The great: Amazing visuals, visually stunning, amazing direction, the type of movie 3D was made for, well acted overall.
The good: Short and sweet, does not overstay its welcome.
The bad: Very bad dialogue (for this type of film), especially from George Clooney's character. And seriously, what Nasa astronaut would say to themselves: "I hate space" or "sunny with a chance of satellite debris"??
The badder: A lot of Hollywood cliché exposition aimed directly at the audience & terrible stereotypes subtlety interwoven (Chinese play ping pong and have Budha statues, Russians drink vodka...yeah yeah yeah)
The worst: The over-hype of this film & an actual line of script mentioning the similarly over-hyped Facebook. It is a sin to use trendy flavor of the week pop culture lingo in films, especially in one this good.
Come on now, do you really think people will remember facebook in 20 years while watching this film? I think when that line comes up in 20 years, the kids will kids say "what the hell is facebook"???? Visuals = Timeless. Dialogue? Not so much. It's like mentioning social networking site "Friendster" a decade ago...a NO NO.
And the character development was a bit weak and wasted time with some meaningless quips that never paid off. This would have been just as good a movie as a silent film.
Overall a solid flick but not anything I could imagine watching in its entirety a second time.
6/10
The good: Short and sweet, does not overstay its welcome.
The bad: Very bad dialogue (for this type of film), especially from George Clooney's character. And seriously, what Nasa astronaut would say to themselves: "I hate space" or "sunny with a chance of satellite debris"??
The badder: A lot of Hollywood cliché exposition aimed directly at the audience & terrible stereotypes subtlety interwoven (Chinese play ping pong and have Budha statues, Russians drink vodka...yeah yeah yeah)
The worst: The over-hype of this film & an actual line of script mentioning the similarly over-hyped Facebook. It is a sin to use trendy flavor of the week pop culture lingo in films, especially in one this good.
Come on now, do you really think people will remember facebook in 20 years while watching this film? I think when that line comes up in 20 years, the kids will kids say "what the hell is facebook"???? Visuals = Timeless. Dialogue? Not so much. It's like mentioning social networking site "Friendster" a decade ago...a NO NO.
And the character development was a bit weak and wasted time with some meaningless quips that never paid off. This would have been just as good a movie as a silent film.
Overall a solid flick but not anything I could imagine watching in its entirety a second time.
6/10