re: Interstellar - things you LOVED and HATED about this movie

I enjoyed the effort of the movie. I enjoyed Nolan's attempt to show us a space fantasy movie that was based on possible theories. I LOVED the score. Hans Zimmer is the best in the business by far in my opinion. I enjoyed the story. I thought the acting was great. (Yes, even Matt Damon) I thought the characters were believable in their motivations, and I did feel emotion at the proper moments.

I'm sure most would disagree with me, but I was really disappointed in the special effects. They just seemed empty and flat to me, like I was looking at a picture from a telescope. Everything just felt far away. I thought it had too many close up and side angle shots of the spaceship. It made it seem like they cut corners in the movie to save money. Before people attack me on that, consider Interstellar had a budget of 165 million. That's almost half of what huge budget movies have to work with these days. There are some other nitpicky things that I won't go into.

Overall I enjoyed it, especially after watching it a second time. I think as long as people lower their expectations a little bit, they'll enjoy it as well.