ILUVBEER99
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i liked it a lot. great suspense and just cool visuals.
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Ketamine Dreams
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Just rented it and was enormously disappointed. We almost turned it off. Won't get into details, but wanted to warn others who might be thinking about renting it. It doesn't live up to the hype at all.
Apple Jack
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Pretty much all the hype I saw said not to bother if you don't see it in IMAX 3D.
Ketamine Dreams
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Yeah, seeing it in 3D would make it more stunning visually, but it can't fix the script, acting or plot holes.
PlasmaDogPlasma
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It was about the experience. I don't think many people that paid to see it in 3D regretted it.
The General
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Yup. One of the best movie going experiences I had last year. This movie + big screen / good sound + couple of cocktails was awesome.
snogger
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Very
. Saw it in 3D IMAX and was on the edge of my seat the entire time.
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BustedKnuckles
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Chaka
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I don't understand why people demand perfect reflections of reality from certain films but are completely willing to suspend disbelief on other films.
Gravity is absolutely a far superior film when viewed on the big screen in 3D but it is still an excellent film without the benefit of the same.
Faulting it because it doesn't obey realities of the orbital space program seems silly.
Gravity is absolutely a far superior film when viewed on the big screen in 3D but it is still an excellent film without the benefit of the same.
Faulting it because it doesn't obey realities of the orbital space program seems silly.
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hotdogcollars
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gotta agree with others who have said this didn't live up to the hype. Watched it at home on a nice big TV, but was thoroughly disappointed with almost the entire movie
i can see how going to a 3D IMAX would have made it much more visually interesting. But i doubt that would've been enough to carry my interest above the rest of the movie's faults
i'd go check it out in 3D IMAX if it ever opened up again, but other than that i'd recommend passing
i can see how going to a 3D IMAX would have made it much more visually interesting. But i doubt that would've been enough to carry my interest above the rest of the movie's faults
i'd go check it out in 3D IMAX if it ever opened up again, but other than that i'd recommend passing
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
This movie was stupid.
NorvilleBarnes
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I'd like to see Enders Game in Imax.
bostonfred
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Spoilers, if anyone cares. The whole movie was a metaphor for the grieving process. she lost her daughter. Threw herself into her work. It wasn't fulfilling. She couldn't listen to talk radio or talk to anyone, just drove around in her car. Went to the space program and was putting some kind of card in the hubble, which is the absolute peak of a career, and she still was uncomfortable. She was detached in every way, literally with a suit and the void of space between her and anyone else. Clooney tried to talk to her like a human and she just couldn't do it. she was alone and isolated and quietly in grief.
Then, just like her daughter dying, there's a freak accident. Something totally outside her control just totally destroys the world around her. And worse yet she can look back and say its my fault what if i had gotten finished when you first asked what if i hadnt had to switch that card what if. But as clooney tells her later, it didnt matter what she did it was going to happen anyways. So the shuttle gets rocked and she's tumbling into the void of space and totally alone and it would be easy to just give up and die. But people reach out to her - specifically clooney, but it doesn't matter, because she's not thinking of him as a romantic interest and his goofy mardi gras stories seem so stupid and meaningless in the context -and pull her back from the edge. And its a literal connection where he has to tether his suit to hers and drag her back, but also a figurative one. That connection saved her life.
And then they get to the international space station, and things in her life are still going too fast and she's out of control and the tether gets severed and she's spinning and almost gets lost again. But this time its her connection to the space station that saves her, a tangle of wires that hold on to her and keep her from flying out there. And again, she reaches out to clooney, and she's holding on, but he realizes that its bad for her, and he severs the connection, and as he disappears from her life he tells her she's going to have to learn to let go. And now she's alone. And she's doing what she has to do to stay alive but nothing in her life is working.
And sure enough, everything that can go wrong does, and its just so unfair. And she's sitting there alone, wishing she had someone she could reach out to, and she hears a voice in the radio, but its some random chinese dude, and he's singing in chinese and doesn't understand a thing she's saying. And she realizes that none of this matters. His laughter is so frivolous and out of place when she's in a total crisis. It seems insane that someone could hear her at the worst time in her life and not understand. How could he be laughing at a time like this. and she starts to give up. Then she hears what he's singing about. He has a baby, and he's singing a lullabye. And that brings up every emotion in the book. He has a baby and I don't. I remember having a baby. I remember babies. I remember life having meaning. My life has meaning. And she snaps out of it, and realizes that there's a way out of her situation.
But even when she finds her way to the escape vessel, she has to use the landing gear. Because landings launching, as hallucinated dead clooneys ghost tells her. A twist on the cliche that when one door close, another opens. And at first she's out of control, flinging herself through space to the chinese station. But she gets her #### together, gets in the escape pod, and starts home. And its not easy. Problems come back, literally in the form of satellite debris but figuratively its the repercussions of her daughter dying. But she is determined to escape. And as she's falling, she finally learns how to pray, in her own way, even though she's not the praying type. She says whatever happens, either I die or I keep on going but either way no harm no foul. She's realized that she can only do what she can do with the cards that were dealt to her but she's not going to give up. She's taken control of her life again.
And the pod lands, and she's drowning in some random body of water, and has to throw off her suit, and every last bit of the isolation chamber of space, and she can hear houston, her support system, calling out to her and realizes they were always there, in the blind, waiting for her to return because they wanted to help her and felt helpless that they couldn't reach out to her where she was and that she was the only one who could bring herself back. And as she reaches shore, she's in a new place, she's getting her feet under her again, she's learning to breathe air again. It doesn't matter where she was. She's back, and she's alive, and she's ready to live her life again.
Its a story of recovery, in her case from the death of a child, but it could be from anything. Its wrapped up in the story of a space accident, but its really all about her journey from isolation to survival to finally being able to carry on on her own. Its a pretty inspirational movie, if you want it to be.
Then, just like her daughter dying, there's a freak accident. Something totally outside her control just totally destroys the world around her. And worse yet she can look back and say its my fault what if i had gotten finished when you first asked what if i hadnt had to switch that card what if. But as clooney tells her later, it didnt matter what she did it was going to happen anyways. So the shuttle gets rocked and she's tumbling into the void of space and totally alone and it would be easy to just give up and die. But people reach out to her - specifically clooney, but it doesn't matter, because she's not thinking of him as a romantic interest and his goofy mardi gras stories seem so stupid and meaningless in the context -and pull her back from the edge. And its a literal connection where he has to tether his suit to hers and drag her back, but also a figurative one. That connection saved her life.
And then they get to the international space station, and things in her life are still going too fast and she's out of control and the tether gets severed and she's spinning and almost gets lost again. But this time its her connection to the space station that saves her, a tangle of wires that hold on to her and keep her from flying out there. And again, she reaches out to clooney, and she's holding on, but he realizes that its bad for her, and he severs the connection, and as he disappears from her life he tells her she's going to have to learn to let go. And now she's alone. And she's doing what she has to do to stay alive but nothing in her life is working.
And sure enough, everything that can go wrong does, and its just so unfair. And she's sitting there alone, wishing she had someone she could reach out to, and she hears a voice in the radio, but its some random chinese dude, and he's singing in chinese and doesn't understand a thing she's saying. And she realizes that none of this matters. His laughter is so frivolous and out of place when she's in a total crisis. It seems insane that someone could hear her at the worst time in her life and not understand. How could he be laughing at a time like this. and she starts to give up. Then she hears what he's singing about. He has a baby, and he's singing a lullabye. And that brings up every emotion in the book. He has a baby and I don't. I remember having a baby. I remember babies. I remember life having meaning. My life has meaning. And she snaps out of it, and realizes that there's a way out of her situation.
But even when she finds her way to the escape vessel, she has to use the landing gear. Because landings launching, as hallucinated dead clooneys ghost tells her. A twist on the cliche that when one door close, another opens. And at first she's out of control, flinging herself through space to the chinese station. But she gets her #### together, gets in the escape pod, and starts home. And its not easy. Problems come back, literally in the form of satellite debris but figuratively its the repercussions of her daughter dying. But she is determined to escape. And as she's falling, she finally learns how to pray, in her own way, even though she's not the praying type. She says whatever happens, either I die or I keep on going but either way no harm no foul. She's realized that she can only do what she can do with the cards that were dealt to her but she's not going to give up. She's taken control of her life again.
And the pod lands, and she's drowning in some random body of water, and has to throw off her suit, and every last bit of the isolation chamber of space, and she can hear houston, her support system, calling out to her and realizes they were always there, in the blind, waiting for her to return because they wanted to help her and felt helpless that they couldn't reach out to her where she was and that she was the only one who could bring herself back. And as she reaches shore, she's in a new place, she's getting her feet under her again, she's learning to breathe air again. It doesn't matter where she was. She's back, and she's alive, and she's ready to live her life again.
Its a story of recovery, in her case from the death of a child, but it could be from anything. Its wrapped up in the story of a space accident, but its really all about her journey from isolation to survival to finally being able to carry on on her own. Its a pretty inspirational movie, if you want it to be.
poopdawg
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bostonfred
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With a couple people on the board who have lost children recently and some others going through other major life crises with addiction and loss and more, I was just trying to point out that's there's more to the story than just cool visuals and plot holes. Its a well made movie with a positive message for people going through tough times. Sorry for interrupting, you can go back to bashing the space movie, you mouth breathing twats.
Rohn Jambo
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I think Sandra Bullock was a good choice for this movie. I liked it better than Avatar.
TLEF316
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Watched it earlier today.....
Thought it was alright. Effects were obviously cool but I found it hard to suspend disbelief on a few scientific/logical issues.
The scene where Clooney floats away made no sense. All they'd have to do is tug on the rope and he'd float back towards her/the ISS.
poopdawg
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I was just quoting "Nerds". I actually found your post quite insightful. Meant no disrespect, GB.
AhrnCityPahnder
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Watched tonight on HBO. I liked it. Yes, you dorks can poke holes and roll your eyes, but with the piles of #### Hollywood has been shoveling lately this was a nice surprise.
Sorry if this was mentioned already -- I didn't expand all the spoiler boxes so it may have been...but here's a 7 minute spinoff of the other side of the howling dog conversation she had on the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLR1yCvu498
Sorry if this was mentioned already -- I didn't expand all the spoiler boxes so it may have been...but here's a 7 minute spinoff of the other side of the howling dog conversation she had on the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLR1yCvu498
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