Gravity (2013)
Don't Let Go
- "Look how pretty the Earth is from up here"
- Realistic bits - (audio through helmets, floating in zero G, space debris = bad)
- Action segments are pretty intense considering it's a couple of people floating in space
- Fits the perfect time-slot: doesn't feel too long, doesn't feel too short
- 3D available (not in the copy I watched of course, go figure)
- The fifth time of "Look how pretty the Earth is from up here"
- Humanizing solo parts (No, you can't make me like Sandra's character. She's the worst astronaut ever, and no amount of forced backstory is going to change that)
- Aforementioned humanizing parts cause large chunks of essentially monologues while floating in space (not the most exciting thing to watch)
- Rather uneven flow (slow parts tend to be longer than the hectic tensions of the action parts)
- "Yep. That part was made to be 3D." (Could count as positive if watching 3D version)
Pretty alright movie. I certainly have gripes with it in a few parts where it seems to forget it's going for realism (why does only one person in this scene have any gravity applied to them?), and although Bullock is a good actor, there's a few scenes that bored me to tears watching it. I can see where it would be great to see in 3D (although did not myself), but overall feel that everyone that's hyped this movie has (for me personally) overhyped it.
Academy Award® winners Sandra Bullock ("The Blind Side," "The Proposal") and George Clooney ("Up in the Air," "Syriana") star in "Gravity," a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. The film was directed by Oscar® nominee Alfonso Cuarón ("Children of Men").