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Originally posted by fridayteenage
With that 73% RT score as a sci-fi actioner?
Maybe in the award categories for big-budget genre films, like Visual Effects and Sound Mixing. You know, the categories that even Transformers can score in.
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Not really. Nolan is not Michael Bay. He does not use CGIs to provide explosions and attract dumb heads. In Interstellar, he used his big budget to show people the big and controversial concepts in modern physics like no other movie has done before. Einstein's theory of relativity, traveling towards a worm hole, space-time, traveling near a black hole, event horizon, the singularity, the 5th dimension, etc.
Interstellar is not even an action movie per se. Its tempo is more similar to 2001: Space Odyssey. It's a huge space drama. I dare say it's even more ambitious than Space Odyssey. The only action in the movie was basically a fist fight between Matt Damon and Matthew McC.
It's 73% on RT because this movie was obviously not made for everyone. It's a tough sell. It's at 3 hours with roughly 3 acts - family drama on Earth, space exploration, and the final resolution. It's probably the greatest space movie I've seen in my life.
This year, I've seen two amazing movies - Boyhood and Interstellar. Interestingly they are the two movies who undertook the biggest risks this year.