That made me giggle like a queen bee.
That someone would think so negatively of George makes me break out in hives.
That really stung
Especially given all the Oscar buzz around this movie.
-TomHoney, you ain’t lying!
I could just drone on and on about how much I loved this movie.
Well guys I’m off to work.
wax on wax off, Dave.
That’s not what I do. I transport gametophytes in my corbicula.
Sweet!
I’d like to eat George Clooney’s royal jelly!
These comments are just swarming.
I guess you missed the parts where she’s running out of oxygen and there’s this little fire on board the ISS? Aren’t those also dangers of space?
— Alan
I think RayTheFourth’s point was that the threats here all came from the big flashy disaster of blowing up satellites with missiles and the debris cloud, and that didn’t leave much room for tension from the constant but mundane dangers of whoa guys we’re in freaking space—a sort of base level fragility of all situations in space. So to your point, she’s running out of oxygen and there’s a fire because of the debris cloud, not because of a small fan failing. Even in the more over the top Sunshine, for example, a lot of their problems start because someone forgot to change the angle of some mirrors when they adjusted their position, not because of some freak disaster acting on them from totally outside their control.
I don’t quite agree that the difference is important in this case, or detracts from Gravity, but I think that’s his point.
I guess I don’t understand the complaint. Does it matter whether you die from a fire in the space lab due to a debris cloud or a fire in the space lab caused by a fan malfunction?
I can’t really speak for Ray any further—I may have already misrepresented him—but I think in some abstract way I understand his point. Within that context, I was just defending that the lack of oxygen and fire on the ISS are both direct results of the debris cloud, not some kind of Apollo 13 style threat where just minor failings in normal operations can quickly get lethal.
I don’t agree that it hurts the movie, like you said, it doesn’t matter how you die, and that sense of fragility and isolation are there whatever the cause.
I may have folded my arms at the hallucination scenes and hmphed, but also crying in space totally doesn’t look like that. The tears would have just stuck to her eyeballs and been a nuisance, not balled up and floated away. Grumble.
Do Tears in Space Really Float? (hint: No)
Tears on set:
Tears in space:
I’m just really happy this film was made.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of being in space – haunting dreams, even, about dying in space – and so “grounded” science fiction stories set in space have always felt special. Loved Moon, Outland, etc. But this movie essentially gave the the experience that I’ve had in my mind since I was a kid – imagining what it would be like to float in space. It’s just a spectacular experience in IMAX 3D – of the thousands of movies I’ve seen in theatres, this was one of the most memorable.
I also felt that way about Cloverfield – as someone who, as a kid, was always fascinated with the idea of “what would I do” if a giant monster attacked, Cloverfield finally gave me that experience. These two movies will always be special to me, for that reason alone.
And I can’t believe I actually liked George Clooney in a movie, and more than Sandra Bullock, even though he was basically playing the same charismatic fellow that he often tries to play.
I’m a Netflix homebody when it comes to most films but given the unanimous praise for Gravity’s visual effects I think I will beeline it to my local Imax this weekend for some sweet Gravity eye porn.