Gravity is visually amazing, but the dialogue is far from perfect

Rating: 8/10 (13 March 2014)

Gravity is written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón along with his son Jonás Cuarón and George Clooney collaborating on a sequence of the films script.
Just like American Hustle, Gravity is nominated for 10 Oscars and is the front runner in a lot of categories according to critics.
What stands out me, is the nomination for best actress in a leading role for Sandra Bullock. Whilst I think Sandra Bullock is an amazing actress and all, I do not think she deserves an Oscar nom for this, I would even go as far as to say she was quite bad in some parts but I'll get into that later.
What I do think this movie deserves however, is without a doubt a win for best visual effects, this really blew everything out of the water. If it turns out the award goes to one of the other noms, I think that would be more than lame.
Gravity is overall a great film, it had a lot of great aspects to it but got a little brought down by some not so great aspects.
On the great side, there was the visual effects, they were stunning. Especially seeing it in IMAX 3D, I usually prefer seeing films in 2D but man this movie used it to perfection.
There was also the great directing, Alfonso Cuarón really got it right with this and deserves pretty much all the praise he is getting right now.
However on the not so great side, there's the screenplay. It was very inconsistent, you could tell that the two people writing it were just not on the same level.
The dialogue was more than cheesy at some points, it got pretty bad. At some points it was great, and at some point maybe even awful. Yep, definitely felt inconsistent.
This is why I feel it might be a little unfair of me to say that I don't think Bullock deserves an Oscar for this, pretty much all of her weak acting was in the sequences with the poor writing and there isn't much an actor can do about a poor script. But yeah.. I'm sticking to my opinion.
Clooney on the other hand, I loved and I think it has a lot to do with how moderately his character was used.
From what I've heard from people who's met actual American astronaut "veterans", he embodies it perfectly. He definitely had some great line delivery and did very well with his facial acting.
Overall this film was great, does it deserve to win for best picture however?
Perhaps, I wouldn't be jumping out of my chair in anger if it did. But definitely best visual effects, without a doubt.
But maybe leave your son out of the loop on your next project Alfonso..