Movie Review Gravity

Gravity

(AKA: Pretty visuals so you don’t notice the lack of story)

I just can imagine how this movie looks in imax 3d, I mean this movie was made for the big screen, watching it on the TV is pretty but you don’t get the immersion that should have. But after saying this lets go to the real review because a movie is not great just because it looks pretty. If that were the case Pacific Rim should be nominated :P

Almost forget, spoilers, but there are not much to spoil, the script is basically the beat sheet (is the skeleton of a story).

Well the story is about a group of astronauts that have to fix a satellite (Piece of equipment that is in orbit around the earth) but something goes wrong with the destruction of a satellite and now they have to get back to earth. That’s it nothing more, yes you have some development of the characters, because they have to rely on that, there is nothing else going on, but the characters are likeable, I mean, they are George Clooney and Sandra Bullock to people that could never be Bond villains because they are so likeable, so they are in their rolls of themselves in space, and nothing else.

The movie has like some Mexican films back in the beginning of the 2000’s of giving some data that will be important for the story, here is space, yes info about space, that there is no sound, but if they wanted to make it some kind of realistic they kind of fail, because you can hear the voices stronger the closer they are to the screen, and there are some sounds when they are fixing stuff, but the big sound they didn’t put them, or did they? Well if you have study sound engineering or foley, you would know that the way the used the music in this movie is called “Mickey Mouse” and is a kind of original score where the music works as the sounds of everything, if you didn’t notice I invite you to watch it again when is on TV and look for the music in perfect synchrony with what is happening, just like in the old cartoons where the music made the footsteps and the punches.

Other thing is that we can hear Sandra Bullock when she is screaming in the pot, and is supposed that we are outside, where in the beginning they told us that there was no sound.

One thing I hate was the “Wall-e” moment, quoting here a friend (Rebeca) “Are you fucking kidding me!” really you thought that nobody would get that, let’s use one of the most memorable scenes from one of the most memorable movies of space, I mean, I’ll have done the same, but I watched the movie, and I think was great in Wall-e, but here? Here feels just like a rip off.

The main problem with space is that there is nothing there, and I mean nothing, so there are no problems, no big evil to conquer, no great peril for our main character, no new comers (because is freaking expensive send someone there) so, you feel like there could be something else, something beside the main problem, but no, there is only the problem of the beginning and they quest is a straight line until the end.

When I watched this movie I felt that was the fastest of the bunch, and Oh surprise, is the shortest, and that’s good I mean if you don’t have enough story to fill 2 hours don’t make a 2 hours movie, don’t pad it with wide silent shots, just let the length of the story guide you.

Also pretty much the trailer has all the good scenes the rest as I said is more character development.

Well this movie is a big meh, if you don’t take the visuals at consideration, pretty to watch but so simple that everybody will get it, and is not as long as the rest of the Oscar nominated so you can watch it and don’t feel like you lost half of your life.

*** 3 stars (watch it or not, there is not big difference, but if somebody is willing to pay you the ticket for the theatre take it! As I said, this movie is visuals for the theatre)