Gravity the Movie

Megan and I went to see "Gravity" the Movie last night.  Thumbs up.  We watched it in 3D.

I first heard about Gravity a month or so ago and I wondered how does one make a movie that will keep anyone interested when there are only two actors and both of them are floating about in space suits.  Then I started to hear good reviews from a variety of sources - David and Margaret on the ABC at one extreme through to a review on JJJ and they were all positive.

Gravity is effectively a scifi version of Sandra Bullock's last film "speed".  Fast things, explosions, Sandra coolly driving, a difficulty in communicating with someone and in all of this white knuckle tension she never has to pee.  Apart from the setting in space, the key scifi ingredient of the film is the use of a time warp that results in Sandra who is pushing 50 showing up looking 30.  To confirm this she manages to find some air locks on various space stations in which to remove her space suit - sex appeal - tick.  

It has great cinematography.  Seemingly long takes that I assume are stitched together green screen CGI as I did not see the credits state "Filmed on location in space".  In a way scifi is somewhat peripheral.  Sure its set in space but there are no aliens and the technology is present day.  The accident that leads to the drama is plausible.

On to more earthly things, having decided to go and received Megans acceptance of my invitation I set about investigating times, places and costs.
The first thing we discover is that even though the web is primarily a visual medium, the movie theater web sites although colourful make it dam hard to find out the ticket price.

 SouthBank was the easiest to find prices and at $11 was by far the cheapest
http://www.cineplex.com.au/pricing.php

The Palace Barracks came in second at $22.50.  Only double the price.
https://www.palacecinemas.com.au/sessiontimes/session/121/65893/

 The Eldorado at Indooroopilly was not showing it in 3D and in anycase they seem to have been absorbed by some bigger organisation.

Event Cinemas at Indooroopilly Shopping Town take the cake as the most expensive and the hardest to actually work out the price.  They had only a couple of seats left anyway so they are obviously doing something right.
 https://www.eventcinemas.com.au/ticketing/step2?source=sessionfinder&sessionid=4099919
 $42.50.
Let me say that again  $42.50
wow.  IS that Gold Class or something.  Not as far as I can tell.