Comments on: Discuss: Can We Just Wait Until ‘Gravity’ Is Done Before Deciding If It’s A “Game Changing Masterpiece”?

By: anon

anon — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

…these little editorial pieces, make the playlist appear to be the lone voice or reason in an internet of madness…but this site publishes just as many "first-screening" opinion takes as any other, sometimes prefaced by "it's crazy to critique a film by this one minute of unfinished footage, but…", either way its still doing what you say not to do…

By: michael

michael — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

Amen. Glad to see fairness in your report. This film is not yet completed, so going crazy one way or the other seems odd to me. I am very excited to see "Gravity" in completed form.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

I know right? Why didn't she skip the screening, text her "opinion" and go shopping.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

You guys are on point here compared to the other horrid fanboy sites, most of which you put to shame. Nice work.

By: Collin

Collin — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

Totally agree.

By: Stanley Boobrick

Stanley Boobrick — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

I wrote the AICN review, & here's what you're missing….The film IS finished, in that it's fully edited and every piece of the story is there, the special fx were the only unfinished thing about it. But the reason I can make a judgement of how the final film will be is because this film is a 'one-location' movie, so the fully-rendered space footage we did get to see is an accurate representation of everything we didn't get to see, since we never leave the locale

By: oogle monster

oogle monster — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

Off topic but what about reactions to The Great Gatsby? I want to hear more about Luhrmann's masterpiece in the making!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

You are aware this is the internet, right?

By: Right

Right — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

So… is The Playlist going to stop reviewing scripts, since it's too "premature"? Or talking about Oscar potential when a particularly starry cast is announced? At least the Life is Pi and Gravity buzz is based on people actually having taken a look at the movie.

By: Jordan Raup

Jordan Raup — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

Ha, burn! I equate my hype with this relatively unknown project to something like one has for The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, etc. If some early hype gets it on more people's radar I have no problem sharing enthusiastic word about it. But yes, it's a very early version and we'll have to wait and see.

By: Thoughts

Thoughts — Sun, 22 May 2016 04:05:06 +0000

I think it's just the nature of Internet chatter now. The second a film ends people will rush to their Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc to express their IMMEDIATE opinion regarding what they just saw, read, or heard. There's little to no time anymore where people REFLECT on what they saw. There seems to be a new masterpiece & game changer every month or so now isn't there? I try to wait at least two days before really expressing my opinion on a film I just saw for example because I know how easy it is to fall into the just-post-viewing hype.
If you had asked me December 14th what my opinion of 'Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol' was the minute after I saw it on a true IMAX screen I would've told "this is the best action movie ever made!" Yet I never went to see it again in theaters.
I enjoyed MI4 a great deal and I now own it on bluray & watched it a couple times since. Is it a great movie? Yes. Is it the greatest movie ever made? Nope.
People don't allow things to digest anymore. By May 5th two thirds of the nerd filmgoing population after just seeing 'The Avengers' is going to call it the greatest film ever made and ask why isn't their Dark Knight here yet.