Gravity

Even as someone who liked the movie, I didn't find it outstandingly good. I certainly didn't walk out of the cinema in awe of the actual storyline, but the stunning cinematography and musical score did leave me satisfied. Was a rather mixed feeling.

I found Rush, as an example, to be a far better movie than Gravity.
 
Maverick Jester said:
Even as someone who liked the movie, I didn't find it outstandingly good. I certainly didn't walk out of the cinema in awe of the actual storyline, but the stunning cinematography and musical score did leave me satisfied. Was a rather mixed feeling.

I found Rush, as an example, to be a far better movie than Gravity.
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I agree with all the above and the weak story line. Then again, how could you have a strong story line? To my mind it would be impossible. Alfonso couldn't have started the movie where the characters was on earth, it would've made the core message/idea of the movie (that of earths gravity) very weak. The actual occurrence and only occurrence, visually had to be at the end, in fact 79.48% into the movie Sandra grabbed hold of the Chinese station Soyuz which was already hitting earth atmosphere and gravity pulled them in. Finally at 87.14% into the flick the capsule with it's survivor touched earth (water) for the first time in the movie.

This movie was never about a strong story line and over excessive dialogue. It was about visual effects and tension building. It was also about Sandra's character who wanted to give up on life because of the loss of her child and her having a boring existence.

Also for me George was completely the wrong actor for his character.
 
Some very cheesy dialogue that didn't convince me. Yep the visuals were great, that's why I waited for the Blu-ray but from there on I wasn't a big fan.
Her daughter died and now she keeps driving, working, driving...meh, what a crappy jab at the cinema goers emotions. I couldn't connect to either character.

Maybe because I'm used to great Clooney movies like Burn After Reading, O Brother Where Art Thou? etc I might have felt a little let down when I wasn't met with a quirky "Coen Brother" Clooney.

My views might be different from some others on the thread but I'm sure we share the same opinions on other movies. "You have the right to be wrong;)"



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Watched a second time and it was pretty meh.

Just couldn't stand Bullock.

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That was pretty much it.
 
I think with Gravity the best comparison movie is 2001: A Space Odyssey which, of course, is one of the all-time greatest sci-fi movies ever made, and one of the few movies that took the care to craft the experience of realistic, short-term future space living conditions, and the precariousness of just surviving in a suit in the middle of space. Gravity is the first movie since 2001 that effectively conveyed real space, and that's an enormous achievement (btw, if you saw it at home on a crappy rip, you saw about 20% of the real movie.) Most of the special-effects movies of the past 10 years just piled on a CGI spectacle arms-race - Gravity's effects were meaningful.

On the other hand, compared to 2001's storyline, Gravity doesn't hold up at all. It was really just a basic survival movie; Speed in Space. Even the larger themes that it touched on ended up being subsumed. 2001 dealt with man's evolution, the dangers of artificial intelligence, the implications of space travel, and so on.

Anyway that's my 2c.
 
IMO Gravity is not a science fiction movie, even space shuttles have been consigned to history.

It is just space adventure, and wildly implausible and exaggerated at that.
 
[video=youtube;Gw79smKZB9E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw79smKZB9E[/video]
 
cerebus said:
I think with Gravity the best comparison movie is 2001: A Space Odyssey which, of course, is one of the all-time greatest sci-fi movies ever made, and one of the few movies that took the care to craft the experience of realistic, short-term future space living conditions, and the precariousness of just surviving in a suit in the middle of space. Gravity is the first movie since 2001 that effectively conveyed real space, and that's an enormous achievement (btw, if you saw it at home on a crappy rip, you saw about 20% of the real movie.) Most of the special-effects movies of the past 10 years just piled on a CGI spectacle arms-race - Gravity's effects were meaningful.

On the other hand, compared to 2001's storyline, Gravity doesn't hold up at all. It was really just a basic survival movie; Speed in Space. Even the larger themes that it touched on ended up being subsumed. 2001 dealt with man's evolution, the dangers of artificial intelligence, the implications of space travel, and so on.

Anyway that's my 2c.
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I would agree ;)
 
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