Gravity

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:17 am

I work with one of those older ladies who carries "everything" in her purse. I'm sure you could ask her for some aspirin, a screwdriver and a small monkey and she could pull all of them out of her purse at any given time.

My wife and I went to the movies with her once and she pulled out a can of Diet Coke and opened it. I made a comment that the can of soda had to be warm by now and then she pulled out (get ready for it) A CUP FULL OF ICE. SHE HAD A CUP FULL OF ICE IN HER PURSE. I don't even remember what movie it was but I will never forget that cup of ice. I have never laughed so hard in a theater before.

Back to Gravity for a moment, and I know I already mentioned this in my post about Ender's Game, but Gravity just became the benchmark for zero gravity footage. It's like that scene in The Ring when Samara crawled out of the television and we all collectively recoiled... all of a sudden over half of the horror movies I had seen in my life looked tame and silly in comparison. The "laser tag" zero-g scenes in Ender's Game look like kids flying around on guide wires like a high school stage version of Peter Pan compared to Gravity. I realize not every movie set in outer space will be willing to spend the millions required to pull off that level of realism, but man, it will be hard to watch another one without thinking of Gravity.

RetroRomper · Post by **RetroRomper** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:50 am

AArdvark wrote:Didya ever sneak beers into the theater and fake a sneeze while opening the cans so nobody would know what you were doing? Not that I would have ever done this or anything...

I actually sneaked Mike's Hard Lemonade into the IMAX 3D screening of Gravity I went to and have for any number of other movies: for whatever reason its become my cinematic go to alcoholic beverage (maybe because it goes well with popcorn?)

Flack wrote:I realize not every movie set in outer space will be willing to spend the millions required to pull off that level of realism, but man, it will be hard to watch another one without thinking of Gravity.

Have you seen Apollo 13? The space scenes from that movie were filmed in small (25 second) takes aboard NASA's vomit comet when zero g was engaged. I think Gravity, Apollo 13 & 2001: A Space Odyssey have been the only films to get outer space right.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:25 am

You think Hollywood would contribute more towards near Earth space exploration so they could actually build an orbiting sound-stage, or something.
Wonder what the craft services would be like up there....

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AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 10:32 am

OK, saw it last night. First off, I'm real glad I didn't see it in the theater. All the spinning around on a huge screen would have triggered serious nausea attack. As it was I had to look away a couple times. Guess I'll never get into space camp.
I wish it was in 3-D though, that would have looked great, especially with the long long camera shots that drift into her space helmet and back out again.

Story was tight and to the point, good. They really jumped right into the danger! danger! part while keeping the sub- plots to a minimum.
Only part I noticed that didn't adhere to physical laws was George hanging on the end of Sandy's tether and not being able to climb back to her. But that would have messed up the storyline so whatever...

I give it four out of five bars.