re: "Gravity" Tomatometer Thread: 215 Reviews, 98% Fresh

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Funny how every time she went to another space station the shrapnel seemed to follow her. I mean the shrapnel is traveling around the Earth in a straight line and makes a loop every hour and a half. Was all the space stations in a line and just happened to be lined up in the path of the shrapnel?

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There wasn't just one "wave" of debris - it was revealed early in the film that the missile strike resulted in a chain reaction that decimated numerous satellites.

Spoilers again.

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I knew she wasn't going to die in the ISS pod. Too much time left. Unless Cuaron was just going to have a blank screen for the last 15 minutes or so.

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I had no idea how much time had passed. If I read my clock and knew we were only an hour into it, then I'd have to say yes, but I didn't, so it was fine. A movie's job is to make you forget it's length of time, which this film did just fine.

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The scene when she lands on earth and has all the water rushing I was useless. Did anyone really believe she wasn't going to survive at that point? Really? Did get a good laugh out of the random frog swimming though.

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You don't get subtlety do you? The point of that scene isn't really to scare the audience, but to show how far she had come, put a parallel between the ocean and space, show the power of the Earth and gravity, and the evolution of mankind.

*Spoiler*


Just going to throw this out there. Her capsule VERY nearly crashed into land instead of water. She was only about 50 feet from land where that thing crashed. The ocean's a giant place, and somehow she was lucky enough to land within a short swim's distance from land.

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There were two actors in the entire movie that weren't only voice. Dialogue isn't going to be the strong suit.

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the strength of dialogue in a movie isn't directly proportional to how many speaking roles there are

the dialogue was shitty at times, because the lines were just shitty. plain and simple

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why she set her clock to 90 minutes. She should have set it to 85 the second time

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that's one of my minor pet peeves in a lot of movies

"sun comes up around 6 am, so let's set our watches to prepare".....[character sets his watch to precisely 6am]

didn't bother me in Gravity because I've just come to expect it

Considering that the actors were in spacesuits for much of the movie and were in a weightless environment so facial expressions and body language were out of the question, dialogue was the primary method this movie needed to use to expression the emotions of their characters.

They failed in that in part due to length and in part due to bland writing. I will say that every time Matt was on screen or talking, he owned the movie. Bullock just didn't have it for me. Granted she was way down on the list of actresses sought after for this role so I won't put the blame on Cauron or the producers.

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So is the movie THAT good? General consensus?

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It is a terrific theater experience.

I saw it in IMAX 3D

It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time

I don't know if this film will translate well to DVD

I don't think many movies actually need 3D but 3D really helped this movie.It sometimes makes you feel like you're in space watching this movie.I don't know if I can watch this on TV at my house and get this same feeling.If you have any desire to watch this movie do it in 3D.


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What really sold me on this movie was when Ryan was all alone in space by herself when Matt died.The tension of her being alone and fighting for survival when she didn't want to be alone and didn't think she could survive.

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To be marketed as a 'serious' cinematic experience, which again visually and technically it is and more so, I was chuckling to myself at the "giant" suspensions of disbelief I was making during the viewing

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Dude this sentence makes no sense

This statement isn't going to be popular among some, but I'm going to say (well type) it anyways.

Avatar held up better going from theaters to tv than I see Gravity doing. Avatar wasn't just about the groundbreaking 3-D technology. It was full of absolutely gorgeous living environments (yeah yeah CGI, whatever) that are just as beautiful on tv as they were in cinemas.

I don't think the weightlessness will be there for Gravity. I also believe the tension will be gone as well. For all its faults, Avatar doesn't rely on the unknown for its thrills.

I have more to say on this, but I'll let that simmer for now.