Dear P,
I just got back from the IMAX cinema at Raleigh's Marbles Museum where friends Chuck and Dan joined me for Gravity in 3D.
This was Chuck's fourth viewing; Dan was moved; and I'll be going back again.
The movie is extraordinary - a tour de force for Bullock and a superb performance by Clooney!
A Four-Wow film if ever there was one!
The first 40 minutes provide a view of Earth -- and Earth's weightless offspring winging through space -- that may never be equaled.
It is helpful to know that other IMAX theaters in The Triangle have much smaller screens than Marbles'.
See the chart comparison at http://www.lfexaminer.com/20100421Shrinking-IMAX-Screens.htm
Note...
I now encourage people to see movies (assuming they intend to see them anyhow) without learning about them in advance.
Why?
Directors make movies under the assumption that viewers know nothing.
In consequence, seeing a movie "fresh" -- with no advance revelation -- is precisely attuned to the way movies are made and contributes (I think) to full revelation.
Reviews "get in the way" and obscure the director's vision by imparting presumption.
In consequence, seeing a movie "fresh" -- with no advance revelation -- is precisely attuned to the way movies are made and contributes (I think) to full revelation.
Reviews "get in the way" and obscure the director's vision by imparting presumption.
For me, not knowing "anything" about Gravity was a tremendous enhancement.
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Many people are unaware that Mexican director, Alfonso Cuaron, directed the third Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, which, in my mind, was the best Potter book and the best Potter movie.
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Pax vobiscum
Alan
PS Sandra Bullock is an East Carolina University graduate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Bullock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Bullock
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