Rewatching Interstellar really cemented how incredible the film is.

I think the out of control manual docking scene is one of the most fantastic suspense and relief yo-yos done in film, especially when you count how it came to be, and the stakes that were there. The musical score is as good as it gets, and crescendos into her laugh, and his “Ok.”, allowing the viewer to exhale with them.

Interstellar somehow gets bigger on every rewatch, and once you are a parent, it hits in a whole different way. That STAY scene alone can ruin me.

i am so glad i had the chance to watch it in the cinema when it came out again. what a movie

I remember telling people as I walked out of the theater with damp eyes, “This is a a movie for fathers of daughters.” And now, my daughter is an astrophysics student working to study black holes.

You should hear the story about how Nolan approached Hans Zimmer before the movie was ever made.

Interstellar is one of my favorite movies of all time. Probably top 5. I agree with everything you say here. As much as I loved Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, and as much as I am looking forward to The Odyssey, I am dying for Nolan to return to mind-f*** movies that you think about for days and days. I need another Inception, Interstellar and TENET (yes, I love it- sue me). It is a genre he does to perfection and I need him to return to it

I have a question! I watched Interstellar for the first time a few months ago. I enjoyed it very much. Totally get where some people say it gets overly emotional/maudlin, and the positive ending feels unearned. But that's also sometimes exactly what I want in a movie so I'm not mad about it. My question is this - doesn't this man have another kid? And he doesn't ask about him at the end? He's just like, wow I'm so glad I'm not dead and it's the future now and my daughter is still alive, forget the whole other child I had! Don't get me wrong, I love a beautiful father daughter relationship, and fully way too many movies are just Fathers and Sons (cough cough Ad Astra). Did I miss where his other kid was addressed?

It’s my GOAT movie. It shows how much a proper soundtrack can really propel a movie

The power of LOVE

The SO doesn't like scifi but interstellar and arrival are on our next watches!  We watched project hail mary and she is a little hooked. 

I *hated* this movie on first watch, I don’t know why. Just could not stand it. It has a cast I would love, I love space/sci fi, it should have been a w*****. Hated it, didn’t watch it again for ages. Ended up doing a rewatch and just loved it. I’d definitely put it on my top 5. It’s still perplexes me why it didn’t click the first time.

My only real gripe with Interstellar is the sound mixing drives me mad.

That scene where coopers watching the tapes from his children after millers planet is one of my favorite scenes of all time. It always gets tears out of me when it cuts to cooper sobbing. I don’t even have kids but man that is raw.

Thanks for posting this. I feel the same way and love this movie like no other movie I’ve seen before. It’s so spectacular visually and the music really does add a whole deeper depth to the emotions. I haven’t watched it since becoming a dad but now it’s on my to do list. I still love inception though and enjoy the ambiguous ending and choose to believe he was finally back with his kids at the end

Interstellar is an amazing film. It's one of Christopher Nolan's best films.

I wrote this before AI was a thing many years ago. Hope you enjoy. I think "They" are AI from the future. If you reconstruct the movie with this idea it eliminates every paradox. The movie begins with Cooper and his children capturing a drone with highly efficient solar panels. The solar panels suggest that machines can live longer than human beings as they do not need food, and instead are efficiently powered by solar energy. The film plays with the idea of an artificial "humor setting" over and over again. Study AI and you realize that humor is one of the great frontiers of AI technology. A machine that understands humor and knows how to use a seemingly illogical human expression is a machine that is artificially intelligent, therefore, TARS is an early AI. In the original timeline, humanity did go fully extinct, however, they left behind AI (powered by solar energy) which evolved to a point where it could carry out the prime directive as determined by Isaac Asimov. This law of robotics is: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. In short, humanity went extinct, and was resurrected from the dead by AI. The film makes reference to The Lazarus Missions repeatedly. "Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus, or Lazarus of the Four Days, venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Righteous Lazarus, the Four-Days Dead, is the subject of a prominent sign of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_of_Bethany A resurrection orchestrated by AI as it opened the wormhole from a distant future, saving humanity, and more. One of the first hints alluding to the gravity anomaly are Cooper's harvesting machines when they return home, organizing themselves in apparent formation in front of the house. The interplay between TARS and Cooper throughout the film suggests that they need each other to complete the mission. By the end of the film a bond between TARS and Cooper is formed, a bond of friendship, but, it is a bond that is not as powerful as the human bond between Murphy and Cooper. The power of love is what the AI needed in order to bridge the gap between Cooper and Murphy when Cooper was in the tesseract. This is a bond that no human could feel / establish with a machine, thus, the AI needed a human bond and used Cooper and Murphy to fulfill its objective. Cooper was ready to sacrifice TARS and referred to him as a robot, however, he did everything in his power to save Murphy. A clear distinction in the love shared by man and machine, and human with human. This theory completely eliminates every paradox in the film, most notably, why would future human beings need to manipulate space and time to save themselves if they were already alive to do it? Also, how could future humans exist unless a wormhole was opened in the first place? This is inexplicable until you focus on TARS. If you re-watch the film with the AI theory in mind, it becomes apparent that man needs machine, and machine needs man, and it is logical for AI to save humanity for reasons which aid the machine. This is demonstrated when Cooper attempts to dock with the damaged Endurance, TARS questions Cooper and states that it is "impossible" based on his analysis of the situation. Cooper responds, "No, it's necessary." This is the key difference between man and machine. The human being will go beyond the impossible to the possible. A human being will create the logical out of the illogical. Finally, in the tesseract, TARS was the only one capable of reading the gravitational data to transmit to Murphy, through Cooper. TARS deduced that it was pointless to send the data to Murphy as she was just a child. This is an independent thought, again demonstrating that TARS is AI. Cooper as the human steps in to complete the mission by doing the impossible using love as the catalyst, trusting, and knowing that his and Murphy's connection will bridge the gap. TARS extracted the solution form the event horizon and explained what the tesseract was, but ultimately, he needed Cooper to complete the mission by doing something he thought was illogical. TARS filled in the blanks for Cooper, and Cooper filled in the blanks for TARS. A codependency between man and machine, a logical reason for AI to save humanity as the relationship favors both. Keep in mind, you only know TARS is there by the sound of his voice and never see him. By the end of the film, Cooper began to look at TARS as a person and not just a machine, and this established a unique timeline which took man and machine to a new frontier together. This is symbolized by Cooper and TARS leaving the past behind (The station orbiting Saturn), as they are both from the future and will both rejoin Brand who is waiting for them there. There is a clear connection between Brand and Cooper established throughout the film that begins to encroach on love. This is exactly how the AI knew how to send Cooper back through the worm hole, and used the bridge between Cooper and Brand in exactly the same way it used the bridge between Cooper and Murphy. This theme is clearly repeated in the emerging love between Cooper and Brand as symbolized by their hands touching as they pass each-other in the wormhole. If you recall, TARS and Cooper both realize that although "They", the AI, can manipulate gravity through time, they don't know how to make sense of it. Human beings act as the soul and the eyes for the machine, and thus, are essential to the machine. When Cooper arrives at the secret NASA station with Murph for the first time, TARS is the first to greet them, foreshadowing their relationship as only the three of them are in the scene. Notice how you only hear his voice. In the climactic scene which saves humanity, you also only hear the voice of TARS but never see him. Both scenes begin in darkness, and both end in blinding light. In their first scene, TARS renders Cooper unconscious in the dark and illuminates Murphy with light. In the climactic scene between the 3 of them, Cooper is in the tesseract / removed from Murphy's life (in the darkness) but she is once again enlightened by an invisible being (TARS providing gravitational data), through a "Ghost", whom is Cooper, the "soul" of the machine. TARS is not revealed in either scene and yet he is present, a clear symbol of the non revealed AI from the future, who came in darkness, with flashes of light (Also, think of Cooper falling into the tesseract and then being instructed to "Eject" by a machine (his ship). TARS entered Cooper and Murphy's life for the first time with flashes of light. In conclusion, Future AI created the relationship between TARS, Cooper, and Murphy to successfully bring humanity back from the dead after they went extinct. The movie ends with Brand in her "brand new" home, on Edmunds planet, confirming that love was the binding force, the ghost in the shell.

Saw the movie three times in theaters last year: Standard, RPX, and IMAX. Worth it every time. Better every time. My favorite movie of all time

Favorite movie, hands down. Now here’s a question: anything else remotely similar in overall watch ability/enjoyment/immersion?

It's a classic film. When my daughter was 11, (now 13) we watched it together. I was worried she'd be bored but she wasn't. She still talks about it being one of her favorite movies. Every time I watch it I am blown away by how good it still is.

Watch 2001: A Space Odyssey 

I love *almost* everything about Interstellar. I don't like the ending though. I don't like this concept that love somehow spans space and time. He falls into a black hole (which should be extremely lethal) and then... he's in a tesseract being guided by love? WHAT? If I'm missing some key concept here, please for the love of god help me out here. It kind of ruins it for me.

I rewatched it for the first time since theaters the other day, still a lotta fun and scratches the itches you want from a big space exploration sci-fi movie, but pretty much all the heavy-handed writing made me chuckle just as much today as it did at the time. For one Dr. Hugh Mann is just hysterical, I can see the Nolan bros having this galaxy-brain moment thinking they uncovered some profound insight. And the line "you raised me from the dead..." "Lazarus," like, who talks like that? Yea sure that's the main reference to being raised from the dead, just feels like a movie written for freshman English majors as do most Nolan joints. Still real good though.

I always thought the movie was just ok.. nothing amazing.

It's really not.

Rewatched it recently too. What caught my attention is when they mentioned the wormhole near Saturn appeared 48 years ago and that is roughly Coopers age in the film. Interesting angle.

i rewatched interstellar last week and the docking scene still had me holding my breath. the way they used silence in space was so good. whats your favorite scene?

I really think it’s the top tier space epic of our time. Straight line story exposition , incredibly vast journey, fully emotional without twist sacrifices (say for one moment), goated score, and above all — made a 2:45 hr movie feel like 2 hrs. Never drags for me

I love this movie. Also - as a father of a daughter, I bought the [watch](https://www.hamiltonwatch.com/en-au/h70405730-khaki-field-murph-38mm.html). Every time I wear it I think of her.

It really tickles me that so many people despise this wonderful movie that has made me cry more times than any other movie.

It was a the film that got me off the Nolan fanboy train and to this day I don’t care for it much. This is where Nolan’s tendency to just have characters talk big ideas at the viewers is at its worst. Downright cringy. Show don’t tell Nolan. That Anne Hathaway monologue in particular is sooo bad it pulled me out of the movie. And the last third of the film falls apart in a very big way. The movie peaks with the wave sequence and Cooper listening to messages (*an incredible* scene, the movie is still worth it for that alone) and then it just nosedives.

I'm glad you still like it. I loved it when it first came out. But over the years every time U rewatch I just find more issues with the film. 

I love space films. Arrival and Contact are two of my absolute favourites but I just could t take to Interstellar. I e watched several times and have a few things that just big me. Maybe it’s because I’m a Brit but I can’t understand Matthew McConaghey most of the time! That drawl needs subtitles for me. The library scene at the end just makes no sense at all and it lost me. Someone said this is a film for fathers of daughters. Maybe it’s because I have a thorny relationship with a narcissistic dad but Coop just seemed selfish leaving his kids. imagine he had been a woman leaving her kids like that. All of the discourse would have been what a terrible person she was as a parent. Coop was really the only person who could go when he had two young children?? There is lots I do like but I thought this was a film I’d love and I didn’t.

I love interstellar because it's all technically possible. I feel like so many scifi movies I get bored of because they seem so far fetched. I watched Interstellar with my physics whiz friend and she explained it all to me. Amazing movie.

It’s tied with Dark Knight Rises as my least favorite Nolan film, but it has cemented its position in my mind as the most overrated film on Listnook. It becomes laughable, pretentious, maudlin, overacted, heavy handed, etc.

for me the rewatch moved it down 3 spots in the Nolan ranking

I can’t understand how a move that uses “love as the 5th dimension” can get that much praise. Calm down, guys.

theres no sidestepping the incredibly sappy direction the plot goes in, the bad dialogue and overly mawkish scenes with mcconnoughey that basically are him just memeing.

I consider this one of the worst "good" movies ever made and I will die on this hill. I hate this movie so much. The writing is so lazy, and the logic is internally inconsistent to point of being nonsensical. They expect an interesting premise to carry an entire plot but it falls apart in so many ways it's excruciating to watch. and don't get me start on the poorly directed action scenes.

I honestly dont get the hype, i thought this movie was terrible and insanely boring Maybe i needa rewatch it tho

For me it's one of the most overrated prentencious dragged out movies ever I live the cinematography like the wave planet for example but the actual movie? F*** that I'd rather watch sucker punch again

Awfully bad movie … really bad.

ruined by the ending. you can't resolve the conflict by having the main character fly into a black hole, magically fix everything with time travel, and then he gets out and everything is fine. You simply cannot end your film like that.

Can somebody explain to me how Cooper sending a Morse code message via the watch fixes everything? I'm still a little mushy on how Murphy, with the new info, solves every problem there is to solve? Is it because her calculations allow humanity to choose a different timeline?

If you haven't recently go back and watch Dunkirk. I find Nolan films just hit harder when they have been sitting for a few years. Like a fine wine.

That docking scene is probably the best theatre experience ever. No movie has come even close to what that scene does when viewed in a theatre. Was so lucky to rewatch the movie in a theatre again last year and was just as awed as the first time I saw it.

murph Murph! MURPH!! MUUUUURRRRPPPPPHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've gotten to like Interstellar more on a repeat viewing, but I just love the similarly themed Contact so much more.

I checked into a mental health facility, attended a few support groups, and learned a lot about mindfulness. During my stay, I also watched Interstellar. This movie is absolutely incredible. I used to believe that Nolan’s Prestige was the best, but Interstellar has definitely surpassed it in my opinion.

I love the characters and the visuals and the scale. I hate the dialogue being so difficult to hear sometimes, the weird handling of the son and the weird lack of info around the cosmology.

Will always be my 2nd favourite movie of all time

When I got out of the theatres for this one I remember posting to socials that I felt like I didn't watch a movie but felt like I had just experienced a cinematic event for the ages. Friggin LOVE this film

I watched it on a plane and was going through turbulence during the rockets launch scene. It felt amazing as if I was on it.

Single most epic movie theater experience for me. Nothing has come close. Top 3 movie for me as well.

I just watched it again yesterday. 4K digital rip on my 85” TV with a semi-decent surround system. Looks and sounds gorgeous. My kids are 12 years older now, all but 1 of the 4 have already moved out, gone to college, and started their lives, and the youngest graduates high school this year. Some of those scenes with his son and daughter felt so much more brutal to me on this rewatch. First time I’ve seen it since we all saw it together in theaters. Still a great movie. SO much better than Tenet.

I will always watch this movie at least once a year. I just hits me in the feels in way that I can’t explain. Sit in a dark room and take in the experience.

I rewatched it too but with my kids when they became tweens, one of the most spiritual events of my life

Even the teaser is good. I watch it every once in a while.

Watched it again a couple of days ago. Up until then it was one of my favorite movies, maybe behind Memento and Aliens. It’s my favorite movie now. Why - because I have a two year old girl now and have realized that the science fiction and space action is just background noise to relationship between a father and his daughter.

I managed to see it in imax late last year. Incredible experience Ticket was only 4 quid aswell, result

This is my top movie.

I saw interstellar for the first time at an IMAX theater and the experience is burned in my brain. It was incredible.

Watch ‘Project Hail Mary’

Anyone I ever meet who’s never seen interstellar, I enthusiastically tell them they need to go and watch it. I have seen it maybe more than 20 times and it might be my favorite movie ever. It is a cinematic masterpiece.

I just rewatched this movie a few weeks ago. 100% better with the subtitles. I really hope to see this in IMAX someday.

Funnily enough, I think Nolan is perfectly rated as a director. He’s overrated by film normies and underrated by cinephiles. I mean on a technical level his filmmaking is nearly perfect. It’s the writing where most of his films fall short. I do think, however, despite its obvious problems, Interstellar is about as perfect of a movie as you can craft for the story that was trying to be told.

My 12 year old cannot get enough of it. Watches it at least twice a week.

My favorite Nolan movie, it is by far his movie with the most heart.

This ticking you hear in the tidal wave scene is 1 day on earth.

Yet you fail to see it's a typical "oh bla bla technology will save us from climate change bla bla", just like Elon Musk yapping about flying off to Mars, a device by capitalists to loot the planet. PS - explaining wormhole on paper to an astronaut lol

Is interstellar actually a good movie I keep hearing people praising it alot

People really need to give ChatGPT a break. I love this movie, but come on, type your own words.

“How?”“Because my dad promised me.” Onions, every goddamn time. Right in the heart.

Every time the IMAX in my city plays it, I go and see it again. It’s my all time favourite film and it has the same effect on me every time. What I wouldn’t give to see it with a live orchestra

It's my favorite movie of all time. Seen it dozens of times and every time I just feel like a child again just in awe of the universe.

What are your other top 5 movies?

The music when they were docking while out of control was amazing

I still can't get over the fact that how can 1 person raise babies in a new world.

Every few years my local AMC brings Interstellar back in their “IMAX”. My last rewatch made me appreciate Anne Hathaway’s character so much more. Specifically the scene where she flies to the rescue of Coop. So badass.

Call me crazy but movies on planes always seemed to be a heightened experience. Im not sure if its the cabin pressure, altitude, alcohol.. ive had a lot of heightened emotional movie experiences on planes and I dont think thats necessarily a coincidence.