Movie Review: Gravity

If you haven't watched Gravity yet, you should take 90 minutes out of your time to go see it. Yep, it's only an hour and a half of amazing visuals and music.

The first ten to fifteen minutes basically explains the plot of the movie. It starts off in space, with Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) trying to fix something on the Hubble Telescope, with Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) monitoring the team. A couple of minutes in, they get a signal from Earth that debris from a nearby destroyed Russian satellite will be passing by, and it may or may not hit them. 

It obviously hits them.

Along with the International Space Station as well. 

And with that, this movie is all about survival in space, where there's no sound, no gravity, and no one to hear you. 

Here's a list of what I liked about the movie:

• Soundtrack = SUPERB. Literally. It's being nominated for an academy award for best soundtrack tonight, and I really hope it wins. If you don't watch the movie, just listen to the soundtrack on Youtube. You will not regret it.
• The visuals of Earth from above. It is stunning
• I'm glad that they got all the facts right with space, like how there is no sound at all and that an object does not stop moving in space unless there's a force stopping it.
• The scene where Sandra Bullock just keeps working on unscrewing something while the station blows up behind her, silently.
• The fact that this movie did not go over 90 minutes. I don't think I could've handled 2 hours of space, because only so much can happen without it being repetitive. 

I'm definitely going to be watching the Oscars tonight. I'm hoping that Frozen wins best animated and best song and Gravity wins best soundtrack.

And now time to write that review on Days of Blood & Starlight    

Movie Review: The Book Thief

I'm not sure where to start, except to say that this is one incredible adaptation. I remember having really high hopes for this movie, and then finding out that it wasn't even playing everywhere in the U.S. until a couple of weeks later (probably due to the fact that the movie did well).

Overall, I really liked The Book Thief movie. When I first saw it, I kept on checking the time so that I could figure out what scenes weren't in the movie. Personally, I absolutely loved the movie. It hit all the important points, and the story wasn't sabotaged (like for example, Avatar the Last Airbender).

The casting was also spot on.
So was the setting of the book.

I JUST WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN, even though I will be shedding tears and blowing my nose. I forgot to bring tissues with me to the movie, I cannot make this mistake when watching The Fault in Our Stars.



Anyways, here's a list of what I thought about The Book Thief movie:

• They portrayed Death in the movie!
• The music suited the movie, until the last scene, which seem a little too jolly for me to be in the background of the ending scene.
• They kept the part where Rosa pretends to scold Liesel, just so she can tell her that Max is awake and alive
• The character of Max! 
• Geoffrey Rush fits Hans perfectly as well. 
• Why, oh why, did they leave out the part about Max writing Liesel the book about the word shaker? 
• Most parts were cut out, but it is a 500 page book, so I can't blame them. Like, for example, the apple stealing, and when Liesel leaves bread for the Jews.
• Rudy is adorable. 
• The scene where Liesel, Max, and Hans and Rosa had a snowball fight in the basement.
• I cried a lot at the end, even though I knew what was already going to happen.

Here's the trailer: