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Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity • Page 7
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Mola_Ram 26,196 posts
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Loved it, but cant buy the 3D version until MS and Sony decide to add the support to their newer consoles. While it obviously wont be up to cinema standard I think if I pull the couch up to the 50" plasma, turn off the lghts, crank the 5.1 and don the active shutter glasses, it may be a fair approximation.
I should probably make the floor sticky with spilt coke though, then blank out the screen every 5 mins pretending folk are going past to the loo. Maybe let the kids play in the room to simulate those who like to talk during a film.
Yep, wont be anything like the cinema, thank god.
Srsly tho, Prometheus' 3D was amazing at home (film was ok) so expecting this to set a new benchmark for 3D at home and at least give me a reason to buy my 4th ever 3D blu ray. -
FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoJust watched it.The story was simple, but I don't actually have a big problem with that (accuracies aside, but then this is Hollywood). We are always expecting some sort of surprise, but is it necessary? Yeah the characters were shallow, but then there wasn't enough dialogue to build them anyway.
Good film, though I was close to drifting off with the hallucinating. Had done enough by then. -
MrWorf 64,193 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThat bit does drag, a few posters reckon she actually died there and the rest of the film are the last moments in her head. Personally, I was hoping for two Apes on horseback :/
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FWB 56,369 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPossibly. May have even died at the start too, but to be honest it doesn't really matter and I think one ends up over speculating. Doing so adds nothing to the story or film.
I liked the way it ended. Perfect time to cut the scene. -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoPersonally I found there was a more character development than I was expecting from the reviews I've read. And much of that happened in the Soyuz (and I really didn't mind the slowing of pace after all the action before it). Could easily have chopped off a couple minutes off the end though, but I didn't mind the ending when it came (if that makes any sense).
I mean, it's not a character led film, clearly, but it was more than just a dumb action flick, and I appreciate that. -
yegon 6,511 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPossibly stupid question about the 3D Blu Ray - can you play it in 2D if you so wish?
I've no experience of buying 3D BD's, not typically a fan of 3D at all, but saw Gravity in 3D at the cinema and really enjoyed it. Kind of curious to how it'll translate to my 55" tv, but would like the ability to watch it in ye old faithful 2D as I've got a very low irritation threshold where 3D is concerned. -
monkman76 18,987 posts
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Registered 13 years agoYeah, I think all 3D blurays have the 2D version included.
I don't understand all the high praise myself. I lost the ability to suspend disbelief in the first half hour, so from then it just felt like a feature length tech demo. An impressive one, of course, but any tension was gone once it became clear she was basically invincible. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoMy gravity 3D BR came with both a 2D and 3D disc, which is nice. -
twelveways 7,131 posts
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Registered 15 years agoRazz wrote:
The people in the Chinese cinema I watched it in thought he was, the way they whooped and hollered when they heard him speak, you would think he was the hero of the movie...
Not sure he was Chinese, sounded like a native American or Inuit. -
Trafford 9,359 posts
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Registered 14 years agoI enjoyed watching this with my kids the other night. I didn't really find it annoying in any way, easily pleased that's me. -
MrWorf 64,193 posts
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Registered 20 years ago@monkman76 Dude, this film is basically Mr Magoo in Space -
Dougs 100,415 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWatched it last night, thought it was ace. OK, so some of the script is a little cheesy, and the plot is paper thin, but it was a hell of a ride and I wasn't the slightest bit bored. All good imo (8.5/10) -
Armoured_Bear 31,234 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDeckard1 wrote:
Stop being a dick.
Its a very good film. The only person being overly vocal about it not being is ecosse. Just think about that for a second.
It's a good film in some ways, a bad film in others. My opinion is shared by many others, not sure why you're being such a whining bitch about it. -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Watched it the other night too. It's the definition of a throw-away film. Entertaining and glad I watched it, but will not be watching it again. -
captainrentboy 1,682 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAll that stuff about her being dead seems like bit of a stretch, folk looking for hidden depth in a movie where there really isn't any. :/
The director/writers have never made any claims for it having an ambiguous ending like that.
And some of the shit like "Oooo when the ship re-enters the atmosphere, the red glow outside the craft symbolises such&such" is just utter balls.
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If she was meant to be dead I don't think there would be a radio message about a rescue being on the way as the capsule sinks. Also we wouldn't have had the stuff where she was asking Kowolski to say hi to her daughter. The point was she gave up, decided to die, then fought through it and found a new sense of purpose. Emerging from the water was a rebirth - she was fighting to live for the first time her child died. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agocaptainrentboy wrote:
Totally this. JJ Abrams and, to a lesser extent, Christopher Nolan have a lot to answer for.
All that stuff about her being dead seems like bit of a stretch, folk looking for hidden depth in a movie where there really isn't any. :/
The director/writers have never made any claims for it having an ambiguous ending like that.
And some of the shit like "Oooo when the ship re-enters the atmosphere, the red glow outside the craft symbolises such&such" is just utter balls.
IMO of course.
The modern trend of people analysing films to death in the belief that there are hidden messages and plot twists does my head in (same applies with TV shows as well, like Breaking Bad). -
Fake_Blood 11,093 posts
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Registered 12 years agoNah she gets in the chinese capsule, turns off the air and dies while hallucinating wildly. -
MrWorf 64,193 posts
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Edited by Razz at 19:20:55 08-03-2014 -
BinaryBob101 27,756 posts
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Registered 12 years agoCuaron has said that her emergence from the primordial soup at the end of the film symbolises the evolution of life. Take from this what you will:
http://io9.com/gravitys-ending-holds-a-deeper-meaning-says-alfonso-c-1442690788 -
oldskooldeano 3,496 posts
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Registered 18 years agoMola_Ram wrote:
Indeed there is. It's on the blu-ray as an extra. He is from Greenland which makes him inuit? His name, and the name of the short, is Anqianng (or something). It's worth a watch if you enjoyed the film. It's no more than 10 minutes long.
I think there's some webisode clip floating around showing the guy talking on the other end. With the dog and everything.
EDIT: Apologies to Razz. Viewing on mobile I didn't realise he had actually linked the short.
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoAh wow, that's pretty cool! -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThe short is also on YouTube and well worth a watch for those without it on disc.
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If she was dead you know how they would have ended the film - with her daughter waiting for her beside the lake. -
mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agoHave riz and whizzo got Razz on ignore or something? -
I clicked on Razz's link and all it did was link to "What to watch".
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