Gravity in 3D

[Captain Donn]

I went to see Gravity in 3D yesterday. I was impressed to say the least. It had me squirming in my seat for most of the movie. Sweaty palms too. Not a movie for those who get motion sick easily i might add.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc81zUGFCo

[godotwaits]

I don't get motion sick, per se, but I do have some phobias that make me think I couldn't handle this one. I'll probably have to wait for the 2D version to come out. I heard an NPR description of it. I hear the first shot is an unedited take that goes on for many many minutes since they were using digital, rather than standard film stock. I'll let Tramp take over from here.

But it sounds like this one will be in the herd of heavy weight Oscar contenders this year. And good news for Sandra Bullock career wise. I'd never feature her as a 'great' actress really, but have always felt she's a pleasure to look at.

[PaulKay]

I'll wait until it show up on DVD

[Russell Letson]

Hope your telly is huge-screen, Paul--I'm old enough to have seen 2001 in Cinerama and then in subsequent 35mm-flat theatrical release and finally on a TV screen, and as good as the film is in any format, that Cinerama experience is the primal one. (Though I suppose a really good 70mm print on a big theatre screen would approximate the Cinerama experience.) Everything I've heard about Gravity suggests that it should be viewed on the biggest available screen, and even 3-D, which I ordinarily don't bother with.

[Supertramp78]

"I hear the first shot is an unedited take that goes on for many many minutes since they were using digital, rather than standard film stock. I'll let Tramp take over from here."

It is worse that that. I think it goes for 17 minutes or so and it is because when you are in space, nothing in the movie was real except the faces of the actors which were put in later. So you are watching, for the most part, one long animated segment when they are in space, with the faces inserted in later. They couldn't do the zero G the way they wanted any other way. The biggest issue was getting the interactive lighting on those faces to match what they knew was going to go on around them (the Earth spinning by, them rotating or flipping in relation to light sources like the Sun, etc) so they built a large LED filled box that was large enough for the actor and the camera and the lights on the inside of the box were programmed to match the lights that were going to be in the finished animation. There was lots of choreography around head turns and eye lines and stuff and what Bullock pulled off was rather amazing considering what she had to look at(nothing) while she was acting. Face plates on the helmuts were digitally created later.



the suit would eventually be replaced with a digital suit and helmut. They wore helmuts during filming but they were for reference only.

[factorychef]

Check out Sandra the first time she takes off her spacesuit.

[xyrn]

Just got back from a matinee of Gravity (2D version).
We did however see it on a giant screen, and sat close enough that it was almost an Imax-type-experience but not eye/neckstrain close.

The MULLER MONSTER SCREEN® is 80 feet wide by 3 stories tall. Each week view the top movie in 4K resolution from a 6500 watt digital projector and hear it in Dolby® 7.1 sound delivered all around you through 36 speakers. The MULLER MONSTER SCREEN® seats over 560 people in high back rocker chair seats making it the best place to see all the big releases. All this for only an additional $2.00 upcharge.

I was pretty impressed, I loved it.


***SPOILERS BELOW*** IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, TURN BACK NOW.
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Seemed pretty realistic (as far as I know, being a non-astronaut) except for the added sound of debris whizzing past and explosions outside (in the relative vacuum), and I think a decompression death would be messier, but we really didn't need to see that. It was shocking enough. I also liked that there wasn't some convoluted backstory or some side plot about some shady NASA guy or conspiracy or something political or whathaveyou.

It basically stuck to a reaaaaaaally bad day at work in space, and how a couple people tried to cope.

Seemed like almost real-time doubled and tripled at times, the intervals between revolutions and getting into the debris field was closer to 35-40 min than 90, and the descent to Earth happened in around 5 min, not the 10 that the character spoke of.
The ending was interesting, and I think appropriate.

When we see documentaries or news footage of astronauts in space they're always smiling and floating and blowing little bubbles of water at the camera, and everything has the impression of being very fluffy and delicate.
This movie reminded me that things have mass and momentum even in a weightless environment. Hurtling through space trying to grab onto something is as difficult as falling from a roof and trying to grab the flagpole on the side of the building. And a flying toolbox is gonna leave a mark.

It was a great movie!

[Deleted]

I'm off Monday and I think my son and I are going to go see it.

This article discusses what happens in a decompression death. It quotes Phil Plait of "Bad Astronomy" so it is the straight dope. Bottom line: such a death is gross, but not in the way you might think. guardianlv.com/2013/10/in-deep-space-do-people-explode/

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Here is Plait's review: www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/10/04/ba_movie_review_gravity.html In short, he loved it.

AND A WARNING TO THE WHINERS WHO COMPLAINED THAT THE "BREAKING BAD" DISCUSSION CONTAINED SPOILERS: PLAIT DISCUSSES THINGS YOU MIGHT CONSIDER 'SPOILERS.' SO YOU'LL HAVE TO EXCUUUUSE ME FOR BEING AMONG THE 10.3 MILLION VIEWERS WHO FOOLISHLY CHOSE TO WATCH "BREAKING BAD" IN 'REAL TIME' AND THEN FELT LIKE TALKING ABOUT IT WITH SOME OF THE OTHER 10.3 VIEWERS WHO WATCHED IT.

[Chesapeake]

The NYT gave pretty much a rave review to Gravity, which it said "in a little more than 90 minutes rewrites the rules of cinema as we have known them."

This is one I'm going to have to see on the big screen.

[frazer]

Does any one fart in their spacesuit?

[jdd2]

Nobody farts in space, ever. :rolleyes:

[mccoyblues]

Oct 5, 2013 7:46:54 GMT -5 Captain Donn said:

It had me squirming in my seat for most of the movie. Sweaty palms too. Not a movie for those who get motion sick easily i might add.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrc81zUGFCo

That's what concerns me. I;d love to see this movie but between the fear of heights, clostrpphobia and motion sickness I don't think I could get through it.

[Deleted]

Just saw it in 3D IMAX. Oh. My. God.

WOW. Even double WOW.

It was stunning. The visual effects knocked my socks off. It is a very riveting story, too.

I'm no film critic, but Bullock was amazing. I have to admit the thoughts of "Sandra Bullock" and "astronaut" did not go together when I originally heard about the movie, but she won me over and pretty quickly. Clooney played pretty much the character you think he would, and he was convincing, too.

As a modeler who spends a fair amount of time collecting research on the vehicles depicted in the movie, it seemed to my eye that they captured the hardware in VERY high fidelity. One thing you get from this movie is that the ISS is huge and it's innards are crammed with gear. And it's exterior is covered with handholds, foot restraints, antennas, grapple fixtures, wiring, conduits, thermal coverings, equipment and experiment pallets and zillions of other gizmos. You see all of that in the movie.

I was afraid I'd get some motion sickness with it being 3D and IMAX, but nothing happened. The movie is one hell of a ride.

Joe Bob says check it out.

[Deleted]

Saw it in 3D today as well. I'm not partial to panic, so parts of the movie bugged me. The visuals were stunning, however.

[Fingerplucked]

You guys have convinced me. I'm going to have to see this. In the theater. Now I just have to figure out when and how many D's to see it in.

[sekhmet]

Lars and I saw it last night in 3D. Amazing.

[Deleted]

Fp, if you don't see it in 3D, it won't be as good. Pony up the extra few dollars and it will be a much better experience.

[Doug]

Gravity this afternoon but it will be in 2D. 

[brucemacneill]

Since I can't see 3D I guess i can wait for it on TV. Besides, there aren't any theaters here let alone 3D theaters.