15 Most Controversial Movie Moments Of 2014

11. The Fifth Dimension - Interstellar

Robot TARS and Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) detach and drop into the black hole Gargantua in order to collect data on it that might help his daughter Murph (Jessica Chastain) back home, while Amelia (Anne Hathaway) is slingshotted to Edmunds' planet to check its sustainability for human life. Cooper and TARS end up in a space created by the beings of the fifth dimension, a "tesseract", which places Cooper on the other side of the bookcase in Murph's childhood bedroom. There he is able to watch the crucial event from earlier in the movie, where he left Murph to venture on the mission, and realises that he himself is the "ghost" from the start of the movie. Cooper then manages to use the wrist-watch he left Murph to communicate the necessary data from the singularity, which then allows Murph to complete the gravity equation and essentially save mankind. Though the scene is undeniably visually stunning, it's also proven hugely divisive with audiences: some admire its Kubrickian, philosophical sense of wonder, while others feel that the film's resolution feels oddly fantastical given that the prior majority of the film was so focused on rigourous, hard science. Plus, transmitting data into a wrist-watch isn't a particularly thrilling or riveting way to save the day now, is it?