Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Loved it, fucking AWESOME film! So rare to watch a film that has great action, stunning sound and visuals and actual pathos...might go see it again.
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron film
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mhendo
Aussie in San Francisco
Went and saw this last weekend. My wife had already seen it once, and wanted to go again.
I thought it was excellent. it doesn't have that much plot, per se, but you're gripping your seat from beginning to end, and the visuals are stunning.
One thing i loved is that it was actually about space. In most modern science fiction, space is that thing you fly through at warp speeds to get to the aliens, or the monsters, or the enemy, or your new settlement, or whatever. This was about the nature of space itself. Very cool.
I thought it was excellent. it doesn't have that much plot, per se, but you're gripping your seat from beginning to end, and the visuals are stunning.
One thing i loved is that it was actually about space. In most modern science fiction, space is that thing you fly through at warp speeds to get to the aliens, or the monsters, or the enemy, or your new settlement, or whatever. This was about the nature of space itself. Very cool.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yeah gonna go see this again...haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw it..!
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Not long back from seeing it in 3D and would def loved to have seen it at the IMAX. It is just simply beautiful and had me properly on the verge of tears from midway through.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I've just seen this and really enjoyed it - best film I've seen in 3D (not that I see many). Totally implausible but genuinely gripping. However...
...it had me laughing at the end when she gets back to earth and the sea's gushing in the pod - of course you knew she was gonna survive but I thought it would be funny if after all she'd been through in space that she died by drowning! Also when Clooney was in it I couldn't stop thinking about Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story which he did the voice for and even looks a bit like in his spacesuit - when he cuts lose from her I was hoping he'd shout 'to infinity and beyond!'
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
It's literally the only film I've seen in 3D that's lived up to the hype and indeed potential of what 3D cinema could be. I actually flinched in one scene when some debris flew toward the screen!
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
What an incredible opening shot. How long, felt like at least ten minutes? One shot.
A short film, Bullock was excellent. Edge of the seat all the way. Excellent use of sound, really excellent.
At the end...
...I wondered why and then realised. So my last thought of the film as it ended was 'oh....gravity'.
A short film, Bullock was excellent. Edge of the seat all the way. Excellent use of sound, really excellent.
At the end...
when she's walking like that
Treacle Toes
Time
Friend of mine says:
Agent Sparrow
the age of slippers and migraines
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
going to see this tomorrow 
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
Oh really?! 
I was sure it was GC - it sounds just like him!
I was sure it was GC - it sounds just like him!
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
sorry to spoil the party.
Just saw it at Ritzy. I think my response is partly spoilt by the annoying person nearby eating a loud bag of popcorn and the verbal diarrhoea somewhere else. It has some amazing scenes but given it's title I thought it should get the consequences of 'force' correct. For me this wasn't the case from the initial impact. Other things stretched believability also. Can't say more without spoiling it. Reviewers seem to rave about the 3D but I'd actually like to see it in 2D it would be more precise rather than blurry.
Just saw it at Ritzy. I think my response is partly spoilt by the annoying person nearby eating a loud bag of popcorn and the verbal diarrhoea somewhere else. It has some amazing scenes but given it's title I thought it should get the consequences of 'force' correct. For me this wasn't the case from the initial impact. Other things stretched believability also. Can't say more without spoiling it. Reviewers seem to rave about the 3D but I'd actually like to see it in 2D it would be more precise rather than blurry.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Nothing worse than someone distracting you with phones, talking or inappropriate crunching. Especially in a film like this which uses silence so well.
You can use spoilers for the other bits, I'd like to hear them.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Heh yeah had same moment, nicely done.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
This looked great and was a really immersive experience in 3D. However, it was also pretty corny, which is possible to forgive because of how visually amazing it was, but still enough to make it fall short of a classic for me. I was loving watching it, but as soon as I left the cinema, the film left me.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
proper cheesy not amazing but not shite either
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
Really great visuals - but I was actually disappointed. This little user review on IMDB I just read summed it up nicely for me:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
153 out of 212 people found the following review useful:
Great Visuals, Weak Script overall
Author: vikascoder from Germany
4 October 2013
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Visually, Gravity is unlike what we have seen on a cinema screen before and arguably it has one of the best uses of 3D in a movie. The setting is spectacular and the premise is inventive.
On every other front, the movie falters badly. Once you get over the initial wonderment surrounding the beautiful visuals, the chinks start showing up. Overall the script is very weak. Apparently the Russians bomb their own satellite by mistake and the debris is flying around at bullet speed, smashing everything in its way. Now upon hearing an emergency evacuation request, Kowalski (who has been wasting his precious thrusters all this while, floating around, spouting inane dialogs) orders Ryan (Bullock) to disengage from whatever she is repairing. Apparently Ryan has six months of training (only) and fails to be responsive and then the trouble starts.
We come to know that Ryan has some head issues surrounding the death of her daughter as the writer felt a dire need to give Ryan some sort of existential problem in her head to make her character feel more human. Apart from this minor bit, nothing is presented in terms of character development for any other protagonists. Who is Kowalski? Who are the people who died in their space pods? No idea.
Then the whole manufactured sense of suspense. Every time Ryan gets anywhere near the Air Lock (she does it three times), the debris presents itself like on cue every single time. Then a fire in a space station, then running out of Oxygen, then something then something. It's fine that they used some standard tricks but it all seems so manufactured and mechanical by the numbers suspense.
Also at times I couldn't shrug off the feeling that what they are showing on screen is not actually factual. Do the controls on various international space stations have their national languages on them? Really? Maybe they do but seems hard to believe when 20$ phones are built with custom User interfaces with changeable languages, why have your billion dollar space stations with Russian or Chinese characters on your buttons totally beats me. Oh manufactured suspense owing to the whole can't-understand-this-thing machinery.
The the dialogs when they come are nothing to write home about. Ryan has a hallucinatory moment when she talks to herself following some Mandarin Chatter on the radio which is cringe worthy. I wont even mention the in-your-face allegory about rebirth which is there for to make the movie seem deeper than it is.
So what works for the movie? It's a cross between an IMAX documentary with some suspense elements thrown it which makes it look path breaking.
But it's not. Not a bad watch but nothing to rave about either.
Great Visuals, Weak Script overall
Author: vikascoder from Germany
4 October 2013
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Visually, Gravity is unlike what we have seen on a cinema screen before and arguably it has one of the best uses of 3D in a movie. The setting is spectacular and the premise is inventive.
On every other front, the movie falters badly. Once you get over the initial wonderment surrounding the beautiful visuals, the chinks start showing up. Overall the script is very weak. Apparently the Russians bomb their own satellite by mistake and the debris is flying around at bullet speed, smashing everything in its way. Now upon hearing an emergency evacuation request, Kowalski (who has been wasting his precious thrusters all this while, floating around, spouting inane dialogs) orders Ryan (Bullock) to disengage from whatever she is repairing. Apparently Ryan has six months of training (only) and fails to be responsive and then the trouble starts.
We come to know that Ryan has some head issues surrounding the death of her daughter as the writer felt a dire need to give Ryan some sort of existential problem in her head to make her character feel more human. Apart from this minor bit, nothing is presented in terms of character development for any other protagonists. Who is Kowalski? Who are the people who died in their space pods? No idea.
Then the whole manufactured sense of suspense. Every time Ryan gets anywhere near the Air Lock (she does it three times), the debris presents itself like on cue every single time. Then a fire in a space station, then running out of Oxygen, then something then something. It's fine that they used some standard tricks but it all seems so manufactured and mechanical by the numbers suspense.
Also at times I couldn't shrug off the feeling that what they are showing on screen is not actually factual. Do the controls on various international space stations have their national languages on them? Really? Maybe they do but seems hard to believe when 20$ phones are built with custom User interfaces with changeable languages, why have your billion dollar space stations with Russian or Chinese characters on your buttons totally beats me. Oh manufactured suspense owing to the whole can't-understand-this-thing machinery.
The the dialogs when they come are nothing to write home about. Ryan has a hallucinatory moment when she talks to herself following some Mandarin Chatter on the radio which is cringe worthy. I wont even mention the in-your-face allegory about rebirth which is there for to make the movie seem deeper than it is.
So what works for the movie? It's a cross between an IMAX documentary with some suspense elements thrown it which makes it look path breaking.
But it's not. Not a bad watch but nothing to rave about either.
girasol
Addicted to handstands!
vogonity
Hmm...!
That's how I felt. The movie was beautiful, thrilling and moving. Yes, there may have been corny elements, but Sandra Bullock and George Clooney's excellent performances made me see past them.
The 3D also worked wonders for me - and I'm not normally a fan of it.
Well done all, in front and behind the camera.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
If you go, book the largest 3D-est IMAXest ticket you can and just let the whole thing wash over you. Visually it is possibly the most amazing thing ever yet committed to cinema. The finest and most logical use yet of 3D and they really have found a way for the 3D to make sense and be integral to what's actually happening.
So keep eyes locked, but do not engage brain, sadly, for beside the gargantuan jawdropping beauty of the pictures, the script / 'drama' just don't do the business. I wanted to be head over heels in love with this film (I think Cuaron's a genius, and words can't express how brilliant I think it is that the lead character in this movie should be female) but I just ended up a bit impatient with it.
If the science doesn't make any sense, then what's the point? The relentless actioniness ended up being just as cartoonish and implausible as other sfx-laden spectacles where our lead characters are the only ones to survive planetshaking mass desctruction. And worse of all, the 'human drama' bits are blatant Christian America-bait ... "what matters is the people who miss you" ... the gratuitous tearjerking of using the distant sounds of babies and dogs (YES REALLY) and most obnoxious of all the pseudo-faith messages pulsing away throughout ...
I do think Bullock did a good job in a near-impossible role and would recommend this film to people enthusiastically - but with reservations. I just find it a bit hard to wrap my head around a film which is so supposedly about space and space-working people and yet neither understands or explains much about either. It doesn't even get into what is - for me a non-sciencey outsider - the most amazing thing of all about this sort of thing, that being the immense amount of people-hours and hard thinking which goes into solving even the simplest problems, and the extraordinary amount of human collaboration and co-operation which makes it possible to get human beans out there into space at all.
but yeah, go and see it.
So keep eyes locked, but do not engage brain, sadly, for beside the gargantuan jawdropping beauty of the pictures, the script / 'drama' just don't do the business. I wanted to be head over heels in love with this film (I think Cuaron's a genius, and words can't express how brilliant I think it is that the lead character in this movie should be female) but I just ended up a bit impatient with it.
If the science doesn't make any sense, then what's the point? The relentless actioniness ended up being just as cartoonish and implausible as other sfx-laden spectacles where our lead characters are the only ones to survive planetshaking mass desctruction. And worse of all, the 'human drama' bits are blatant Christian America-bait ... "what matters is the people who miss you" ... the gratuitous tearjerking of using the distant sounds of babies and dogs (YES REALLY) and most obnoxious of all the pseudo-faith messages pulsing away throughout ...
"I want to pray but I don't know how ... no-one ever taught me ... boo fucken hoo... just how likely IS it that any genius-level space scientist would EVER EVER say this - no matter how many airlocks she's hopped through and how stressed she is?]
I do think Bullock did a good job in a near-impossible role and would recommend this film to people enthusiastically - but with reservations. I just find it a bit hard to wrap my head around a film which is so supposedly about space and space-working people and yet neither understands or explains much about either. It doesn't even get into what is - for me a non-sciencey outsider - the most amazing thing of all about this sort of thing, that being the immense amount of people-hours and hard thinking which goes into solving even the simplest problems, and the extraordinary amount of human collaboration and co-operation which makes it possible to get human beans out there into space at all.
but yeah, go and see it.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Utterly, utterly spectacular. See this movie on the biggest screen you can find, because the visuals truly are jaw-droppingly good. So much detail and veracity to it all. I didn't see a single shortcut or fudged effect. Breathtaking, honestly.
Well cheesey script. Ignore that. Go see it a foreign language with no subtitles or something, and it'd probably be loads better.
But man oh man, the bits when nobody's talking? Incredible.
a few nits to pick:
The only major science errors were the orbiting spacecraft all being lined up nicely in line of sight. Pretty much everything else was spot on, although I'm pretty sure Soyuz doesn't have a side hatch.
from the IMDB review girasol quoted:
Well cheesey script. Ignore that. Go see it a foreign language with no subtitles or something, and it'd probably be loads better.
But man oh man, the bits when nobody's talking? Incredible.
a few nits to pick:
The only major science errors were the orbiting spacecraft all being lined up nicely in line of sight. Pretty much everything else was spot on, although I'm pretty sure Soyuz doesn't have a side hatch.
from the IMDB review girasol quoted:
Yep. The Russian and USA parts of the ISS are almost entirely seperate spacecraft, just joined together in the middle, they're otherwise pretty much native. And Chinese spacecraft have labels in Chinese, because the people who fly them are Chinese.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
OK, if the actual film is rubbish, why not just watch footage of actual real space stuff? Lots of NASA footage is breathtaking.
Don't get the point of this film at all
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Because the NASA footage moves slowly and is very boring. It also takes place on a screen I can wrap my arms around, and speakers I can talk over. What I just saw went WOOSH! BANG! ZOOM! straight into my ears, gut and retinas.OK, if the actual film is rubbish, why not just watch footage of actual real space stuff? Lots of NASA footage is breathtaking.
Don't get the point of this film at all
I've seen the Space Station IMAX movie, and that's very pretty, but it's not exciting. This film is very, very exciting. It just has to take a breather every now and then for some corny lines.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Hmmmmm. I must be getting old
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Words get in the way of the sound.
joustmaster
offcumdun
Watched it at the imax, in 3d, on sunday.
It was great. and a brilliant example of how to use 3d in a film properly.
The trailer for the hobbit, which was in 3d, looked fucking awful. Things that are close to the viewer, and are moving quickly are just shit. And those are the sorts of things they try to cram in.
It was great. and a brilliant example of how to use 3d in a film properly.
The trailer for the hobbit, which was in 3d, looked fucking awful. Things that are close to the viewer, and are moving quickly are just shit. And those are the sorts of things they try to cram in.
