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I don't think it's much like Contact. It's closer to 2001, although it doesn't have the inherent coldness of Kubrick's masterpiece.

Interstellar's a bit of a strange bird, because beyond the great visuals there's some very emotional moments, which is no doubt why I liked it so much. There's a reason that, while I love them both and have dedicated hundreds of hours to the Star Trek universe, I prefer Star Wars (OT...). I just gravitate more toward storytelling than I do science. Neither imagination or fantasy are to me dirty words, I generally don't give a shit if something isn't 100% scientifically accurate (like we could possibly know that for speculative fiction anyway, but that's another topic...) and I usually leave hard science fiction, whether it's books or movies or whatever, feeling like the tech was cool but the story just wasn't very interesting. But that's just me.

I did not feel like that walking out of Interstellar. That is to say that while I do think that the Nolans were striving to be accurate with their science, they just happened to tell what I thought was a good, emotional story. And while I wouldn't put it on par with 2001, as I said last night I thought it was pretty great, and I'm sure I'll see it again, although maybe not this weekend. I want to catch Birdman while I can.