{"id":3511,"date":"2013-10-06T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T18:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T14:56:04","slug":"gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Clear skies with a chance of debris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan is a medical engineer who&#8217;s doing a spacewalk high above the Earth. Matt is the astronaut in charge of the mission. When some debris is accidentally sent their way, they&#8217;re cut off from the shuttle and have to make their way back. The debris leads to a cascading series of disasters, and before long they&#8217;re wondering if they will ever make it back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gravity<\/strong>, released in 2013<\/p>\n<p>I saw it in 3D. As with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/star-trek-into-darkness\/\"><strong>Star Trek Into Darkness<\/strong><\/a> if you don&#8217;t like things flying at you, you should see it in 2D.<\/p>\n<p>This is an astonishing movie, and I encourage you to see it on the big screen if you have any interest.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to know what it&#8217;s like being an astronaut in space, this is the movie for you &#8212; it&#8217;s realistic like <strong>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/strong> and <strong>Moon<\/strong>. Things go wrong like in <strong>Apollo 13<\/strong> but this time you don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s going to end.<\/p>\n<p>There are stunning images of Earth from space.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the movie is quite intense. Space is a dangerous place &#8212; only a thin layer separates you from airlessness and death.<\/p>\n<p>With all the floating around of the astronauts, you will be guaranteed to ask this question: How did they film this movie?<\/p>\n<p>The story takes place in the near future when the Chinese have added to their space station and the Americans have resurrected their space shuttles.<\/p>\n<p>The music by&nbsp;Steven Price (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/attack-the-block\/\"><strong>Attack the Block<\/strong><\/a>) is sometimes subtle and sometimes energetic.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Bullock (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-lake-house\/\"><strong>The Lake House<\/strong><\/a>) delivers an amazing performance as Ryan. George Clooney (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/the-descendants\/\"><strong>The Descendants<\/strong><\/a>) plays Matt. You&#8217;ll also recognize the voice of Mission Control &#8212; it&#8217;s Ed Harris (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/thats-what-i-am\/\"><strong>That&#8217;s What I Am<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The movie was directed by Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n (<strong>Children of Men<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Clear skies with a chance of debris.&#8221; Ryan is a medical engineer who&#8217;s doing a spacewalk high above the Earth. Matt is the astronaut in charge of the mission. When some debris is accidentally sent their way, they&#8217;re cut off from the shuttle and have to make their way back. The debris leads to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11321,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/11321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}