Cordelia ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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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.)
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!".
thank you Jessica. I can't wait to see this movie.
Jess, can you allay my worry that it's it's going to be like that movie with the couple stranded in the ocean?
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.
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 !
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.
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.)
Open Water didn't really bother me, but the ads for Gravity look a little too freaky.
I think I'll just wait to enjoy it on the small screen rather than taking up my entire field of vision with Dolby sound surrounding me.