Best Film of the Year...BUT

Rating: 10/10 (13 December 2014)

This movie was incredible. Absolutely heart-wrenching. Beautiful in every single way; cinematography, script, plot, etc. Amazing actors, amazing cast. I LOVE Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain. I don't really like Michael Caine but whatever. I do think Jessica Chastain is one of the best actresses of our time.
I do think this movie could have explained a little more, though, because my lack of knowledge about what was going on sometimes threw me off. Maybe I was just searching for some kind of legitimate scientific explanation for what was going on, but they kept on saying it was all from "gravity" and an "anomaly" and that didn't totally get through to me.
Also, I get an inkling that they might have done that, and added the super sensationalist sentimentality towards the end, to get through to kids and families. Like, they really wanted people to feel something, and it worked, but at the same time it felt a little silly. Like the ending was a little odd; Cooper and Murphy meeting and Murphy is old and Cooper is young. It just felt weird. But all in all, that was overshadowed by how beautiful and well-done the movie was.
The cinematography was just incredible. It had my heart racing from the very beginning. I had been watching and re-watching the trailers for this movie over and over and over, and they just had me in tears. I am such a sucker for epic dramas and lovey-dovey stuff. The sequence when Cooper was watching his kids videos after he had been stuck on the planet for all those years killed me. How he just sat there and sobbed and the lights just flashed over his face while the sound of his kids voices played. That was just incredible. Definitely one of the best moments of the movie.
The scenes on the first planet were crazy. Extremely believable. This was SUCH a huge distinction for me. I think any other director would think to make the planet either really violent and scary or just ridiculously detailed, but the fact that this planet was just one huge ocean consisting of one single wave was perfect. Less is so much more. For the second planet, too. Really incredible. I'm so happy they weren't filled with aliens or whatever.
Also the scene towards the end when Cooper was trying to contact Murphy through the bookshelves really stuck with me. The whole concept of that was actually pretty terrifying, and at first when I didn't know what it was, it freaked me out. It gave off that perfectly disturbing- uncomfortable feeling just like (I'm sorry, I have to) 2001: A Space Odyssey. I think it was really well-done. The scene where they were traveling through the wormhole, too: incredible. Just like how I imagined traveling through a wormhole would be like. Super freaky, uncomfortable, like a roller coaster ride through the unknown.
Anyway, so yes. I really loved this movie. I'm a sucker for emotional stuff. It's a great story. It's really full of heart-wrenching things, beautiful things, and scary things. You will love it.