Interstellar

A 3 hour origin story about a bookshelf.

Uninspired casting of Topher Grace as the black hole.

The first movie in Nolan's incredibly accomplished filmography to receive a thumbs down from me. As well as warranting a big fat middle finger, too. I don't particularly mind the sappy message, but I have a huge problem with thought provoking themes being underdeveloped and, ultimately, abandoned. They should have called it The Overambitious, Predictable, Pretentious, and Far From Stellar Mystery of the Morsing Bookcase Ghost. What a letdown! The best thing about it was the design of the robots.

Huge excellent cast. Interesting, intelligent, exciting and engaging story. Great acting and dialog. Wonderful video, music, CGI and SFX. Fun to watch, even though very long. A few awe inspiring moments and if you can accept wormholes is at least somewhat plausible science . But, I didn't like the spooky messages in the dust. A little mushy at the end, but it was good closure to the story. Some flaws, but mostly good.

According to the theory of relativity, that's roughly 21 years of my life I'll never get back.