henke on 8/10/2013 at 08:05
Gravity is coming to the cinemas here first Novemeber 8, same date as The World's End. Intend to see them both at the cinema. :)
Angel Dust on 20/10/2013 at 11:19
Just saw Prisoners, a pulpy, contrived and ultimately rather silly crime drama given far more gravitas, film artistry (I <3 Roger Deakins) and acting wattage than it deserves. Jake Gyllenhaal is terrific, Hugh Jackman gives a one-note RAAARGIVEMEBACKMY<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">SON</span>DAUGHTER performance and actors like Maria Bello, Viola Davis and Terrence Howard are wasted in nothing parts. I can't say I wasn't entertained but it's nowhere near as deep as it thinks it is and for a film that is 150 minutes long, it has bugger-all character development.
henke on 9/11/2013 at 21:24
Just saw Gravity. First off...
Quote Posted by Angel Dust
Definitely see it in 3D if you can as it works brilliantly with Cuarón's super long takes.
This.
Secondly, wow that was great. It's at the same time a very small movie and a very big one. And I can't believe how fast it flew by. The whole movie is an hour and a half but it feels like less than an hour. Sandra Bullock is good in this. Good, not great. I feel like a
great performance would've managed to make me cry at the part where she's
given up and sitting in the shuttle howling like a dog.Thirdly, I don't think the physics were entirely accurate either. The way Clooney flies that thing is like he's driving a car or something, just flying forward and turning instead of rotating first and then using the thrusters to turn. And what's with the way he
uses up the last of the fuel all in one go to boost madly towards the station? I've played enough Lunar Flight, Shattered Horizon, and Gravitron 2 to know that that's not how you do that. Small adjustments, the further away from your destination the better, are way better than big inaccurate blasts like he did. And this guy is supposed to be some kinda pro astronaut? NASA should send ME into outer space!
Anyway, great movie.
Scots Taffer on 12/11/2013 at 06:16
Gravity in 3D was an amazing workout. Seriously. I sat clenching most of my muscles on the edge of my seat for ninety odd minutes. It was a visual experience unlike any other, technically profound and I loved it. I can't imagine I'll ever watch it outside of the cinema, I think the kid backstory was unnecessary screenwriting-by-numbers and whenever Sandra Bullock opened her mouth I was reminded she was Sandra Bullock (though she did ok as the "everywoman" as Angel Dust noted), but regardless of all of that, I felt like I was IN SPACE for that entire time and that's an amazing achievement.
P.S. I ain't ever going back to space. Fuck that noise.
Whilst unlikely to generate any awards buzz, Filth had a stand-out performance from James McAvoy showing amazing range. I've always felt he had the ability to be sort of charming but with an edge of underlying volatility... perhaps that's just my reading of the Scottish in him :) ... but it got fully unleashed in this messy, ugly movie.
SubJeff on 12/11/2013 at 08:19
Saw Gravity at iMax.
Very good. Space is terrifying.
Somehow reminded me of Oblivion too. Something about introspection, life, the universe, how small we are in the grand scheme but how also how ALIVE we are for this brief moment.
Morte on 12/11/2013 at 13:07
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Gravity in 3D was an amazing workout. Seriously. I sat clenching most of my muscles on the edge of my seat for ninety odd minutes. It was a visual experience unlike any other, technically profound and I loved it. I can't imagine I'll ever watch it outside of the cinema, I think the kid backstory was unnecessary screenwriting-by-numbers and whenever Sandra Bullock opened her mouth I was reminded she was Sandra Bullock (though she did ok as the "everywoman" as Angel Dust noted), but regardless of all of that, I felt like I was IN SPACE for that entire time and that's an amazing achievement.
P.S. I ain't ever going back to space. Fuck that noise.
I disagree. It's clunkily delivered, but her having given up on life is also pretty central to its themes. And yeah, the themes are extremely blatant and in your face, but I kinda liked that about it.
Totally <3 Gravity.
Muzman on 19/11/2013 at 01:43
Hey, I saw a movie. Whatever next.
Yeah Gravity is pretty frikkin amazing. See it on a big screen and get close to it.
I know we're all seasoned cynics oozing ennui from beneath our berets thanks to a million bad movies, but some of the crits about this one do seem a trifle unfair (not here that much. But in general).
I know many story and character details resemble rote, text book attempts by shittier films to inject some depth, manipulate the old heart strings etc. But can anyone really say this film didn't earn it? Cuaron wears his heart on his sleeve and always has. A lot of the tension in this was emotional as well as circumstantial. Like Children of Men I had to smile a many times as I ask "Are they gonna go there?" and the movie just strides up says "Yes I fucking am! What of it?".
Just gonads the size of gas giants. Tip plaudits on them by the truckload. Seriously, in a major film industry rife with focus grouped emotional cowardice and cheap laughs, resting on postmodern storytelling that just hurls references to familar structures at the audience and hopes for the best - this level of purity is astonishing by itself.
Really if you can't go to those slightly corny places in your harrowing end-of-it-all, facing oblivion, survival story, where can you?
