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⌈ Secret Post #2493 ⌋

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I tell people that I love it, it was amazing and put many other good words but yeah at some points I wanted it to end

Perhaps if she'd engaged in some kind of angsty romance with Clooney, through the suits, somehow

Perhaps if there were a third astronaut to cause intrigue. Which astronaut will she spacebang? CAN SHE DECIDE THIS BEFORE HITTING THE ATMOSPHERE?

It depends on what you look for in a movie. Personally I adored it, but I can see it not being everyone's thing.

I really liked the visuals, but the actual plot alternately pissed me off and bored me. I would never see it again and would say it's only worth watching on the big screen if at all.

I have no interest in wanting to see this movie. The plot looks boring as shit.

It's got the kind of plot that sounds dull on paper, but actually when you're there in the (dark, cold, near-empty) theater, watching it all unfold in IMAX 3D with Dolby Atmos surround sound, it can be surprisingly engaging. Definitely an experience, even if it ruins space for you by forever associating it with horrific gory death by orbiting debris.

mte. not to mention, the trailers made it look dull as hell. the only reason i went to see it was because it got massively positive reviews, and i wanted to see how the hell a movie about sandra bullock stuck in space could be any good.

it ended up being a pretty decent survival/thriller movie.

Seriously? I mean, it's not the "best movie ever" but it's hardly boring.

And the visuals are absolutely stunning. I saw it twice in the cinema because it's so gorgeous to look at.

That might be the problem.

For a lot of people, visuals don't mean much, the only way they can get engaged is the plot or the dialogue or whatever. I don't care how stunning the visuals are, if the plot is boring then I just can't help but be bored.

Well, the plot isn't going to win any Oscars but it's not really boring imo. If the OP has "never been more bored in their life" then they're pretty lucky when it comes to movies.

Y U NO label your fandoms?

What movie is this?

Gravity.

Thanks anon :)

You're welcome. :3

I found the dead child trauma and religious overtones to be pretty annoying.

I'm curious now...What were the religious overtones?

I thought there were too many ham-fisted evolution/science overtones tbh. The whole "her daughter was killed by gravity" thing made me roll my eyes. And the ending scene where she moved from the water onto land (and metaphorically learned how to walk) was downright ridiculous.

They ruined the credibility of the movie for me with the overblown child trauma - I mean, doesn't NASA do psychological screenings of people before it sends them to do super important and super expensive jobs? Girl was depressed.

I thought the movie was full of heavy-handed religion allusions. Russian module had an orthodox icon above the switchboard, Chinese had Buddha or something and there was apparently some action figure from a cartoon in the American one (which may very well be true in reality, but the film emphasized it with the camera shot). So although they are in space because science, there's still an overtone of supernatural godly power that watches over them. And sure enough, the protagonist says something along the lines- wonder if I should pray except no one taught me how. Teach your scientists to pray, for god's sake, America!

There was that one poor woman... Stalking isn't exactly an example of mental health.

Personally, I thought those touches were to show that astronauts, despite the extraordinary nature of their work, are still just people, with people-like quirks. The American shuttle had a figure of Marvin the Martian, which is hilariously apt and isn't a religious icon by any stretch. The Russian space station had an orthodox icon and some blue alien doll thing. And the figurine in the Chinese station wasn't the Buddha but the Chinese deity Budai -- and anyway, Chinese "religious" icons don't really work the same way Christian ones do. You'd see various deities littered around people's homes and workplaces for reasons like luck, wealth, education, decoration, etc. but they're not a measurement of piety as such.

Really, even Ryan's inability to pray at the moment of her impending death doesn't strike me as her wanting to rediscover God or something. She did rediscover faith in herself, somehow, so the overall theme of triumph of the human spirit yadda yadda was intact. No divine miracle a la Signs here, though probably just as many improbable coincidences.

And I mean, Cuaron isn't a guy who shies away from religious themes, so if you thought this was bad you probably think Children of Men was a modern day nativity story. But in this movie, the spirituality is found more in the chilling, austere beauty of space and the view of the Earth in contrast to the perils of the situation. (Doesn't the Clooney character say something to this effect right before, you know?) It reinforces the idea that to these characters, science is the highest faith they subscribe to, hence the spiritual tone. At the end of the movie, Bullock's character does indeed take a "leap of faith", but it's based on physics and the desire to live rather than putting yourself in the hand of a higher power.

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Seems to me this movie managed to somehow be both spiritual ("religious") and Darwinian in tone. You're reacting to the latter and the other person to the former. That's interesting.

This movie has the most boring trailer I have ever seen, and they showed it EVERY SINGLE TIME I went to the cinema for months before it came out. At this point I hate this movie without even seeing it, but I can't imagine that 2h of that trailer will be anything but the most boring shit ever.

I guess some people just don't have the inherent awe of being in space that I have. Space just gets me, man.

Right? I don't care if I only get to be in space for 15 minutes before getting ripped to shreds. It'd be worth it for the view.

If it's any consolation, the trailer is misleading as hell. Most of the scenes from the trailer take place in the first 5 minutes of the movie. The rest is about more than just floating in space.

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