Crap, when am I going to see this movie?? Maybe I can talk my cousin into it for next weekend. Or just go in the morning...
I think what my daughter's trying to say is: nyah nyah nyah nyah.
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Jesse - Sep 28, 2013 5:18:06 pm PDT #25553 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jessica - Sep 28, 2013 6:51:15 pm PDT #25554 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
ZOMG GRAVITY. SO good, you guys. SO SO GOOD.
For people worried about the 3D in space effects, don't be. The camerawork is gorgeous, no shaky-cam. (I get terribly motion sick in planes, so I was worried.)
The whole movie is just indescribably beautiful. See it in IMAX, in a theater with Atmos sound if possible. (The score is a wee bit overbearing, but the sound design is phenomenally detailed, and the surround speakers are very well used.)
Juliebird - Sep 28, 2013 6:57:42 pm PDT #25555 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
A review put me off it, what with the "you'll feel like you're there!" and when it came to something that looks to me like a slow death in space, or burning up in the atmosphere, it sent me running for the hills shouting "hells no!".
le nubian - Sep 28, 2013 7:01:49 pm PDT #25556 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thank you Jessica. I can't wait to see this movie.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2013 7:22:33 pm PDT #25557 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jess, can you allay my worry that it's it's going to be like that movie with the couple stranded in the ocean?
Juliebird - Sep 28, 2013 7:35:10 pm PDT #25558 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Ditto ita !'s worry. Not that I saw that movie, but it struck the same fear and worry that I'd be hyperventilating with fear the entire time. With a cast of two, there aren't any redshirts to throw under the bus unless the story is telling of their final moments, which is automatically not a story that I want to see. I don't even want to see two hours of one or two characters winning a fight to live filled with fraught tension and desperation and horrific acts of self-preservation that equal self-mutilation or something.
And I know that caveat might mean spoiling the story, or giving away the entire point of the story, but I will never, EVER, watch it otherwise.
Polter-Cow - Sep 28, 2013 10:02:25 pm PDT #25559 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Jess, can you allay my worry that it's it's going to be like that movie with the couple stranded in the ocean?
Open Water in Spaaaaaaaaaace !
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 28, 2013 11:54:59 pm PDT #25560 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
A review put me off it, what with the "you'll feel like you're there!" and when it came to something that looks to me like a slow death in space, or burning up in the atmosphere, it sent me running for the hills shouting "hells no!".
Yeah, the previews are giving me flashbacks to the claustrophobia/agoraphobia combo that had me walking out of the Sunshine theater when Cillian Murphy went on his spacewalk and started hyperventilating in the suit.
Steph L. - Sep 29, 2013 5:29:23 am PDT #25561 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yeah, even the commercials for Gravity freaked my shit out. If it's Open Water in space, then fuck it, I'm going to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 ("There's a leek in the boat!"). (Seriously, we saw the full preview for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, and I laughed my ass off. I am *such* a kid, I swear.)
Amy - Sep 29, 2013 5:30:53 am PDT #25562 of 30000
Because books.
Open Water didn't really bother me, but the ads for Gravity look a little too freaky.