And something something "Art is supposed to destroy your complacency," something something "all you want is empty-headed pablum!"

I would probably just reply "YEP!" to that and peace out.

I sat through Un Chien Andalou in film class and Eraserhead at home; hopefully that gives me enough Disturbing Art Cinema cred that I can get away with rainchecking Gravity (because I can tell from trailers the combo of the main character pinwheeling uncontrollably through wide open vistas and being enclosed in a suffocating spacesuit would make me queasy).

Zenkitty, with regards to your whitefont: it's somewhere in the middle, really, and one of the big issues in the movie is what distinguishes the apes from the humans.

We all have qs about various content in movies and many of your responses helped me a great deal. I am glad we can help each other discern whether a movie is for us or not.

Matt, I am super sensitive to motion sickness, like, had to leave the theater during the first Hunger Games movie levels of sensitive.

I had no problems with Gravity. Just FYI, Fwiw.

Yeah, I've avoided watching Gravity for the reasons Matt cites. I imagine I'd be terrified.

Just reading Buzz Aldrin's recent description of being on the moon gave me chills and that's without the whole pinwheeling through the void.

Strangely, the Apes movie did not trigger my animal harm squick simply because they act more like humans than animals.

I saw Gravity and I had to suppress several screams during the first half of the movie. It stands out in my mind as one where I was seriously considering leaving the theater in the middle of the movie. The only other movie where I seriously contemplated leaving the theater in the middle was "Splice." But I think I made my feelings known about that movie. Worst movie I have ever seen in a movie theater, period. Bad quality, Squick, Troubling, the whole 9.

For Gravity, I was not sick, I was anxious. And I am not agoraphobic or claustrophobic (except in MRI machines).

It is a good movie, but I am not sure I would recommend it to anyone.

Snowpiercer: wow. Just, wow. I was on the edge of my seat almost the whole time. The performances blew me away, all the little details with the characters. From Edgar to the dude who wouldn't die (Frank the Elder, I think?) to the guards doing head count. It wasn't goon 1 and goon 2, there was personality and history in how they slouched and elbowed, instead of the typical stormtrooper upright stance with a blank face. Tiny, tiny little directions that spoke volumes.

And it's everything everyone's said: the best; full of logic holes to, well, drive a train through; world-building that was at once wonderful and leaving you with a feeling of being incomplete and asking you to do too much of the legwork; thought-provoking ( was the polar bear at the end a wink at current real-world circumstances reversed, or was it the Korean bear-creation myth I read put forward as a hopeful ending? ).

After, I was a bit miffed that we didn't get even a shot of Curtis' body, but then realized that the last shot was him holding a woman with only one good arm, and that felt right, that felt like a good end for him, he'd done what it he thought took to be a good man, a good human, a leader, and held a woman in his arms.

I loved that it wasn't "the white man saves them/outlives them and is the star of every scene". So many good characters who all had their moments of bad-assery without them feeling like "moments".

I was scared, truly, at the end, when I thought the movie would end with the horror, like The Ring, where the hero of the story perpetuates the horror.

Bravo to a violent movie that made me grieve almost every death, even when it was CGI train cars falling down a mountain.

Thinking more on it afterward, all those logic-holes made me think that this movie is beyond ripe for the picking for fanfic to fill in the gaps.

Another movie it made me think of was 28 Days Later, at the military base/estate. "They promised us women" and the horror of what people will do to survive, and the ethics of at what point do the means not justify the ends, and also the redemption of rejecting "in a heartbeat".

Man, that was riveting and heartbreaking and so damn beautiful.

My biggest nitpick of the most shallow degree was a very tense/emotionally charged scene near the end, and I couldn't help notice in the extreme closeup that the makeup department had done a horrible job on Evans' hair dye, as his black beard was bristling with blond at the ends.

And the only bad CGI was the food vat.

I need to see it again, because this is also the kind of movie that has wonderful foreshadowing.

Juliebird,

you need to fix some of your white font.