Gravity [Blu-ray] [2013] [US Import]

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Gravity received a leading 11 nominations at the 67th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actress in a Leading Role. Cuarón was the most-nominated person at the awards; he was nominated for five awards, including his nominations as producer for Best Film awards and editor. [128] [129] Despite not winning Best Film, Gravity won a leading 6 awards, including Outstanding British Film, Best Director, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects. [130] [131] films have quite rightly received a lot of bad press,” Parks adds. “There are very few worth seeing in 3D. The majority of 3D is not good since it doesn’t add anything to the experience. The main thing I hope the audience will take away from Gravity is that good 3D can definitely enhance the experience. Cooper, Quentin (October 28, 2013). "Why Gravity is junk science". BBC Future. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016 . Retrieved March 4, 2016.

a b c Zoller Seitz, Matt (October 4, 2013). "Review: Gravity". RogerEbert.com. Archived from the original on April 8, 2023 . Retrieved May 22, 2014. The use of wide-angle lenses throughout the shoot enabled Parks to pull elements into the theater space. These included sun flares, debris like a ballpoint pen, air bubbles and parts of the escape pods.

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Leopold, Todd (January 13, 2014). " '12 Years,' 'Hustle' win film Globes". CNN. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 . Retrieved March 4, 2014. Since its release, various specialist observers have unsportingly emerged to say that the science involved in Gravity is fanciful and wrong. No matter. What makes Gravity so gripping, and so novel, is that it behaves as if what everyone is doing is happening in a world of commonplace fact: like a movie about two drivers on a runaway train or hot-air balloon. A movie set in space tends to trigger an assumption: that it is set in the future (although not the case with Star Wars). If it is not like Apollo 13, about the bygone era of space exploration carried out by guys in quaint crewcuts, then it is going to be set in some madeup futurist world about space exploration in aluminium-foil costumes and spacecraft doors opening and closing with zhhh-zhhh sounds – a world that may or may not involve extraterrestrial creatures, but which importantly and patently doesn’t exist; a movie whose effects depend, at least partly, on the assumption that what is being shown is not true. Stone's tears first roll down her face in micro-gravity, and are later seen floating off her face. After being pushed from her eye by her eyelid, the surface tension is not sufficient for the tears to continue adhering to her jawline. [148] However, the film correctly portrays the spherical nature of drops of liquid in a micro-gravity environment. [136] One More List of 2013's Best Movies". December 20, 2013. Archived from the original on October 25, 2021 . Retrieved October 25, 2021. Trianni, Francesca (October 7, 2013). "Tech Breakthroughs in Film: From House of Wax to Gravity". Time . Retrieved November 14, 2014.

Finally, the visual effects are pretty incredible. And, if you get a chance to watch the Blu-ray's behind-the-scenes documentaries, you'll be even more impressed. Sure, there are a few shots here or there that aren't perfect, but generally 'Gravity' has my favorite type of special effects: the invisible ones. To best mimic the look and feeling of zero gravity, the filmmakers had to invent an entire new way of photographing the actors. What they ended up doing was -- for much of the film -- concentrating on filming actors' faces or bodies. The sense of movement, of floating, was created with a combination of relatively-still actors, motion control cameras, and a brand new lighting system dubbed the "light box" -- think of it like being in a small room with LED TVs all around you. At the end of the day, 'Gravity' is essentially an animated movie that looks 99% photo realistic (especially when comparing it to the Hubble documentary). Gravity dominates, but 12 Years a Slave wins best film". The Guardian. March 3, 2014. Archived from the original on March 7, 2018 . Retrieved March 4, 2014. Matt Zoller Seitz, writing on RogerEbert.com, gave the film four out of four stars, calling it "a huge and technically dazzling film and that the film's panoramas of astronauts tumbling against starfields and floating through space station interiors are at once informative and lovely". [28] Justin Chang, writing for Variety, said that the film "restores a sense of wonder, terror and possibility to the big screen that should inspire awe among critics and audiences worldwide". [106] Richard Corliss of Time praised Cuarón for playing "daringly and dexterously with point-of-view: at one moment you're inside Ryan's helmet as she surveys the bleak silence, then in a subtle shift you're outside to gauge her reaction. The 3-D effects, added in post-production, provide their own extraterrestrial startle: a hailstorm of debris hurtles at you, as do a space traveler's thoughts at the realization of being truly alone in the universe." [102] The best films of the 2010s: the 50 movies of the decade". Time Out Worldwide. December 10, 2019 . Retrieved October 18, 2023. Reisman, Garrett. "What Does A Real Astronaut Think Of 'Gravity'?". Forbes . Retrieved October 20, 2013.

What to know

a b "Gravity at the Venice Film Festival: Dread and Awe in Space". Time. August 28, 2013 . Retrieved October 2, 2013.

a b Obias, Rudie (October 9, 2013). "Alfonso Cuarón Talks Gravity's Visual Metaphors, And George Clooney Clarifies His Writing Credit". Giant Freakin Robot. Archived from the original on April 9, 2023 . Retrieved May 22, 2014.

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