Which is your favorite? Do you think one of the others has something better than the one you enjoy the most?

I love Gravity and will say it is easily the best of the three. It’s emotional, visually striking(!!!), the acting from Bullock was terrific etc. it was pretty much a one woman show and she carried it beautifully.

I absolutely loved the long shots of space and earth. On the big screen, it was perfection. This was one of the very few films where 3D actually looked good and improved the visual experience.

I will say, however, of the 3 films big emotional scenes that Interstellar has the best one. McBongo really was terrific while watching those videos that spanned 23 years, 23 years he missed from his children’s life.

The Martian was lame and I don’t care how much people defend it. And it DOES play as a comedy at times. Interstellar was too pretentious. The whole love and time speech from Hathaway was too much.

Gravity was better.

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May 31, 2021 6:13 PM

They all sound boring and forgettable. Which ones star Tom Hanks or Sandra Bullock? Those are the ones I don't want to watch.

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May 21, 2021 11:34 PM

Gravity is the most thrilling, emotional experience.

The others were pretentious twaddle.

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May 21, 2021 11:36 PM

Interstellar was too long and pretentious but some scenes were great. The water planet scene was terrific

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May 21, 2021 11:38 PM

Why isn't the OP including FIRST MAN?

Since we're trying to make being an astronaut as boring as possible.

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May 21, 2021 11:38 PM

R5 OP here. You can comment about any other space film you like. I focused on those three because they were all back to back. After Gravity became a blockbuster I knew they were gonna push out as much Space movies as they could.

The next two didn’t perform as well as Gravity, although well, but not well enough for them to rush one for 2016 lol.

First Man came out a few years later and flopped. But it was alright. Gosling was miscast.

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May 21, 2021 11:46 PM

Queen of Outer Space is more entertaining and involving than The Martian. Damon dancing around to disco music and growing potatoes in feces while back on earth a group of boring, international scientists work tirelessly to bring him back. No suspense since we know Damon will be rescued. 2 and a half hours of wasted time. Dreadful!

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May 21, 2021 11:54 PM

I hated The Martian r7

I never understood it’s acclaim.

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May 22, 2021 12:01 AM

Both Interstellar and The Martian have Matt Damon being rescued, the former in an evil role.

No space zoo was purchased in the making of this motion picture.

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May 22, 2021 12:01 AM

OP forgot there was a space movie released in 2016 also, that they hoped would bring in blockbuster money and be an Oscar contender, but it fell flat and ended the annual acclaimed space film Gravity started.

Passengers.

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May 22, 2021 12:03 AM

Loved the talks and shots. Terrific movie. The earth shots were beautiful. These videos don’t show what they looked like in the theater

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May 22, 2021 12:08 AM

[R5] Another boring astronaut.

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May 22, 2021 12:11 AM

Ruth Negga’s brief appearance was the best part of the film r12

She has a very large presence.

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May 22, 2021 12:14 AM

I saw Gravity in IMAX and when Sandra Bullock's character was floating untethered, my stomach was doing flip flops. I love the movie.

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May 22, 2021 12:15 AM

R14 I actually got anxiety while watching that. The thought of just floating in space like that made me so nervous.

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May 22, 2021 12:18 AM

Gravity without question.

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May 22, 2021 12:20 AM

Gravity was OK, Martian was boring as shit and trite. Interstellar would have been a great movie if you could just edit Anne Hathaway, all her scenes and dialogue out of the film. McConaughey was great in that film. The scene where he watches his daughter grow into Jessica Chastain and Timothy Chalamet grow into Casey Affleck (poor Tim) was just devastating.

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May 22, 2021 1:05 AM

Matt Damon should do more space movies.

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May 22, 2021 1:12 AM

R17 Chastain was terrible in that film too. But Hathaway was awful.

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May 22, 2021 1:24 AM

Gravity for the win even if I have no interest in watching it again.

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May 22, 2021 2:28 AM

The ending of Gravity was laughably bad though. I mean, if you thought Interstellar was pretentious, how do you like Gravity with that ending?

I love movies about Mars, so I didn't mind The Martian, even though it was a bit long and clunky at points. I hated the book.

Interstellar would be my pick because I liked the multi-dimensional, philosophical, time-bending aspects of it. I, however, laughed out loud when fucking Matt Damon showed up!

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May 22, 2021 6:47 AM

[quote] I, however, laughed out loud when fucking Matt Damon showed up!

Why?

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May 22, 2021 6:50 AM

2001: a space odyssey?

Also wasn't Solaris made as by Tarkovsky as a response to 2001 not being realistic enough or something?

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May 22, 2021 6:58 AM

R22, I think I saw it after I saw The Martian and I wasn't spoiled about him being in Interstellar so when the dude who was trapped on Mars was also trapped on another planet, it was funny.

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May 22, 2021 7:06 AM

Gravity. I agree with OP on it and the others.

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May 22, 2021 7:19 AM

Gravity is my favorite movie. Not only is it visually spectacular, but it’s so much more than an “astronaut lost in space.” It’s about confronting your mortality suddenly and violently, and dealing with the anxiety of knowing your life may end right now. The soundtrack is also amazing.

Interstellar had a few good moments of depicting scientific theory (time dilation, wormholes, etc) but the story was bloated and pretentious.

The Martian was just silly. Not once did I buy that Matt Damon was in a flappy tent on Mars while we got shots of a skinny stand-in. Also, Jessica Chastain is into disco music which is a thing, I guess?

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May 22, 2021 7:33 AM

[quote] Not once did I buy that Matt Damon was in a flappy tent on Mars while we got shots of a skinny stand-in.

How did you realize it was a stand in, R27?

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May 22, 2021 7:54 AM

Gravity for the teardrop in 3-D alone.

I thought the Martian was entertaining and Interstellar confusing.

One of my favorite scenes ever is in Ad Astra when Brad Pitt is being chased in his moon buggy.

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May 22, 2021 8:02 AM

I have not watched any of these 3.

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May 22, 2021 9:15 AM

“Gravity” - its budget was literally greater than that of an Indian moon probe launched that same year. Good FX, terrible science, tedious script, ham-fisted ode to STRONG WOMYN.

“The Martian” - the best of these three movies, but that’s not saying too much. Cliche-riddled script, lots of snark and too much Matt Damon staring into a computer screen.

“Interstellar” - hoo boy, this was a piece of shit. Like all Christopher Nolan films it takes itself way too seriously; however unlike most Nolan films it doesn’t even bother with a perfunctorily competent set-up before completely shitting the bed in the third act. Michael Caine’s repeated recitations of Dylan Thomas are so fucking hammy that the film should come with a Rabbinic warning, as observant Jews will not be able to watch and keep kosher. My friend and I sat in the theater and could not stop laughing at how bad this movie was, from about the 20-minute mark on.

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May 22, 2021 9:29 AM

Gravity with Spaceballs 2nd.

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May 22, 2021 9:42 AM

Alien, Aliens, even Alien 3 but never Alien: Resurrection. Even with its problems Prometheus but never Alien: Covenant.

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May 22, 2021 10:34 AM

Seeing Gravity was one of my favorite film exoeriences of all time. I went on a Saturday morning a week after it was released, and the theater was still packed. However, watching it at home just wasn't the same. It's a film that has to be experienced on the big screen.

The Martian was fun and would make a good TNT movie (something they play all the time, so viewers will end up watching 45 minutes of it when they're bored)

Interstellar was disappointing trash. Pure garbage.0

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May 22, 2021 12:30 PM

I loved Interstellar once they actually got off Earth. Didn’t care about the daughter at all. The Martian was essentially a one man show and I was riveted for the entire movie; that’s pretty difficult to pull off. Gravity was emotionally very satisfying. When Clooney came back to the capsule, I totally wanted to believe that.

I don’t remember anything about Ad Astra.

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May 22, 2021 1:09 PM

R35, Spacecamp really is the best!

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May 22, 2021 3:49 PM

I was disappointed in all three, but "Gravity" and "The Martian" were merely disappointing, while "Interstellar" was throw-your-drink-at-the-TV godawful!

"Spacecamp" is better than all three, and it's not good. It's just fun!

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May 22, 2021 9:33 PM

I loved Gravity. The Martian felt like a comedy to me. I was shocked people didn’t feel the comedic tone

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May 23, 2021 2:34 PM

Was glad when smug Jlaw and Chris Pratt's shitty movie bombed. Each paid 25 million to star in a crap movie. Stinkers

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May 23, 2021 3:33 PM

R42 false. He was paid a lot less than her.

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May 23, 2021 3:34 PM

Sorry, Jlaw was paid $20million plus 30% of the profit. Stinky Pratt got $12million

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May 23, 2021 3:57 PM

What’s funny is during this period she was still going on and on about being paid less than her male cast members for American Hustle... ummmm sweetie you were in like 20 minutes of the film. You really feel you should have been paid the same as Bale?! If anyone should be upset it’s Amy Adam’s who was paid less than Bradley Cooper and J Law despite being the second lead of the film.

And then she was silent about the fact she made so much more than her male costar here.

Same shit with ScarJo. She bitches how her male costar makes more than her but never will acknowledge how she was paid $20 million for Lucy while Morgan Freeman was paid like $7 million. Or how she is the second highest paid Avenger behind RDJ.

No one is gonna get paid more than him. Gender means nothing.

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May 23, 2021 4:05 PM

Adams*

Also, don’t get me started on Jessica Chastain who still harps on being paid less than Matt Damon for The Martian. He was in almost the entire film. She was in like 30 minutes. Plus he’s a big star. Her name hasn’t carried anything to make big profits.

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May 23, 2021 4:07 PM

Ad Astra is underrated. The moon buggy chase is awesome as are all the scenes on the moon. Also the opening scene with the giant space antenna. Like a lot of these movies it goes off the rails a bit in the third act. Gravity and Interstellar are both pretty great, The Martian was kind of blah.

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May 23, 2021 4:37 PM

Interstellar would have been good without the overacting of Hathaway and McBongo during the scene where hes trying to get his daughter a message while she’s in the bedroom.

And don’t get me started on Hathaways dialogue

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May 23, 2021 4:39 PM

What was interesting about Interstellar is that it turned on its head the trope about overly emotional female characters and stoic male characters. McConaughey was an emotional mess throughout the film and Hathaway was cold and calculating.

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May 24, 2021 12:10 AM

Which, R49, is why so many didn't like her character. Chastain's character was similarly unemotional and guarded and they don't like her either. Not a surprise around here.

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May 24, 2021 12:14 AM

I have a 3D projector and watched Gravity tonight. Such a visually stunning film and Sandra's great in it. Interesting that we have two threads going on about too long/too short films. At 90 minutes, Gravity packs in a lot.

I liked The Martian but, considering the talent involved, it felt a bit stale, especially coming out a few years after the superior Gravity.

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May 30, 2021 7:40 AM

Gravity steals a bit from Aliens what with the grieving mother going out into space to find solace.

It loses points for that but it is still the best of the three. The other two I had no interest in.

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May 30, 2021 8:26 AM

What did you guys think of that scene in Gravity where Sandra Bullock takes off her suit and then assumes a fetal position while a cord floats slowly in the background resembling the umbilical cord? The scene is, of course, trying to portray a baby safe in a mother's womb. At first, I liked the scene but then, later, realized how forced and pretentious it was.

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May 30, 2021 11:52 AM

R53 I agree, talk about being force-fed the director's allegory. After that scene, I lost faith in the movie.

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May 30, 2021 1:23 PM

Of those, Gravity, hands down. I loved it. If Sandra Bullock is going to have an Oscar, it should have been for this, instead of The Blind Side.

“Moon” with Sam Rockwell is a great sci-fi/ space movie from 2009. He gives an amazing performance.

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May 30, 2021 1:42 PM

Gravity was the most engaging upon first watch, but once I saw it and knew how it ended, I had no desire to rewatch it. It wasn't due to not liking the ending, but rather because it's a thriller where the sole premise lies on "Will she make it back to earth or not?" They really failed to flesh the characters out. I think the earth scenes in the other films helped in this regard.

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May 30, 2021 2:00 PM

I always remember the joke at the Golden Globes - I think it was Tina Fey - who said George Clooney had preferred to be cut loose in space rather than spend any more time with a woman his own age.

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May 31, 2021 6:08 PM

Gravity kills the others and is probably the best astronaut movie I’ve seen (with the best special effects as well).

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May 31, 2021 6:11 PM

The other two were clearly put out to ride on the coattails of Gravity’s success.

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May 31, 2021 6:13 PM