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I rated it as a visual experience. If you're gonna be anal about physics in a fokken Hollywood movie, I would kindly suggest that you refrain from watching movies altogether.

There should be a limit to how left-brained a human being is allowed to be.
 
I was also underwhelmed.

I'm not usually one to nitpick at the believably of a science fiction movie, but I felt like this movie was trying to sell itself as somewhat plausible, which made a lot of the impossible physics distracting to me.

A couple things were downright ridiculous, and one of them came at an emotional climax, which really ruined it, in my opinion.

Anyway, it was very pretty and a technical marvel and all that. I wasn't even too upset that Sandra Bullock wasn't smashed to bits, which is more than I can say for most of her movies.
 
Matty
I rated it as a visual experience. If you're gonna be anal about physics in a fokken Hollywood movie, I would kindly suggest that you refrain from watching movies altogether.

There should be a limit to how left-brained a human being is allowed to be.
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That is a pretty common comment in that situation. My ex used to try that on me a lot when she liked something that I didn't, that I should just accept whatever was presented and not notice things or apply critical thought.

And I can't deny that she can get enjoyment out of a much wider range of TV/movies than me. Perhaps she should be declared the winner? :dunno:

It is simply not an option for me. I notice things. I can't not. If a bunch of guys are firing Uzis at each other at point blank range and no one gets hit, it is ludicrous, and a big eyeroll, to me. I stop being absorbed in a credible presentation and I start seeing writers manipulating. To me, that's bad.

There were some little flaws in Gravity that I could shrug off but there was one major foundational point that was just too absurd for me to ignore. Major repeated facepalm.


However, let's not get carried away. I acknowledge it and factor it to an extent but 7 is still a good rating.
 
In a bad rut. Ninja Cheerleaders I turned off halfway through. Too many fart/shit jokes. I just can't take that.

The Good Son. Fok me if Macauly Culkin isn't the hardest thing on the eyes since holocaust documentaries.

Then there was Theatre Bizarre. It was hard to gauge this as a whole as it was six short horror films wrapped around a girl wandering into a creepy theatre type deal. One was unwatchable, one was very intriguing but gave you a sick to the stomach type feel with their premise. Three were interesting but quite disturbing.

And then there was The Accident. I loved it so much. It stuck out like a sore thumb from the other five shorts. A reflection that sometimes the most frightening horrors don't require goblins, ghouls or a ton of gruesome sensationalism. Just a small dash or reality is as terrifying as anything the mind can conjure.

 
I'll tell you my ongoing annoyance though - which is bound to get me criticized (irrationally).

Why do movies go to such lengths to stop noise - they remind us to turn off our cell phones - there was a little pre-feature commercial about not gabbing during the movie and "providing your own soundtrack," - yet it is completely acceptable to eat noisy food in crinkly bags - aka popcorn.

They actually sell the shit there.


Unnecessary outside noise during the feature: are we against it or not?
 
Mudcat
There were some little flaws in Gravity that I could shrug off but there was one major foundational point that was just too absurd for me to ignore. Major repeated facepalm.
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Which is? The biggest goof to me was Clooney hanging off of the tether and then immediately drifting away as he released himself. Hello, zero gravity, you just had to pull a little bit to smack right into Bullock.

But who cares. Who the fok cares. You're watching incredible fake-space footage.

You and MrX - to your rooms, now.
 
The tether scene was the second biggest problem for me but it was just a transitory thing. The fire extinguisher scene was, again, worth a wince but I let it go.

But **SPOILER ALERT**

the whole foundation of the movie was the Russians destroying one satellite which leads to a cascade which more or less destroys everything in orbit over earth. Goddamn you Russians!!

:mudcat:

It's absurd. Humans just do not understand the vastness of things beyond the tips of their noses. I don't know if they are imaging that all the stuff orbiting earth is in neat, single file directly over the equator with everything at the exact same altitude, basically elbow-to-elbow. But it is nothing like that. Stuff is all over the place. Different orbits, hugely varied altitudes. Things at different altitudes are moving at different speeds. Things that explode, disperse.

The scenario being presented was just ridiculous. Satellites do get blown up. It happens. Does the ISS in its different orbit thousands of miles away possibly get struck by a stray piece of dispersing debris? It's not impossible. DOINK! Life goes on.

(And yes, the movie did make reference to the original explosion being at a lower orbit so they were not totally ignoring the facts, just the implications.)

As I tried to say, it probably wouldn't matter much to the layman. Maybe they wouldn't question it at all or maybe they would have vague doubts but that's it. But, dopey as I may seem on the forum, I really have had a lifelong interest in astrophysics and I really did study it at university and I know immediately and without a doubt that the very foundation of the movie is balderdash.

My example of Firing Uzi's at point blank and no one gets injured is hopefully relatable as a common movie eyeroll moment, but as an actual analogy it is basically backwards. A better analogy would be that, I dunno, a bomb goes off outside the Rogers Center and and all the debris travels in a tightly packed formation and pelts the fucking hell out of the food building at the CNE reducing it to smithereens.

If someone tried to sell me that in a movie, I would :facepalm:
 
Matty
Which is? The biggest goof to me was Clooney hanging off of the tether and then immediately drifting away as he released himself. Hello, zero gravity, you just had to pull a little bit to smack right into Bullock.
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That's the one that annoyed me the most, not because the physics was any worse than a few other things, but because it was tied to a major emotional climax in the movie, and was therefore really distracting.

But my main point is, I LOVE a lot of super unrealistic sci-fi, when it is self-aware. That was not this movie. Gravity wasted a lot of time and energy trying to convince the audience that there was actual physics going on, yet put very little real thought into said physics. Lazy. I got no respect for that.

Going to my room, now.
 
I watched the movie The Artist (2011) for the second time yesterday.

After the first viewing I saw it as cute and basically good but overrated. I don't recall having a big problem with it winning the Oscar - it was a weak bunch of nominees (again) - I think I leaned towards The Descendents but it was not something I was about to get uppity about.

Overall I was kinda like, ehh, some value to it but novelty-ish. ~7 out of 10. Maybe 7.3 or something


On second viewing I love it. Changed my rating from 7 to 9.

Love it.
 
The complaint often expressed is that the story is very melodramatic and takes many obvious turns. I agree. What I no longer agree with though, is that is a weakness. I see it as very intentional. They wanted to capture the original spirit of the artform which was all about that stuff - with modern touches deftly added in.

I loved the acting and the way it was directed. They captured the mugging and over-the-top facial reactions reminiscent of the silent movie era, but then it would subtlely morph into some wonderful modern acting that they just weren't capable of back then.

I loved the integrity of the plot. Where the old movies (not just silent but for decades beyond) were often so dependent on contrivances to force the melodramatic climax, every character's motivations in The Artist made sense. The cleverness of the reveal where George discovered what happened at the auction - and then his reaction ---> inspired.

I don't know how I missed the strength of the music first time around but not this time.


It's an homage for sure but it is much more than that. I have seen the light.


/end of gushing
 
Pitch Perfect (2012) - I remember when this was first released in theatres I saw reviews that basically said:

It would be easy to pigeonhole this as Glee: The Movie, but it is so much more than that.

And it went on to get decent reviews and ratings.


Here is the truth:

It is exactly Glee: The Movie.


4.6 out of 10.
 
It's funny because she's fat


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