My brother and I went to see it, and overall, we both didn’t think much of the movie, although there we elements of it that we did enjoy.
I did enjoy the conversation the main character had with the school officials about his child, but they managed to balance that out with dialogue that made it clear the people who wrote the screenplay had liberal points of view on many things.
I didn’t think the acting was all that much better than “Gravity”, and that isn’t a compliment, but the special effects in “Gravity” were VERY good, in my opinion. (One caveat: watching it in 2D was boring...I got the 2D version from the library thinking I could watch it in 3D, but it didn’t have that on the video, only the 2D version, and I re-watched the parts with good special effects, and without those in 3D, you actually started hearing what the actors said and how they said it, and...that was it. Couldn’t watch anymore after that.
On the other hand, I am a sucker for good footage of rocket stages falling away back to earth, and they had a few of those in “Interstellar”.
That was a very brief part of the 3 hour movie. I did not read that as the writers politics at all. Perhaps his are just the opposite.
He portrayed Academia as liberal “know it alls” that were wrong in the movie. The majority of the movie was about the Space travel that the “liberal academia” said was not possible. Remember they used the Moon landings as their proof.
I though Matthew Mcconaughey acting was very good. I agree with you about “Gravity”. That movie was just okay to me. This on the other hand was very good.
The movie over the last half was a bit high brow material. Most people do not understand dimensions, black holes, dark matter, etc... This movie covered that material very well, and I though simplified it?
Anyhow, this blows out Gravity IMO.