Gravity - excellent movie

Really? I thought it was terrible.

Great visuals and A-list cast but the script was as cliche as it comes. I have no idea why this movie is being so well-received.
 


brandonbaker said:
Really? I thought it was terrible.

Great visuals and A-list cast but the script was as cliche as it comes. I have no idea why this movie is being so well-received.
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I feel like pretty colors and explosions do it for people more than anything else. I personally thought Avatar was absolutely horrible and when I was walking out of the theater hearing all the praise I couldn't believe it. So many people don't give two shits about plot and script.
 
this movie was fucking horrible.

my first impression due to previews was 'DO NOT SEE THIS SHIT'.

Then I made the mistake of trusting pre-release Rotten Tomatoes reviews... 98% they say... Better than Dark Knight they say...

Fuck you rotten tomatoes. Fill with maggots and die. I want my money back.

It was so bad I crushed my 3d glasses at the end, with the hopes of limiting someone from seeing it...
 
cassius said:
I feel like pretty colors and explosions do it for people more than anything else. I personally thought Avatar was absolutely horrible and when I was walking out of the theater hearing all the praise I couldn't believe it. So many people don't give two shits about plot and script.
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This.

Rotten Tomatoes usually gets it right though. But damn they dropped the ball on this one; critics are gobbling this shit up.

An "A" movie would still be a "B" movie even after replacing the stars with nobodies-who-can-act. But this movie quickly becomes a "C" if you replace Bullock and Clooney.

Try reading the script. It's just cliche after cliche and presenting it over a backdrop of our beautiful planet can't change that.
 
For some reason, this movie isn't released in the UK until 8th Nov, pretty rare for movies to be delayed that much here. I don't know what they are thinking, but I shall be downloading it as soon as it appears online.
 
Cygnus said:
I enjoyed it; fewer logic flaws than a lot of other scifi. It did get a bit overdone, but it'll win an oscar or too.
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Umm... The head of the Hayden Planitarium and Nobel piece prize winning astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse had other thoughts...

“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: Nearly all satellites orbit Earth west to east yet all satellite debris portrayed orbited east to west."

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

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

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

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

"The film #Gravity should be renamed "Zero Gravity"

Neil deGrasse Tyson disses space film 'Gravity' - Houston Space news | Examiner.com
 
after having this movie recommended to me i decided to download it and see what all the fuss was about.

I have to say though despite the huge names in the movie i really wasnt that impressed or grabbed at all by this movie. feel i wasted the bandwidth on this :(
 
AdamC said:
For some reason, this movie isn't released in the UK until 8th Nov, pretty rare for movies to be delayed that much here. I don't know what they are thinking, but I shall be downloading it as soon as it appears online.
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Trouble is with that is that all the early versions that appear online are shite quality... unless you know a place you can find decent ones? (pm if you do pls)
 
While there certainly are many scientific flaws in the movie, this isn't a documentary nor an astronomical dissertation, so I don't judge the movie as such. The flaws aren't any bigger in this movie than they are in most Hollywood blockbusters. What kills my suspension of disbelief is huge plot holes, and I didn't experience any that I noticed while watching the movie.

A lot of what I liked about the movie centered around the "outside" scenes and how the director really did a good job making me feel like I was there experiencing the same thing. Mind you, IMAX 3D helps that a lot.

I went to be entertained, not schooled, and entertained I was.
 
imbo55 said:
Umm... The head of the Hayden Planitarium and Nobel piece prize winning astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse had other thoughts...
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Although, in fairness, Neil DeGrasse also tweeted:

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

and

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

https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/386985494258515968
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/statuses/387079136629358592
 
I didn't really enjoy it. I don't get what people liked so much about it.
 
Steve is right, the movie is EPIC!

The only people I can see not liking this movie are peeps who like films like Transformers and Pacific Rim.

One of the best films I have seen in a very long time. Totally awesome!
 
OK, I'm just going to ask:

To everyone staining their shorts over this movie, what exactly did you like about it? All I keep hearing is "Awesome! Great movie!" but I never hear any reasons why.

I mean, it can't be the story. You've got a lady bouncing around in space for 90 minutes without much clue as to what she's doing.
 
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