Comments on: Gravity will leave you breathless https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/ Big voices. Little censors. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:43:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Michael Noble https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-49170 Tue, 08 Oct 2013 16:08:33 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-49170 Overall? Enjoyed it.

The “explained away by [spoiler]” I caught immediately … if we’re talking about the same thing.

Most of the implausibilities didn’t bother me, i.e. Chuck Wash’s note about Stone’s hair.

The biggest implausibility that bothered me was the ending. I expected several other things. But … it did give me a slight upturned smile … “titularly” speaking …

]]> By: Ivey West https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-49125 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:51:29 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-49125 Yeah, that was a little convenient that they were all in visual distance from each other, but hey, that’s why they call it fiction :)

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-49124 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:43:33 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-49124 I was a space nerd too. Still am, but I no longer have a desire to go into space! But those tweets do address some of what I called “implausibilites,” including the almost perfect alignment of the Hubble, ISS and Chinese space stations. The hair, though, didn’t bother me. It was short enough to not really notice if it was floating. But, (1) it’s a movie and (2) trained astronauts signed off on it (allegedly), so the layman really isn’t going to question a lot of those issues. My only real issue was the “she has to get from point A to point B to point C” and endure various hazards that are piled on at each stop. It was like a leg of The Amazing Race! Still entertaining though.

]]> By: Ivey West https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-49122 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:24:23 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-49122 I was a bit of a space nerd growing up, and the only thing that really jumped out at me was the sequence in the Soyuz capsule involving her helmut being off (that may or may not have been negated by our understanding at the time) and how the re-entry module self-oriented (that really bothered me, FWIW).

There were some “lesser” things that bothered me: The amount of time she re-suited and exited to get untangled relative to her timer, how lucky she was not to get hit during the following debris cloud and how she managed to hang on to the hatch every time she depressurized the airlocks.

I’ve been looking for a fact-check post …. and boom:

https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Gravity-Gets-Fact-Checked-By-Astrophysicist-Neil-deGrasse-Tyson-39705.html

Edit: Not that it addresses any of my questions…

]]> By: Chuck Duncan https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-49121 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 15:12:08 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-49121 Well, the second she starts taking off her pressure suit, all of my friends thought Alien, and that she was also weightless made me think of the opening titles from Barbarella. For example.

Maybe instead of “implausibilities,” I should have said “plot contrivances”? Of course, having never been to space — and after this, never wanting to go to space — maybe there would be this huge chain reaction of one thing after another that one, lone astronaut could navigate. That’s not to take anything away from the film, which like I said, kept me breathlessly on the edge of my seat. But when you think about it afterwards …

Anyway, I still want to see it again.

]]> By: Ivey West https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-49116 Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:52:36 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-49116 I’m not sure there were any implausibilities, at least from my perspective (Well, there was one that ended up being explained away by [spoiler]). But the destruction of satellites with missiles is something that happens.

I was too excited to see the touchstone references that you were talking about. I could “feel” some of that stuff passing me by (There were several times that shouted “2001!!” to me, but that’s as much “close-up of guy in space helmut” as anything else).

I was, however, completely blown away by the third name on the cast list. That’s definitely a result for being in such awe for the first 20 minutes of the flick :)

]]> By: Lindsay Waite https://cliqueclack.com/p/gravity-review-sandra-bullock/#comment-48974 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:31:39 +0000 https://cliqueclack.com/p/?p=12864#comment-48974 Fascinating, especially with the sound design you’ve described. I hope to catch it soon.

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