"Gravity" looks astonishingly terrible.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yep. I've seen the trailers for this about a half dozen times now, and it hasn't made it look any less stupid. Did someone REALLY make a full-length CG movie about Sandra Bullock breathing in distress and shouting? A FULL LENGTH MOVIE? For Hell's sake, the TRAILER was drawn out and tedious. Not only is the premise bad, but the CG is bad and the acting (well, breathe-shouting) is bad.

My mind is reeling. What's next? A movie about... You know what? @#$%. My mind can't even imagine anything more senselessly boring than this. It is the pinacle. Hollywood has won. I surrender.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

I came into this thread expecting some physics.

Instead I discovered a story about a CG Sandra Bullock. I don't even like her in real life. I am le sad.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

I also just came to the sudden realization that I would have preferred math to a woman in this thread.

[dre1507]

Glad I gave up my dream of being an astronaut. Gravity, oh how I love thee.

[Bubba1]

Yep. I've seen the trailers for this about a half dozen times now, and it hasn't made it look any less stupid. Did someone REALLY make a full-length CG movie about Sandra Bullock breathing in distress and shouting? A FULL LENGTH MOVIE? For Hell's sake, the TRAILER was drawn out and tedious. Not only is the premise bad, but the CG is bad and the acting (well, breathe-shouting) is bad.

My mind is reeling. What's next? A movie about... You know what? @#$%. My mind can't even imagine anything more senselessly boring than this. It is the pinacle. Hollywood has won. I surrender.

I agree, my wife and I both watched that trailer recently at a theater and we each gave it double thumbs down. I predict major bomb.

[darylzero]

Ok you guys are crazy. Look at the visual effects of this movie, it looks pretty stunning to me. Imagine watching this in an IMAX.

I hate 3-d movies but I expect this has to be one.

The reviews on this movie are extremely good.

Check out the reviews, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gravity ... cs-numbers

[Bubba1]

Ok you guys are crazy. Look at the visual effects of this movie, it looks pretty stunning to me. Imagine watching this in an IMAX.

I hate 3-d movies but I expect this has to be one.

The reviews on this movie are extremely good.

Check out the reviews, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gravity ... cs-numbers

Call me crazy because visual effects are not a determining factor for me to want to pay to see a movie. FWIW, if we all believed what reviewers think, famous duds like Norbit and the Love Guru would be considered cinematic masterpieces. That's because they both got good reviews.

[krash]

I came here expecting some kind of visual representation of gravitational forces. Now I'm with James at the sad table.

[darylzero]

Ok you guys are crazy. Look at the visual effects of this movie, it looks pretty stunning to me. Imagine watching this in an IMAX.

I hate 3-d movies but I expect this has to be one.

The reviews on this movie are extremely good.

Check out the reviews, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gravity ... cs-numbers

Call me crazy because visual effects are not a determining factor for me to want to pay to see a movie. FWIW, if we all believed what reviewers think, famous duds like Norbit and the Love Guru would be considered cinematic masterpieces. That's because they both got good reviews.

I agree visual effects are not the end all be all of movies, I prefer good characters and acting. As for critics liking Norbit and Love Guru maybe there was one or two but the majority of critics hated those movies.

The link I posted probably 95% of them liked it. I don't listen to critics all the time but when the vast majority say a movie is good then it probably is.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Ok you guys are crazy. Look at the visual effects of this movie, it looks pretty stunning to me. Imagine watching this in an IMAX.

I hate 3-d movies but I expect this has to be one.

There's a LIVE footage IMAX 3D movie made aboard the ISS if you want to get a real sense of vertigo. This thing looks like crap. The flailing suit animations are so stiff and unnatural they could have come from a 1995 videogame.

[nissangirl74]

Just watched the trailer. No thanks. I can think of a lot better things to do with ten dollars. Like lighting it on fire to melt a marshmallow.

[krash]

It seems like it could be interesting, but it also seems like it could be 2 hours of her floating in space and crying.

[JTR32gtst]

I came in half expecting a topless pic of Betty White and I must say I was dissappointed..

[OriginalWheelman]

I came into this thread expecting some physics.

I came here expecting some kind of visual representation of gravitational forces. Now I'm with James at the sad table.

I also expected this thread to be about this.

http://geodesy.curtin.edu.au/research/m ... allery.cfm

[themadscientist]

The prescience of Idiocracy continues to be proven.

[IBCoupe]

The flailing suit animations are so stiff and unnatural they could have come from a 1995 videogame.

Never having been on a spacewalk myself, I can't say for sure that stiff and unnatural is not apt.

[Bubba1]

The flailing suit animations are so stiff and unnatural they could have come from a 1995 videogame.

Never having been on a spacewalk myself, I can't say for sure that stiff and unnatural is not apt.

Although you may not have spacewalked, you have likely "moonwalked", which some might view as stiff and unnatural.... j/k

[MinisterofDOOM]

The flailing suit animations are so stiff and unnatural they could have come from a 1995 videogame.

Never having been on a spacewalk myself, I can't say for sure that stiff and unnatural is not apt.

I certainly haven't spacewalked, but I've seen PLENTY of footage of real people actually spacewalking (not hollywood effects). Namely, that 3D IAMAX space station film I mentioned before. And the one thing that the real spacewalks did NOT look like is the animations in Gravity.

[IBCoupe]

I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://io9.com/weve-seen-gravity-and-it ... 1269054082

[Bubba1]

I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://io9.com/weve-seen-gravity-and-it ... 1269054082

Thank goodness, I was concerned you were gonna link to a video of you moon-walking.

I don't have an issue with Sandra Bullock. I liked her in the Blind Side, and am willing to forgive her for some of her dreadful bombs like Speed II. And I enjoy good special effects. I think the main problem with Gravity is that the trailer sucked. It pretty laid out the ENTIRE premise of the movie, which includes a lotta cliché filled panic breathing. There appears to be zero mystery to the story except whether or not she survives. And based on every single previous Bullock movie, she more than likely survives.

[krash]

Speed I was my jam.

[Bubba1]

Speed I was my jam.

I was referring to the sequel.....

[IBCoupe]

I'm just gonna leave this here...

http://io9.com/weve-seen-gravity-and-it ... 1269054082

Thank goodness, I was concerned you were gonna link to a video of you moon-walking.

Don't tempt me.

I don't have an issue with Sandra Bullock. I liked her in the Blind Side, and am willing to forgive her for some of her dreadful bombs like Speed II. And I enjoy good special effects. I think the main problem with Gravity is that the trailer sucked. It pretty laid out the ENTIRE premise of the movie, which includes a lotta cliché filled panic breathing. There appears to be zero mystery to the story except whether or not she survives. And based on every single previous Bullock movie, she more than likely survives.

I dunno. The premise of the movie might be that there's some kind of Kessler Syndrome, so any kind of rescue (from Earth) could be darn well impossible. Also, it was good to learn that all the explosions and stuff you hear in the trailer? That's added for the trailer. In the movie, there's only music.

[IBCoupe]

For the unfamiliar:

The Kessler syndrome (also called the Kessler effect, collisional cascading or ablation cascade), proposed by the NASA scientist Donald J. Kessler in 1978, is a scenario in which the density of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO) is high enough that collisions between objects could cause a cascade—each collision generating space debris which increases the likelihood of further collisions. One implication is that the distribution of debris in orbit could render space exploration, and even the use of satellites, infeasible for many generations.

A super high-speed forcefield of garbage preventing us from getting out of Earth's atmosphere for centuries.

[dasoupdude]

Remember that horrendous movie "MIssion to Mars?" The 'Gravity' Trailer reminds me of the scene when the Astronaut Girl's husband suicides to save the rest of the crew..lel

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9SDpXMbVsw[/youtube]

[MinisterofDOOM]

Remember that horrendous movie "MIssion to Mars?" The 'Gravity' Trailer reminds me of the scene when the Astronaut Girl's husband suicides to save the rest of the crew..lel

That scene pissed me off to no end as a kid. The physics were so wrong I had to struggle (and fail) not to shout at the TV.

[dasoupdude]

That scene pissed me off to no end as a kid. The physics were so wrong I had to struggle (and fail) not to shout at the TV.

The ending was what did it for me, it was just an enormous wtf?

Oh and I saw it in Theatres.

[IBCoupe]

I forget. Was it Mission to Mars that had the panther robot go nuts? Or was it Mission to Mars that had the, "Humans were originally aliens" ending? I always get that and Red Planet confused.

[mmkeller]

Not interested, doesn't seem realistic. Now on the other hand, Rush looks to be win win for Ron Howard.

[alms24sebring]

I was also sad to see that Snadra Bullock was in this movie. I agree that its a great idea but meh, I lost interest.