Gravity, t3h movie! Imax 3d.

[kandrathe]

You really hate NASA, don't you? Gravity currently has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 96% on Metacrtitic. Sometimes a good movie is just a good movie. You don't need to read anything more into it.

I don't really have any passion for or against NASA. I believe their purpose and perseverance have been eroded, but I would love to see them create a means to colonize Mars (for example), and create a means to regularly visit there. It would delight me even more were their long term strategy to be funded on their research patents, or exploitation of space. They should be able, with their virtual monopoly on US space program, to generate far more ROI. As it sits, they get too little support, and don't get enough done.

I'm just the type* of person who, when I see a movie (any movie) or read a book, MUST go back, do research, and scrutinize it for accuracy. In that regard then, movies that are obviously fictional frivolous romps require little work on my part (e.g. LOTR - except for comparing to the book version). Movies that attempt to be accurate require work for me to separate the truths from the untruths. Otherwise, I am concerned (worried) that my knowledge of that actual topic will be prejudiced by fictional theatrical bravado (e.g. The Help, Argo, The Butler, or most anything with Kevin Costner in it...). I believe that the more realistic the movie attempts to be may aid it in deceiving people about other more important truths. For example, this one. It may suggest to a vast number of people that space is far more dangerous than it really is, and that the people that work to get people there take more irresponsible, and more unreasoned risks than they really do. It may create unrealistic fears about sending more people into space, something I would venture all of us "sci-fi" type people are wishing were more possible.

But, I suspect the space technology is not what gets this movie it's critical acclaim. That has probably more to do with the cinematography, direction, acting, and story. When I go see it, it would be only for those elements -- and I'd try to unpack the other "cool" but wrong stuff as movie wrappings. Of higher priority for my household would be, "Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters" , or "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" -- which has less critical acclaim, but would be appreciated 1000% more by my sons.

Anyway, welcome to the nightmare that is my over-analytical mind.

* And, yes, I recognize that it is me who is not like the other 99.9% of people. And, yes, there is a clinical DSM IV diagnosis for the minority of people like me.