IamJacksUserID wrote:
Although I am pretty sure LAConnection will disagree, believe the hype: GRAVITY is unbelievably good...
(...and that new Sandra Bullock/George Clooney movie is pretty good too... Bah DUM bum!)
It is believably good. But, no, not great.
It's an amazing technical achievement. The cameras themselves seem weightless - there truly is no Up or Down in this film.
The story is thin - essentially a riff on APOLLO 13 (complete with Ed Harris as the voice of Mission Control) -- not to mention MAROONED --with dashes of 2001, ALIENS and, especially, DARK STAR. As an action effects vehicle it is terrific, but, it won't reach the pantheon of Science Fiction films, because there is little else beyond the surface.
See it on the biggest screen you can, though. Worth the extra drive not to see it BIG.
It's just a damn shame that this was made during the early days of digital projection. Instead of awesome views of the blackness of space, you get the mediocre muddy views of the greyness............