Go ducky, it's your freedom!!
Posted on 10/18/2013 7:52:29 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
GRAVITY is the most realistic space movie ever. I mean, that Clooney guy looks just like me!
Actually I've been besieged with questions about what I thought about this movie ever since it came out. Just here at work at SpaceX last week,I was asked that question about a dozen times a day. I quipped that "What do you think of Gravity?" was becoming every astronaut's least favourite question, surpassing even "How do you poop in space?"
So, to help me deal with this onslaught, here is my more serious attempt at a movie review:
First of all, it's a great movie. The pace and story was definitely engaging and I think it was the best use of the 3-D IMAX medium to date. Rather than using the medium as a gimmick, Gravity uses it to depict a real environment that is completely alien to most people.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.heraldsun.com.au ...
*bangs head on table*
Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html
Go ducky, it's your freedom!!
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I assumed it was the name of the Russian cosmonaut who owned the suit, but it was prominently featured and I figured it had some sort of meaning. In movies like that, it usually does.
Yes, the larger significance of this movie is an interesting question. The most obvious idea is the triumph of feminism, in the person of Ms. Bullock. I was struck by her exultative gesturing at the end, which was of course justified in the context by the fact of her survival. But you could see something of the passing of the baton in her relationship with "Matt", with the action representing a sort of self-emasculation, not to get too theoretical.
There is a DISCOVERY( channel, I guess ) review, WHY GRAVITY DOESN'T SUCK which tries to put the imprimatur of Science on the movie, but this involves a fair amount of foot-dragging. The reviewer opines that it may be an alternative reality, and I think this is surely the case. In fact, this entails the idea of a LAMENT for the decline or demise of manned space exploration, which the plot device of the movie enforces.
"Bear with me, my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar"
There is no such thing as gravity...the earth sucks! (Old skydivers joke)
you mean Darth Obama, yes?
wish he really did get flung out into space.
I’ve read all of the comments on this post so far, including the usual negative ones about hating the actors, about the movie not being realistic because of a key element or two, about any little thing people can gripe about to satisfy their small minds and hateful view of the world. I am not impressed with any of those comments.
This is a “movie” people. It’s meant to be entertainment from real life. It is not a substitute for real life. But by the sounds of some of these negative comments, some of you folks need to get a real life.
The only way to see this movie is in 3D. It is an awesome visual presentation. I enjoyed it very much. Keeps you on the edge of your chair the whole time. It even brought a welling of tears to my eyes in the end when the good things triumph over all of the bad things. I am not a professional critic of the movies but a patron and fan of them. If it is entertaining and keeps my attention, I usually enjoy them.
Gravity is a very entertaining movie. I recommend it to everyone except those small-minded, hate-filled, negative people that manage to find wrong in everything in the world nowadays.
A duck and the sea.
It probably means, "Support a woman's right to abortion."
My point about that I would like it even if it was a silent film meant that the special effects were what I was impressed with. Clooney was a cartoon of himself and the rest of what you said is accurate.
As far as Tom Hanks he is like a lot of actors, they have a gift for remembering things then saying them at the right time the right way. But at the end of the day they are now more intelligent than a parrot but well paid for being one:)
Thank you for the ping. I might get it when it comes to dvd.
That force was created by that machine in the movie “The Rock” that was running although Alcatraz was closed. It’s the same force that had the “Good Old Boys” showing up at Bob’s Country Bunker after it had closed. It’s the same force that has people voting for Obama despite his packing us with debt.
His name, maybe?
Darth or Dirth.
Darth Oba-moron.
You will not be disappointed. I saw it when it came out in a 3D theater and it was beyond what I imagined. And, as a person who gets motion sickness, I did not have any issues with the 3D projection.
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