History YMMV / Interstellar

* 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 was also good, with its opening weekend there surpassing the opening weekends of Nolan's previous films.

** Despite being brought to attention in school, Murphy wasn't in trouble for believing the Apollo missions were real, she was in trouble for fighting. Rewarding this behavior makes Coop look like a terrible parent.
** Cooper's relationship with Tom. Did he love Tom as much as Murph and just gave Murph more attention due to her younger age, did he genuinely have a deeper connection with Murph due to their similar personalities, did he outright love his daughter more, or was just Tom a straight-up [[TheUnfavorite Unfavorite?]]

* EndingFatigue: [[spoiler:After Murph 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]].

* JerkassWoobie: Mann. 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.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** The robots, TARS and CASE, received a lot of praise, mainly for their unique design and charming personalities. Being a rare aversion of AIIsACrapshoot also helps.
** Out of the human characters, Murph is emerging to be quite popular.

** [[spoiler:The audio of Cooper in the tesseract screaming at his past self]] became a meme template on Website/TikTok applied to situations of people trying to stop their past selves as they're about to make regrettable decisions (ex: watching a shock/screamer video, giving themselves a bad hairdo).

* RetroactiveRecognition: Timothee Chalamet would become far better known three years later for ''Film/CallMeByYourName'', making his performance as young Tom a case of this.

* VindicatedByHistory: Though it was always well received, around the time it came out it was seen as silly and nowhere near the level of works like Creator/ChristopherNolan's own ''Film/{{Inception}}'' and ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Now, nearly ten years after its release, it's far, far more respected than anyone could ever foresee it becoming; it's common to see denizens of sites like Letterboxd and IMDB argue that this film is Nolan's masterpiece, citing elements like its heartfelt emotional moments, stunning visuals and epic soundtrack as standing as a cut above others in his filmography. Even outside those sites, it's common to see it cited as one of the best science fiction films of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, if not of all time.

* 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 both this and a TearJerker. The man just doesn't want to die, but a lot of the things he says and does once he's revealed to have gone off the deep end are pretty creepy.
** Although the ecological aspects of the movie are [[ArtisticLicenseBiology shaky]], the ways in which Earth and society are gradually breaking down, and in which people are trying to keep them going, are strongly reminiscent of previous disasters; as a result, they have a [[RealismInducedHorror emotional weight]] that partially balances out the limitations of the science.
** The waves on Miller's planet, which, courtesy of the same gravitational forces causing the extreme TimeDilation, are so huge that they're initially mistaken for mountains. They killed Miller before the ''Endurance'' reached the planet, and by the time Cooper realises what they are, one has snuck up on the Ranger and is about to turn it into the log flume from hell.

** The movie ends [[spoiler:on an AndTheAdventureContinues note, with Cooper and TARS leaving Cooper Station to go find Brand and CASE, who've begun setting up the Plan B colony on Edmunds' planet and most likely don't even know that Plan A also ended up succeeding. The Plan A stations are at Saturn with the intention to eventually pass through the wormhole, go to Edmunds' planet, and settle there. All of this leaves plenty of room for fanfics about what happened after: what the reunion between Cooper, TARS, Brand, and CASE will be like, how long they'll be there alone (or with Plan B babies) before the rest of humanity arrives, what will happen when they get there]].

* FanficFuel: It's stated that twelve individual Ranger missions were launched to different planets, but only the three involved in the plot sent back positive results. The fates of the other nine astronauts are never explored, aside from a (now-defunct) online text adventure.

** The waves on Miller's planet, which, courtesy of the same gravitational forces causing the extreme TimeDilation, are so huge that they're initially mistaken for mountains. They killed Miller before the ''Endurance'' reached the planet, and by the time Cooper realises what they are, one has snuck up on the ranger and is about to turn it into the log flume from hell.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Even people who didn't like the film have nothing but praise for Mackenzie Foy's performance as young Murphy. Especially amazing considering [[Literature/{{Twilight}} her second most known project]].

** 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.

** Using [[spoiler:the audio of Cooper in the tesseract screaming at his past self]] and applying it to situations of people trying to stop their past selves as they're about to make regrettable decisions (ex: watching a shock/screamer video, giving themselves a bad hairdo).

* SugarWiki/DevelopmentHeaven: Creator/ChristopherNolan was so dedicated to [[MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop the exclusive prominence of cornfields]] to illustrate [[GaiasLament the crappy state of Earth's future]] that the production crew planted and grew 500 whole acres of corn on location rather than do it all with CG. With their location being Calgary, Canada, this was actually a pretty massive risk (the high altitude and northern latitude do not lend themselves to ideal temperature and wind conditions for corn), but by the time of filming, it paid off. Not only did they get humongous cornfields to shoot practically on, they ended up selling the corn as a side gig and actually turned a profit.

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** Using [[spoiler:the audio of Cooper in the tesseract screaming at his past self]] and applying it to situations of people trying to stop their past selves as they're about to make regrettable decisions (ex: watching a shock/screamer video, giving themselves a bad hairdo, etc).

** [[spoiler:A lot of Dr. Mann's VillainousBreakdown, especially his monologue getting cut short by exploding.]]
** [[spoiler:In the tesseract, Cooper screaming "Mauurffff" at his daughter is pretty Narmy]].
** Murph as a name has drawn much laughter from viewers - even if Cooper does explain why he called her that. She was originally a boy in early drafts, explaining this somewhat.

** Cooper returning to the ship and seeing videos from the decades that have passed of his kids becoming adults and all they've been through, including having and losing children of their own. It's often cited as one of the most powerful moments in the film and is the scene that usually gets the [[{{Tearjerker}} biggest response]] in reaction videos.

* IdiotPlot: So you have this blight that's destroying the world's crops. In response, the remaining world governments keep growing the same crops the blight is preying on instead of trying different crops, grow everything outdoors instead of building greenhouses that could be quarantined (which is later shown to work, albeit in the form of spaceships), force the people who might cure the blight to farm instead, and deny one of humanity's most awesome moments in an effort to keep morale up.

** Cooper returning to the ship and seeing videos from the decades that have passed of his kids becoming adults and all they've been through, including having and losing children of their own. It's often cited as one of the most powerful moments in the film and is the scene that usually gets the [[Tearjerker biggest response]] in reaction videos.

* SpiritualAdaptation: This movie is probably the closest we'll ever get to a movie based on the song "[='=]39" by Music/{{Queen}}. Both ''Interstellar'' and "'39" involve Earth facing an ecological crisis, and a group of volunteers leaving Earth to find a new home for humanity. Both stories also have a BittersweetEnding; [[spoiler:though the volunteers in both the movie and the song accomplish their mission, TimeDilation has caused their families on Earth to age far faster than the volunteers themselves.]]

* TrappedByMountainLions: While Murph is trying to solve the equation, she has to first set fire to the cornfield outside the house in order to distract Tom - who has [[ConflictBall suddenly become violent at the very idea of evacuating the farm]].

** Although the ecological aspects of the movie are [[ArtisticLicenseBiology shaky]], the ways in which Earth and society are gradually breaking down, and in which people are trying to keep them going, are strongly reminiscent of previous disasters; as a result, they have an [[AdultFear emotional weight]] that partially balances out the limitations of the science.