Gravity

I have been waiting for this movie for so long because of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney. Yet, with my high expectation, this movie has certainly exceeded my expectation and blowed my mind.

1. Some point of shoot camera technique to make audience feel like we are Sandra Bullock, who is lost in the universe for about five minutes, was breath-taking. I heard few people gasping while they were watching Sandra Bullock spinning and getting far away from earth and one of those people was me. It was amazing. spinning made it a bit dizzy that I was glad for a few seconds that I didn't watch this in imax. But having said that, it would have been amazing if I watched this movie in Imax. Beside the amazing camera angle, the graphics were breath taking too- earth, sunrise, green lights, explosion. Thanks to the amazing director and amazing actress and supporting actor, the quality of this movie is just amazing. When George Clooney sacrifices himself to save Ryan (Sandra Bullock), it reminded a little of Day After Tomorrow's scene (I don't know why). I was nearly crying and I had to physically stop my brain from thinking about what's happening to George Clooney right now when the movie was focusing on Ryan.

2. Even though the movie was well made, I am personally not sure of the whole explosion. I think it was a bit too much. When Ryan was about to take a breath, there was a fire, then her spaceship had no fuel, then she had to fly to Chinese's spaceship etc. It was happening so much at once, I got frustrated. Perhaps a bit of normal casual life in universe in first scene (ie Ryan floating on the spaceship, eating and sleeping) may be nice as I wanted to see what it's like to eat, sleep and play in spaceship. Also, it would have been nice to see Ryan actually getting rescued at the end.

3. When I saw the trailer of this movie, I thought this movie will have some flashbacks of what they were doing on earth. So I initially expected to see some product placement. However, there was no flashbacks. There was no eating. There was no normal casual life. There was no product placement. It was fully about explosion and Ryan trying to going back to earth. 

4. 3D was amazing. Some scenes, I closed my eyes and moved my head to get away from the explosion particles flying towards me. It was real and it was scary, which makes it awesome to watch it in 3D. It would have been an absolute beauty if I watched this in Imax. I think it's the second best movie to watch in Imax, first being Avatar.

Highly recommend you to watch this in 3D, and if you are interested in space/universe, maybe watch it in imax too. 4.5/5

Pacific Rim

Finally, I watched Pacific Rim. My friends have been talking about this movie for a very long time and recommended me to watch this is IMAX 3D and I did and I am glad I took my friend’s advice.





1. It is a simple straight forward story. Monsters are trying to invade earth and unlike other movies, these monsters are from ocean. Similar to other movies like Avangers, these monsters have portals that allow them to come to earth. Destroying this portal will stop monsters from coming to earth and ending the apocalypse. Very very simple story, doesn’t require any brain and thinking. If you don’t want to think and just want to kill time, this is the movie you want to watch. This is it. Huge blockbuster and amazing graphics. They certainly did an amazing job. If you can’t speak English, you can still watch this movie and understand the storyline of this movie because it is that simple and obvious. But to be honest, who is watching this kind of movie hoping that this movie has a storyline? I guess the majority of the movie-watchers of these kind of genre movies are watching it to enjoy the graphics and fighting scenes. They don’t really expect this kind of movies to have a storyline. So for me, it didn’t bother me when the storyline was obvious and straight forward.



2. Low budget perhaps? or spent too much on graphics? the actors and actress are all unknown. I believe that this is the director’s choice and he has always been using unknown actors and actress on his movie. I have to say, I liked the main character. He was cute but because they are all unknown, I can’t help but notice and lack of acting. There is a reason why some Hollywood action movies use top class, high rank Hollywood stars. They do actions themselves and they are good at acting. You will directly see them as a character and create the link. This movie, I cannot connect myself with the actor or actress (the Japanese girl).



3. A bit disappointed that I cannot help but notice that director tried too hard create the obvious funny characters in this movie and I did not find them funny. They were just too obvious that made them unfunny and yet kind of wish they didn’t do what they did. Also, why trying to create a love line between main girl and main guy? That was so so so stupid. I feel like they tried to squeeze the love line but for this movie, it’s better not to have the love line. If you are going to make the love connection, do it right. Saying “I never thought of future but now I do” line was so weird and made me say “what are you doing?”. It was so stupid. the movie tried so hard to put all the elements that other action movies have and it failed. They looked awkward.

4. This movie certainly showed how IMAX 3D movie should be like. Amazing sound, amazing fighting scene, amazing 3D. They really do deserve an IMAX screen and 3D. I thought Avatar was the best IMAX 3D but now, I think this movie is probably better in terms of action genre movie. Really really good.



5. Obvious to tell that Chinese paid lots of movie production costs as half of the movies are set in China or Hong Kong. Also, funny how they are in Hong Kong and yet the girl was Japanese. Maybe it’s just how it was in the comic? but it certainly was weird.

6. So much things are going on the screen that you forget to eat your popcorn! I thought this was a total popcorn movie but it isn’t. You have to pay attention to what’s going on and you forget to use your hand to eat your popcorn. I would not suggest you to buy popcorn for this movie.

7. Finally, no product placement. I am not surprise about this because this movie was so focused on the robots and monsters, it will be weird for corporates to pay thousands and millions for their brands to be placed in this movie. The only thing this movie will do for the brand is to destroy their building when fighting and I bet corporates won’t pay thousands and millions for movie audiences to see their buildings destroyed.

Overall, 3.5/5 because of an awesome action and amazing graphics that made me think that this movie is worth $21.