Gravity versus Interstellar

What.

Gravity for me, even though I like both films quite a bit. The subtext of Gravity, about the unexpected and sudden loss of a family member and the subsequent struggle to continue forward after a loss of that magnitude, speaks to me more than the environmental dread and last ditch colonization missions of Interstellar. So, on a personal level, Gravity definitely resonates more with me.

That said, I like Interstellar quite a bit, as well. I understand the complaints people have about the film, be it with the overall characterizations or the last act going over the edge into fantasy. I found the film affecting and thought provoking on many levels. The term flawed masterpiece definitely fits here.

Anyway, I voted for Gravity.

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Both are perfectible sci-fi yarns, but Gravity is superior in that it's a much more kinetic experience.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Gravity was... just a series of near misses and close escapes. Reminded me of Emmerich's 2012: If something can go wrong, it will... and if nothing can go wrong, then we'll write something in, so it can go wrong.
Also, and this sounds horrible to say but, well, it's what I noticed... Sandra Bullock's paralysing plastic surgery took me completely out of the film.
Been seeing this a lot recently. Kidman in Australia, Zellweger in Appaloosa, Stallone in anything after the year 2000. When the actor or actress has had so much cosmetic surgery that they can't express any emotion, apart from dribbling on themselves (Mickey Rourke), it kills any credibility their character might have had on screen.


Interstellar is a clever piece of writing and a pretty solid twist at the end with the origins of the Tesseract, and then there's the realisation with Caine's character and his motives and that Damon's character was part of it who also turns out to be nuts.
I think it's the science behind Interstellar that got me. They use quantum physics to explain time-shifts and relativity... which makes the peril of the movie more exciting. The longer they take in certain situations, means that Earth could well have died decades or even centuries ago.
I agree that the love thing was odd though. And the choice of main theme was odd as well. That church organ was pretty jarring.
Interstellar for me.

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Interstellar is much more ambitious than Gravity, but it's also kind of a mess. Gravity is effective from beginning to end.

I hear what you are saying, but thematically, those near-misses are allegory for the situation she is in, in that she is floating in an abyss of despair, always just a tiny push away from becoming subsumed in her grief and finally succumbing to it forever. The text at the beginning of the film that states "Life in space is impossible" plays into this. Grief like this is damn near insuperable without a tremendous amount of effort and will to survive. I speak from experience.

I also like the reverse marketing of the original tag line for the film - Don't Let Go. The film is of course about the exact opposite.

Couldnt agree more with every word you wrote here. Gravity was a fun ride. Interstellar tried to be gigantic and scientific and philosophical all at the same time and just came out a confusing mess.

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Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies...

Gravity was a Hollywood pop corn flick, fun and buttery...but it left your feeling thirsty for something more substantial.

Interstellar was a quasi-existential film, that tried to be more and mostly succeed...but the demands of appeasing the masses required a dumbing down of the film with a pot-boiler inane fight scene and a 2001ish type ending.

Interstellar better by a lightyear, even if Gravity's premises were more scientifically accurate.

The votes so far sound reasonable to me.

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You talkin' to me?

The movie that won 7 oscar is better than the movie that only won 1 oscar.

So it is not even close comparison.

/End of thread

They give Oscar's to anything these days.

>thread back open

I watched both Gravity and Interstellar in theaters. I watched Gravity with middling expectations, and I enjoyed it a fair bit. Meanwhile, Interstellar was a film I felt had been majorly overexposed through all its promotion, but I was still excited as a fan of Nolan. I also liked it a fair bit. In the end, I think that Gravity worked more as a cohesive film, but Interstellar had ultimately better ideas. In other words, one of them shot for the moon and came up a little short, and the other only shot for the clouds and surpassed expectations, Interstellar was an average student in an advanced college course and Gravity was a straight A student in a high school curriculum.

Gravity.

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