Interstellar

You see I wanted to go into this “rewatch” talking about something like making fun of Timothee or something stupid but instead I ended up loving the film and loving the experience and just having tears in my eyes in awe for the last half hour.  There’s a movie theater about 20 miles from my house that will do really late night screenings for super huge movies on Thursday nights for the preview screenings. And when I say late I mean like 2am late. If I remember correctly they had that for this film as well. Throughout the last hour or so I kept thinking about how it would be to be seeing all of the third act at 4am. The grandiose cinematography. The impeccable sound design. The jaw dropping twists that give sort of a melancholic feel. All these paired with the sleepy feeling you get at 4am in a packed auditorium trying to peace everything together.  Now I didn’t get that experience at home. I had a dog that needed attention and was on my phone to talk to people who were also watching, and I got to realize sort of how cinematic Nolan can really be. I know I couldn’t always keep up with the highbrow science concepts and the jargon spewed by our leads, but it also had huge sci-fi spectacles and strong emotional cores that still let you enjoy the movie without just feeling super pretentious, and also works so much better with a huge crowd of people who were on varying levels of expectations for something like this.  I want to make another note on the sound here, as that is something that has really stood out so far in my Nolan binge (that may be cut short). A lot of people love to make fun of him always using that super low bass-y sound that just symbolizes big, but Hans Zimmer always has a way to use that bass drone and pair it with some sort of theme that will get stuck in your head but also gives it an even bigger emotional impact.  Cinema truly is alive.