re: Gravity Review: 10/10

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We all know about the general dislike of Sandra Bullock

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I don't share this.

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How they pulled off many of those shots, especially the opening 16 minute shot, is something to behold.

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"How in the Hell did they pull that off?"

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Seriously? You don't know that computers do 95 to 99 % of any complicated shot in Hollywood today - with a few exceptions (I'm sure Ridley actually built "sets" for Prometheus, but even he was leaning on CGI as far back as Gladiator)?

And, with all this praise, I assume the actual film looked better than the trailer, which, honestly looked like GTA: Outer Space Bitches!, with Bullock's face poorly digitized onto the flailing space suit.

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From the moment I watched the Starchild appear on screen in 2001: A Space Odyssey at ripe age of 19, my movie watching life had changed forever.

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Speaking of true film geniuses - how is it that Kubrick could make a better looking space movie in the late 1960s than they are able to, today? Or Ridley in the late 1970s?

Or hell, Little Ronnie Howard almost 20 years ago?

Physical sets filmed with a camera - rather than CGI processing which, as much as it has improved since Last Starfighter, still looks fake and cartooney - that's how.