Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

"Nothing in Gravity compares to Mission to Mars’ extraordinary orchestration of passion and dread among a team of astronauts attempting to forge a lifeline in outer space. DePalma created an unforgettable, breathtaking sequence of love and loss. His great tragic humanism was more powerful than Cuaron’s tepid “hope.”"

Can we say "troll"?

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Oh, c'mon, that was a great sequence. The rest of MISSION TO MARS may not have lived up to it, but you've gotta acknowledge that scene.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Sorry, I really don't remember much of "Mission to Mars." I remember thinking it sucked big fat donkey dick.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Saw it yesterday and loved it. What a thrill ride.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

The fact that he uses the word "opalescent" in the first sentence tips off that he's a pretentious jagoff. :)

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Armond White is a contrarian. I think he has a purpose. Criticism is about making you think more about the subject.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Ha. I wrote that message, and then Google'd Armond and it came up with this: http://entertainment.time.com/2013/1...-armond-white/

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

My problem with Armond White isn't that he dislikes popular films (I often agree with his "contrarian" opinion) - it's that he's a terrible writer and he tends to spend more time condemning people who disagree with him than he does actually talking about movies.

There is a place for contrarianism - but Armond White, in my opinion, just isn't very good at it. He's not thought provoking, he's just condescending.

Fortunately, it's also very easy to tune him out.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Some more thoughts on the science of it from AICN's astrophysicist:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/64696

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

^ Good article. I'm able to look past a lot of the mistakes in the movie due to artistic license and I'm glad to read that an astrophysicist can as well. Though I gotta say, if you need to pull out complicated mathematical equations to prove the mistake, you're probably looking deeper than anyone else.

However, the most amazing thing I took away from that article is that somehow AICN has a fucking astrophysicist working for them when they can't even update their website from the late 90s design!

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

If I want that, I'll read Rex Reed. At least Rex can write.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Astrophysicists are a dime a dozen. Now web designers, good luck finding one of those.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

This is a pretty hilarious negative review. It reads like satire.
http://talkbacker.com/movies/gravity...ctive/id=11576

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

It's funny, he did an interview with James Cameron when Avatar came out, Cameron ended up kind of conducting the interview asking him questions about his research.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/43923

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Enjoyed the heck out of it when I saw it last week. I think the film works best for me if

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Just saw it last night. Was really, really impressed with it. On a technical level, it's just amazing. Really felt authentic in the moment. Wonderful performance by Bullock -- by far her best work and miles better than The Blind Side. Clooney was Clooney and that's just fine by me. I have no idea how they made things look that authentic but it was quite an achievement. Last two films I've seen (Rush and Gravity) have been my two favorites this year.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Interesting piece over at Cartoonbrew. Damn, that third astronaut at the beginning was entirely computer animated.

Is Gravity an animated film?

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

I guess someone will have to determine how much live-action is needed for a film to be called "live" instead of animated. Sin City, as an example, was mostly greeen-screened so maybe that movie is actually animated.

And any major effects-ridden movie is pretty much entirely pre-vised. It's not that unusual these days. The only major difference would be the amount of detail of the pre-vis.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Gravity destroys all others at the box office for the third straight week. Great news!

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

i had no idea.

glad this movie is doing well. it so so deserves it.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Would have been better if Bullock's character came across a particular James Brown song as she was scanning frequencies.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

According to that Variety? article posted in the old thread, it sounded like, the only things that aren't CG are Bullock's and Clooney's heads.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

is this true? not even bodies were real? i am not surprised, but then again i had no idea...

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

Cuaron mentioned a couple years ago that the movie would basically be animated.

Re: Gravity (Cuarón, 2013) — The Reviews Thread
 

amazing feat.

did anyone predict this kind of success?