Interstellar
From a three-dimensional black hole to a 4,000 foot tidal wave to a kaleidoscope tesseract, Interstellar embraces the challenge of making the impossible a reality. Interstellar asks a lot of the audience from a believability factor — a dust storm that has all but guaranteed human extinction, astronauts exploring potentially habitable planets by traveling through a black hole, and Cooper witnessing the infinity of time. For any other picture, our skeptical minds would not be willing to break; for any other director, old visual tricks would have sufficed. But Christopher Nolan wanted perfection. He enlisted the aid of astrophysicist and Nobel laureate winner Kip Thorne to help them create the most scientific accurate black hole ever shown onscreen. Nolan’s team built giant miniatures of the Endurance spacecraft so they could capture every detail. Even the sleek, minimalist robots were puppeteered by actor Bill Irwin and rigging machines to not cheat the audience of the personal relationship between Cooper and TARS. All the effects are woven in seamlessly, which makes the production feel like it could be a documentary, rather than science fiction.