For those of you who are planning to see this soon I kinda recommend reading my spoilers otherwise you would probably not be able to follow along with all the craziness...
SO BASICALLY....
The future earth that we live in is so destroyed by pollution and whatnot that all we are concerned about are farming enough food and protection against the destructive sand storms. As a result of this all space ventures are written off as propaganda because the government does not want anyone to spend 'unnecessary money' on things other than food or agriculture.
So Mcconaughey's character Cooper is an astronaut turned farmer raising 2 kids, one of which is the little girl/child prodigy Murphy (who is the only kid that Coop really gives a shit about...).
Murphy claims to be constantly bothered by a 'ghost' in her bedroom as objects are always being moved. From the 'ghost's movements Coop and Murph find the coordinates NASA‘s secret hideout and they set out on a cheeky little road trip to find it.
There they learn that Earth is disintegrating and the only way to preserve mankind is to venture into space in search for new inhabitable planets. The president of NASA (Dr Brand) then recruits Coop and his own daughter (Hathaway) to pilot the spacecraft Endurance to carry out this mission.
There are 2 plans for this quest which are plan A and B. Plan A is the promised one where they shall find an inhabitable planet and then transport all earthlings on space stations to evacuate earth.
However...In case plan A fails (the evacuation process still needs a lot of research) they will have to resort to plan B which is to plant artificial embryos to start the human race anew.
In the process to convince Cooper's involvement Dr Brand promised that plan A is going to work (so Coop will be saving Murph and her generation). However, we find out later that he never intended it to carry out plan A....
*10 or so years prior to the present day 13 NASA astronauts were sent on a suicide mission after NASA discovered a wormhole appearing. It will cause dimension to bend and they can reach distances that would otherwise take light years. The astronauts each investigated one planet and would only send a signal for support if the planet proves habitable. Out of the 13 only 3 signals are detected. It is Cooper and Hathaway's (with 2 others) mission to investigate all 3 and find the best one.
This is basically the back story...if you know this much before you go see the movie then you will sound uber smart...I guarantee lol
RANTS:
Wtf I cannot understand Mcconaughey's accent!!! Its like a blend of Irish and southern Texas (I'm sorry if I'm completely wrong lol) but its sooooo hard to understand. The dialog of this movie is done so strangely that I miss half the lines. Would be better if they had...ya know...subtitles when people can't articulate their words WHEN THEY ARE DYING (and I missed the whole plan A revelation part coz of that...)
I felt like there wasn't enough drama I mean obviously saving the world is pretty dramatic in its own right but...maybe they could have put a little more emphasis on plot turns? When the crazy sideburns Hunger Games dude died on planet 1 NOBODY gave a shit...I didn't even realize that he died if it weren't for the split second shot of his floating back...and when they returned to Endurance 23 friggin years have passed and well...they handled it pretty well. I think it would have been interesting if there was a split screen of how time passed for the remaining astronaut as compared to the ones on planet 1.
Also I thought the older son's character was kind of useless... they could have shortened the movie so it won't drag on for 3 hours. Clearly nobody gave a crap about him anyway.
Although I love Anne Hathaway and I think she's completely gorgeous but I must say Jessica Chastain stole the show for me (as grown up Murph). She was so amazing in her limited scenes. The only part in the whole movie that made me cry was when she 'skyped' her dad on her birthday telling him to come home. That scene made me appreciate Mcconaughey a lot more too.
Overall It is a really amazing movie and I highly recommend it. Some background in physics will be great though lol
Now that I'm on the Nolan bandwagon I'm prolly gonna check out The Prestige too
