I'm a huge cynic and I don't get the hate against the power of love. Of all the things to hate, love isn't one of them. I don't find it to be corny at all.

The issues I have with the film is moreso stuff like Matt Damon's character, who appears mainly to have a late-game antagonistic/villain role when the film desperately needs it at that point. His dialogue (and delivery) is so pathetic and the fight between him and MM is comical. Also, the casting of Damon (who I knew would be in it as I knew he had a secret role) was a bad choice because having someone that famous in that role was very distracting. He comes in so late and exists so briefly that he exists solely as Matt Damon, which is an issue with a film like this. Nolan said that he was influenced by Treasure of Sierra Madre and Damon's character is the clear product of this influence. But it is executed very poorly (except for his actual death scene, which was very well done).

Also, older Tom's whole stick up his ass routine was just unnecessary. In fact, Tom as a whole was just unnecessary outside of that brief montage of confessions where we see him grow up and get the sense of time passing by. And I get the whole point of his wife/kid having bad lungs was to reinforce that time is ticking and everybody is about to die but the film establishes this well enough without having to show this.

Also, I was a big defender of Inception and its exposition because I felt it wasn't as boring as people made it out to be and because I felt much of it is necessary. But I won't be as defensive with this. A lot of Interstellar's exposition is repetitive, distracting, bland, and unnecessary. I get there's a lot of science going on but you don't need to keep repeating it. Say it and if the audience doesn't get it, who the fuck cares just keep going. Also, I think they repeat "I'm your ghost" four times in the film. Once would have been enough. Also, Cooper saying that humans built that 5th dimension/bookshelf was weak. I feel that Nolan was so adamant in saying that there are no aliens or higher power (i.e. God) that he forced that line and purposefully killed any mystery/ambiguity. I think the film actually could have worked a bit better if it was a bit more ambiguous/mysterious and opened up the possibility of aliens/God.

Also, the film's pacing in the beginning is a bit off. It starts slowly and then once they get to NASA, rushes quickly to get space. There's hardly any struggle for Cooper in deciding to leave while he's on Earth. Perhaps that was the aim, as the film wants to focus more on the regret/guilt after the decision has been made.

Also, the black guy doesn't get his due. He's been waiting TWENTY THREE YEARS for them. They fucking need to go into that. Hell, the dude even commented how much it scares him being on the ship knowing that there's just a bunch of space and darkness around him. Damon keeps crying how crappy it was for him waiting alone and I'm like, "the black dude had it worse!" And then he dies for no real good reason except that they needed to kick start that final race sequence (which is so good that I guess I'm willing to overlook how they get there).

Lecter made a comment on FB that the film should had either been shorter or been perhaps even longer and I agree with that. Either cut the unnecessary elements or expand all the elements even more. The film didn't drag for me at all but I don't think it should have been 169min. It could have been 140min and still done its job. Or it could have been 210min and possibly be even more epic and realized and a true masterpiece.

Basically, the film repeats itself a lot when it doesn't need to and then doesn't go deeper in some parts when it should. And it also has some unnecessary/poorly executed characters.

But thematically, I had very little issue with the film. The ensemble casting is strong (Damon being the exception), with MM/Jessica C/child Murph giving stand out performances. The cinematography is beautiful. The set pieces are brilliantly done. The sound mixing is perfect (I don't understand how people can't understand the dialogue. My theater's system was perfect). And the score is one of my favorite of recent years.

How Murph saved the population after finding the gravity equation? I thought saving humans required two parts, having the gravity equation and having a planet to put them on. I thought the last scene with Anne Hathaway just arriving implies her planet wasn't the one that humans had been living on all these decades? Were they basically just living in spaceships for 40-50 years Battlestar Galactica style?

They were at the third planet.

So basically -

- After Brand lands on the planet and confirms it's good, Murph takes the humans there

- Like 40 years pass until Coop reappears, so the planet is now civilized and Brand is old

- Murph is telling Coop to go find Brand again, but the old version of her that hasn't seen him for 40 years

I guess that would make sense though it's a very awkward fit with actually showing us young Brand on the planet and Murph's narration saying "she's just arriving, etc.", which made it sound like the Brand Murph wanted Coop to go find again, was the young and alone one. Why wouldn't they just show us the old version of Brand in the new civilization waiting for him?

Or is the film trying to say that Brand had to fly by the black hole a few hours to get to her planet, meaning in present day, Brand is just arriving on the planet even though in Murph and the humans timeline 40 years have passed? This would require Murph and the humans to have established a civilization on another planet, or in a spaceship for decades

Or does young Brand unknowingly land on the planet Murph got to 40 years ago, despite not having any contact from her or Coop before deciding to go there? Just process of elimination from the other 2 planets and hope for the best?

I thought he was like 120 something when they found MM. Wouldn't then more like 70 years have past.
Also, I'm still curious as to who "built" the library or was that more like some form of something that was not physical but a psychological creation that allowed him to communicate to his daughter.
Finally, Brand I thought was on Edmunds planet and going to settle there. While with the equation solved they could transport to any of the planets they were exploring and determine the best suitable one without actually choosing that 3rd planet.

Am I all wrong on this?