What’s so great about Gravity?
A. asked last night and again this morning. This coming from someone who nominated The Great Gatsby one of the most over-rated great novels ever. Chew
on that. Well, you could say superlatives did them both in. Maybe it was
because we had waited until everyone and their aunt had seen the movie. We couldn’t
take pride in it, in the best underrated movie of the year. Gravity
lost a lot of gravity with us.
---Maybe
it’s like we thought. It looked like the kind of movie you had to be in a mood
to watch, and it was. We just didn’t know what else to watch. So we said, What
the heck?
The
archetypes were overdone and cliché. When Sandra Bullock is floating in the
fetal position?
---Oh, yeah. That was awful.
I like Sandra
Bullock, but this role didn’t do it for me.
---She was kind of whiny (I offer).
I
feel bad for saying this. I think about the Piss and Moan Club my Dad formed for my little sister and sometimes my Mom, too, because they couldn’t just put up with
a little discomfort for a couple of hours so that we could enjoy a nice family hike
in nature. It was funny. —It’s still kind of funny. Not funny enough, though.
---I would be winy, too if I were
space-sick. (Space-sick? Space-sick.)
And she was fearful, but that was just who her character was for that part
of the film.
I feel like
they were letting the film ride on the special effects. The images
of space were beautiful, Sandra Bullock was hard to warm to, and George Clooney was
himself. That's all.
---Clooney's always
going to be himself: cartoonish. I mean, his name is George Clooney. He was
Buzz Light-Year in the flesh.
Maybe that’s
the point. Maybe realism and fantasy are competing for the storyline—for Sandra
Bullock's storyline.
---Hmm! I like that. The best
scene was when she hallucinates. I believed it, too. Why shouldn’t it have been
true? Everything Clooney had done in the movie was ludicrous. Why
shouldn’t he have made it back to the ship, miraculously, in his little
jet-pack, with Hank Williams playing? Survivor of the Future. Buzz. Wall-e.
---The worst scene was definitely
the last one. I mean, she’s made it; she’s back on Earth. The filmmakers mark
the moment with music—that makes sense, because space was represented by
silence. Opportunity for some real poignancy...aaand they blow it.
no spoiler alert???!!! damn!! (nice poem, though.)
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ReplyDeleteoh, I was only half serious, laur k! it's my fault for being apparently the last person on the planet to see it.
ReplyDeleteNo, shame on me for assuming I was the last person on the planet to see it!
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