Not yet, but I saw your recommendation on twitter and I'm definitely going to go see it. Disproportionate criticism makes me deeply suspicious, so I'm gonna go make up my mind for myself.

edit: is it worth seeing in 3D, or just regular?

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Phi, I knew there was a reason I liked you.

Every trailer I saw made it look like Dune and the SW Prequels had a baby.

Since it's come out, ever review seems to describe a movie that fits that description.

Unless I start seeing some serious turnaround in response, I can't imagine I'll see it in theaters.

I gotta go with Fire on this one. The Wachowski's doing Dune meets Prequel Trilogy, with 2015 VFX techology, sounds like the most amazing acid trip of a movie ever. At that point it moves solidly into Prometheus territory, the story can be shit if it wants, but it's gonna be damn pretty.

Give me all the tickets pls.

I don't agree. Yes, big budget original film-making has been dying a slow-death for the better part of 20 years, and is almost completely non-existent now. Which is exactly why I'd argue it's increasingly more important for the rare movie like this that does get made to be a successful one. It's not a coincidence that Interstellar came out in the same release window that Gravity was a breakout hit in a year before it, and this year The Martian is going to hit at that same time of year. If Gravity was a failure, would The Martian have even been green-lit? Studios look for any excuse to say no to an unsure project.

Guardians of the Galaxy was successful, but it's based on a comic-book. If Jupiter Ascending was awesome and a breakout hit, the narrative might've been that people want to see cool ambitious projects on screen that show them things they haven't seen before. With it bombing, the takeaway for the execs will be that Guardians was only a hit because of the Marvel effect, and they'll just double-down on the comic-book adaptations.

I love the little independent genre flicks as much as anyone, I can't wait to see Ex Machina, but its a bummer if we're basically relegated to seeing those types of movies on VOD, which is increasingly where they are getting released (unless you happen to be in NY or LA).

Is Interstellar going to be the last epic-canvas original sci-fi story? I certainly hope not.