Current IMDB score: 8.8
Directory: Chistopher Nolan
Main Actors you care about: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, Casey Afleck, John Lithgow, Topher Grace
Disclaimer: I'm going to try and not be bias here as the concept of time is highly exciting to me.
Why I liked it:
The Science. Granted there are a few things that aren't correct science-wise but not a huge deal. Anytime a movie can disguise science as entertainment it makes me happy. All the things in the "Side Note" section are super interesting things to think about. Physic in general is super fun to think about. The main goal of any (non-romantic comedy) movie for me is to think about something differently or to think about something new that I haven't though of before. Movies consistently give me that and this movie did that with physics and astronomy.
What stands out:
Music, Matthew McConaughey, and plot. Hanz Zimmer doesn't let me down as he yet again has a wonderful soundtrack. The scene where McConaughey docks with a mostly out of control station is fantastic action in a science movie. It is made so much more intense by Mr. Hanz Zimmer. Matthew McConaughey since True Detective has been killing it and this was no different. Movies that deal with time travel that don't have events change makes we quite happy as I believe that's how time travel would work.
I think they nailed the child actor that played Casey Afleck. Great casting and/or acting there.
What I would change (if anything): Only thing I don't overly like is Matt Damon turning on people. I understand why he would signal them to come to his life to save himself but to try and kill people? Come on! I don't think a doctrine of any science field would try to kill any crew member the furthest away space mission the Earth has ever done. I don't think that was believable and upset me.
I'm giving it an 8.6 because I don't think everyone wants to understand science. Some people in life just want to enjoy the things on Earth and not really care about things outside of Earth since it doesn't affect their daily lives (which is a valid thought).
Least Favorite Line(s): "Murphy's Law: anything that can happen will happen." I don't particular like Murphy's Law as I think there's a better idea. The idea that anything that has a chance of happening will happen given a large enough sample size. That means it's not surprising when some one wins the lottery when there are tons of times the lottery happens, people, and money. It's not surprising that a bird poops on YOUR car when there are a ton of birds, cars, and time. It's not surprising when life exists on Earth when there are ton of planets, time, and suns. As long as life can happen it will happen (given enough time, space, and matter). Now that doesn't mean ANYTHING that CAN happen WILL happen. If only one person buys a lottery ticket once, or if only one bird exists, or if only one solar system exists then it probably won't happen.
Similar Movies/TV Shows: Gravity, Inception because Nolan does the "main plot lines climaxing at same time" thing.
"Side" note: "Time travel" exists. As with most things it's not exactly how you would think it is. Think of time travel as time accelerating or decelerating (relative to Earth's time). We can move forward in time faster relative to Earth. It's called relativity and it's what Einstein discovered in 1923 yet not everyone knows it yet. The faster you move in a spaceship (or in anything) the faster time moves (It's called time dilation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation). So the idea of a "time machine" is really just a fast moving apparatus to make you move faster than people on Earth. The people moving faster than Earth will be moving through time faster so they will be "traveling" through time. Really though time is just moving faster. We haven't come up with a way to move slower through time relative to Earth yet. We don't know what happens in a Black Hole so it's the last place that going backward through time might be possible we think. This movie capitalizes on that thought.
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