Gravity (2013)

[Jack Nevada]

/waits for the bowls of oatmeal pics...

This ain't no oatmeal, I'm telling you.

[CaptainJackSparrow]

Please....no pictures of that please....

[CoolioD1]

The visuals are pretty much GOAT level so that makes me a little more willing to forgive the cheesier aspects of the story that probably needed to be there for this movie to get made at all. I give this Sandra-Bullocks-Legs/10

[Jack Nevada]

The visuals are pretty much GOAT level so that makes me a little more willing to forgive the cheesier aspects of the story that probably needed to be there for this movie to get made at all. I give this Sandra-Bullocks-Legs/10

The legs were good. 

[4815162342]

This ain't no oatmeal, I'm telling you.

 

It's more like a cream of wheat amirite?

[Jack Nevada]

It's more like a cream of wheat amirite?

Is cream of wheat better than oatmeal? Sorry I havent heard of that food before.

[4815162342]

It's not that far off from porridge

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_of_Wheat

Edited November 8, 2013 by 4815162342

[AniNate]

I wonder why they couldn't just have Bullock trying to survive in space. No hokey backstory, just a basic man vs. nature struggle. They could still keep all the visual flourishes and it would've been far better paced. 

 

I sort of question how someone with her background ever found her way into NASA training anyway. Aren't you expected to be of sound mental health before they spend millions of dollars to shoot you up there?

Edited November 9, 2013 by tribefan695

[4815162342]

It's because she designed the thingamajig they were attaching to the telescope. The backstory/explanation on that was very thin.

[Plain Old Tele]

I wonder why they couldn't just have Bullock trying to survive in space. No hokey backstory, just a basic man vs. nature struggle. They could still keep all the visual flourishes and it would've been far more better paced. 

 

I sort of question how someone with her background ever found her way into NASA training anyway. Aren't you expected to be of sound mental health before they spend millions of dollars to shoot you up there?

 

She was mentally healthy; I doubt anything would've come up in screening interviews to warrant her not going up.

 

According to various NASA astronauts who've done shuttle and ISS missions, her general background for a mission specialist is actually pretty reasonable.

[AniNate]

If you say so, but, I dunno, depression seems like it should be a red flag to me.

[Plain Old Tele]

If you say so, but, I dunno, depression seems like it should be a red flag to me.

 

Depression can be really hard to diagnose; short of being on the verge of suicide, I don't think they'd necessarily withhold her from the mission. It's not like she was actively seeking to die.

[CoolioD1]

Yeah, I agree with Tribefan that maybe this would've been more interesting if they'd taken out the dead kid backstory and Clooney and made it more like what I hear All Is Lost is like with minimal dialogue. But like I said above no one is gonna hand out $100m to make that movie.

[ddddeeee]

I had goosebumps more often than not. Clooney is still annoying, smug and generally ugh but still... woah.

[Plain Old Tele]

Yeah, I agree with Tribefan that maybe this would've been more interesting if they'd taken out the dead kid backstory and Clooney and made it more like what I hear All Is Lost is like with minimal dialogue. But like I said above no one is gonna hand out $100m to make that movie.

 

The dead kid backstory is very effective for a lot of older people -- anyone with a kid -- and it's pivotal to the *type* of story Cuaron wanted to tell.

 

The more existentialist version (apparently ALL IS LOST, which I'm very much looking forward to) might appeal on a more intellectual level (I think it will for me), but not on an emotional one, and that's what Cuaron was driving at: an experiential, emotional movie.

[mattmav45]

I would have liked the film a great deal more without the contrived emotional angle. It just felt way too manipulative and forced to me.I honestly would have been rooting for Bullock more without the lame ass dead child angle.IMO.

[The Stingray]

If you say so, but, I dunno, depression seems like it should be a red flag to me.

"Crazy" should be a red flag as well, but that didn't stop that female astronaut from driving across half the country, in diapers!, to kidnap a fellow female astronaut.

[mattmav45]

"Crazy" should be a red flag as well, but that didn't stop that female astronaut from driving across half the country, in diapers!, to kidnap a fellow female astronaut.

Pics, or it never happened and they don't exist.IMO.

[dashrendar44]

I don't know why people say "no dead kid would have been better"?

 

That's the point, she has no one left on Earth to care for so that's why it's even more powerful that she's willing to live even if she got no reason to hold on at that point. If she was just there drifting in space without any clue on her past, she's committing suicide and then has a change of mind at the last minute but knowing that she had a dead kid, her will to live and survive is even more heartwrenching and doubles the impact of her "rebirth" because she had no "emotional" reason to get back on Earth as she was already dead inside.

 

And I don't know why she couldn't be an astronaut. She's 49 and could have lost her kid in her early twenties, so more than 20 years have passed until she went to space. Everyone goes though lot of shit in their life (miscarriages, accidents, family losses) and deals with it including astronauts. She seems to have seal that part of her life to pass the tests (since she designed the device they're working onto) so she was not diagnosed "depressive" or "suicidal" but being under the stress of a mission going all wrong, that can come back at the surface even if every time Clooney wants to bring it on the table, she utters very few words about it to avoid the subject to move on.

Edited November 15, 2013 by dashrendar44

[AniNate]

I don't know why people say "no dead kid would have been better"?

 

That's the point, she has no one left on Earth to care for so that's why it's even more powerful that she's willing to live even if she got no reason to hold on at that point. If she was just there dirfting in space without any clue on her past, she's committing suicide and then has a change of mind at the last minute but knowing that she had a dead kid, her will to live and survive is even more heartwrenching and doubles the impact of her "rebirth" because she had no "emotional" reason to get back on Earth as she was already dead inside.

 

 

Then they should've found a more believable way to address that than a vision of her co-worker that she seemed to have very little personal relationship with coming back to tell her to move on. Heck, I think I would've preferred her actual daughter appearing in said vision, which may have been more treacly but also would've made more sense.

Edited November 9, 2013 by tribefan695