A scene from Marooned..um..2001: A space Odyssey..um…Apollo 13…um Gravity!

Ok I am going to confess up front, I can’t stand Sandra Bullock. This probably started during the Speed movies when she infuriatingly played the dumbo – when most of us could have had the bombs diffused / movie over in the first ten minutes…

George Clooney is not exactly a favorite actor of mine either, I tend to turn most of his movies off after about half an hour. Sure he is aimed at the female demographic and this is fine, but nothing much there for me in most of his films. Even in The Good German (which I almost liked but for the hag Cate Blanchett) it was a stretch to get to the end of the film.

So I did not approach Gravity with exactly an open mind! The parallels in this film to Apollo 13 and before that Marooned are quite obvious, even reminded me somewhat of 2001: A Space Odyssey in part. So it was not exactly original, but despite this it was quite an entertaining hour and bit of Sci Fi.

The heavy breathing throughout put us in the suffocating darkness of space (pioneered by Kubrick in 2001) and heightened the tension of the films many ups and downs. Bullock tended to play the helpless female quite a bit throughout and Clooney the self-sacrificing father-figure so nothing new there..ok there I go…see it for yourself, not sure I can do this review justice…!

Lets just say if you didn’t mind what George Clooney did with Solaris (as in fairness I didn’t – there’s one of his films I liked), you will probably enjoy this remake of many other films.