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.

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).

I want to see Gravity. The trailers look amazing.

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.

I saw Rush this afternoon, and it was great - its appeal did not depend on a naked Chris Hemsworth belly-flopping into bed, but the movie as a whole was worthy of that visual. A much more serious and weighty film than the advertising would lead one to believe. And Daniel Brühl's performance may be the best I've seen at the movies all year - I hope it helps his career take off in Hollywood. (I still remember when he seemed to be the lead in every indie movie that came out in the early 2000s, but that didn't seem to translate into mainstream recognition.)