GRAVITY

This movie is a glorified space disaster flick with a lot of media hype having preceded its release.  Since the entire film (except for the final minutes) takes place in outer space, there are a lot of earth and sky and stars and immense vastness photography. We saw it in digital and i think seeing the film at an IMAX theater would have added to my enjoyment.

Plot: Sandra Bullock and George Clooney (oh, i'm getting tired of his silver fox dimpled one-liners, his attempt to be charming in a goofy joshing manner, his bonhomie which is often jarringly out of place) are astronauts fixing something out of the space ship and they get knocked around by sky debris. Clooney fairly early on floats out into the nether among the nebulae and Bullock finishes the film.

She goes through low oxygen, no oxygen, running out of fuel, tangled lines, fire, and being lost. (amazingly on two occasions she pulls out a manual in the space module she is in and reads exactly what to do; goes right to the page!, has no trouble following the printed directions and i'm remembering all the times i've had to consult a manual and  then look away in wonderment and bafflement uttering "where in the fuck is THAT part? this looks nothing like the diagram.") And in the midst of these situations, I'll be damned but Clooney reappears to give her a pep talk; a you are woman and strong verbal shove. Oh, he is so thespianly wise.

I gave it a 5 and Bill gave it a 7. Wish we had seen this movie at our discount theater.