I have a blu ray player now, and I picked up the blu ray of Gravity.
Watching the behind-the-scenes docs on the making of the movie is absolutely mind-blowing (to get all ViralNova about it). Gravity is basically a photo-realistic computer animated feature, starring the voices of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Even to the extent that they're using actual footage of Bullock and Clooney, it's difficult to say that that's real footage in the end product, because it's really just one more object/texture that was mapped onto the CG animation.
And truly, no film has ever been manipulated at such a fine grain level, down to the score itself, which was actually created to move around the theater and follow action or sight line. While it still is fantastic in a home theater setting, not watching Gravity in an Atmos equipped theater is really doing it a disservice. You're missing almost 50% of the effect.
Also, while watching the behind-the-scenes material, you get to see a light-up globe they marked up with the path of the story, and I finally figured out why I lose track of it at the end -- I misjudged (just slightly) the trajectory of the Chinese station in relation to the camera angle and Stone in the Soyuz capsule. She comes down in Africa. Somewhere in the central part, I believe.
I need to get Gravity on blu-ray, then. I loved that movie. I saw it in IMax and I'm glad I did.
It's so gorgeous on blu ray.
We saw Gone Girl tonight and it was brilliant! I highly recommend regardless of whether or not you read the book.
Late to the party, but I love the Keanu Dracula so hard. I'm amazed how often I have occasion in my day-to-day life to say, in my best melodramatic Winona voice, "Take me away from all this death" except "death" becomes something like "paperwork" or "silly client chatter" or "report writing". And of course, Gary Oldman does not show up with a wolf and a lovely dove grey suit worn with what look suspiciously like Top Gun era aviator sunglasses and a vaguely Eastern something accent to swoop me away to his castle. Pity that. But it's still awfully fun to say.
Just came back from seeing Gone Girl as well and enjoyed myself thoroughly. I powered through the book prior to watching the movie -- it's a fairly faithful adaptation, but with slightly different pleasures. While not necessarily softening the (many, many) blows from the book, it manages to be quite funny, which surprised me. The casting is dynamite.
I think they did a good job with
Gone Girl
but I think I
would really hate the ending if I hadn't read the book. It will be interesting to see what the reaction of the average non-reader
is.
Brad Bird's Tomorrowland: [link]
