Movies and TV Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity"

**Reaper16** · 10-04-2013, 11:45 PM

Scariest movie I've ever seen, maybe. See it in IMAX if you can. Holy shit, that was an intense experience. It is so impressive on a technical level too; I can't even wrap my head around how Cuaron filmed this.

Sure-Oz · 10-05-2013, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Reaper16

Scariest movie I've ever seen, maybe. See it in IMAX if you can. Holy shit, that was an intense experience. It is so impressive on a technical level too; I can't even wrap my head around how Cuaron filmed this.

thats it im seeing it

**Reaper16** · 10-05-2013, 01:51 PM

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thats it im seeing it

Your mileage may vary with my "scary" assessment. Space is much more terrifying to me than being pursued by a lunatic killer, say.

**Anyong Bluth** · 10-05-2013, 03:08 PM

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Scariest movie I've ever seen, maybe. See it in IMAX if you can. Holy shit, that was an intense experience. It is so impressive on a technical level too; I can't even wrap my head around how Cuaron filmed this.

Read a feature on the making of this and all the new techniques used to shoot it and give it that floating feeling and what not.

Alphonso has wanted to make this movie for 6+ years, and was persuaded by David Fincher to table making it, saying at the time he would have to wait 5 years in order for the technology and mechanical feasibility to properly shoot this would be available and even affordable at a big budget film price.

Initially, Robert Downey Jr was cast in Clooney's role, but as his salary per film soared they didn't want to tie up so much of the budget and wanted to use that money on the technical aspects of shooting it right.
I don't know what Clooney got for it, but everyone took a lower fee, and I bet he did it for comparable peanuts, as he seems to have a real thing for the whole epic space film- a La in the 2001 lineage. I just think he's always wanted to be in a space film that is considered a classic.

So far, the buzz is this is the best space genred movie since probably 2001- others may point back to the original Alien, but you're in rarefied air either way if that's your list of contemporary equals.

**alnorth** · 10-06-2013, 12:56 PM

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I can't even wrap my head around how Cuaron filmed this.

This. If there was anything that bumped me or took me out of the movie, it was sheer amazement, thinking "Holy crap, this isn't all special effects. How in the hell did the director do this?"

**Anyong Bluth** · 10-07-2013, 01:32 AM

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This. If there was anything that bumped me or took me out of the movie, it was sheer amazement, thinking "Holy crap, this isn't all special effects. How in the hell did the director do this?"

I read a little blurb that got into the technical aspects of how he used a new way to do it, and still don't understand in the least. Something about a bubble.

Genius.