Interstellar

In the film geek world, there’s a lot of jibber-jabber about the 70mm format. Christopher Nolan is one of the filmmakers who has sworn to save film vs. video. So much of the discussion is about the format. But how’s the story? An amalgam of 2001, Contact, and the various time-travel paradoxes, it’s not very original, but it is thought-provoking. The idea of relativity plays into the plot, which makes for some exciting, imaginative hypotheticals. It’s thematically ambitious. But the science of it all keeps an arms length from the emotion. There are some boo-hoo, tissue moments, but they don’t really resonate. So while I can say it’s “cool” I can’t really say I loved it. It’s more format than function, I guess.