All about the visuals...

Rating: 1/10 (8 March 2014)

New 42" HDTV and a Blu-Ray player recently. Loving it!
Gravity... so much hype and so many awards! Turn the lights out and get immersed! It had my full attention!
By the halfway point I hated it. Why? It was all about the visuals, the CGI, the clever swirly camera shots and mind-blowing shots of Earth with ambient music (The Orb's "Blue Room" would have been perfect)
Other than this what was there? A bit of trivial chat between "Cool and Calm" Clooney and "Doctor" Bullock. Please tell me why this movie was in any way good apart from this? I thought Avatar was rubbish because apart from the visuals the script was awful and story derivative.
Films that are about being stuck in space? Dark Star and Silent Running had low budgets but were far more emotionally involving than this movie. The film was a Hollywood "tick the boxes" Oscar movie. Am surprised Tom Hanks didn't take Clooney's roll first! Ol' Hanks loves those "Oscar" roles!
Sandra Bullock put in a great performance as a scared woman who looks nervous all the time and breathes heavily a lot (but always with perfect make-up). Then there's a scene where she gets all emotional because she is alone in space. Well played by Sandra, she did it well. She is a great actress.
If you LOVE special effects and it contributes to your movie going experience, then this movie will impress the pants off you. Effects never-before-seen and it moves "the bar" in terms of visuals...
If however special visual effects take second place to a story and words spoken, then you might be underwhelmed a bit. It's a big budget Hollywood movie with fancy-pants effects.
The ending could well be used for a new deodorant commercial!
Dark Star and Silent Running were miles better!