I passionately desire to give Alfonso Cuaron's creative team more of my money.
Gravity is everything I ever asked for from the movies:
1) Entertaining pseudo-science in something resembling science fiction
2) Female protagonist
3) Protagonist vs Environment storytelling
4) Characters informed by (a) good acting and (b) a creative team too busy making an amazing cinematic experience to get bogged down in the mistake that mean = intrinsically interesting character = good writing / plot / editing idea
5) Special effects employed to enhance storytelling / cinematic experience, rather than stopping the flow of events for 30 minutes of "wow, a lot of computing cycles went into the making of this movie".
Alfonso Cuaron has finally eclipsed my habitual mental tag, "that guy on the creative team that did justice to my favorite Harry Potter novel." From now on he will be "that guy who wrote and directed SANDRA BULLOCK IN SPACE OMG THAT WAS AWESOME."
The previews for Gravity were 47 Ronin (skip), Hobbit 2 (postpone to DVD viewing, for maximum avoidance of freaking giant spiders, ick), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a Ben Stiller Man-Child, bless" (skip), "Grudge Match" (boxing comedy, skip), "The Monuments Men" (WW2 misfits, skip), a touching family comedy about those loveable Southern misfits (skip), and Chris Pine Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - no no no, the reason The Hunt for Red October is a great movie is (1) script-writing, (2) a workmanlike approach by the creative team, and (3) Sean "a great actor and smoking hot, at any age" Connery. Skip. Alas, the touching holiday movies do not seem to be touching me yet.
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1) Entertaining pseudo-science in something resembling science fiction
2) Female protagonist
3) Protagonist vs Environment storytelling
4) Characters informed by (a) good acting and (b) a creative team too busy making an amazing cinematic experience to get bogged down in the mistake that mean = intrinsically interesting character = good writing / plot / editing idea
5) Special effects employed to enhance storytelling / cinematic experience, rather than stopping the flow of events for 30 minutes of "wow, a lot of computing cycles went into the making of this movie".
Alfonso Cuaron has finally eclipsed my habitual mental tag, "that guy on the creative team that did justice to my favorite Harry Potter novel." From now on he will be "that guy who wrote and directed SANDRA BULLOCK IN SPACE OMG THAT WAS AWESOME."
The previews for Gravity were 47 Ronin (skip), Hobbit 2 (postpone to DVD viewing, for maximum avoidance of freaking giant spiders, ick), "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a Ben Stiller Man-Child, bless" (skip), "Grudge Match" (boxing comedy, skip), "The Monuments Men" (WW2 misfits, skip), a touching family comedy about those loveable Southern misfits (skip), and Chris Pine Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit - no no no, the reason The Hunt for Red October is a great movie is (1) script-writing, (2) a workmanlike approach by the creative team, and (3) Sean "a great actor and smoking hot, at any age" Connery. Skip. Alas, the touching holiday movies do not seem to be touching me yet.
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comments.