaction to the father-daughter story he spent so long developing, and none of that effort succeeded. If I was supposed to be all teary-eyed at the end, I wasn't. If I was supposed to be all inspired, I wasn't. And I can't really tell you why yet...I must ponder the film and think about it further and maybe I'll be able to come up with an answer. A minor part of the reason may have been that so many of the actors in the film -- Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, Matt Damon, and others -- seemed to MUMBLE their way through the entire film. I found myself constantly having to look at the subtitles (which for me were in Dutch) to figure out what they were saying. Go figure. The basic black hole plot was pretty intelligent SciFi, with few completely cringeworthy moments, but if I have to make excuses for a SciFi movie that was trying so desperately to grab me emotionally by saying that nothing struck me as terribly awful scientifically, something is just not quite right. I'll keep pondering it and try to come up with some reasons for why I'm as underwhelmed as I am... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePbKGoIGAXY
