Interstellar - Every Christopher Nolan Movie Reviewed and Ranked

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We review and rank Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
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[@lancerloco]

It’s official, Tim hates love

[@BruceWayneBrady]

Holy shit Greg 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so glad I clicked on the video instead of the audio today. I love In Review so damn much

[@heroicalx786]

U wanna have an out of body experience, listen to the soundtrack, eyes close, love the score of this movie

[@jesusramones1]

That’s why he killed party mode

[@CoNiCuZn]

The more times I see this movie, the more I dont mind the ending. To me it is all about the amazing journey.

[@dizzydank6]

Shocked that Tim and Nicks perspective weren’t flipped. This movie is a masterpiece of filmmaking. What a force of emotions!

[@MikeHeldTheWorld]

You have to do the plot. That's what makes In Review what it is. That's what makes it unique. There are a million podcasts out there that just review and talk about movies. This is the only one that I know of that goes through the entire plot and discusses everything scene by scene. That's what makes it awesome. Plus it's always hilarious to hear. It's essential to this show.

[@tiagotaparelli]

Wholeheartedly agree.

[@breadboi8747]

Also, it gives the cast an opportunity to comment on specific story beats that they might’ve forgotten about for one reason or another. I definitely prefer this format over others, especially for driving

[@cinepaco7173]

They didnt get into this, but as a filmmaker one of the things that stood out was how they shot with anamorphic lenses everytime they were in the house which warps the image in a circular shape. The house is where the black hole was connected which was foreshadowing it with the visuals. Ending in morph running in the reflection of the circular tire. I dont know... just thought it was cool 🤙

[@DrPayne1125]

Plot would be nice but this spacesuit bit had me dying!!

[@shadowpsyke]

If I'm honest, Greg's joke about Andy reading subtitles by taking a snap shot and then looking back up and processing it while the scene is going on is how I read subtitles lol.

[@Nbz0]

I was not expecting it but this rewatch solidified that this is my favorite Nolan film. Again, I was NOT expecting it but this was my third watch of Interstellar and it is such a tour de force, it hit different on this go round. I loved hoyte van hoytema's cinematography. This is Hoyte's first film with Nolan. I kinda wish I could have seen Hoyte shoot Inception and past Nolan films as I prefer his photography to Pfsiter's. It is a gorgeous film that I believe some judged too soon. Of all his movies this one truly blows my mind as to how they made it. No film is perfect but this movie took a big swing and knocked it out of the park in my opinion. Definitely has the most heart of all of Nolans films imho.

[@mitchg5809]

What happened? Why aren’t they doing plot anymore? That was the best part of these shows

[@YounusNobi]

sometimes its not needed like I think they didn't do it for Memento either

[@troyd3603]

59:00 Can confirm, that is exactly what a dying old British man sounds like lying on a hospital bed. It made me cry like a baby thinking of my grand father

[@CheefChaos]

Remember all the good times, don't let that be your only lasting memory.

[@yasq]

Nick not realising what the joke was at the start, was the cutest old man Nick thing he could do

[@MasterCapp]

When did we decide not to do plots anymore?!?!? That’s what I’m here for! :( PLOOOOOOOOOOT

[@movieace1295]

Why? Watch the film

[@MasterCapp]

MovieAce I do watch the film. But without the plot, Greg doesn’t say much and the review misses a lot of comical beats. Plus, they jump around all over the place and then miss important parts of the movie that they would usually stop to discuss.

[@Woozie87]

@@MasterCapp agreed its kinda just a kinda funny podcast about intertellar... plz guys bring back the plot!

[@Eddyspagetti445]

wheres the plot ?_?

[@joshuamartinez6166]

Can you guys do the plot next time because I think it gives the review structure as well as provide tons of comedy? Thanks :)

[@ds90seph]

Not doing the plot is doing this movie a disservice in my opinion. Also it's the main reason why I enjoy these in review discussions. Can't change it now, but yeah these last 2 aren't what I donate on Patreon for. I'm with Andy. I just can't focus on it without the structure of the plot to back it all up and jog my memory.

[@ItsGregKon]

I remember being stunned by the technical qualities of this movie but ultimately underwhelmed by the story when it came out. This discussion makes me want to revisit it now.

[@The_RedVIII]

Interstellar is by far my favorite Nolan movie. It's the movie I feel most emotionally connected with the characters. The story is great, the visuals are stunning and the score is the best score Hans Zimmer has ever written.

[@EpicKillstreak]

One of my favorite movies of all times, it's perfect : 3

[@Nbz0]

Hoyte van Hoytema shot this movie!! Pfister's last movie with Nolan was Dark Knight Rises. I love Hoyte's photography in this film. Follows it up with astonishing photography in Dunkirk.PS: I miss the plot plot plot plot plot

[@icywinterof88]

I think the potential relationship for Anne Hathaway's and Matthew Mcconaughey's characters is based on the fact that they are the only two surviving people who experienced and went through what they went through you know? So I think the romantic aspect is mostly based off that first and romanticism second.

[@MrPopololo22]

Yes, like they're in their own dimension now.

[@preacherduderox]

The "love" thing is supposed to sound wild and stupid. But the thing here is at the end, Anne got lucky(?) with the planet choice, and it makes you think "what if love WAS quantifiable?"

[@vinnybastos]

I feel like that is just making excuses for a badly written scene. It's THE moment in which the filmmaker tries to drive home the entire point of his movie, and you propose he made it bad on purpose? To me the explanation is simpler: Nolan is a cold, rational filmmaker that decided to hinge his entire movie on an aspect of storytelling he doesn't fully dominates; emotional storytelling. So when he needs to explain why Hathaway is doing something for love and not rationality, it sounds like an android trying to explain Affection for the first time.

[@movieace1295]

@@vinnybastos yeah so cold, I'm not crying through the whole film, so cold, cold, cold, cold

[@Dookie6891]

What they don't bother to extrapolate is that "love" is a word tied to some sort of interpersonal association. In this case, it is quantifiable, but more so because the story is told deterministically. It had a beginning, middle, and end. In the middle she had her monologue shared by not only the other characters but with us the audience. If her monologue had not occurred, there would be no "aha" moment regarding her hypothesis on love. It may not be true, but because she brought it up, it has a possibility of being true (Murphy's Law). Time being one of the main themes of the movie; if you consider life moving deterministically, everything is causal. So in order for "love is quantifiable" to have any significance to us requires us to have such an idea in the first place.

[@XDieKillDieX]

I much prefer when you go through the plot in order. This is all over the place.

[@YounusNobi]

this is so far the longest movie so it probably would be too long to summaries, but for a movie like this it's fun to talk and talk about the fascinating/cool sciences, visuals and plot points

[@saltycsc1358]

I think at one point things got so out of hand with not being able to get through the plot without jumping all over the place, that they just decided to toss it... but I can't speak for the KF crew. : ) I agree and have asked the same question with recent reviews.

[@zap9124]

Please do the plot. It's fun. Any KF member can do it. Thank you.

[@iProvisionals]

Rewatched this in a cinema on Saturday and it hit me just like it did the first time. Some fantastic moments in this and while I do have my gripes with Interstellar it is definitely one of my favourites.

[@tannersgarden]

this movie blows my mind. I forget how many layers it really has so it constantly surprises me with every re watch

[@LordGodfrey]

I personally prefer this movie to Inception, but couldn't really give you a reason why I love it more haha

[@struanrobertson7128]

cinemas in scotland just re-opened so i got to see interstellar in cinema last week, still awesome

[@swilliams409]

I do really enjoy the plot in the In review it feels like that lends it a USP to other reviews. But loved the conversation here. Great chemistry as always and lovely to hear your thoughts. Greg at the beginning was hillerious!! Much love Guys!

[@samwiding]

If you had a problem with the ending (like Tim), look up videos that explain the multiple dimensions. Its important to understand these dimensions exist, but visually interpreting them is up to ones imagination as we are stuck in the third. Nolan's interpretation of these dimensions is genius and may simply be too complex for some but should not demerit it from being considered anything other than a masterpiece.

[@cameronwansley9049]

Just to help clarify Tim & Kevin's understanding of why /space/ is an important factor in altering gravity: The whole reason why /space/ is always mentioned when altering "space & time" is that the entire universe is in motion at all times *as well as* in all /places/. For instance, if I had a time machine & I told it to send me forward 100 years in an attempt to see what the future world is like, when I pop out on the other side there would be no Earth because the planet would have moved many astronomical units away. If I program my time machine to jump forward 100 years *in addition to* moving a predicted amount of distance matching Earth's current trajectory, I would pop out on the other end in the precise location I left. When you apply this to the watch, altering the second-hand's relativistic gravity *in space time* would mean that the specific pocket of spacetime that you altered will always have its own dedicated pocket of gravitational disturbance. When you go a step higher & consider that the gravitational adjustment was made from the 5th dimension where their understanding of spacetime is significantly more advanced than our own, it's feasible that *from that dimension* you would be able to create a localized pocket of spacetime centered around a physical 4th-dimensional object, therein allowing it to have its own special properties that don't fit with our 4th-dimensional understanding of the world. Think of it like attaching a virus to an email in its background functions; That email can go wherever it wants, but it has a special set of rules applied to it forever that will replicate whenever it meets certain criteria. You can also think of it like attaching a geo-tag to a physical object, which then uses multiple unseen sources (GPS satellites, regional time & distance information) to provide data in the background passively that you can access through specific devices. If a 5th-dimensional being experiences *all* of time at once, it stands to reason that they would already know the entire projected life path of where that watch will travel & how it will be interacted with, thus whatever unique gravitational properties they assigned to it could be scheduled to move in spacetime along with the watch with utter precision. In the Interstellar scenario, the gravitational pocket has been assigned to the second-hand through a 5th-dimensional concept that we don't understand but which runs on its own systems nonetheless, so even though it doesn't make sense how it could exist whilst moving through many years & many miles, it still holds true to the idea that the specific /space/ & /time/ properties of the gravitational anomaly have been pre-programmed through some higher-entity algorithm to follow the watch itself across the entirety of spacetime. I'm sure that's not nearly enough layman's speak to truly grasp the concept without talking in-person, but the deeper you dive into this shit the better it gets. Definitely check out Michio Kaku's many astrophysical books, as he beautifully outlines all the stranger concepts in science like just how many dimensions have been theorized (thus far 10 peer-reviewed levels, but as many as 26 have been proposed).

[@Name-oe9ye]

What an Achievement! THIS is why I watch. I'm amazed that you guys were able to talk about Interstellar as if it was a good movie.

[@iRyanSF]

I love and adore this film so much, I had a different reaction when I first saw it but after reading the book "The Science behind Interstellar" by Dr. Kip Thorne and seeing this film multiple times afterwards made me appreciate so much especially for how it's so deep with the science and the commitment behind making sure it's not fictional or fantasy in that regard. This is a very well-made special film that I wish Hollywood would make more films like it and Arrival. Sci-Fi films that are deep in science and in human thoughts and emotions.

[@MumonguGaming]

Listen to the score of this while watching Ellie and Joel in Museum on her birthday

[@MagicSpartan1992]

Does anyone know what video conferencing they use to record the podcast and episodes like these?

[@TaeInfinite]

The best Nolan film.

[@hollowludens5861]

I think you guys should read the first script of Interstellar which was for Steven Spielberg and this script was tighter in my opinion. The script is available online btw.

[@TheJUBJUBbeast]

Just an FYI, Hoyte van Hoytema was the DP for Interstellar and not Wally Pfister as Wally went to direct Transcendence.

[@heres.mrs.m]

1:08:41 Completely agree; would've been lovely for Coop to spend more time with his daughter. I also would've liked him to acknowledge his Son a smidge more. Truly love this film, I don't see it as Nolan's worst that's my view.

[@blairsnyder4717]

Every time I watch it to me the message is that love is powerful and it can travel through time and space. An all time favorite movie

[@MikeSW]

Hot damn the Imax shots look incredible on the 4k disc! Part of me wishes the whole movie was shot like that...

[@TrickyCustomer]

We need a Bane cartoon with nick doing the voice 😂

[@brntchezball9611]

Yes dude

[@CufflinksAndChuckles]

Every time I plan to watch Interstellar, someone always says to me "We should just watch The Martian instead." And so I've never watched Interstellar before. Guess I'll just watch it now and see if my first impression matches their review.

[@kelb0y9o20]

Interstellar > The Martian

[@jf4764]

Kip Thorne has said that the whole thing with him using gravity to manipulate the hand of the watch is theoretically possible.

[@jf4764]

The original draft of the script by Jonathan nolan has the movie end just after he gets the message out and the tesseract starts to fold in on itself and the movie ended with the line, what happens now?

[@preacherduderox]

God, Nick is so right when he says Interstellar is ultimately grounded in reality TO A SUFFICIENT DEGREE up until we need to wonder past what we know in science... but then he's so off when remarking on the Inception bit. It's not that hard for humans to relate and/or be invested in a fantastical story as long as the rules set by the story's world aren't broken. Inception never does that, it only clarifies and gives the rules more depth. When contrasting Inception with Interstellar, you realize the Interstellar's "puzzle" is big, grand, immediate, but also blunt, simple, easy to understand, while Inception's "puzzle" is all in all similar, more complicated, but more rewarding for it. Ranking these two is very difficult. They're both master class films. Inception at the surface level is much grander than a man having to do his job, but it'd riddled with metatextual lessons. Interstellar is space meets father-daughter tale, and it preaches love in the most extreme setting. Whichever move you prefer just speaks to what you value more.

[@mrhipshot]

I loved this In Review! It's so nice to agree with Nick for so much of a movie. I was right there with you man

[@crfstaley]

My favorite film

[@MikeSW]

The cinematography, sound and score in this movie are on point. It's really the first time where it feels like Nolan is *using* his creative tool set more than he is *marveling at it*. The takeoff sequence, the lapsed-time sequence, the sequence with Dr. Mann; it's all so effective at heightening the moment to moment drama with the characters. He's yet to transcend sentimentaility in any of his stories, but he's getting closer and closer to the characters which is what my #1 priority is with most any film. Loved it on opening night and continue to - even after many repeat viewings. 1. Interstellar 2. The Prestige 3. Insomnia 4. Inception 5. Memento 6. The Following

[@elimanator]

I just don’t think Tim understands parts of the movie and he thinks that makes it a bad movie, in this specific review he’s acting so authoritative like his opinion that inception is the better movie is based on fact and not on his opinion. Interstellar to me is one of the best sci-fi movies ever made because it roots itself in 70% realism that makes that 30% movie magic feel so much more believable

[@egshizzle1308]

I love In Review, it's definitely one of my favorite pieces of Kinda Funny content, if not my outright favorite, but it's really not the same without the recaps, the most fun part at least for me has always been experiencing the movie with the kinda funny crew and getting myself hyped to rewatch movies that I love, don't get me wrong I love the discussion here and Nolan movies merit the post-movie conversation more than most but without the plot these last few podcasts just feel sorta scatterbrained

[@rccharger21]

Why can’t I find this Busan Coffee that Greg is so fond of?

[@Mike_L.]

22:28 Ohh Bill Irwin (TARS) was the dad in the Jim Carey How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Weird.

[@saltycsc1358]

Thank you, Andy. Some people do care about the plot. : )

[@ethanbutler8166]

I don’t comment a lot, and I am 8 months late But the point about outer wilds at seven minutes that Andy makes is spot on.

[@jasonc2341]

And so it is. Perfect rankings.

[@scarfacex95]

A Jason Bourne in review would be dope

[@yitoji]

This movie was incredible

[@jordanmiller3535]

I am not a science fiction guy and I absolutely loved this movie. I thought it had a great story, deep themes, and an amazing score

[@movieace1295]

I think the ending is difficult to swallow for a lot of people because it deals with determinism which is the opposite of free will which we HAVE to believe we have in order to function properly, also we live our whole life thinking time is linear but what if time isn't linear and 5th dimensional beings can access to a 5th dimenision. This movie is so cool and perfect!

[@Mike_L.]

6:51 yasss Andy, everyone should play Outer Wilds.

[@jeffthemaverick]

Can you guys do the pirates of the Caribbean movies.. they’re all on Disney+

[@michaelgranger146]

Greg looks like an unlockable SSX Costume 🤣

[@HighOnJalapenos]

Is Wally DP in this? I thought it was someone else and Wally was doing that Depp movie.

[@HighOnJalapenos]

@@darkknight2864 Yeah that's what I thought.

[@adamteeee]

I loved the discussions here and shout out to the whole crew for your patience with Nick 😂 He cuts in on every single point someone is making, goes off on a tangent and then you're all able to then continue your points when he's done. So impressive 😂

[@MattWiles]

This is his best movie after The Dark Knight. It’s phenomenal and also misunderstood by so many.

[@Nbz0]

100% agree. So many factors to love of this film.

[@YourGFsFavoriteBF]

In going back through the Christopher Nolan flicks, and this movie in particular, gets better with each viewing. I still don’t understand why Christopher Nolan, as great as he is, as magic as he is, as unbelievable as he is, struggles with sound mixing. But I love his directing style. Tenet was a banger after I felt disappointed with Dunkirk.

[@markheath14]

I enjoy hearing the plot

[@johnmorris8409]

For me, why I enjoy this movie more than Inception is that I have way more of apersonal emotional connection to what is happening. Nolan is incredible though.

[@Ravelle_]

In Review isn't the same with the PLOT. PLOT.PLOT.PLOT. Please do them again!

[@DanCareaga]

Good to see Che Guevara join KF In Review! Seriously, nice work guys, great discussion.

[@PeedgeMcDuck]

Tim, Cooper never travels back in time. He is outside of time and affects gravity which travels through time.

[@two-socks]

1:47:35 made me spit my water out mid sip. thanks kev dog

[@DanielHodder7]

I think you misunderstood the ending. I don’t think Murphy sent Cooper away because he has a sense of adventure or anything. Matt Damon says when you have someone to love you’ll survive longer to see them again. That’s what Murphy was doing. She knew Cooper was coming back, she says so at the end. I think she was gonna die that day and lived just to see Cooper, but then says “A parent shouldn’t have to see their child die”. Though I do think it’s unrealistic that he wouldn’t want to meet his grandkids and see if his son was still alive.

[@breadboi8747]

Hathaways character is probably dead or a grandma herself by the time Coop reaches her since I’m pretty sure cooper lost an additional 60 or so years in the black hole since he was 120 years old by the end of the movie and he was maybe mid to late 30s at the beginning which means he was in space for 80-90 years. They lost 23 years on millers planet, and maybe like 2-3 years doing everything else in the film so that extra 55 or so years he dilated, Hathaway didn’t.

[@anom6707]

Nick carried this whole video

[@EpicKillstreak]

So finally there is an In Review episode for a movie that I love and randomly it's the one without Gregs plot? Fml man ;(

[@CheefChaos]

They skipped plot on a few already

[@bluemarvel3304]

The watch exerts a gravitational force itself. So he manipulated the gravity of the watch not the gravity around it. Space itself doesn’t have gravity objects in space exert gravitational force Come on Kev this is basic science

[@sharpshotflint123]

Plot?

[@kelb0y9o20]

Greg "you know what I mean" Miller

[@S0mewhat_Damaged]

The end of this got awkward 😂

[@jimsmith8797]

Tim and Kevin damn near ruin this with the dust/watch complaints

[@fabioarapi1043]

Man, why did Tim need to ruin the punchline of the haiku being about Nick. That would have made for a great laugh, sigh

[@paulsabo5777]

I think Dunkirk is easily his best film ever. Really looking forward to next week's episode!

[@Woozie87]

dont, theyre not gonna do the plot

[@Orson_Welp]

Haiku in Review: When the end draws near Love will transcend dimensions Do not go gentle Current Ranking: 1. Interstellar 2. Inception 3. The Prestige 4. Memento 5. Following 6. Insomnia

[@lucasbell3265]

I’ve watched nearly all these in reviews and it annoys me so much when Nick needlessly critiques a film I love (see Inception). Now it comes to a movie I can’t stand and he hasn’t got a bad word to say?! Fuck you Nick, I was counting on you. Still love you guys. Can’t wait for the inevitable Batman in review!

[@jakieboy9995]

Thank you for having a positive discussion about a much maligned film that deserves so much more praise then it got for its science, themes and execution. Love this film so much

[@stephend6439]

If you guys loved the sound track you have to watch this short video on how it was made. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gpCbpWWModx-atk

[@_PatrickStar]

It's probably just my biased love of space, but I loved this movie when I saw it in theaters.

[@Inkadu4You]

Joe Romero you should watch Ad Astra I hate that I missed that in theaters it probably would have been so cool

[@_PatrickStar]

@@Inkadu4You never heard of it, but the trailer looks awesome, I'll definitely check it out. Thanks

[@so0pak5v9n]

Kevin hates the "science with Kevin" song so we dont get it anymore .... twice this video

[@LordGodfrey]

I miss PLOOOOOOOT

[@fireblader1993]

Great stuff. Much prefer the discussion than plot. We’ve just seen the film so don’t need to go over it again.

[@TheCaliforniaHP]

I disagree with Nick's insistence so hard in this one. That library book message just makes no sense in possibility when it did so well before then. Good to know he went to film school. I did too and it explains much in his thinking. Those arguments in film school were good especially as I was often the only person of color

[@Woozie87]

let Nick do the plot from now on plz

[@digitaldocking]

MURPH!!!!

[@PeedgeMcDuck]

Also, nothing is changed in the timeline, it has always and always has to happen that way.

[@CooeeJB]

Not to be the lord of facts but Hoyte Van Hoytema was the cinematographer not Wally Pfister, he went off to direct a terrible sci-fi movie instead.

[@joshuacameron5333]

Who hurt Tim?

[@patrickk719]

"Morris Code"...