@deanduncan63Saw #Gravity. Won’t say it’s being over-praised, but it is being uncritically praised. We oughta think things all the way through …
… even when we love them.
#Gravity. It may seem strange to say, but this is kinda C. Kane-like. Not exactly, not even unprecedented. But some synthesis!
#Gravity. This all comes from that steady-cam shot in #ChildrenofMen, doesn’t it? That was impressive, and kind of a stunt …
… This is a Wholeness.
#Gravity is a milestone in the history of the mis-en-scene approach to directing, staging, communicating …
… Tremendously analyzable, inspiring extended & traveling takes, composition-in-depth, the use of off-screen space, etc.
#Gravity is a bit James Cameron-like: stupendous technical challenges, miraculously surmounted …
… Falling back a bit/a lot on sentimentality, & narrative convention.
#Gravity. Narrative convention, & even a bit of stereotype/obvious. On the other hand, this: http://bit.ly/1g0yo4s Coulda been worse, eh?
(#Gravity. When we saw it, some girl back there was talking on her cell phone/to her boyfriend for forty straight minutes …
… Impervious to sh-shing, & everything. Youth!)
#Gravity reminds me of the class that my friend @EricSamuelsen1 once proposed. Speed & While You Were Sleeping, looped & alternating …
… all semester long. I think we’d better add this one. Hurray for Sandra Bullock!