16 thoughts on “Gravity”

  1. I suspect someday I may see it. What I have seen of the trailers suggest it has Roland Emmerich unbelievable type sequences. For the subject, that might be necessary, but I don’t see the ability to suspend belief as I did to somewhat enjoy the humor of Armageddon. This movie doesn’t seem to be humorous, and while it may be visually entertaining, it still has the drawback of having George Clooney and the Director of “The Possibility of Hope“. I’m sure such Progressives will provide a free offering soon enough.

    1. But Sandra Bullock is always good in these kind of movies.

      “Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re stuck in orbit. Once you drop below 17,055 miles an hour, you burn up. What do you do? What do you do?

      “Your taxes are paying their salaries. If you die, Houston has to take a pay cut.”

    1. Glad to hear you liked it. I’m considering watching it this weekend. My wife sometimes gets motion sickness and from what I’ve read, I wonder if she’d have problems with this movie. What is your opinion?

      I’m willing to suspend disbelief a bit and overlook some obvious things like going from the ISS to the Hubble if the movie is good enough.

    2. That’s the comment which convinced me to go see it. I know that you’re a no-bullshit kind of guy.

    1. He seemed to be impressed by the verisimilitude. He didn’t comment on what the characters did with their predicament. Probably just as well since it would have given a lot of the story away.

  4. I really enjoy well crafted movies/books where the characters are in dangerous physical situations and have to use ingenuity to prevail. I especially like space stories such as that. Kind of like Apollo 13 and the CO2 cannister deal. In fact I’ve mulled over a short story along those lines for,….well……decades.

    Thing is, the story has to be well done. The solutions have to be plausible with no deux ex machina saving the day – like a Vulcan Starship warping in to save Bullock and Clooney as they take the penultimate breath of oxygen.

    I hope this movie is one of the good ones.

  5. Well so far all the reviews I’ve read talked about the special effects and Bullock’s performance.
    I have come to expect stunning special effects…so I hope that’s not the sum total of this movie.

    1. I’ve seen similar reviews, and the trailer seems to suggest the same. I admit that special effects and Sandra Bullock will get me to watch the movie. I’ll be happy to watch the movie. But paying a movie theater to see it or purchasing it later for home theater will require a bit more. Like others, I do hope it is good. While I malign the director, one of his other works was “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”, which was fairly good but so was the source material. I don’t know the source material for Gravity.

      90 min on the dot seems a bit odd for a movie that is being compared to other stellar films like 2001 or Apollo 13.

  6. ““Pop quiz, hotshot. You’re stuck in orbit. Once you drop below 17,055 miles an hour, you burn up. What do you do? What do you do?

    “Your taxes are paying their salaries. If you die, Houston has to take a pay cut.”

    I think the reference is lost on people.

    I think your joke should be,

    “Give an interview to the press.”

    “Give an interview? What!?”

    “Yeah, give an interview. Tell them if you die, the ground controllers back at Houston take a pay cut.”

  7. Saw it yesterday. Yeah, there are a few technical laughers, but you just don’t care. It’s one of the most suspenseful movies I’ve seen in years. I highly recommend it.

    But somebody check me here: Isn’t everything orbiting the earth backwards?

    I hate it when they do that.

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