What do you think of the movie Gravity?

meh

I enjoyed the visuals, but felt like Neil deGrasse Tyson noticing all the inaccuracies.
Some were just laughable.

Yeah, that fire.extinguisher nonsense. Or the pod not burning up during reentry because it tumbled AND was damaged by debris.

It was one of the most suspenseful movies I’ve seen in a long time, and it took me a good hour to come down from the ceiling afterwards. That being said, I also thought it was a one-trick pony.

It was entertaining but so unrealistic. Seriously, the woman would have been beef jerky re-entering the atmosphere in her super heated capsule, not to mention all the other insane challenges. Suspenseful yes, reality based, no.

For what they up-charged for 3D, I want to see that goddamn capsule crash-land in the middle of the theater (thus killing those assholes messing with their ‘smart phones’ through the whole thing).

Now, THAT’s entertainment….

I was waiting for the bit where the apple landed on Clooney’s head, never happened #historicallyinnaccurate #newtonsbonce

The story line (what there was of it) was irrelevant. The visuals were beautiful.

Just as overrated as Avatar.

I was impressed with the special effects but not much else.

SPOILER ALERT! In the scene when Clooney returns and knocks on the capsule door, I slumped in my seat and said out-loud, “Oh for chrissakes, C’MON!” But when I realized that Bullock is actually hallucinating and that everything Clooney taught her is bubbling up from her subconscious. I thought YES!, that makes perfect sense. In fact, for me, it was one of the few things in the film that really did make sense (and yes, I know the story mattered less than the film’s spectacle).

What didn’t make sense to me was how this first-time astronaut-scientist (Bullock) managed to get back to earth in one piece.

I think I will buy a couple of bacon cheeseburgers, strawberry shake, and large fries instead.

I knew the second she didn’t not implode and Clooney return to the pod was an hallucination.

Science fiction asks us to play the game. It all films were documentaries they wouldn’t be very exciting. I enjoyed it. My husband really loved it.

Excellent 3D – they’ve learned not to overuse it and yet enhance the experience. Wonderful use of 3D

The entire rest of the movie from the point of her turning off the oxygen is her last hallucination before death. She never turned on the oxygen again, only in her head.
She died in the movie.

Gravity as a movie is a visual treat with its own amount of visual brilliance but the story could have been much better. It was more like a documentary.

Like the tee-shirt says Gravity Sucks (neanderthal laugh)

@MadMadMax and @ragingloli, you guys are clearly smarter than I am—I didn’t get that it was a hallucination for a few minutes. However, I don’t think she died.

But that’s the great thing about movies, as the late critics Siskel and Ebert taught me: Anybody can believe anything they wish to about any movie, and to one extent or another, they’re all right.

I had the same reaction to that as I had to the end of Dark Knight Rises, where the fat woman calls Joseph Gordon Levitt’s character “Robin”: I fucking rolled my eyes.

Well… I am usually someone who can’t stand all the CGI animation in films these days because it is almost always very obvious to me that it is blatantly violating many of the laws of physics and even basic lower-school rate-time-distance equations, not to mention being ridiculously improbable what they have happening and not happening, and that the human reactions are generally ridiculous in how acrobatic and aware and not stunned-and-peeing-and-pooping-their-pants everyone would be instead of dodging bullets and looking cool.

And, in the moment after I finished watching Gravity, I said that I thought this was the first film with a lot of CGI that I did not have those reaction to. And I agreed with my friend who said that it was also the first film in memory that where the CGI actually contributed to the film’s story instead of distracting from it.

I didn’t think it was perfect, and I noticed some things that seemed a bit off or extremely unlikely, but I thought it was pretty well done. Upon reflection and reading the above comments here, I suppose there were more stretches or errors than I noticed, but the fact that I didn’t notice them, still has me feel that Gravity was much better in that department than any other CGI action film I can think of.

Of course, there’s not a whole lot more to the film than space action, but I like that it was pretty well done and really about cause & effect & problem-solving and space junk and so on.

I was engrossed and entertained. I feel I got my IMAX 3-D money’s worth.

I knew it had to be far-fetched, but I know very little physics that I could nit-pick about, other than when she stood up at the end – there’s no way she’d have had the strength to do so.

Well….OK then.

Please hand me that fire extinguisher…...I am OUT of here…..

Good on the science of zero gravity up close, but an absolute fail when it comes to orbital mechanics.

It was an astonishing visual experience that made you feel you were up there in space. The realism was let down by a hopelessly implausible story line and I think the happy ending was a mistake.

I thought it was entertaining and made you think about that crazy scenario and how scary it would be to be lost floating through space til you die. But, it was a little boring.

She may have needed to scratch her rump at one time during this experience but the cameras did not film that either :) There is no reason to think that every breathing moment was caught on film – it’s science fiction and the idea that she died is a creative thought: however, there is nothing to suggest she died and I don’t think that was where the film was going at all.

@flutherother “I think the happy ending was a mistake.”

Remember the film World War Z?

Well it originally had a much much more complex storyline; brilliantly written that gave the characters a lot more depth. But the ending was not happy. The human race was literally wiped out. People who attended the screen testings didn’t like that. They test viewers said the movie was engrossing and brilliantly written, but they left the theater depressed, so the test viewers wrote depressingly bad reviews. It ruined the viewers’ day.

So Brad Pitt et al had to extract major scenes – he was captured by Russians and made part of an army of zombie killers. His wife ended up in the central America and was used as prostitute in a world with no rules or laws. She was saved by the helicopter pilot – I forget the actors name but he’s too big for one scene in the beginning of the film where he saved the family from the apartment house that’s for sure. All of it and more was dumped and we have Brad Pitt finding a cure and restarting the world. Bingo! People loved it in test and so it was released. A shallow fraction of what it could have been.

Happy endings are what people demand of main stream films. Its the only way a film can make money, unless it’s an art-house film made in Europe by money from the National Film Trust.

It had to have a happy ending.

Will post first, then read the other answers.

This movie scared the living crap out of me. It played upon every fear that I have. Fear of heights, fear of falling, fear of suffocating, fear of being in complete darkness, fear of abandonment.

Unlike the lead character, I would not have fought, I would have happily succumbed to sleep, simply to end the horror.

From the very first scene, to the last scene, I was holding my breath and actually left the theater with a stomach ache, because I was in knots the whole time.

The only thing that made her situation bearable was because of George Clooney’s soothing voice. If I were ever in that situation, that’s what I would want to hear. I have great admiraton for George Clooney after seeing this movie, for his voice. I know he’s a great looking guy, but it was his voice that gave me a sense of relief. Without that, I think she would have panicked early on.

Great acting on the parts of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Amazing, both beautiful and frightening, cinematography. The floating scenes of Sandra in the capsule, where she’s in her underwear, are some of the best cinematography I’ve ever seen.

This is probably one of the most intense movies I’ve ever seen.

Sounds pretty heavy, man…