History YMMV / Interstellar

* SignatureScene: Many fans have taken to recreating the scene where [[spoiler: Cooper docks the Lander to the rapidly spinning, damaged Endurance, complete with epic music]] in programs like ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' and ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram''. Especially ''Kerbal Space Program''. Some have even made [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkSkptsyuY sweded]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHzzy6T9to versions]] of the scene]].

* SignatureScene: Many nerds have taken to recreating the scene where [[spoiler: Cooper docks the Lander to the rapidly spinning, damaged Endurance, complete with epic music]] in programs like ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' and ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram''. Especially ''Kerbal Space Program''. Some have even made [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TkSkptsyuY sweded]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHzzy6T9to versions]] of the scene]].

** [[Film/{{TheMartian}} Matt Damon, stranded all alone on another planet? Sounds familiar...]] Not to mention that also features Creator/JessicaChastain.

* HypeBacklash: Due to the immense hype the film attracted, plus the very positive word of mouth on social media sites like Twitter, some felt the film did not live up to its high expectations and that of the pedigree Nolan has.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The plot has been compared to the Music/{{Queen}} song "'39" from ''A Night at the Opera'', coincidentally released 39 years earlier. Music/BrianMay, who wrote the song, holds a [=PhD=] in astrophysics and attended the London premiere.

* HarsherInHindsight: [[spoiler: Dr Mann]] being slowly revealed as a villain - especially as he's implied to have been a NiceGuy who slowly went mad - eerily reflects the decreasing public opinion of his actor [[spoiler: Matt Damon]] in the fallout of the Hollywood sexual abuse scandal in 2017.

** [[spoiler: Mann's breakdown over the length of his mission and FaceHeelTurn]] is both this and a TearJerker. The man just wanted to go back home.

** The robots, TARS and CASE, received a lot of praise, mainly for their unique design and charming personalities.

*** In fact anything regarding TARS' customization.

* MemeticMutation: "MURPH!" is very similar to ''Series/{{Lost}}'''s "WAAAALLLTT!"

* SignatureScene: Many nerds have taken to recreating the scene where [[spoiler: Cooper docks the Lander to the rapidly spinning, damaged Endurance, complete with epic music]] in programs like ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' and ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram''. Especially ''Kerbal Space Program''.

* NightmareFuel: If you have claustrophobia or a fear of isolation, this film will ''not'' be kind to you.
** [[spoiler: Mann's breakdown over the length of his mission and FaceHeelTurn]] is shades of this and a TearJerker. [[spoiler: The man just wanted to go back home.]]

* RealityIsUnrealistic / ArtisticLicenseBiology:
** Some find the concept of the world being depopulated by blight to be improbable. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytophthora_infestans potato blight]] which caused the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) Great Irish Famine]] was present in eastern Britain and Belgium as well, but was nowhere near as dangerous there because the mainland cultivated multiple crops whereas one-third of Ireland had been forced to rely on potatoes through [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws mainland-government policies]]. In comparison, two-thirds of the entire world at present is dependent on wheat, rice, and corn. There are [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_saving#Legality similar current laws]] that force food crops to be more similar than ever before, which means that they can more easily catch each others' diseases and parasites - a cause for concern, given the world's inability to maintain sustenance-level food-production without The Big Three. Indeed, there is an [[http://www.wired.com/2010/02/ff_ug99_fungus/ apocalyptic wheat blight]] ravaging the Third World as of the early 21st century.\\
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Even the "super-blight" capable of "hopping across entire species of crops" is not unprecedented: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria]], the primary source of Earth's oxygen atmosphere, caused a shift in atmospheric content that overturned the previous ecosystem that had been around for about a billion years, making way for the life-forms that now occupy the Earth. There is no reason it could not happen again.\\
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Moreover, not only do fungi such as blights [[https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080430200848AAUJAfd consume oxygen without creating any]], they don't need it to survive. No equilibrium would be reached where lack of oxygen would kill it and stop the process, so theoretically, a blight could wipe out the Earth's atmosphere.
** But that leaves the other one third of the world, the practice of [[IdiotBall continuing to crops that a world-wide superblight has been eating for decades when there are other crops available]] (from seed banks), that Third World wheat blight [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ug99#Gene_resistance being under control already]], non-crop sources of oxygen (such as trees), and so on. Some find the concept of the world being depopulated by blight to be improbable.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:

* RomanticPlotTumor: Murph and Getty.

** [[Film/{{TheMartian}} Matt Damon, stranded all alone on another planet? Sounds familiar...]]

* InferredHolocaust: [[spoiler:You don't think they actually were able to build enough of their starship-things for the entire human race, do you?]]
** [[spoiler: It's possible they were. At the beginning of the film, Cooper's father-in-law makes a comment about him pulling his weight and 'repopulating the human race'. Between the GreatOffscreenWar and likely famine and drought-related to crop failure, and the likelihood that both (nuclear?) war and climate change rendered large portions of the planet uninhabitable, it's conceivable that there aren't all that many humans left and they survive in clusters in the few places where agriculture is still possible. It could also explain the Contrived Coincidence of the secret NASA base being within driving distance of Cooper's farm, if there weren't actually all that many possible places for it to be located and still get supplies.]]

* RomanticPlotTumor: Murph and Getty.

** This is perhaps understandable (and fitting) given that he's now [[spoiler: severely displaced in time, and had described himself as Murphy's ghost, or 'the ghost of his children's future'. His descendants may be related to him, but he's a stranger to them, and with both his children left, what's left of him? The only thing left for a ghost that no longer haunts anybody is to disappear.]]

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Environmentalism is doomed, so you have to push forward with technological development to survive the environmental disasters that will happen anyway.

* AwardSnub: While an omission for a Best Picture nod at the Oscars is understandable (the same thing happened to ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''), no nods for the film's cinematography is fairly baffling.

* AwardSnub: While an omission for a Best Picture nod at the Oscars is understandable (the same thing happened to ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', no nods for the film's cinematography is fairly baffling.

* AwardSnub: While an omission for a Best Picture nod at the Oscars is understandable (the same thing happened to Film\TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey, no nods for the film's cinematography is fairly baffling.

* AwardSnub: While an omission for a Best Picture nod at the Oscars is understandable, no nods for the film's cinematography is fairly baffling.