Interstellar is my new favourite film.
Pretty much everything positive I have to say has already been said, but I'll just add that I absolutely loved the designs for the robots - seeing such uncompromisingly utilitarian designs realised in a big-budget movie was glorious! And of course they were wonderful as characters (TARS evoked much platonic love from me).
Also, the music. Dear Lord in Heaven, the music! It was Magnificent!
Just listening to this gives me chills (2:40 onwards, or 3:42 if you're impatient and want to skip the build-up).
I enjoyed the experience of watching this film more than any other film that I can remember, and nothing you or anyone else says can take that away from me.
There's a one-shot manga story based on a similar idea, called Hotel. The premise is that humanity has broken the environment beyond repair and the extinction of all life on the planet is inevitable as Earth becomes another Venus. The story follows the AI manager of a megastructure charged with protecting the stored DNA of Earth-based life, as it struggles to endure for countless millenia in a hostile environment. The story, especially the ending, is incredibly heart-wrenching.
Pretty much everything positive I have to say has already been said, but I'll just add that I absolutely loved the designs for the robots - seeing such uncompromisingly utilitarian designs realised in a big-budget movie was glorious! And of course they were wonderful as characters (TARS evoked much platonic love from me).
Also, the music. Dear Lord in Heaven, the music! It was Magnificent!
Just listening to this gives me chills (2:40 onwards, or 3:42 if you're impatient and want to skip the build-up).
I'm serious: it wasn't a very interesting or compelling movie for me- definitely not worth the price of admission for watching in the cinema and arguable if it's worth borrowing as a DVD movie.
I enjoyed the experience of watching this film more than any other film that I can remember, and nothing you or anyone else says can take that away from me.
You know that line makes me want a movie about robots AI's out to save humanity. On the outside they are viewed as the unholy combination of all EVIL AI's in fiction. On the inside it shows the AI's going with desperate bids to save their beloved creators.
There's a one-shot manga story based on a similar idea, called Hotel. The premise is that humanity has broken the environment beyond repair and the extinction of all life on the planet is inevitable as Earth becomes another Venus. The story follows the AI manager of a megastructure charged with protecting the stored DNA of Earth-based life, as it struggles to endure for countless millenia in a hostile environment. The story, especially the ending, is incredibly heart-wrenching.