Wow! Sandra Bullock and George Clooney in GRAVITY.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Run, don't walk, to see this outstanding movie.

It's just about 92 minutes and now I know why it wasn't longer........we wouldn't have been able to take any more excitement or stress!

Well done, though my physicist husband says they got the physics wrong...oh well, it's still exciting.

I'll be decompressing for a while yet...

*whew*

[NYC_SKP]

1. Or, as we used to say in San Francisco:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I LOVE that graphic, my dear NYC_SKP!

I haven't seen that one in ages!

Thanks!

[NYC_SKP]

5. Born August 23, 1942, there were originally only four little man icons.

They added the empty chair icon after world war 2 ended, they say, because the movies got so bad!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. How cool; I didn't know that!

I know I never saw the others...

Thanks for sharing them, and their history!

[rrneck]

2. I dug it.

I don't worry too much about being able to see the zipper on the monster costume if it's a good story.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Oh, I agree, my dear rrneck!

Actually, when you look at the bare bones of the story, it was simple...

And effective.

The special effects just blew me away.

[Skittles]

6. who is Debra Bowen?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. I meant Sandra Bullock!

I am an idiot!

Thanks for pointing out my error.

Sandra Bowen was our local representative (I think) to the California Assembly. But don't quote me!

[Skittles]

9. awww

I liked the movie although when I saw it on the bigscreen it made me a little queasy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. It WAS good!

We have a 60" flat screen TV, and it is perfect for this sort of thing.

There were a couple of scenes that made me a bit queasy too........and our screen is nothing like as big as a theater screen!

[progressoid]

11. We had to see it on tv because my wife gets sick from the motion on screen.

Well, that and it was a lot cheaper to check it out from the library than go to the theater.

[Skittles]

17. when I was a kid I got car sick a lot

and I've never been able to take nitrous oxide, because that floating feeling nauseates me

[Orrex]

12. I've read that it's a typical "damsel in distress" movie

And that Sandra Bullock is only saved by a hallucination about a man.


Apparently, those reviewers saw a different film...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. I agree, my dear orrex!

I didn't think there was anything typical about it.

Of course there are always plot points that you might recognize. After all, there is nothing new under the sun.

But the way the story progressed made it anything but typical in my eyes.

[newcriminal]

18. That's exactly how I saw it as well.

Poor woman had to have a man save her. I didn't enjoy it at all, and I am not a gung ho feminist.

[Orrex]

24. Here's how I view it...

With a few minor dialogue changes, her character could just as readily have been played by a male, but then the primary criticism would be "why couldn't they have cast a woman in that role?"

I also don't see the hallucination as problematic, because it's not as though ol' George actually reappeared to advise her; the solution came from inside her own brain. It was a dramatic choice, understandable given the structure of the two-character narrative.

Having made the decision to use the device of a hallucination, who else might have appeared to her? One of the other dead astronauts? Ed Harris? Her dead child? George was the most sensible option within the context of the story.


It might have been interesting to see Clooney's role also played by a woman, but I thought that he gave an entertaining performance.

[tammywammy]

21. That's the movie I saw.

I thought it was okay, but I wouldn't watch it again. I didn't get the hype. Effects were great, but the story was ehh.

[pokerfan]

13. Saw it on the big screen

in 3D even. Fantastic effects.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. My dear pokerfan!

It was SO intense in ordinary 2D that I don't think I could have handled it in 3D!

Really enjoyed it.

[pokerfan]

27. Yeah, we wanted the most intense experience possible

It was pretty immersive, which is what we were looking for.

[Boom Sound 416]

16. It's the kind of movie that makes you want to make movies

[Paladin]

19. Outstanding flick. Will watch it again, for sure. (nt)

[rug]

20. You sound like you need a cigarette.

[jrandom421]

22. I'm still wondering

whatever happened to the sister of a friend and the hairy guy at Mardi Gras.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Me too...

[NewJeffCT]

25. I was wondering

where she landed at the end of the movie.

[Paladin]

26. I think that was part of the ending's charm.

Wherever she landed, it just didn't fucking matter......