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Gravity - Awesome Watch (RT 100%) - best space movie ever? [now 98%]

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Charles Foster Kane said:
Y Tu Mamá También is his best film. Children of Men is very good, but overrated.
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You're out of your mind this time, Charles. Tambien is a fantastic film, but doesn't come close to Children of Men.

Anyway, I've been on blackout for this film since the first trailer hit and will be staying that way. Won't be reading any reviews.
 
What a dumb thread title, OP derailed his own thread.

Better than 2001? I seriously doubt that. This movie seems more like a roller coaster ride.
 
Charles Foster Kane said:
Y Tu Mamá También is his best film. Children of Men is very good, but overrated.
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Charles Foster Kane said:
You cray.
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For me, whilst I really love Tambien, you can tell Cuaron is in the infancy of his craft as a filmmaker - not storyteller, because the script is very strong. I think modern-day Cuaron might have abandoned more of the narrated sequences and explored the interchanging subjective focus of the characters through purely visual means.

Again, it's a very, very good film - but something I think is owed mostly to the script and less to do with Cuaron's craft which has improved dramatically since.
 
And that would have been a shame because the narration is top notch and gives it an emotional push towards the end. I usually don't like narration, but YTMT is one of the films where I have no problem with it (or at least very few).
 
Charles Foster Kane said:
And that would have been a shame because the narration is top notch and gives it an emotional push towards the end. I usually don't like narration, but YTMT is one of the films where I have no problem with it (or at least very few).
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I don't know. A part of me thinks the parting of Garcia and the other dude's character would have been just as strong without the mention they wouldn't see each other again. Like most of the narrated information, it could have served as the subtext to the scene it underscores.
 
Juice said:
The "some reason" is that there is absolutely nothing about Bullock's acting that could convince me she's had either (a) a rigorous science education or (b) serious endurance training.
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I don't think Bullock plays a real astronaut. She's a teacher or some such.
 
Awesome. I've been waiting for the next Cuaron movie ever since Children of Men. Hopefully the presence of Sandra Bullock doesn't ruin the experience for me.
 
Scullibundo said:
I don't know. A part of me thinks the parting of Garcia and the other dude's character would have been just as strong without the mention they wouldn't see each other again. Like most of the narrated information, it could have served as the subtext to the scene it underscores.
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I disagree, the narration is an integral part of the film and a stylistic choice, removing it would take a lot away from it (it would almost be like cutting fat from 2001 because we get the point of the dancing ships). Through it we meet characters and learn events we don't get to see, but that add a lot to the main story.

Overall it did the trick for me; I think it being in my native tongue helped me get more into it.

It also wasn't fucking annoying and full of itself like the narration in Jesse James.
 
Just saw it at Telluride and its pretty awesome.

Definitely check it out when it releases wide.

And Children of Men is excellent. Don't listen to people who say otherwise.
 
MacGuffin said:
Just saw it at Telluride and its pretty awesome.

Definitely check it out when it releases wide.

And Children of Men is excellent. Don't listen to people who say otherwise.
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Were there any other movies you saw at the festival? If yes, how do they stack up against Gravity?
 
I am so happy that this is getting positive reviews.

When I first heard about it, and then saw the first trailer, I thought it would either be epically horrible or one of the best films of the year. I'm so pleased it seems to be the latter.
 
I am very excited. I can't wait to see this. We may be on the brink of something very special, the kind of movie that comes around once in a decade.
 
Lv99 Slacker said:
Were there any other movies you saw at the festival? If yes, how do they stack up against Gravity?
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Nebraska (Payne), Labor Day (Reitman), The Wind Rises (Miyazaki), The Past, Prisoners (Villeneuve), Blue is the Warmest Color, 12 Years a Slave (McQueen) and many others are out here.

Labor Day might be the weakest of the bunch but everyone is loving Gravity, Nebraska, and CERTAINLY 12 Years a Slave as the favorites so far.

Looks like a strong Oscar year and that's without Monuments Men, American Hustle, or Captain Phillips.

The Past could win Best Foreign but I haven't seen whatever the rest of those noms will be.

Penn and Teller made Tim's Vermeer which is fascinating but may not be released this year - it's a great doc.
 
I think the two things that bother me about the Gravity trailers/movie/concept are:

1. The woman astronaut going "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" in the trailer. Maybe this is how astronauts (or teachers who are not really astronauts) actually react in real life, but for some reason it just bugged me.

2. I don't like scary movies and this movie looks scary. I would have a heart attack from the tension or something.
 
Blizzard said:
I think the two things that bother me about the Gravity trailers/movie/concept are:

1. The woman astronaut going "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" "ahh" in the trailer. Maybe this is how astronauts (or teachers who are not really astronauts) actually react in real life, but for some reason it just bugged me.

2. I don't like scary movies and this movie looks scary. I would have a heart attack from the tension or something.
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1. It is annoying, because astronauts are calm and cool, and Bullock's freaking out. It feels false. But, we make that judgment not knowing her circumstances. Probably not an issue for the film.

2. I doubt it will pull a Sunshine, so it should have tension, but not be "scary." Well, maybe when all those meteorites start hitting them.
 
Inflammatory thread title. Everyone in the cinema was laughing at Sandra Bullock in the trailer, so I'll just have to wait until 8th November (UK) to know if it was just a bad trailer.
 
Dax01 said:
"Best space movie ever?" No, sir, that honor will always belong to 2001.
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No way. That movie is a boring piece of shit, the only compliment you can give it is that it still looks nice for such an old movie and has some nice shots/cinematography, no matter how boring those scenes end up being otherwise. But no "space movie" that has effin monkeys jumping around for half an hour (seriously, that shit is some of the worst shit shot on film) and then boils down to wooden acting and total lack of excitement due to horrible pacing deserves such claim. Something like Sunshine is so much better acted, directed and written (even with the somewhat disappointing twist during the third act, though it still managed to have many redeeming scenes) than overrated tripe like 2001. A movie can easily be better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
 
Famassu said:
No way. That movie is a boring piece of shit, the only compliment you can give it is that it still looks nice for such an old movie and has some nice cinematography. But no "space movie" that has effin monkeys jumping around for half an hour (seriously, that shit is some of the worst shit shot on film) and then boils down to wooden acting and total lack of excitement due to horrible pacing deserves such claim. Something like Sunshine is so much better acted, directed and written (even with the somewhat disappointing twist during the third act, though it still managed to have many redeeming scenes) than overrated tripe like 2001. A movie can easily be better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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You don't need to hammer in your bad taste with a sledge hammer for us to understand your taste is very bad indeed. What you write about the opening chapter just takes away any weight your criticism of 2001 could ever have.
 
Famassu said:
No way. That movie is a boring piece of shit, the only compliment you can give it is that it still looks nice for such an old movie and has some nice cinematography. But no "space movie" that has effin monkeys jumping around for half an hour (seriously, that shit is some of the worst shit shot on film) and then boils down to wooden acting and total lack of excitement due to horrible pacing deserves such claim. Something like Sunshine is so much better acted, directed and written (even with the somewhat disappointing twist during the third act, though it still managed to have many redeeming scenes) than overrated tripe like 2001. A movie can easily be better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Kill yourself.
 
Sounds interesting, will go watch.

P.S. My favorite "space" movie is Star Gate (liked it even more than Blade Runner etc) /shrug
 
Famassu said:
No way. That movie is a boring piece of shit, the only compliment you can give it is that it still looks nice for such an old movie and has some nice shots/cinematography, no matter how boring those scenes end up being otherwise. But no "space movie" that has effin monkeys jumping around for half an hour (seriously, that shit is some of the worst shit shot on film) and then boils down to wooden acting and total lack of excitement due to horrible pacing deserves such claim. Something like Sunshine is so much better acted, directed and written (even with the somewhat disappointing twist during the third act, though it still managed to have many redeeming scenes) than overrated tripe like 2001. A movie can easily be better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Famassu said:
No way. That movie is a boring piece of shit, the only compliment you can give it is that it still looks nice for such an old movie and has some nice shots/cinematography, no matter how boring those scenes end up being otherwise. But no "space movie" that has effin monkeys jumping around for half an hour (seriously, that shit is some of the worst shit shot on film) and then boils down to wooden acting and total lack of excitement due to horrible pacing deserves such claim. Something like Sunshine is so much better acted, directed and written (even with the somewhat disappointing twist during the third act, though it still managed to have many redeeming scenes) than overrated tripe like 2001. A movie can easily be better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Famassu said:
No way. That movie is a boring piece of shit, the only compliment you can give it is that it still looks nice for such an old movie and has some nice shots/cinematography, no matter how boring those scenes end up being otherwise. But no "space movie" that has effin monkeys jumping around for half an hour (seriously, that shit is some of the worst shit shot on film) and then boils down to wooden acting and total lack of excitement due to horrible pacing deserves such claim. Something like Sunshine is so much better acted, directed and written (even with the somewhat disappointing twist during the third act, though it still managed to have many redeeming scenes) than overrated tripe like 2001. A movie can easily be better than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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