10 Movies Ruined By Fan Overhype

6. Interstellar

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Christopher Nolan's militant legion of fans admittedly can't help but get ridiculously excited about whatever his next project happens to be, but the hype well and truly reached a fever pitch for Nolan's 2014 sci-fi epic Interstellar.

Following on from Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar was mounted as a return to original sci-fi form for the director, and so fans immediately built the film up as another mind-melting genre outing on the blistering level of Nolan's 2010 masterpiece Inception.

The trailers helped present Interstellar as a production of that caliber, and while it undeniably delivered a mesmerising audio-visual experience, its narrative proved considerably more divisive.

Nolan's ambitious script didn't quite nail the singular creativity of Inception, its more philosophical concepts ultimately failing to land with even some of his most die-hard fans.

Interstellar isn't really that much like Inception at all - it's got far more in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey, really - so fans expecting Inception 2.0 and then complaining when it wasn't really only have themselves to blame.

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