Gravity | Re-released on 2D and 3D January 17 | IMAX 3D on January 31! | 100M+ WW IMAX

[The Futurist]

[GiantCALBears]

Just got back, really liked it. Very intense with good emotional work. Thought it was a mix of Apollo 13 with a much better version of Open Water, anyone else?

[Dementeleus]

Noted best-selling science-fiction author David Brin (The Postman, among others), who really knows his physics (B.S. Astrophysics, CalTech; M.S. Applied Physics & PhD space science, UCSD) has seen GRAVITY and written up some thoughts about. Overall he's very positive (with of course some technical quibbles):

 

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/10/gravity-high-praise-plus-few-quibbles.html

[rockNrollaDIM]

I'm so tired of these articles, lol.

[The Futurist]

Hope Interstellar will be debunked too.

[Dementeleus]

It's not a debunking article at all. He's extremely positive about the movie.

 

However, here's a fantastic article about the very thing you're bitching about:

 

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2013/10/the-realism-canard.html

Edited October 10, 2013 by Telemachos

[Ozymandias]

Noted best-selling science-fiction author David Brin (The Postman, among others), who really knows his physics (B.S. Astrophysics, CalTech; M.S. Applied Physics & PhD space science, UCSD) has seen GRAVITY and written up some thoughts about. Overall he's very positive (with of course some technical quibbles):

 

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2013/10/gravity-high-praise-plus-few-quibbles.html

 

This is the only one I caught in the theater:

 

Still, they would not see clouds of approaching supersonic debris. Again, poetic license, but if it's slow enough to identify stuff, then it is too slow to smash a space shuttle to bits. (Still, Clooney's astronaut's crisis mode descriptive monologue is exactly what a test pilot or "right stuff" astronaut is supposed to do.  Well-portrayed.)

 

I was wondering how she could see a bunch of space debri shit flying at her at 22,000 mph lol.  Doesn't really matter though.

[Dementeleus]

This is the only one I caught in the theater:

 

I was wondering how she could see a bunch of space debri shit flying at her at 22,000 mph lol.  Doesn't really matter though.

 

The one that leapt out at me was

Clooney letting go.

[ChD]

The one that leapt out at me was

Clooney letting go.

Yeah, that one was... UGH.

[Dementeleus]

Yeah, that one was... UGH.

 

I'll just pretend the station was rotating.

[ChD]

I'll just pretend the station was rotating.

 

I'll just pretend I've never seen that.

Poor Clooney tried to act like a hero.

[dashrendar44]

Just learned that there will be no Imax copy and projection for Gravity at all in France because of last Jeunet movie The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, that had secured the slot in October well before Warner. As a matter of fact, Imax theater owners (5 Imax theaters in the whole country) don't feel like putting Gravity in their theaters. What the fuck is wrong in this frickin' country!!!?

Edited October 10, 2013 by dashrendar44

[Dementeleus]

Five IMAXes in all of France?! There's like 15-20 in LA alone...

[dashrendar44]

Five IMAXes in all of France?! There's like 15-20 in LA alone...

 

Yeah, that sucks.

 

And that's even worse, there's no native 70 mm Imax film projected anymore since Avatar in 2009, that's shitty Digital Imax downgraded to 2K with poor luminosity (to cut electricity costs they say...)...The change in technology did impact quality and resolution so the experience has suffered a severe loss. Some people said that they saw so-called Imax 3D projections that were blurry and full of artefacts like a DivX projected on a giant screen.

Edited October 10, 2013 by dashrendar44

[The Futurist]

Five IMAXes in all of France?! There's like 15-20 in LA alone...

 

Digital I max is shit.

 

2k projectors on giant screens ? Gimme a break.

 

I saw Avatar in 70mm I Max and it was almost a religious experience.

I could almost feel and touch Pandora.

[Charism]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_venuesI'm so greatefull for so many iMAXes in Poland. It's nearly unbelievable, even if non of them is in right size.

[dashrendar44]

Digital I max is shit.

 

2k projectors on giant screens ? Gimme a break.

 

I saw Avatar in 70mm I Max and it was almost a religious experience.

I could almost feel and touch Pandora.

 

You know I envy so much, man. Everyone that saw Avatar that way at Disney Village were singing Hallelujah about it like an Once-in-a-lifetime experience. You don't know how much I regret not taking a trip there.

Edited October 10, 2013 by dashrendar44

[The Futurist]

You know I envy so much, man. Everyone that saw Avatar that way at Disney Village were singing Hallelujah about it like an Once-in-a-lifetime experience. You don't know how much I regret not taking a trip there.

 

I went twice.

And yes it was magical !

I realized how crazy Cameron is because each frame of Avatar is so full of detail.

 

Saw Tintin ( with 2k projectors) there and was totally underwhelmed.

[Dementeleus]

Some people said that they saw so-called Imax 3D projections that were blurry and full of artefacts like a DivX projected on a giant screen.

 

Sounds like something was very screwed up. There's no way it should look that shitty, 2K or no. (And 2K isn't really that bad, honestly, unless the screen is really really huge).

[Kvikk Lunsj]

Just learned that there will be no Imax copy and projection for Gravity at all in France because of last Jeunet movie The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet, that had secured the slot in October well before Warner. As a matter of fact, Imax theater owners (5 Imax theaters in the whole country) don't feel like putting Gravity in their theaters. What the fuck is wrong in this frickin' country!!!?

I have a feeling  a French revolution is about to happen. 

Edited October 10, 2013 by Dexter of Suburbia