Gravity
- I'm still not really sure how I feel about the film, however, it's too dark and the 3D is too distracting. It looks gorgeous, but I always felt I was peering at it through a dark film (which, of course, I was) which meant I was never in the film and always distracted. I was distracted everything. By the glasses (I don't wear glasses at all, not even sunglasses), by the light in the cinema (I swear cinemas used to be properly dark, as in black and not just dim) by the reflection of the exit lights in the glasses, by remembering Simon Mayo saying how George Clooney was Buzz Lightyear in this (he is), but mainly I was distracted by always thinking about the film. I was thinking how it would look in 2D. Would I prefer it in 2D? Would it feel more like a film? Would I be more involved? Would the weightless motion, especially on the ISS, seem as fluid? These questions and more. So many questions.
The scene in the ISS and the emotional scene near the end are the two key scenes, for me, where the 3D is concerned. I couldn't care less about the rest, in fact, I'll probably prefer it in 2D, but I worry that those two scene will really suffer in 2D. I fear the ISS scene won't look and move as beautifully and that the emotional scene just won't work as well.
After seeing Inception I described it as a heist movie set in someone's head. Gravity is a small, simple, cheap film made as large, complex and expensively as possible.