saturday night is of my favorite nights. last night dallin and i finally got around to going to the movie theaters to see gravity. and i can't stop thinking about it. i'm talking about the movie gravity, with sandra bullock and george clooney. the one that probably saved so much money on extras because, THERE WEREN'T ANY. i could count how many people were in that movie on one hand. the one that made me feel like i was in space and about to die, my life flashed before my eyes (in my mind i was upset that i had never learned how to crochet and never would get to) as their space ship/station/satellite flew through the unknown in tiny pieces. the one that made me reeeeeally not like space, well for a few hours anyway. i'm going to give away the only spoiler that really matters down at the very bottom. sorry i just have to! the movie has been out for a while so i don't feel as bad about giving it away.
besides impending doom and the life or death situation around every corner, it was really really really good.
i just decided this morning that i loved it. i couldn't decide that last night. after dallin and i walked out of the theater i couldn't stop looking up and thinking about what was really out there, and how much space there was. and i felt so insignificant.
but more about the movie right? so i went home and looked up gravity and read a few things and watched a few things about how the movie was made and what the actors thought about it. then i got sidetracked and watched a tedtalks about space on netflix, it's cool i promise.
anyways this is what sandra and the producers had to say about it. it's not the typical press conference. it's so long, but watch from about minute 15:00 to 20:00, it's pretty ahhhhmazing what they have to say about the process. they literally had to make up technical equipment to shoot these scenes, remember, everytime we look at something it usually has a horizon line and/or gravity to guide us, but out in space there isn't one. everything is in constant motion all of the time. that means that in space you would have to move very very slowly and carefully. there is one scene in the movie where she is spinning out away from the station unattached to anything. dallin looked at me and said, she would be spinning like that forever. i thought about that. forever. she would never slow down, she would keep spinning at that speed in that exact way forever and ever until she collided with something. because there is no friction in space. weird to think about? hurt your head? yeah mine too. maybe i skipped that day in class when we got the 'everything you need to know about space in thirty seconds' lesson because i didn't know that. i don't understand space at all, but i sure do love it.
anyways this is what sandra and the producers had to say about it. it's not the typical press conference. it's so long, but watch from about minute 15:00 to 20:00, it's pretty ahhhhmazing what they have to say about the process. they literally had to make up technical equipment to shoot these scenes, remember, everytime we look at something it usually has a horizon line and/or gravity to guide us, but out in space there isn't one. everything is in constant motion all of the time. that means that in space you would have to move very very slowly and carefully. there is one scene in the movie where she is spinning out away from the station unattached to anything. dallin looked at me and said, she would be spinning like that forever. i thought about that. forever. she would never slow down, she would keep spinning at that speed in that exact way forever and ever until she collided with something. because there is no friction in space. weird to think about? hurt your head? yeah mine too. maybe i skipped that day in class when we got the 'everything you need to know about space in thirty seconds' lesson because i didn't know that. i don't understand space at all, but i sure do love it.
the cgi was great, it looked completely real to me, and i'm usually very picky about that.
the acting was great, george is funny and charming as usual, sandra was so real about every situation, i saw a clip on youtube where some astronauts even commented on how well she portrayed being up in space. let me tell ya, lots of emotion in this film.
i kept pinching dallin becuase i was so anxious, it was just so intense.
films like these are the reason why i love going to the movie theaters and always will.
i thought this was kinda cute, during another press release, george said that he and 'sandy' had been friends for a very very long time.
warning spoiler alert..
george clooney dies NOT IN REAL LIFE I REPEAT NOT IN REAL LIFE just in the movie, it's still sad.
