Jess, can you allay my worry that it's it's going to be like that movie with the couple stranded in the ocean?
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§ ita § - Sep 28, 2013 7:22:33 pm PDT #25557 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 29, 2013 6:00:39 am PDT #25563 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
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.
Juliebird - Sep 29, 2013 6:11:46 am PDT #25564 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I just read the plot summary on wikipedia. Turns out that's it's a giant spoiler for the whole movie. But, reading it, it's less and also more harrowing than I'd been led to believe from the trailer (that still gives me anxiety to think about).
Zenkitty - Sep 29, 2013 8:52:28 am PDT #25565 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I want to see Gravity. The trailers look amazing.
Jessica - Sep 29, 2013 12:01:51 pm PDT #25566 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The plot of Gravity is so simple that I don't think it's possible to talk about without massive spoilers.
And I don't know what about Open Water people are hoping to avoid, so I'm afraid I can't be any help there either.