{"id":346,"date":"2014-06-24T22:34:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:11:44","slug":"gravity-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Gravity-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gravity-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney<\/strong><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #69<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Reviewed June 24, 2014<\/p>\n

Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gravity (2013) has become a film that has divided people- some have described it as “brilliant”, “groundbreaking”, and “phenomenal”.<\/p>\n

Because of the hype, I expected something of a masterpiece. Not being a 3-D fan (usually unnecessary), I gave in and saw it in 3-D, which did help the film.<\/p>\n

I have discovered the theory- the techies will love it; the storytellers will not.<\/p>\n

Yes, the film is inventive, and the space scenes are magnificent, so much so that I felt like I was floating in space looking down at planet Earth.<\/p>\n

Sandra Bullock is excellent as a lost astronaut, fearful and desperate.<\/p>\n

But the story is quite basic and, frankly, weak. I kept waiting for the plot to thicken and was left wanting much more than the movie delivered.<\/p>\n

The backstory for Clooney and Bullock was limited.<\/p>\n

I must stress, though, that technically this film is astounding and deserves the praise heaped on it, but as a complete movie, it didn’t deliver.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations: 7 wins-<\/strong>Best Picture, Best Director- Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n (won)<\/strong>, Best Actress-Sandra Bullock, Best Original Score (won)<\/strong>, Best Sound Editing (won)<\/strong>, Best Sound Mixing (won)<\/strong>, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography (won)<\/strong>, Best Film Editing (won)<\/strong>, Best Visual Effects (won)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gravity-2013 Director Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n Starring Sandra Bullock, George Clooney Scott’s Review #69 Reviewed June 24, 2014 Grade: B Gravity (2013) has become a film that has divided people- some have described it as “brilliant”, “groundbreaking”, and “phenomenal”. Because of the hype, I expected something of a masterpiece. Not being a 3-D fan (usually unnecessary), I … Continue reading Gravity-2013<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,103,204],"tags":[4170,1632,2173,2438],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-scifi","category-thrillers","tag-alfonso-cuaron","tag-ed-harris","tag-george-clooney","tag-sandra-bullock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24599,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/24599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}