[Hulk01]

I loved Mud.  Whether I'd see it again would not change that; there aren't many movies that I need to see twice.

Gravity was not a good example of excellent story telling, but the film making seemed extraordinary to me.  To make the setting even plausible seems a feat worth watching and honoring.  No question that it needed a better story to make it a great movie.

I also agree that Wolf was far from great, and another well-made movie with a so-so story--hardly a story at all.  What made it for me was the quality of at least six scenes.

The debate over whether to have dwarfs again, and other details of the upcoming party, was terrific satire, a lovely parody of every serious business meeting. 

DiCaprio's qualude crawl to his Ferrari was the best example of physical comedy since Chaplin, to me of course (it may somehow have been computer enhanced, but that doesn't diminish it for me.) 

The big dance scene on the boat , shot from the trailing aerial device, totally got me and felt so celebratory. 

Very few movies are great, top to bottom and inside out.  Godfather Two and then the list thins out for me.  So I can love a movie for the things it does remarkably well. Gravity and Wolf did that for me. 

And it may be getting hard to tell us great storie because we have read or seen virtually every permutation of every possible theme: coming of age, the journey, revenge, stranger in a strange land, Horatio Alger, men at war, Romeo and Juliet.  That leaves it to the non-storytelling aspects to make a movie sing at least a little.  Gravity in 3D on a brobdingnagian screen floored me. . .

[Hulk01]

I loved Mud.  Whether I'd see it again would not change that; there aren't many movies that I need to see twice.

Gravity was not a good example of excellent story telling, but the film making seemed extraordinary to me.  To make the setting even plausible seems a feat worth watching and honoring.  No question that it needed a better story to make it a great movie.

I also agree that Wolf was far from great, and another well-made movie with a so-so story--hardly a story at all.  What made it for me was the quality of at least six scenes.

The debate over whether to have dwarfs again, and other details of the upcoming party, was terrific satire, a lovely parody of every serious business meeting. 

DiCaprio's qualude crawl to his Ferrari was the best example of physical comedy since Chaplin, to me of course (it may somehow have been computer enhanced, but that doesn't diminish it for me.) 

The big dance scene on the boat , shot from the trailing aerial device, totally got me and felt so celebratory. 

Very few movies are great, top to bottom and inside out.  Godfather Two and then the list thins out for me.  So I can love a movie for the things it does remarkably well. Gravity and Wolf did that for me. 

And it may be getting hard to tell us great storie because we have read or seen virtually every permutation of every possible theme: coming of age, the journey, revenge, stranger in a strange land, Horatio Alger, men at war, Romeo and Juliet.  That leaves it to the non-storytelling aspects to make a movie sing at least a little.  Gravity in 3D on a brobdingnagian screen floored me. . .