Gravity - Part 1

Caught this for a second time. The film is beyond exciting. So happy it's doing this well. Sometimes everybody wins.
 
I finally saw this tonight what a gripping, tense and beautifully shot film. For the first time since Avatar did I find the 3D actually necessary to the film. Overall I loved everything about it performances included.

8/10
 
I read about that in some trivia somewhere. It's a nice little easter egg.
 
Magically gripping with both spectacle and intimacy – from terrifyingly tense to beautifully life-affirming. Visually it's perfect

The shot-composing, camera work and framing: as skillfully executed, as effective in enhancing the feelings. Fantastic stuff. Not to mention, cinematographer Lubezki's masterful way with colors, image texture and lighting being at full display.

Other truly great things about this movie: the score, Bullock's performance, the thought-provoking, the effects and the 3D. It's the first 3D film I've seen where I found the 3D to be essential to the experience. And what an experience!

10/10
 
Box Office Mojo says the film will close with $260 million domestically, so that's $54M to go. It's still amazing how Gravity is holding in there.
 
I was not interested in Gravity and wasn't going to see it until my sister told me that she had saw it and that it was good.

I saw the film yesterday and thought the movie was excellent all around. The direction is perfect, the performances are spot on, the movie is endlessly thrilling, bleak and in the end incredibly uplifting, awe inspiring. It might have knocked the Place Beyond the Pines to number 2 on my best of list. I still haven't decided.
 
Just curious, why weren't you interested in Gravity in the first place?

And I too, have Gravity and Place Beyond the Pines as my favorite 2013 movies I've seen so far. :)
 
747 said:
Just curious, why weren't you interested in Gravity in the first place?

And I too, have Gravity and Place Beyond the Pines as my favorite 2013 movies I've seen so far. :)
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I don't know I just thought it was going to be boring. I was like "oh she's stuck in space, whocares?" I should've trusted that the director of Children of Men would make a great film out of such a simple premise.
 
On the surface it does sound boring. I initially thought it was going to be more or less a boring drama too when I first heard about it.

Then as the months went by and more was revealed it became a lot more interesting. Nothing in the movie truly bored me. Even the "boring" parts before we lead up to her being seperated were made interesting. Instead of just her talking tech with the other astronauts, they had a conversation, joked about, acted like real people. Spoke in mostly non-jargon while they kept the story going as if they weren't literally up in space isolated from humanity.
 
I don't want to sound like some pretensions movie nerd but I really had complete confidence in this film simply down to the director in spite of its premise sounding boring. Frankly, there was never any reason to fear this being a bad or boring film, it was 6 years in the making, required new technology to be invented, and was coming off the back of Children of Men. The name Cuaron was all I needed to have faith in this film.
 
still the studio had to give him enough creative control and he had to listen to the studio. IMO
Cuaron wanted a movie without any music . and people who worked on the effects said that months ago they saw a different directors cut. Bullock didnt have a lot of lines.she was very quiet. so i would guess this movie is 90% Cuaron and 10 % studio( i give Cuaron brothers the credit for the story and idea how to make the movie. thats all them).

sometimes what is cliche or dumb stupid is what gives the movie the final touch to make it a masterpiece IMO. :)
 
That would have been amazing .

And i don't think the studio deserves 10%. 1% maybe. Saying a bunch of stuff after everything is done is a little easier...
 
jmc said:
I don't want to sound like some pretensions movie nerd but I really had complete confidence in this film simply down to the director in spite of its premise sounding boring. Frankly, there was never any reason to fear this being a bad or boring film, it was 6 years in the making, required new technology to be invented, and was coming off the back of Children of Men. The name Cuaron was all I needed to have faith in this film.
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Good for, you want a cookie? :rolleyes: Pretentious ain't the word. Honestly the smug in this post is too much even for someone like me.
 
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Giant cookie for everyone.
 
Now Cuaron can start work on the "spiritual sequel" Water Pressure. It will take place deep beneath the ocean and star Brad Pitt and Rachel Weisz.
 
dark_b said:
still the studio had to give him enough creative control and he had to listen to the studio. IMO
Cuaron wanted a movie without any music . and people who worked on the effects said that months ago they saw a different directors cut. Bullock didnt have a lot of lines.she was very quiet. so i would guess this movie is 90% Cuaron and 10 % studio( i give Cuaron brothers the credit for the story and idea how to make the movie. thats all them).

sometimes what is cliche or dumb stupid is what gives the movie the final touch to make it a masterpiece IMO. :)
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I wouldn't have minded no music, because I thought the music in this actually brought it down a bit, it just wasn't good. But no to Bullock not talking, her talking to herself and what not made it all very believeable and made her very likable.
 
I watched this yesterday and thought it was a very beautiful movie about the human element of resilience and hope. I don't think it's something I'd watch again but either way I enjoyed it wholeheartedly.
 
I SEE SPIDEY said:
Good for, you want a cookie? :rolleyes: Pretentious ain't the word. Honestly the smug in this post is too much even for someone like me.
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Geez it's not like I wrote 'ha, ha, ha, ha, suck it doubters. You were all wrong, I was right'. I do enjoy cookies though.
 
Was going to watch the film this weekend in the IMAX cinema :)
When i finally arrived the town and went to the theatre i discovered they only have one film in IMAX, and this week was when Thor: The Dark World was released :cmad:
 
There could be worse films taking up the spot.
 
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