Interstellar (2014) - A Christopher Nolan Film (Movie + Bonus Disc) (2-Disc)

This movie needs no review. Being directed by Christopher Nolan, you know exactly what to expect. There are some who find him over-rated and some who absolutely love everything he does. I belong to the latter category. So if you are one of many who loved the movie, you probably have already bought this blu-ray.The disc released in India is a 2 disc edition. Disc 1 includes the movie and Disc 2 includes the bonus features. The audio-video quality on this disc is excellent. The movie is presented in shifting aspect ratios (2.39:1 and 1.78:1) like the Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises blu-rays to replicate the IMAX experience. The scenes shot in IMAX do look better than the regular scenes. The audio is in DTS-HD MA 5.1. There is no hindi or any indian language audio track or subtitles. Do note that in some scenes, the background music is mixed so loudly that the dialogues cannot be heard. But this was done intentionally by Nolan and is not a fault of the disc. The extras include The Science of Interstellar - a 50 minute documentary, Inside Interstellar - a 1 hour 50 minute long behind the scenes feature which is split into 14 mini features (there is no option to play all together, which is bad) and 4 trailers. All over the world, the similar discs are released, only difference is in the packaging. The US version includes an IMAX film cell, which is not included on the Indian edition. But there is a slipcover.One more thing, the dvd released in India is a single disc version with no bonus features and no shifting aspect ratios. So if you have the necessary equipment to play blu-rays, don't compromise.

I got the normal non-artbook two disc edition from the seller "The paper palette" for Rs295 and i must say this movie is definitely worth more than that! The packaging was adequate. But movie is surely a masterpiece that NEEDS to be owneded as a two-disc blu-ray with its special features. The movie format does change from 16:9 during the epic VFX scenes and 2.4:1 for normal drama scenes. This was intentionally done by Director and producer Christopher Nolan. You can look it up for more info on why so don't worry, there's nothing wrong with the disc formatting or recording. I would definitely suggest you to get the 2 disc version as the special feature disc contains a documentary on the science behind Interstellar voiced by Mathew McConaughey himself and more clips on how the background story, conceptualisation and design of the robots, the space travel, the dust, the eerie space music and more. This gives more insight into the research and effort put into the story and the movie as a whole and you would surely love, especially even more if you're a creative person of any form.

Earth is turning environmentally unihabitable and NASA sends a space probe through a portal near planet saturan which is probably opened by aliens or future human beings 48 years ago for saving present humanity or future humans from inevitable death.Almost every current hot topic of science has been touched but not deeply, like portal to other dimensions and far distances, black holes, time dilation and contraction account.to Einstein's relativity theory at near light speed and near black holes,event horizon,inside black holes, etc. Also human traits emotions love fear etc. Good entertainment. Worth watching.

This is a review for the 2-Disc Digibook Edition. The movie itself is phenomenal, although I didn't completely understand the last 45 minutes.Coming to this 2-Disc Digibook Edition, as the name suggests, it contains:1. two discs, one for the main movie and one for extra content.2. some pages with movie scenes and information.Disc menu: Play, Scenes (split in 20) and Languages (English, German, Spanish).Subtitles: English, German, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, SwedishThe only gripe I have is that not all of the movie is exactly fullscreen. Most of the scenes are shot in 35mm widescreen format and some in IMAX fullscreen format. And when scaled to 1080p the widescreen parts show black bars, which is really annoying and distracting. Please note that this is not a fault in the Blu-ray. The movie was shot this way. Other than that I really enjoyed watching this sci-fi in Blu-ray.

Bad Dvd

Christopher Nolan's latest masterpiece is an absolutely beautiful and powerful achievement. Those not in tune with the movie may find it quite the opposite. "They hate it cause they ain't us." ;)A film that celebrates the true artistic vision of Mr. Nolan with an emotionally powerful story, breath-taking (Oscar Nominated and Won) Visual Effects, fantastic audio, incredible cinematography and the beautiful score by Hans Zimmer. A must have Blu-ray for all movie fans. This is our generations 2001 and it is a classic worth seeing again and again for a long long time.Blu-ray visual quality is truly breath taking, at 1080p you have to experience it yourself. Same plays seamlessly on a Playstation 4 with fantastic audio and video. Blu-ray extras are also very good, going in depth with a behind the scenes look at how they made this wonder.Awesome, prompt and very fast delivery from Amazon Team. Cheers! Happy Customer. :)In short don't miss this epic. You owe it to yourself.

Special Features:On A Separate Blu Ray· The Science of 'Interstellar' (HD 50 min.)· Inside 'Interstellar' (HD, 1 hr. 50 min.)- Plotting an Interstellar Journey- Life on Cooper's Farm- The Dust- TARS and CASE- Cosmic Sounds- The Space Suits- The Endurance- Shooting in Iceland: Miller's Planet/Mann's Planet- The Ranger and the Lander- Miniatures in Space- The Simulation of Zero- Celestial Landmarks- Across All Dimensions and Time- Final Thoughts· Trailers (HD, 9 min.)

TODOS ABSOLUTAMENTE TODOS LOS LARGOMETRAJES DE CHRISTOPHER NOLAN CUENTAN CON ARMAS DE FUEGO. Salvo éste.Arruina-tramas más adelante. No seguir leyendo si no se ha visto la película.A pesar de ser aficionado el cine de Christopher Nolan, sus películas siempre pecan de utilizar armas de fuego para cooptar a los personajes a realizar lo que hacen. Por eso interestelar es tan buena, la motivación de los personajes no tiene que ver por medio de una amenaza individual, cada personaje tiene su motivación y su forma de ver, con el fin último de poder salvar a la humanidad.Interestelar más que hacer un guiño a grandes clásicos de la ciencia ficción, tener efectos especiales espectaculares y físicamente realistas, música inolvidable y ejecutada a la perfección como ya es costumbre de la dupla Zimmer-Nolan, es primeramente la obra maestra de un cineasta que ha alcanzado su madurez.La película toca temas fundamentales sobre la existencia humana, las motivaciones del día a día, la paternidad, el amor, el heroísmo y el sacrificio. Inicia en un futuro no especificado pero situado aproximadamente entre el 2050 y el 2100 en el cual la humanidad ha entrado en una crisis alimentaria global y no es por sobrepoblación. Lentamente construye el ambiente para que el espectador empáticamente se relacione con alguno de los personajes que presenta.Llena de giros e imprevistos la película no para de sorprender. Justo en cuanto se ha comenzado a volver tediosa, algo inesperado y perfectamente justificado sucede que dota de profundidad adicional al filme, en vez de cambiar de sentido, enriquece la narrativa.A todo esto se debe sumar las excelentes actuaciones de ganadores de oscar y de varios nominados, además de caras conocidas ya en el trabajo de Nolan, una preciosa y cuidad cinematografía, la mejor edición sonora que he visto en películas como ésta y un soundtrack que recuerda tanto a los trabajos minimalistas de Phillip Glass como a las épicas sonoridades que genera Zimmer. Todo lo anterior filmado en IMAX, estos agregados hacen que la producción deba ser disfrutada en no menor calidad que en FULL HD y con audio descomprimido como se presenta en un BLU RAY que por sí solo vale el precio que trae.Adicionalmente la caja cuenta con un DVD, material adicional, una copia digital para la computador y un cuadro (filme de celuloide) de una escena de la película, donde se puede corroborar que está grabada originalmente en formato IMAX y convierte una compra común en una pieza de colección.La película satisfacerá a amantes de la ciencia ficción, como a coleccionistas, amantes del suspenso, el existencialismo, la relatividad, amantes de películas épicas y de las películas de acción.No se pueden perder esta obra maestra.

I have seen numerous reviews for this movie. Some are blind praise as if anything Nolan does is from the hand of God, and others are mindless negative criticism from people who didn’t, or more likely couldn’t be bothered to try to, understand the concepts presented. On that basis, and as I have already responded to multiple reviews for this movie, I am writing a review for a movie that already has over one thousand reviews.IF YOU DO NOT LIKE FILMS WHICH LEAVE OPEN ITEMS FOR THE VIEWER TO DEDUCE THEN YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS FILM. This does not mean the film is bad, it means it is not your type of film and giving a one star review with the only explanation being “This movie sucked” only exhibits ignorance. Giving it a low rating because you dislike films in this style and say so is entirely justified and a worthwhile observation for others who may also dislike such types of movies and not want to see them.First everyone needs to understand that this is a movie that is built around a framework and rule set grounded in astrophysics and relativity. Some of the latest theories present in that field are used as the ground work for this movie. Within that framework a story is built. Enough details as to the working of those rules are given to work out what is happening and additional research can only improve that but this is a film that does not lay out full explanations for everything happening as they happen. Some contributing factors are alluded to earlier or later in the film than the event being depicted. Some factors are left to the viewer to hypothesize themselves based on what is said. Just because you do not have a basic understanding of relativity and do not accept the entirely valid scientific explanations given in the film does not make this movie “stupid”. Worm holes and travel through them is an accepted theoretical possibility. The stretching and compression of time under the effects of speed relative to the speed of light and gravity fields is not only accepted but proven. One key item is nobody ever physically goes back in time. Time travel is a physical impossibility.Non-Story Items:Special Effects were excellent. The depictions of the worm hole and black hole were the most accurate ever shown in film to date and based directly on the models created by the physicist attached to the movie. Could they be wrong? Certainly they could but they are at least grounded in the currently widely accepted scientific theories related to such phenomena. The space craft and other hardware related to space exploration all had believable designs and concepts. I am not entirely on board with the design of the robots as the design to me looks fairly inefficient and impractical but not so much so that they detracted from the film.Visual/Cinematography were wonderfully handled. The film is a pleasure to watch with focus regularly where it needs to be and clear.Sound was less than optimal. Between hammering special effects, and a wonderful yet occasionally overpowering score there are incidents of quieter dialog being lost or noticeably hard to hear. Turn it way up to hear the dialog and you better be ready for the walls to rumble when the effects kick in. This is the one real issue I have with the film. It does not keep me from recommending this film to others but it is a valid criticism where post production really missed the mark.Casting and acting were both superb. I accepted every actor in their role and all did a great job.SPOILERS!!! From here on there are SPOILERS!!!Story:Earth is changing. Contrary to the mindless rants of many saying dust storms are destroying the planet that is not the case. Crops being eliminated by blights and the dust storms which ensue are symptoms of the rising nitrogen content in the atmosphere, this is explained and not conjecture. We do know that the human population is a small fraction of what it once was. Armies are gone and it sounds like most nations outside the USA are as well. What population is left that we see is heavily focused on growing as much food as possible. I hypothesize that with the collapse of food crops most of the planet’s human population has died off from starvation after fighting while they could and what remains is incapable of fighting. It is not unreasonable to see the United States, with its enormous farming capacity, the most advanced techniques and equipment to utilize that land, and a geographic location which protects it from direct invasion for that farmland, would fare well (better than others at least) in such a scenario. The government now decides what people will do for them. If the government wants you to be a farmer you become a farmer. “Luxuries” like smart phones, MRI machines, large scale professional sports, meat, and anything not tied to growing food are gone or shunned. As a part of keeping people focused on the “now” and not looking for “new and better” the history of the 20th century has been officially “rewritten” to demonize technological luxuries we can no longer afford. The rationale is obviously that people will not resent being denied something if they are taught that thing is intrinsically evil. A perfect example of this is the government revision of the Apollo program where now even the young teacher believes it was all a government propaganda piece to fool the Russians and make them waste money on the impossible. Another example is Cooper’s truck which is obviously kept running for decades rather than being replaced. People who disagree with this new groupthink are “unpopular” as exemplified by Cooper and his daughter Murph. His son, who wants nothing more than to farm, is a considered a model student.Do to localized fluctuations in gravity noted by Murph and later decoded as binary and Morse code messages Cooper eventually finds the remnants of NASA and learns of the mankind’s impending extinction on Earth. Many reviewers who hate this film take this point to state how much nonsense it was that Cooper was selected for the upcoming mission after surprisingly walking in there. While this is convenient, there is more at work. The upcoming mission involves going through a worm hole leading to promising systems which HAD to have been artificially created. Large, stable worm holes do not just appear naturally. This had to have been created and NASA learned of it through gravitational field manipulations which began appearing right when they really needed to start looking for an escape from Earth. Since NASA knows some entity created this worm hole and guided them to it through gravitational field manipulations when one of the only pilots with experience shows up on their doorstep after having been guided there by the same type of phenomena you are going to assume he was sent there for a reason. NASA is headed by a group of scientists including Professor Brand played by Michael Caine. Professor Brand knows Cooper and explains that there are two plans.Plan A involves solving the physics equations allowing for theoretical manipulation of gravity. This would allow the construction of large space going habitats on Earth’s surface into which the remaining population of Humans could be transported on to another habitable world.Plan B involves transporting an enormous amount of embryos in suspended state to a habitable world. After a couple generations of “hatching” and raising them, as well as those already raised raising more, a colony of viable genetic diversity would exist and humanity could begin anew on its new planet. All of humanity on Earth though would die.Missions, most likely one way missions, were sent through the worm hole years before to the worlds spotted. Those who went were to collect data, if it was promising set off their beacon and go into induced hibernation to wait for pick up. Any scientists sent to planets which were uninhabitable were most likely going to die there… Only three worlds in a single system out of the 10+ explored sent back promising signals. The mission Cooper, Brand (Ann Hathaway playing Brand’s daughter) two other scientists and two AI robots go on the mission on the Endurance to visit the three worlds, asses the conditions present, recover the scientists and return to Earth. By then it is hoped that Professor Brand on Earth will have solved the gravitational calculations and mankind will be preparing to leave for its new home.After making the two year hibernated journey to Saturn, around which the worm hole is orbiting, the crew heads through the worm hole. On the other side they will need to visit three planets, then return home. At this point it is revealed that messages sent from Earth are powerful enough to make it through the worm hole and be received but aside from the signal beacons themselves from the three planets no transmitters on this side of the worm hole have the power to send complete messages back. The crew of Endurance will be spectators to the events on Earth but cannot interact.This is the point where the first story item occurs with which I take minor umbrage with. There are three planets, the closest of which is Miller’s planet. Unfortunately that planet is far enough inside the gravity field of the black hole that one hour of time spent there equals seven years of time passage back on earth and on the Endurance. This was not clear until they came through the worm hole. The crew goes to Miller’s planet first because it is closest and has promising data. This makes no sense. Time is the enemy, not distance. They can hit the further worlds first then catch Miller’s on the way back if it looks promising. That would take 1 – 3 years. Instead they will waste a minimum of 7 years just checking Miller’s world where the astronaut who went there has only been for at most an hour relative time. The purpose of Miller’s planet though is to demonstrate relativity. Due to a mishap it is discovered the planet in uninhabitable and Miller has been dead for years Earth time, perhaps an hour Miller’s planet time. Cooper and Brand survive with the robot they took though the third astronaut dies. They make it back to Endurance, resting outside the gravity field to find twenty three years have passed. The astronaut left on Endurance did some long sleeps in hibernation but is now noticeably older. Keeping position for so many years also burned through too much fuel and resources so they can only reach one planet now and return, not two.Why go to Miller’s planet at this point when it made no sense? They went because it helped the story. Murph on earth aged twenty three more years. She is a grown woman and a gifted physicist working under a much older Professor Brand who took her under his win when Cooper left. She now plays a much bigger part in the story. We get to see the emotion of missing twenty three years of your kids’ lives in a couple of hours. We get to see what another couple of decades on Earth has revealed as conditions grow steadily worse. Choosing Miller’s planet to be first is a plot hole present only to assist the story. It is contradictory to what anyone in this situation would have done. This was a story telling decision to bring home emotional loss, the situation at earth, allow a character to mature, and lastly demonstrate the impact of relativity. I give the filmmakers a pass on this choice although I wish they had found a better way to make these points.There are now two planets left, Mann’s and Edmond’s. Edmond’s data is better although it has stopped transmitting. Mann is still transmitting. They only have fuel for one. Mann’s is chosen as he is still transmitting. For Brand this is heartbreaking as she is in love with Edmond and this is essentially a death sentence for him if he is still alive.Mann’s world is cold and bleak with an inhospitable atmosphere but after awakening Mann (Matt Damon) they learn that the planet is habitable at the lower atmospheres. His robot is in a disassembled pile. He explains it had deteriorated and he had to disassemble it for parts to keep the mission going. While on Mann’s world Professor Brand back on Earth dies of old age. On his death bed he confesses to Murph that there is no solution to the gravity equations. The information needed to resolve the equation is not known and the only place where such information exists is outside normal space time, within a black hole. He kept the fraud going for decades knowing the aforementioned Plan B was the only hope for mankind’s survival. Earth and all on it are doomed. Without the hope of salvation he knew there was no way he would have support for the mission of saving man as a species (Plan B). Murph is crushed and in only her second message to Endurance relays Professor Brand’s passing and then breaks down with the belief that her father went off into space knowingly leaving her there to die. Needless to say Cooper on Endurance is crushed by this news on several fronts. Brand (Hathaway) is shocked as the equation was her father’s life’s work. Mann confirms the truth, saving all of humanity was never considered an option by the inner circle.Cooper prepares to head back to Earth while Brand and the remaining Endurance astronaut remain to set up the “shake and bake” embryo colony with Mann. Cooper and Mann go out to scout on foot. While separated Cooper’s long range transmitter is sabotaged by Mann. Mann explains that this is a dead world. He knew that if he didn’t misrepresent it as hospitable he would die here and he was not ready for that. Obviously he disassembled the robot to keep his secret. He is going to need Endurance to survive and that means Cooper cannot take it back to Earth. In the struggle Cooper is left to die from the atmosphere with a damaged helmet while Mann heads back to base. During Mann’s trek back Cooper regains contact with Brand who takes the lander out to rescue him with one of the robots. They save him but at the same time, while trying to recover the data from Mann’s deactivated robot it explodes killing the astronaut. Mann takes the remaining craft back to Endurance while Brand and Cooper retrieve the remaining robot and race after him.Some people thought the idea of this betrayal and fight was stupid. I think it served a purpose and made sense. Mann was agreed by all to be the best of them. He lead the missions into the wormhole as man’s salvation despite the odds against his personal salvation. What we learned though was that facing the stark reality of death, alone on that dead world when all he had to do was hit that transmitter to tell Earth this planet was habitable for a chance at rescue was too terrifying a prospect. Mann, noblest of all the astronauts, betrayed his principals and that of the entire mission to save himself. He then went on to try to kill another to further his survival when confronted with losing Endurance. Man(n)’s survival instinct is paramount.Mann makes it to orbit but is unable to properly dock with Endurance. He ignores all instructions to the contrary and tries anyway resulting in his death and significant damage to Endurance. Cooper, Brand and the robots manage to dock then plan their next move.Cooper agrees to travel to Edmond’s planet as a last hope for humanity. He realizes Earth and everyone there is doomed. To get there after the additional damage they must slingshot around the black hole using it gravitational pull to accelerate them. They plan to use two of the landing craft as boosters to do so. The first will have the robot TARS in it controlling the burn. It will be dropped away to fall into the black hole once its fuel is exhausted to lighten the load and allow the Endurance to escape. Cooper is in the second craft as the burns must be controlled directly in the craft due to damage throughout Endurance. Cooper then reveals his plans to detach his craft in order for Brand to continue around the black hole and to Edmond’s planet. While in close proximity to the black hole’s gravitational pull 50+ Earth years race in minutes to Brand and Cooper. Right when this scene begins Murph is back on Earth looking around her old room and trying to get her brother’s family to leave.Cooper follows TARS into the black hole. Here is where some speculative science / science fiction happens that some take issue with. We understand now that the tidal forces of the black hole would stretch out and destroy anything dropped into it and surviving such an experience is impossible. Cooper survives entry into the black hole as does the robot TARS where they find themselves in a three dimensional structure apparently created for their benefit. This is called the Tesseract. Certainly this is a stretch but given the rules established in this movie I see it as believable. We already know some entity has significant enough control over the universe to create and maintain a worm hole. It is not a large leap to believe a species which has mastery over gravity would be able to isolate a survivable field of gravity for Cooper within the black hole.The Tesseract is a three dimensional representation of all the time in Murph’s bedroom back on Earth. Every point in time exists there simultaneously. The problem for these extra or fifth dimensional beings is identifying key points in time and conveying information. The Tesseract allows Cooper to “interact” with the past by manipulating gravity in that localized setting. Cooper manages to send Murph Morse code messages through books knocked out of her book case telling him to “Stay” when she was young and he was preparing to leave on the mission. He sends the coordinates that allowed him to find NASA in the dust falling in her room. Earlier in the movie when Cooper flips quarter into the area of the falling dust it does not obey a normal travel path dictated by Earth normal gravity, a clue something was amiss earlier in the film. Eventually he transmits via Morse code the solutions to the missing gravitational equation which could only be deduced by observing the phenomena inside a black hole. Those observations were made by TARS and relayed to Cooper who transmitted them to Murphy via manipulations in the gravitational pull on the automatic watch he Cooper had left for her.At this point many people mistakenly believe Cooper was in the past. Cooper was no more “in” the past than someone is “in” a house while standing outside and looking through the window. Just like standing outside the house Cooper is outside the three dimensional space in which Murph and everyone but TARS resides in. He is a spectator that can only interact using the one media which transcends space and time, GRAVITY. It is similar to being outside the house, trying to communicate through a closed one way window which cannot be opened. The occupant cannot see or touch you but they hear the banging. Cooper was “banging on the window” with gravity. Cooper is needed for this because he is the one who has a connection with Murph. He can find her and the moment in space time where, from the fifth dimension he is currently in, he can send her the information needed. It is during this scene that Cooper theorizes this whole event and place was crafted not by aliens but by humans, far advanced and evolved, who have mastered space, time and gravity to occupy dimensions outside those currently occupied by man.People also cry PARADOX at this point. Cooper should be able to send himself a message in the past to find NASA which is true for beings occupying three dimensional physical space and experiencing time linearly(fourth dimension). Beyond those four dimensions though time is not linear. It has all happened, past future and present. That doesn’t mean you can jump in and out of physical space at different times, it just means you can observe it all happening and something like a paradox doesn’t exist when there is no beginning or end. It sounds like fantasy but it is a viable theory in advanced physics.His work done the Tesseract collapses upon itself and Cooper is flung back into three dimensional space, through the worm hole, and out of it near Saturn. It is now 80 – 90 years after he left Earth. He awakens to find himself in a space station near the worm hole. Humanity has left Earth and is, thanks the mastery of gravity brought about by the now nearly worshipped Murphy Cooper, throughout the solar system. Cooper has a chance to meet his daughter, now an old woman who made the trip out to see him, on her death bed. She has a large family there as well, children and grandchildren. It is a touching scene. Murphy always knew it was her father who sent her the information even if nobody ever believed her. She tells him no parent should see their child die. It is her time to go and her children are there. He should go find Brand on Edmond’s world. Both Cooper and Brand are still in close sync for relative time passage. To Brand she is just getting started on her new world. Cooper takes the robot TARS, “borrows” one of the station’s craft and goes off to find Brand. The movie closes showing Brand burying Edmonds at her newly established base on the world bearing his name. She is breathing the atmosphere so it is obviously habitable.Brand’s experience at Edmond’s world is the other notable plot hole. Murph had the gravity equations 50+ years Earth time BEFORE Brand came out of the effects of the black hole’s gravity well. We know that at the end the station has many craft capable of such a trip. There is absolutely NO WAY that Brand would have arrived at Edmond’s world to not already find people from 20, 30, 40 or 50 years after she entered the time compression effect of the black hole’s gravity well. Humanity has had DECADES to catch up to Brand and her trip to Edmond’s world. It makes no sense that she is there alone. It does though provide a nice touching ending as Cooper races off to find her. This is not as forgivable a sin as the Miller’s world decision since it really wasn’t needed. They could just as easily told Cooper that Brand has arrived and been met at Edmond’s world by the settlers there. So I give this movie one minor mark against it for a corny ending that wasn’t needed, make it an overall score of 98/100 which is nothing to sneeze at.I think this is a fantastic movie. It has been compared to 2001 A Space Odyssey but I think it far surpasses that movie. People who hold up 2001 with its far more confusing an unscientifically supported ending while complaining about Interstellar’s ending do not make much sense in my opinion.Watch this movie and then watch it again. It is absolutely in my list of top ten films.

-----I've added photos to my review showing the Digibook and disc 1+2 language/options....-----I first saw this film in the cinema and I've just received and watched the Digibook Blu-ray - Hurray !Christopher Nolan has been in my movie 'Hall of Fame' for many years, by virtue of his previous efforts, most notably the intriguing 'Memento', the mesmerising 'Insomnia', the spectacular 'Batman Begins', the thought-provoking 'The Prestige', the enthralling 'The Dark Knight' and (most recently) the utterly captivating 'Inception' - which for me tops them all and firmly sits at the top of the pile, alongside Michael Mann's 'Manhunter', as my most favourite film. For me, having already seen it in the cinema, 'Interstellar' is an extremely impressive spectacle which (unusually for a Christopher Nolan film) provoked extreme emotion - I know I have not been the only grown-man to 'blub' as the movie reached it's climax....If the storyline is fully-appreciated your eyes will ache due to the often tremendous visuals, your ears resonate due to the incredible soundtrack (sound-effects and a powerful Hans Zimmer score) BUT, perhaps more significantly, your mind will slowly get scrambled with the combination of (a la 'Inception') brain-boggling 'concepts' and (towards the end) that heavy emotion. and this Blu-ray presentation managed to provoke the same reaction for me, despite a smaller screen and less expansive sound-system - it presents things as good as you could expect in HD (albeit that the potential spectacle is diminished a little due to a smaller screen of course !), with the dts-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack managing to almost equal my previous cinematic experience with lots of rear/subwoofer 'activity'.Like 'Inception', to properly appreciate the convoluted plot this film demands maximum attentiveness - and right from the very start, since as he (first ?) did in his previous film Nolan has included an opening sequence which is likely to be forgotten but is HUGELY significant nonetheless. and so I must state that I do not aim to cover the plot much since, VERY quickly, it is revelationary and hence makes spoiling things for first-time viewers too likely; BUT, since it is at the start I can mention that opening sequence as it hints at what is to follow....I should also mention that many reviews, including the often too-lauded contributory 'encyclopaedia-type' website beginning with a 'W', manage to fail to mention this opening scene (or omit bits from their description of it) which perhaps shows that the significance of it has been 'missed'.... We first see a series of 'talking heads' interviews with individual aged people, who discuss certain events which pertain to what follows - CRUCIALLY however, those interview clips have interspersed amongst them a series of clips of piloted space flight which are just as significant.*** Remember the beginning as you continue to watch and things may be clearer and without repeat viewing !!! What follows is an introductory-type set of scenes so we are familiarised further (and more specifically) with the era, present 'predicament' and the significant characters - before the story rapidly progresses as the influential plotlines are 'injected' into it.and that's it from me on the story I'm afraid, spaceflight is obviously a huge theme of the film as hinted at by the title and many images easily seen on product packaging - but any further explanation is too fraught with spoilers ! What extra I can say is that there are fewer fast-paced action sequences as in 'Inception', but perhaps more of the 'concept' discussion/explanation scenes than that previous film - and it is those concepts which, for me, (eventually) justify the 'brain-boggling' aspect of the film.However, unlike 'Inception', whilst I think I've fully understood all those concepts (which are again linked to a theme of 'time'), I remain unhappy about one particular set of scenes which I believe are not necessarily a 'plot hole' but are certainly hard to prove as 'viable' without a LOT of investment in the theory of time 'science' or believability (and yes, I have studied the theories of Einstein !) - I have covered that a bit at the end of this review, after the dashed line, as it contains spoilers... Luckily, despite any reservations, things rattle along at such a pace in this film that small issues can be readily left for later without viewing being spoiled - and as mentioned before, as things progress a massive emotional element slowly dominates proceedings - which for made the whole experience so memorable. The acting is excellent, the cinematography expansive and the special-effects quite superb and wholly 'realistic'.The other factor which contributes enormously to that experience is, of course, the superb musical soundtrack by (once again) Hans Zimmer. Except this time he composes solo and has produced a score which I think is vastly different from anything he has done before, it being largely 'electronic' - devoid of percussion and brass instrument contribution on which has so often 'majored' in so successfully. For once, the music supports the film more than standing on it's own, with few tracks (I also have the full soundtrack separately) warranting individual listening as they are not as 'dominant' as previous work, EXCEPT for the quite superb track 'No Time for Caution' (used in a space docking scene towards the end of the film) which is also notable for featuring a marvellous church organ 'solo' (not played by Zimmer, despite him often playing keyboards) which demands repeat viewing/listening - LOUD !To mention cast members would also again invite spoilers, but I do not risk that when I state that the lead actor, Matthew McConaughey, has once again proved himself to have few peers (let alone betters), with a performance in which he is clearly fully-immersed to ensure that we are not only captivated by his character but also properly appreciate the storyline and the significant elements within - watch and learn, just like him in 'Dallas Buyers' or the more recent TV series 1 'True Detective'. It is also a delicious coincidence that he also featured in the impressive 'Contact', since this film shares many, many significant traits with it - along with other films such as '2001: A Space Odyssey', '12 Monkeys', 'The Terminator' or 'Millennium' for example....oh, and 'Event Horizon', which must surely have been the source for the paper/pen worm hole explanation scene in this film as it has almost a complete rip-off from it !!! Also, am I the only person to recognise musical 'hooks from Mr Zimmer which resonate with sounds from '2001' and 'Contact' ???My 2-Disc Blu-ray Digibook features a well-reproduced partial element of the larger Nolan 'photo book' about the film (stills, concept artwork etc), with that second disc holding a lot of 'featurettes' (+ the usual promo trailers, no commentary - as usual for Nolan since 'Memento'....) - both held with secure clip-fasteners on the back; there's also a UV watch/download code slip. The Digibook was delivered in cellophane wrapping, so the outer edges are not properly protected for posting..... I've added photos to my review showing the Digibook and disc 1+2 language/options.... Like all previous Nolan films, a first viewing of 'Interstellar' left me hugely impressed but also cerebrally 'drained' - however, unlike his other films this one also produced a massive emotional 'hit' since it has significant sentimental elements (largely courtesy of Matthew McConaughey surely ?) . Whilst I don't think that it can be properly 'reproduced' on a home screen to the same affect as when at the cinema, this Blu-ray does as good a job as can be done and means I can watch it again and again to enjoy as much as I did the first time.----------------------------------------------------------------------------SPOILER-ALERTSPOILER-ALERTThe gravitational 'dust lines' which Cooper decodes to reveal and direct him to the secret NASA facility were placed by him at a 'later' date. Since he only got to that later date by virtue of his subsequent NASA flight a paradox exists ie how could he leave the lines to start the process which eventually gets him to the position of leaving them ???After he arrives there, since the staff at the NASA facility eventually reveal that Cooper is a relied-upon 'hope' to fly the subsequent space mission (due to his past experience) why had they not already contacted him or, at least, greeted with open arms when he got there of his own accord ???END OF SPOILERSEND OF SPOILERS----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Moin,wollte wissen wie der Film rüberkommt mit meiner neuen Sonos Anlage. Hab die 4K UHD Blu Ray in meine Xbox Series X gepackt und los ging's.Film ist toll. Ein Meisterwerk. Die Qualität ist ok. Ich hätte gedacht besser als Streaming aber ich hab keinen unterschied gemerkt. Beim Ton war das mal wieder so, dass die Personen, wenn sie sprechen, viel zu leise sind. Die Action Szenen und Musik dafür zu laut. Hab ich bei den anderen Filmen nicht so gehabt.Alles in allem, toller Film aber Blu Ray 4K lohnt nicht.

I must confess that I've been interested in Interstellar since I saw the teaser trailer for it released towards the end of 2013. I've been interested in space exploration since childhood, a side-effect I suspect of growing up near NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center where the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era were designed and where NASA continues to do work. Also being something of a fan of Nolan's previous films, the idea of him doing a space film was something that seemed irresistible. I'm happy to say that, after two viewings in cinemas and one via the recent home video release, Interstellar is a film not only didn't disappoint but improves with each new viewing with the result being that it could well be the best science fiction film in recent memory.Interstellar is in some respects several films in one, not unlike Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was with the difference being that here the plot's are all connected via the character of Cooper, played by Matthew McConaughey. Cooper is a former pilot and NASA astronaut turned farmer in a world sometime in what seems to be a not too distant future where technological progress has come to a halt, food resources are becoming scarcer thanks to a blight and a disaster not unlike the Dust Bowl of the 1930s which has cause society to revert to a slightly more technological take on the agrarian societies of the past. It's a world filled with what one character calls “a caretaker generation”, something that Cooper ill-fits into.A series of anomalies though, including a “ghost” knocking books off the shelves in the room of Cooper's daughter Murphy (played by young Mackenzie Foy) leads him to a NASA being led in secret by Professor Brand (played by Nolan stalwart Michael Caine). Brand and NASA, having discovered that the blight will eventually lead to humanity's extinction, is preparing to launch an expedition through a mysteriously place wormhole out near Saturn that leads to another galaxy with three potential worlds for humanity to settle. Alongside a group of astronauts including Brand's daughter Amelia (played by Anne Hathaway), Cooper and the viewer launch off on an odyssey that takes them and us to another galaxy. Once there though, Cooper and Amelia must deal with the facts behind the theory of relativity, our own human weaknesses and a surprising turn of events involving the now grown Murph (played by Jessica Chastain) that will determine the future of humanity.Those familiar with Nolan's work may be surprised that the man who brought us perhaps cinema's most successful take on Batman and films like Inception would be interested in taking us out into the realms of interstellar space. Yet the film contains many of the hallmarks of Nolan's films that make it something that only he could make. It certainly has the epic scale we've come to expect from Nolan's recent films such as the Dark Knight Trilogy and Inception as the film takes the viewer from agrarian future Earth to NASA's base, to on board the spacecraft Endurance and to planets in another galaxy as well as showing Nolan's ability to take often difficult ideas and ground them in a reality viewers can understand.Nolan, speaking in the 2011 documentary These Amazing Shadows, talked about liking films that make the audience come back again and again for which he specifically cited Kubrick's 2001 with Interstellar most certainly falls into that category. That's partly because Nolan makes use of one of his favorite storytelling techniques, one that he's used in films throughout his career including Following and Memento: non-linear storytelling. Nolan, along with his co-writer brother Jonathan, grounds the film within the real-life theory of relativity and its implications upon the astronauts during their mission, something that becomes increasingly important as the film progresses. That non-linear storytelling also becomes a strong emotional force late in the film as we see father and daughter, one in space and one on Earth, struggling to overcome difficulties as each tries to carry out their end of the plan to save humanity. Yet where that non-linear plotting comes to the fore with the films ending which, I must confess, left me initially wondering if Doctor Who writer Steven Moffat had taken a pass at the script upon first viewing. All of this has served to confuse some viewers and downright aggravate others as the film raises many questions upon a first viewing. The film though invites viewers, much like 2001 before it, to come back to it again and again in search of answers.Those willing to return to it will find much to appreciate about it. There's the performances from the entire cast for example. I rarely think that a film is perfectly cast but Interstellar is one of those rare occasions where I think that's fair to saw. Nolan's films tend to be well cast affairs anyways but with a cast including McConaughey, Caine, Hathaway and Chastain in major roles with Foy, Casey Affleck, John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn and Matt Damon in supporting roles, it's hard to find a single role miscast here or to imagine anyone else in those parts. McConaughey's performance especially is powerful with it being more than equal to his Oscar winning performance in 2013's Dallas Buyers Club. Mention must also be made of the trio of actresses playing Murph which includes Foy and Chastain as they become the film's emotional anchor to the Earth once Cooper launches out into space.Production wise as well, there's plenty to be impressed by. The film's five Oscar nomination, and sole win, all were for production values and it isn't hard to see why. There's the Oscar winning special effects that, thanks to the input of science consultant Kip Thorne, present us with an as-accurate-as-possible journey through a wormhole as well as distant planets and a trip to that strangest of all phenomenon: a black hole. The special effects also extend to the Endurance spacecraft and the smaller Rangers which must be models and sets because they have a reality and a weight to them as it were, that most CGI I've seen still isn't quite capable of presenting. There's some fantastic production design work covering a wide range of sets and locations which presents us with the most credible depiction of a near-future you're likely to see anytime soon.The icing on the cake though might well be the score from Hans Zimmer, which is the exact opposite of what one has come to expect from him, even from his films with Nolan. Zimmer's Interstellar score sees him taking a minimalist approach more comparable with Phillip Glass' work on the documentaries of Errol Morris than without almost anything else he's done to date. Yet Zimmer's score also can build to incredible moments of emotion and raw musical power as demonstrated by the scene where Cooper leaves home, the music during the sequence on Miller's planet and the sequence that closes the film. That Zimmer's score didn't win is one of the biggest Oscar upsets in recent memoryYet what makes Interstellar stand out from a film like 2001 is its script. 2001, despite some of its big ideas and breath taking visuals, is at times a cold and clinical film where the most human character is the computer HAL. Interstellar definitely has its share of striking visuals and fascinating scientific concepts (explored in much greater depth in The Science Of Interstellar by the films science consultant Kip Thorne) but that's not really what the film is about at an emotional level. The film explores humanity's place not just on this pale blue dot but out in the universe from our potential as a species to that fight or flight reflex that leads some of us to do incredible things and others to commit terrible acts of cowardice (something that makes me think that the name of Matt Damon's character is no accident). Interstellar speaks to what drives us and asks what we are capable of, telling us that (to paraphrase a line from the film's first teaser trailer) our greatest accomplishments are still waiting for us out there somewhere and that, in the words of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas that becomes almost a refrain throughout the film, we should not go gentle into that good night and rage, rage against the dying of the light.For my money, Interstellar is Nolan's best film yet. It's a remarkable piece of film-making filled with strong performances, incredible visuals and a stunning score. Those things though are all just part of what makes the film as good as it is. Unlike so many science fiction films, shows and books out there today the ultimate message of the film is one of hope. It's a stirring and inspiring tale, told in a science fiction context that brings to my mind what the late Carl Sagan, speaking thirty-five years ago in the original Cosmos, said:“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to stars.”Interstellar shows that we can and that we might just do it too.