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May 21, 2024, 05:56:47 AM| Title | Gravity (5-051892-150248) |
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| Actors | Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma |
| Produced | 2013 in United Kingdom |
| Runtime | 91 minutes |
| Audio | English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles | Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish |
| Overview | Dr. Ryan Stone (Oscar winner Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission with a veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Oscar winner George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go farther out into the terrifying expanse of space. |
| My thoughts | I'm conflicted about Gravity. Technically it is absolutely brilliant. Acting wise OK. I like Sandra Bullock, but maybe she's not quite able to carry a film more or less by herself. George Clooney is excellent, though. The main problem for me is the script. First of all it's too improbable. Secondly it does not make me care enough for Bullock's character. And that's fatal in a drama like this. There are a lot of metaphors in the film, and that's fine by me, but the film has to work even if you don't get the metaphors. I would have expected to dislike the CGI, but I didn't. And that's saying something, seeing how this movie is almost all CGI. For the most part it's an animated movie with some live action bits inserted (mainly heads). And it works! It's brilliantly done. But it's not enough. I would rate it 5 stars technically, 3.5 stars for the acting, but only 2 stars for the script. Weighing that together is not easy. If I had seen it on a big screen perhaps the sheer technical achievement would have swayed me to give it a better rating, but as it is, an overall rating of 3.5 is generous. |
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(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on March 25th, 2014)
Member's Reviews
The Alphabet Killer, a review by addicted2dvd
Title: The Alphabet Killer
Year: 2008
Director: Rob Schmidt
Rating: R
Length: 98 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1
Subtitles: English
Stars:
Eliza Dushku
Cary Elwes
Timothy Hutton
Tom Malloy
Michael Ironside
Bill Moseley
Plot:
A ten year old girl is found brutally murdered outisde the small blue-collar city of Rochester, New York, and obsessed police detective Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and DOLLHOUSE) suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. But when the child-killings resume two years later, Megan's return to the investigation also brings back her own horrific hallucinations. Even if she can prove a "double initial" connection to the slayings, will she hang onto her sanity long enough to catch a psychopath? Cary Elwes (SAW), Michael Ironside (STARSHIP TROOPERS), Bill Moseley (THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), Carl Lumbly (ALIASTimothy Hutton co-star in this chilling thriller directed by Rob Schmidt.
Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Bonus Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
My Thoughts:
Well it seems this is another movie that I disagree with most reviewers on. When I decided to watch this movie I checked other reviews to see what others were saying about this movie. And I was surprised to see most people saying to skip this one. I personally enjoyed this one quite a bit. Loved Eliza Dushku in it... and found to be a very interesting movie. Well worth the hour and a half I put into watching it. I also liked that this is based of a real serial killer. I would definitely recommend this one... though with caution after reading so many bad reviews. So I would recommend with that notation.
My Rating:
Out of a Possible 5
Out of a Possible 5
(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on June 5th, 2010)
Member's TV Reviews
Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom
 | Das Amt: Staffel 1 & 2 (1997/Germany) IMDb
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Das Amt
1.01 Die Neue
Writer: Dietmar Jacobs (Writer)
Director: Micha Terjung
Cast
(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on February 23rd, 2012)