"Gravity" movie reviews?

[elbacalao]

it was "Brother, where art thou?" that killed Clooney for me. It felt the whole time he was acting to be funny, because someone told him a comedy role would make him a more valuable asset. Never seemed to be having fun or actually allowing humor at his own expense but acting like he was okay with it for the role. It all felt so faked for consumption.

Feels like he's "trying" in anything that isn't a charisma based role.

just opinion, so worth whatever ya paid for it.

I thought he was brilliant in O Brother. The whole film was brilliant. This new one looks silly though.

 

[TylerW]

I would rather see Europa Report

++++1

For the limited scope of that film, that film is incredible.

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[jt2]

See, I had a different take on Clooney. I liked him in O Brother because he played a narcissistic sociopath,

I don't see that has a huge accomplishment for him, for the very same reason that people questioned John Wayne's acting skills. He was just playing himself in that role.

 

[Dubbington]

I'm seeing this this weekend. I like Clooney, he's old school Hollywood in a way and thought O Brother was amazing. An off beat comedy would be fun but he's into film's that send messages or history pieces. Up In The Air was great, I also liked The American despite many thinking it was a slow pile of crap.

 

[Bay Arean]

I don't see that has a huge accomplishment for him, for the very same reason that people questioned John Wayne's acting skills. He was just playing himself in that role.

Hey, we live in the age of hipster irony, man.

 

[cleverusername]

enjoyable movie, i also saw it in imax 3d. do it and come back and complain how it was horrible. i would like to know what specifically others thought was so unrealistic about the physics.

 

[mean dad]

The physics part didn't bother me too much, but my tiny brain noticed these things:

Weightlessness wasn't consistent.
IRL, the different satellites would be at vastly different altitudes.
Recovery vehicle designed to land in water sinks upon opening hatch (although that may be real...scary).

Smart guys probably saw a lot more than that wrong.

 

[V4]

saw the trailer...

a woman and man alone in space...everything around them becomes a disaster and can die at any moment...no chance of help or surviving..

same thing happens when married...

pass..

 

[Charles R]

The physics part didn't bother me too much, but my tiny brain noticed these things:

Weightlessness wasn't consistent.
IRL, the different satellites would be at vastly different altitudes.
Recovery vehicle designed to land in water sinks upon opening hatch (although that may be real...scary).

Smart guys probably saw a lot more than that wrong.

Actually, Russian return Vehicles land on land. That's why they have "soft landing rockets". We Americans have a much larger navy, and a dominant presence in warmer waters. Russia has lots and lots of fairly empty land, surrounded by rather chilly water.

I agree on the distances between satellites being compressed. But I think the movie would have dredged on far too long if they really tried to make you feel the true scale.

One scientist pointed out that the space shuttle doesn't even carry enough fuel to allow it to go from the hubble to the ISS.

That said... I really liked it. It was certainly pretty enough to spend the cash and get the full effects. And the actors and plot did a good job of keeping me from getting bored.

I'm thinking of seeing it again.

 

[Zerox]

i would like to know what specifically others thought was so unrealistic about the physics.

Bullocks buttocks should not be that perky in zero g.

 

[Hooli]

If I got to see Sandra Bullocks boobs floating in no gravity, I might be interested. She's cute.

Sandra has boobs?

 

[MC BumSlap]

What happens when an Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, watches the movie "Gravity"?

*****Some spoilers are below!*****

Mysteries of #Gravity: Satellite communications were disrupted at 230 mi up, but communications satellites orbit 100x higher.

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why we enjoy a SciFi film set in make-believe space more than we enjoy actual people set in real space

Mysteries of #Gravity: Astronaut Clooney informs medical doctor Bullock what happens medically during oxygen deprivation.

Mysteries of #Gravity: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why anyone is impressed with a zero-G film 45 years after being impressed with "2001:A Space Odyssey"

Mysteries of #Gravity: When Clooney releases Bullock's tether, he drifts away. In zero-G a single tug brings them together.

Mysteries of #Gravity: How Hubble (350mi up) ISS (230mi up) & a Chinese Space Station are all in sight lines of one another.

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock's hair, in otherwise convincing zero-G scenes, did not float freely on her head.

Mysteries of #Gravity: Why Bullock, a medical Doctor, is servicing the Hubble Space Telescope.

The film #Gravity depicts a scenario of catastrophic satellite destruction that can actually happen.

The film #Gravity should be renamed "Angular Momentum" FYI: Angular Momentum -- The tendency, once set rotating, to keep rotating, unless another force acts to slow or stop it.

The film #Gravity should be renamed "Zero Gravity"

My Tweets hardly ever convey opinion. Mostly perspectives on the world. But if you must know, I enjoyed #Gravity very much.

 

[Cycle61]

If he liked it, I'm watching it.

 

[cleverusername]

The physics part didn't bother me too much, but my tiny brain noticed these things:

Weightlessness wasn't consistent.
IRL, the different satellites would be at vastly different altitudes.
Recovery vehicle designed to land in water sinks upon opening hatch (although that may be real...scary).

Smart guys probably saw a lot more than that wrong.

Bullocks buttocks should not be that perky in zero g.

What happens when an Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, watches the movie "Gravity"?

*****Some spoilers are below!*****

i noticed a lot of these things while watching the movie, but i didn't dwell on them. it's a movie for godsake, not a documentary. just enjoy it for what it is.

i suspect that many people are completely unable to have any joy in anything, even in reality.

 

[LongGoneJohn]

I never once thought for even a millisecond that this movie would be remotely good.

People were talking about it like it was some fantastic acting and amazing -- and I just couldn't see it happening.

I won't go see it.

 

[cleverusername]

I never once thought for even a millisecond that this movie would be remotely good.

People were talking about it like it was some fantastic acting and amazing -- and I just couldn't see it happening.

I won't go see it.

good thing you were able to figure that out. kinda like books, and people. better to know that they suck in your mind without having to, you know, interact.

 

[mean dad]

Yeah, they didn't bother my enjoyment of the movie at all. The boringness of the movie bothered my enjoyment.

 

[LongGoneJohn]

good thing you were able to figure that out. kinda like books, and people. better to know that they suck in your mind without having to, you know, interact.

Well kind of like books and people except that it's not either of them and it's a movie and you can get a very good idea of what it's about and how good it is before you go see it. But yeah, other than those two minor things, exactly the same.

I didn't need to go see The Notebook to know what it was about and that I wouldn't like it.

Plus, you interact with movies? Weird.

 

[Asphaultnaut]

good thing you were able to figure that out. kinda like books, and people. better to know that they suck in your mind without having to, you know, interact.

it's that attitude that keeps Hollywood producing vacuous movies making multimillionairs out of people who couldn't emote through a high-school play.

Most of us don't have to get burned in every fire we see to know to keep our hands out. Or require a government approved safety message to keep from doing things contrary to our well being or enjoyment.

It's the ability to take in cues from our surroundings that makes the difference. Lots of cues from a movie (or book) surroundings allow most of us to analyze risk factors instead of being suckered out of 20 bucks on one extreme, and winning a Darwin award on the other.

Now for me, the hate building for Gravity comes not from big epic flaws that had to exist because of filming realities, but of the many, many small flaws that NdGT points out that show someone just didn't give enough of a sh*t to just do them right. Executive types in every industry being what they are, we can readily speculate with a high probability of accuracy: they didn't care enough to get things right and hate it when we're not as stupid as an audience as they believe. The Devil is in the details, etc.

 

[Cereal KLR]

Just came back from seeing it. Hollywood movies have great computer graphics,poor actors and the story lines have become stale/predictable.

Plus for some reason theaters seem to think playing movies at stupid loud levels make the thing more exciting or suspenseful. No it does not.

Foreign movies have become so much better while being ignored for the most part by Hollywood awards, kinda like world champion baseball and football teams that never play any other country.