Gravity, t3h movie! Imax 3d.

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Hmm, I think those 3 examples are much, much darker in tone.

That's why I think Cauron copped out. I would have loved a darker tone with Gravity. I yearned for it. I wanted a reason to care that the fellow astronauts died, and a reason to actually fear that Bullock might not make it. The closest Gravity got was Clooney sacrificing himself, and even that wasn't very bleak.

I think it's more a difference of degrees, and tone. If I were to roughly compare it, I'd say Gravity was probably closer in tone to 'Moon'.

Moon did a million times more character development. While similar, I'm not sure that the tone is even on the same level.

But it is a bit of a conundrum isn't it, do you look at the movie as is, or some of the missed opportunities?

I look at it as a whole, warts and all. Most of the time, the warts are a minor annoyance and are easily overlooked. Sometimes the missed opportunity warts can ruin it for me, like the ending of Law Abiding Citizen.