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| English: Crew of the final ill-fated flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia, mission STS-107. This is the official crew photo from Mission STS-107 on theSpace Shuttle Columbia. From left to right are Mission Specialist David Brown, Commander Rick Husband, MissionSpecialist Laurel Clark, Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla,Mission Specialist Michael Anderson, Pilot William McCool,and Israeli Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Now this one is also a co-incident one in a row. This just happened yesterday when I was watching the film "Gravity". I had to watch this one since a long time, may be since the time when I got to know that she received so many accolades along with the nominations and awards for the same movie. Moreover, my moviepedia friend also told me that Gravity happens to be his all time favourite as well.
So, since a long time I was looking for a moment to grab this one, but as usual I hardly get time. So, as I am currently on a vacation, hence I thought of utilizing the opportunity to watch the Gravity. But as I never gave my moviepedia friend a chance to store the movie in my laptop, so I had to ask my cousin to arrange it for me.
My cousin being a nice and resourceful person did download it for me and so I ended up watching the movie with him yesterday.
Moving on to the movie, yes initially it seemed attention generating and also looked beautiful with the spectacular visuals and almost documented scenes; but gradually I realised that it was a more or less fictionalized take on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
And thats all what I have for the movie to talk about. Obviously, the struggles and the will to survive of the leading lady portrayed by Ms. Bullock were close to natural and were in fact touching, but apart from it I just felt I was in a planetarium for 91 minutes. Of course, there was some dose of entertainment in the form of Mr. Clooney doing the inspirational and soul uplifting bit in a humorous tone, but that is it.
The visuals where in the leading actors are fixing some stuff of the shuttle in the space and a nail flows by, was much like the typical scenario wherein a husband and a wife are in a garden and a flower flows by when the wife is bust pruning some flower stem here and there, and obviously the husband runs (and not flies) to bring it back to her.
There were set-backs to existing set-backs and to me it seemed the entire movie was just a play of close to reality sets, visuals and cinematography.
Now it seems that I should not be talking more nasty stuff else I will start getting hate comments from all portions of this World, considering how popular and respected the movie is considered by all.
By the way, that moviepedia friend of mine had one bit of advice for me, since he totally got disgusted with my not so good comments on it : "You should have not seen the movie on a laptop screen, it is simply not meant for it. I know it because I saw it thrice that way ".
P.S: The scene shown in the movie where a fellow space shuttle colleage is seen dead with his face blown hollow and his family album floating alongside him was devastating for me to watch; my dad also had his face blown up and there was a burnt album of ours (which majorly had my pictures) along with a burnt sandalwood book mark that I had gifted him.
But this fact has nothing to do with my dislike for the movie.
