Every Woman Wants a Matt Kowalski

Every woman wants a Matt Kowalski

Posted on October 16, 2013 | Leave a comment
I saw Gravity in IMAX tonight.

It was incredible.

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Yep Rules - the constant chatting and fidgeting and seat kicking does my head in at times - so if my kids are with me I just ask them to turn around and face the people behind us and have a staring competition, freaks the hell out of some people and I then get to watch the movie in peace and quiet. HA

I agree

theminis wrote:Yep Rules - the constant chatting and fidgeting and seat kicking does my head in at times - so if my kids are with me I just ask them to turn around and face the people behind us and have a staring competition, freaks the hell out of some people and I then get to watch the movie in peace and quiet.   HA

TheMinis you are a genius.

Its funny watching the people squirm under the relentless stare from my kids - it works too they usually shush right up.

*Spoiler alert*: When Matt had to let go of Ryan, and Ryan tried to stop him,  I’m pretty sure every woman in the theatre wanted to bawl her eyes out.

I haven't seen Gravity yet but this comment reminded me of how many people were moved when Jack (Leonardo DiCaprio's character) let go (sacrificed himself) for Rose (Kate Winslet) in Titanic.
The appeal & success of that film was not only because of the magnitude of visual imagery & the storyline, but the emotional depth of those two.

Perhaps Gravity touches millions of people like that too.
Sensory stimulation.

85% of viewers are choosing to see this in 3D.

This was such a Sandra Bullock movie you could have easily WRITTEN OUT the Matt Kowalski and the Indian guy character astronauts and it wouldn't have made much difference. George just playing his silly solid stuck on himself self.

@ George Fan.... Really really?

Absolutely. I don't know who wrote the script for Gravity, but the whole movie could have been done with just a LOST untethered Sandra Bullock in it. The detractors of the movie said it was too simple a storyline too, the theme of You Can Make It.

It is doing well because of outer space and the spacecraft. The story really isn't much.

George Fan - Yes, Sandy Bullock does carry the film - and she does a great job - but if they had cut George's supporting role the movie would have lasted about 5 minutes because her character wouldn't have had a clue how to survive! He played his part perfectly, being exactly the kind of person Sandy's character needed to get her through everything she had to face. - I think they were both great!

Some fan!

It was written goofy too. George's character telling a medical doctor about oxygen. I am a critical thinker fan about his roles he picks and on the tail end of his acting career he hasn't picked roles that stretch him like Johnny Depp. It is like the director went down to the local bar and said hey George be yourself, talk about drinking, be charming and funny. He basically was just being himself. A far cry from Perfect Storm. Houston Control could have played George on the radio calming down astronaut Sandra Bullock and the movie budget could have saved a bundle.

George Fan wrote:It was written goofy too. George's character telling a medical doctor about oxygen. I am a critical thinker fan about his roles he picks and on the tail end of his acting career he hasn't picked roles that stretch him like Johnny Depp. It is like the director went down to the local bar and said hey George be yourself, talk about drinking, be charming and funny. He basically was just being himself. A far cry from Perfect Storm. Houston Control could have played George on the radio calming down astronaut Sandra Bullock and the movie budget could have saved a bundle.

The movie was written by the director Curon and his son. So I think that they would know how the movie should flow. It was written as a story of survival more than anything else. How does George act when he is acting himself? I am curious. Thankfully the majority of the people have given it a high approval rating. I know that they all have mine.

Like that saying "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." We all like different things.

I was shocked by the minority that said they were bored with the just the story of survival prior to going seeing it and I would give it a B+. I just thought the George character was totally a spare part and not necessary. The meteor fragments, the ISS, the Earth, the Soyuz, the Chinese ship, the re-entry made the movie. They also couldn't make Sandra's hair float properly in weightlessness. I thought the 3D was limited effect with things floating around. It was entertainment and I did recommend it over Captain Phillips which was a better story, much better acted, but intense the whole movie.

George being himself is self deprecating, tells jokes, thinks he is a ladies man, and is proud of drinking alot, and also can't commit to women. Also tells a lot of past stories. Kowalski.

Well, I enjoyed the film! I was on the edge of my seat the entire time. I enjoyed both Sandra and George. And I must admit, I cried when George let go (and when he returned and left AGAIN). I didn't expect to leave the theater all teary-eyed!
-Jluna2011, film critic

please
better alert about SPOILERS

thanks!

it's me wrote:please
better alert about SPOILERS

thanks!

Spoiler warning in opening link. I was just quoting from it.   
With all the articles I've read till now, I have clued it on a lot of the plot.
I want the experience in 3D to feel a story of survival in space.

Kowalski's role is pivotal to the plot.  He's the guiding influence to give hope, from what I've surmised from all reviews. She wouldn't have made it without him.

ok, but better remind it
if you are going to quote something sensible

thanks

Mazy wrote:Every woman wants a Matt Kowalski

Posted on October 16, 2013 | Leave a comment
I saw Gravity in IMAX tonight.


Especially George Clooney, who played Matt Kowalski.

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NO MIKE! Don’t let go!

Why does it say No Mike! don't let go! when his name was Matt?

I assumed it was a typo on the part of the writer. Otherwise I don't know.

Being almost a total Luddite, I haven't yet figured out how to post articles from other sites. However, there's an article on Yahoo Shine.htm titled "The Surprising Importance of George Clooney's Role in "Gravity".

I thought George Fan might be interested.

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Some of the most powerful - and widely popular movie crazes - in recent years have pointed to the fact we're all feeling a bit existential lately. Movies like Wall-E, Avatar, Earth, Food, Inc., the list could go on and on - all deal in some way with why we're seemingly out to destroy ourselves and our planet. We seem to want movies to force us to look inward. What is the meaning of life? Why are we here? Why are we humans so morally bankrupt? How did we become so profoundly unappealing as a species? How can we change?

The latest in this trend, Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity, is similarly profound, and a splendid visual creation, but this time offers a new spin on the transcendental journey. It's a look at the meaning of life that speaks directly to parents.

Fittingly, the movie revolves around a man and a woman. They are not parents together, not a couple, but represent a sort of perfect manifestation of the ideas of "man" and "woman."

"She," is Ryan Stone, a bio-medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) and "he" is a veteran astronaut, Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) who is there to guide her mission. When the mission is thrown into disaster and matters of life and death become very real suddenly, we come to know that Stone has nobody to return to down on planet Earth. Back on Earth, in fact, she lost the only thing that truly mattered to her - her daughter. The most heart-wrenching moments that follow are not about whether she'll get back to Earth, but if she'll realize that her life truly has no meaning and that she'll give up trying to survive. The journey she goes on is tremendous - literally traversing thousands of miles and spiritually making peace with the death of her daughter. She does choose life, and in the end is thrust back down to earth to crawl out of water onto land and symbolically be born again as a parent, and a childless adult.

The role that George Clooney plays and the way in which he embodies it is great on many levels. He, as Kowalski, keeps Stone on course, keeps her safe, gives her direction. He brings her to safety more than once before selflessly disengaging his tether from her and floating away to eternity and his death - so that she might live. Maybe Kowalski is a real man, maybe he is meant to be the voice of God personified. What's for certain is Clooney is a genuine Clark Gable, a John Wayne, a Jimmy Stewart for our day. He is not only a perfect hero: handsome, charming, good under pressure, witty, profound, selfless - he is a kind of man we rarely see portrayed in movies now: Uncomplicated, kind, spunky. He is at the enlightened end of his own personal journey and is fully capable of being an aid to those around him. He is a hero in the old fashioned sense - a fully whole man, confident, who selflessly tries to save his fellow shipmates, including a modern, intensely capable, Doctor-damsel in distress. It's refreshing to see a cowboy of this ilk on the contemporary screen - an untormented, pure, singularly good person.

Whether the movie is scientifically realistic has been debated by real life astronauts in the media since its release, and while that's an interesting point of curiosity, the movie is so perfect a parable that it seems quite irrelevant whether the story could or would happen in "real life." Gravity was called the "best space film ever" by Avatar and Titanic creator James Cameron - high praise indeed. It is a great space film, but it's also a visual poem, and one should not get too blinded by the science.

Thanks Theminis! One of these days I'll learn how to work this thing like a grown-up (or maybe like a kid!) and I won't have to depend on smart people like you. Thanks again for posting the article.