History YMMV / Interstellar

** It's worth noting that the film portrays all of these horrendously bad decisions as horrendously bad decisions.

** Ellen Burstyn plays the [[spoiler: now elderly child of a parent who stayed young]]. She'd also do something similar in ''Film/TheAgeOfAdaline''.

* WhatAnIdiot: While the crew is on Miller's planet, Amelia insists on trying to retrieve the data log, despite Cooper warning her that the next wave was coming - ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9wewOCMzgs which she could plainly see.]]'' Making her indirectly responsible for [[spoiler: Doyle's death, since he sent CASE to save her and [[HeroicSacrifice had to manually override the controls to the shuttle doors]], mere seconds before being swept away. Even worse, it was AllForNothing anyway, because the giant, mountain-sized Tsunami should have immediately clued her in the planet was not a viable option for habitation, and due to the YearOutsideHourInside nature of the time dilation on the planet, the data they retrieved was completely useless anyway, as the probe had only been operating for less than an hour by the time they retrieved it. Even worse than that, her decision ends up costing them literal ''decades'' on their extremely time-sensitive mission.]]
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* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie contains many examination of the ethics and biological drives of survival instinct versus altruism... then at the end, the story comes down to ThePowerOfLove just to make it clear that altruism is good. Also AntiIntellectualism is bad, and will destroy potential means to save lives (anything from one person up to ''the whole of humanity'').

* 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.

** Hans Zimmer's score: a moving symphony that meshes well with the film, or a bombastic, intrusive cacophony? And via that extension, the sound design even earned a divided response: Either those who felt the movie had zero issues and could hear everything fine or obnoxiously overloud to the point of drowning out important dialogue.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie contains many examination of the ethics and biological drives of survival instinct versus altruism... then at the end, the story comes down to ThePowerOfLove just to make it clear that altruism is good. Also AntiIntellectualism is bad, and will destroy potential means to save lives (anything from one person up to ''the whole of humanity''). Then again, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* HarsherInHindsight: [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic "All right, gang, let's mask up."]]

* WhatAnIdiot: While the crew is on Miller's planet, Amelia insists on trying to retrieve the data log, despite Cooper warning her that the next wave was coming - ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9wewOCMzgs which she could plainly see.]]'' Making her indirectly responsible for [[spoiler: Doyle's death, since he sent CASE to save her and [[HeroicSacrifice had to manually override the controls to the shuttle doors]], mere seconds before being swept away]].

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The film turned out to be very, very popular in Korea, surpassing the record numbers made by Warner Bros' ''Film/PacificRim'' and staying at number one for three weeks in a row. Business in China has also been good, with its opening weekend there surpassing the opening weekends of Nolan's previous films.

** [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-little-maneuvers-gonna-cost-us-51-years "This little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years."]]

** They all keep getting older, I stay the same age.

** [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/1-hour-here-is-7-years-on-earth One hour on this planet is seven years on Earth]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie contains many examination of the ethics and biological drives of survival instinct versus altruism... then at the end, the story comes down to ThePowerOfLove just to make it clear that altruism is good. Also AntiIntellectualism is bad -- very, ''very'' bad (as in "potential means to save lives (anything from one person up to ''the whole of humanity'') removed because of it" bad). Then again, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped. Especially in these times.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie contains many examination of the ethics and biological drives of survival instinct versus altruism... then at the end, the story comes down to ThePowerOfLove just to make it clear that altruism is good. Also AntiIntellectualism is bad -- very, ''very'' bad (as in "potential means to save lives (anything from one person up to ''the whole of humanity'') removed because of it" bad). Then again, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* AccidentalAesop: Humanity being threatened with extinction due to a global blight sounds like an argument for disease-resistant [=GMOs=] and against [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_saving#Legality corporate control of genetic diversity]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie contains many examination of the ethics and biological drives of survival instinct versus altruism... then at the end, the story comes down to ThePowerOfLove just to make it clear that altruism is good. Also AntiIntellectualism is bad -- very, ''very'' bad (as in "potential means to save lives (anything from one person up to ''the whole of humanity'') removed because of it" bad).

* 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 a brief dip in the public opinion of his actor [[spoiler:Matt Damon]] following a discussion he made regarding the fallout of the Hollywood sexual abuse scandal in 2017.

* FriendlyFandoms: Despite being rivals at the [[DuelingMovies box office]], there's been some friendly interaction between the film's fans and the ''Disney/BigHero6'' fandom due to their respectively popular [[RobotBuddy Robot Buddies]]. There's even [[https://38.media.tumblr.com/1305d6c4710f8de9c5e074c74266e10c/tumblr_ner0dgVL231rm30moo1_1280.jpg fan]] [[https://38.media.tumblr.com/580f0bdd9ad6ebe6673c8d15edc49f2b/tumblr_nf13z6r61T1rz034to1_1280.jpg art]] of TARS and Baymax interacting with each other! We also have [[http://gomigomipomi.tumblr.com/post/105085642646/two-kid-geniuses-from-the-two-recent-movies-ive this.]]

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Possibly Cooper in the end sequence. [[spoiler: He never asks about his other child, or even displays any kind of angst about Tom not being there too. He also leaves the station without bothering to even get to know his descendants]]. The novelization mitigates this: [[spoiler:Cooper learns that Tom died almost two decades prior to his arrival at the station. Furthermore, he's clearly shown thinking about Brand often and knows she'll need help with starting the Plan B project on Edmunds's planet, and he learns that no one from any of the Plan A stations has gone to help her, making it more understandable why he'd want to find her as soon as possible.

* {{HSQ}}: Several scenes, like the wormhole and Miller's planet,deliver this trope in spades.

** Professor Brand's entire explanation about how "Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." In a movie advertised as Hard ScifI, having a character spout an inspirational New Age line made the viewing audience groan.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The movie contains many examination of the ethics and biological drives of survival instinct versus altruism... then at the end [[spoiler: the story comes down to ThePowerOfLove just to make it clear that altruism is good.]] Also AntiIntellectualism is bad -- very, ''very'' bad (as in "potential means to save lives (anything from one person up to ''the whole of humanity'') removed because of it" bad).

** The Dr Mann portion of the film. Some loved it and felt it added another layer to the story - namely by showing how [[spoiler: a perfectly normal NiceGuy could be driven to madness by his hopeless situation]]. Others felt it added nothing to the film, since the main plot essentially gets [[TrappedByMountainLions put on hold, dragging the running time out even longer]].

** Out of the human characters, Murphy is emerging to be quite popular.
* EndingFatigue: [[spoiler: After Murphy solves the equation, the film still drags on for another fifteen minutes with the denouement - establishing the new space station, Cooper's reunion with Murph on her deathbed and his eventual decision to fly off to find Brand]].

* 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 a brief dip in the public opinion of his actor [[spoiler: Matt Damon]] following a discussion he made regarding the fallout of the Hollywood sexual abuse scandal in 2017.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dr. Mann]] crosses it when he attempts to kill [[spoiler:Cooper]] and when he outright kills [[spoiler:Romily with a bomb]].

** [[spoiler: A lot of Dr. Mann's Villainous Breakdown, especially his monologue getting cut short by exploding.]]
** [[spoiler:In the Tesseract with Cooper screaming "Mauurffff" at his daughter was pretty Narmy]].

** [[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/didn't want to die.

%%* RomanticPlotTumor: Murph and Getty.
* TheScrappy: Tom, for keeping his family on the farm even after [[spoiler: his first son died from having too much dust in his lungs]], punching out a ''doctor'' for telling him his family will die if they stay, and just holding the ConflictBall in general for the events of the Earth plot.

** The sequence on Miller's planet, particularly the race to escape the [[spoiler:GiantWallOfWateryDoom]], is among the film's most iconic (and intense) scenes.
** 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]].

* SpiritualLicensee: Of the works of Creator/ArthurCClarke in general and ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' in particular. Monolith-shaped robots, various shots of rotating spaceships and space stations docking, and [[spoiler: the main character being put through a visual mind screw]] along with [[Literature/TheSongsOfDistantEarth fertilized eggs being sent to start a new colony away from a dying earth]] and [[Literature/RendezvousWithRama the enormous cylindrical space station]].

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Cooper in the end sequence. [[spoiler: He never asks about his other child, or even displays any kind of angst about Tom not being there too. He also leaves the station without bothering to even get to know his descendants]].

* JerkassWoobie: Mann. Holy hell. While he ''did'' kill Romily with a bomb and also tried to kill Cooper he was clearly desperate to go home after being stranded on a frozen planet for god knows how long only to die himself.

%%* JerkassWoobie: Mann. Holy hell. (CONTEXT NEEDED)

* JerkassWoobie: Mann. Holy hell.