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| jeremy |
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The setting aside, Gravity - essentailly a minimalist, chase/escape type movie with nicely underplayed characterisations and backstories - is almost a genre movie, albeit a brilliant one. It is very different from the ambitious and challenging, but occassionally dull, 2001: A Space Odyssey. I.m not sure you can say one is better than the other.
Ms BullocK is looking good. You're in showbiz Billy; you should be able to get me her number. I can't be any worse than her last fellah and I make a mean bolognese. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:25 am |
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I saw her first!
I never found 2001 "occasionally dull," but it is hard for me to bring full adult objectivity to the film that blew me away when I was 12 and made me a sci-fi fan. Watching it now, I might find it a bit sterile and overly-austere in places, which might add up to "dull" for some viewers.
Will see Gravity when I bloody well feel like it and my film copain has fully recovered from being trapped for 4 days in South Dakota's storm of the century. Sand dune sized drifts on the roads, 10's of 1000's of stock killed (still in summer pasture and hadn't grown their winter coats yet...a lethal combination....and 70-plus mph winds tend to drive cattle along, into bad places....buffalo, OTOH, stand and face into the wind, and fare far better), power out all over, etc. The friend she stayed with needed help saving her horses, getting water, etc. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:39 am |
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The Washington follies have swamped most other news--I had no idea the Midwest was having such serious weather problems. Why doesn't Al Roker tell me these things?
I hope to see "Gravity" soon, before I hear any more of Neil DeGrasse Tyson's critiques of its authenticity. (I really think the media should hold off with such "news" until the movie has been out at least a couple of weeks.) |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:02 am |
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Probably hasn't been heard about because this was the West (rather than the Midwest), and a sparsely populated area (E. Wyoming, Nebraska Panhandle, Black Hills of SD) of it. It was very freakish - even the monstrous Blizzard of 1888 had the decency to wait until it was actually winter. Further east, in the state, we just had powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes. Twisters about 15 miles from my house, but no major damage and no lives lost.
Neil Tyson called Pluto a dwarf. The man has no respect for the little planets. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:47 am |
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bart--Hope your "copain" recovers soon. That sounds horrendous.
That Tyson shit is so fucked up. He'd discredit Hamlet because ghosts don't materialize like that, |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:36 am |
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| Billy, once in a blue moon, Travers gets it right. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:46 am |
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Yeah, I can't put 2001 and "occasionally dull" in the same sentence. Unless "never remotely" is placed between them.
But agree with Billy about Bullock.
I'm really wanting to see Gravity. Hope it's still around long enough for me to do so. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:12 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Yeah, I can't put 2001 and "occasionally dull" in the same sentence. Unless "never remotely" is placed between them.
But agree with Billy about Bullock.
I'm really wanting to see Gravity. Hope it's still around long enough for me to do so.
It'll be around as long as we both shall live. Instant classic doesn't even begin to tell the tale. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:58 pm |
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| Of course I meant "see it in first run" but I know what you're saying. Wow. I'm stoked. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:23 pm |
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Joe wrote:
"Yeah, I can't put 2001 and "occasionally dull" in the same sentence."
Neither can I. There wasn't a dull moment for me in that film. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:26 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Of course I meant "see it in first run" but I know what you're saying. Wow. I'm stoked.
I'll be surprised if its first run isn't a very long run. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:02 pm |
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marantzo wrote: Joe wrote:
"Yeah, I can't put 2001 and "occasionally dull" in the same sentence."
Neither can I. There wasn't a dull moment for me in that film.
Sorry, but for me it was a highly imaginative, beautifully photographed semi-snooze. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:51 pm |
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| You old geezers nod off all the time. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:03 pm |
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| My prediction, come the Oscars, "Gravity" won't win any of the big prizes. The Academy seems to have little minimal respect for the minimalist, strengths of the medium it is supposed to represent. Once again, as it has consistently done it the past, it will reward the size, weight and worth. Watch out for "12 Years A Slave" and the other awards' season Oscar bait to come. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:26 pm |
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jeremy wrote: My prediction, come the Oscars, "Gravity" won't win any of the big prizes.
Wrong. |
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