It always makes me smile inside when sports beats everything else out. I'm not even a huge sports fan, but its still nice to see sports kicking the hot new show's butts in the ratings.

There's got to be a better comments service than this boo-shit. It IS better than nuDisqus, though. At least there's that.

Smash cut to…!

And then it will be goodbye forever, AV Club. *sob*

Woohoo!

Yeah, signing up for The Dissolve changed my name to Ben and lost my sweet Big Lebowski avatar.

Huh. I guess I just never thought she was going to get caught by it, more that she was just swimming through it. Maybe I was still watching that frog.

I want to buy these episodes, but I don't have enough time to listen to every podcast I listen to already, much less 15 or so new ones. Garrgh!

I don't get the seaweed part. Why were people laughing at that? She just swam through some seaweed.

Maybe I'm stupid, but I thought he was just being pulled by Earth's gravity.

If anything, you should be questioning why they let an astronaut up with only six months of training who clearly wasn't comfortable in zero gravity. Personally, I bought it and thought it nicely allowed Bullock to have a tiny bit of character progression.

I don't think any of those other actresses would work. I don't really like Bullock at all, but she is the right combination of girl panicky/adult discipline to pull off this part. She has an intelligence and oddness to her that I think lets you buy her as a genius scientist. I don't think I would buy any of those…

I'm too drunk now to write a reasonable post, but I think we were both doing the same thing at that point.

Well I think obviously she was just imagining the whole thing, and Clooney wasn't there at all. I was contemplating if you could survive brief exposure like that, but I don't think he ever opened the door, given that Clooney just disappeared. He was a hallucination.

I still like Children of Men more, but it was damn good. I think the average shot length is like 2+ minutes, which is crazy.

Neat!

Ohhhhhh, the Smithsonian! Who's a fancy lad then?

Usually when I see movies, I get annoyed at long takes made possible by CGI. This movie is nothing BUT long CGI takes, put its all done so perfectly it doesn't matter to me. No shot is extended just to make it longer, it all serves to put you in Sandra Bullock's space boots and immerse you in the movie. God damn what…

Fuck that, I'm gonna watch Gravity in space during a meteor shower for the full immersive experience.

Agreed about how great Clooney is. His reappearance nearly lost me - I was trying to figure out if he could have opened that door without killing Bullock and then the reveal came. Though, it could have just been the howling scene before it. I don't think they quite pulled that off, though I agree in general that…