re: The official Interstellar thread (spoilers)

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That being said, I'm curious to how you'd relate this movie to something like Gravity and how it stacks up. I'm sure you saw that as well.

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The thing is Gravity isn't really sci fi. It's a modern day disaster movie set in space. Gravity's only real goal was to make you feel like you're in space and get your heart beating a million miles an hour, and it has some symbolism about the resilience of life. Gravity is about the experience, not the story or the overall symbolism. I love Gravity, and Cuaron completely succeeded in doing everything he wanted to do with the film, but Interstellar is just on a different plain to really be accurately compared to.

Unlike Gravity, Interstellar isn't designed to make you feel like you're in space, since that would detract from what the movie is trying to say. It's a film with a ton to say, and I think that turned some of the critics off. Just understand that gravity warps time, and I don't think the plot is all as difficult to keep up with as the reviewers would have you believe. Interstellar will be a film watched for decades to come, while people will only go watch Gravity when it's rereleased in February every 5 or so years. Interstellar looks beautiful on the big screen, but I don't think it's completely essential to give you the experience it's trying to give you.