I get very interested in how they did it, and start noticing things like camera angles and movements, lighting, set decoration, special effects, editing, etc. Because of that I'm very aware it's a film and can stomach about any intensity level.

One exception: horror/slasher films. Won't go near those.

First ..happy B-day to Ms. T....

I am planning on watching the movie on dvd/flat screen monitor when it comes out.
Wonder if the size of the screen will make a difference in intensity.

For some reason, Alien got to me...even dvd version....still have not seen the whole thing thru, nor any of its
offspring films.

I could not deal with that movie. It scared the crap out of me.

Seeing it in the theatre left me physically exhausted, like I'd just been on a roller coaster for hours. Exciting yes, but too much.

Talked to a guy a couple of years ago who said his 9 year old thought it was boring. Too much talking. Not enough action.

That must be why we almost never go to the movies any longer.

I was gripping my husband's hand through the whole movie! After it though, it felt weird, like I had been in space on the same journey. Took me a few minutes to decompress.

I have a friend though that I have told she shouldn't see it, not for the intensity so much as her very great tendency to get motion sick.

come with those warnings.

So, maybe I'll pass on this movie, and others with certain health problems might give it some serious thought before they see this type of show.

I wonder if the movie has any warnings - like certain games do.

My friend is very, very sensitive. And I don't want to give the impression it's not for the faint of heart; you just get right in there with her as she tries to survive in a completely inhospitable environment. I suspect she'd be a lot more bruised and banged up than she shows if she went through all the physical pounding she does, but then that's Hollywood, where two people can have a full on fistfight for ten minutes without any damage to show for it.

But really. The story was just so unbelievable.

There was one good scene--involving imagination.

We saw the 2D version.

I won't do spoilers, but I thought it was a clumsy McGuffin. Otherwise though I was happily able to suspend my disbelief.

the manager should be commended.

Gravity pushed ALL of my buttons. Three days of nightmares.

Sandra Bullock earns an Oscar for this. If she doesn't life is not fair.

I only stayed because my wife did.

My hands probably made a permanent impression on my seat.

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Any subject that has to do with asphyxiation, drowning, and the like, I don't like. Dying in extreme isolation, or extremely hopeless situations, same thing. I'm glad I only watched the last half hour of Open Water. I would not have been able to watch it from the beginning. That kind of thing gets to me too deeply.

Frank's death in 2001 was difficult to watch as well.

Makes sense. Abandonment, isolation, asphyxiation, betrayal...it hits on a whole lot of fears. And yeah, it would hit those nerves.

is no music, no sound.

I have a nasty fear of drowning but I did love both films. I was so tense watching Gravity that I was sore afterward!

and I do trust most everyone here in their assessments. I don't mind either not seeing it, seeing the ending first, or seeing it on the small home screen

Some of the violence in new shows bugs me, too, even though I like the rest of the show (Copper, Ripper Street as examples of outrageous violence yet powerful stories.)

I guess this is all the result of things having to be EXTREME in order for people to react emotionally. Whereas the finger-breaking scene in Blade Runner always gets to me when I watch that movie because we don't see it happening, only the sound. My imagination can easily fill in the rest of that "reality."

I can't watch 3-D as it gives me a headache. I have seen theaters here in 4-D. I stuck my head in and took a look really quick as it was the same film and the seats were moving and water was spraying on people. I'm glad Mrs. T didn't go to that. She'd be seasick.

or maybe before.

I will not be seeing Gravity and I love Sandra Bullock.

Asphyxiation, sudden decompression, fire, and drowning. All in one movie.

But it's a spectacular film.