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This weekend, I experienced both Gravity and Don Jon. The movies had very different themes, but both were enjoyable in their own way. Gravity was an intense drama about a space mission gone wrong. Don Jon was a truthful comedy about a New Jersey boy searching to fill a void in his life.

Starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock, Gravity is a suspenseful fight for survival. Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a medical engineer on her first space mission. Matt Kowalski, played by George Clooney, is a wise-cracking, veteran astronaut, obsessed with beating the record for the longest spacewalk. After being alerted about rubble from the Russian anti-test satellite, Dr. Stone and Kowalski, along with the other three crew members, hurriedly try to escape the area. A crash of rubble send the crew apart and cease any communication they had with Mission Control in Houston. In fear of ruining any more surprises, I will stop my synopsis there. The film was shot using a 3D camera, so I would advise seeing it in 3D. Granted, I have not seen it in 2D, so I can't compare the two, but the director used the camera for the purpose of 3D being worth the money.

Don Jon is a comedy starring, written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. These 90 minutes were much different than the 90 minutes spent watching Gravity. This film is about a man who enjoys watching pornography more than he does being with a real woman. Even his record of scoring a girl rated an eight or nine every weekend can't stop his frequent visits to pornhub.com. Then, he meets Barbara, played by Scarlett Johansson, a girl obsessed with the idealized man in romantic comedies. She convinces Jon to enroll in night school, among other things, where he meets Esther, played by Julianne Moore. Again, for fear of ruining the movie, my summary stops here. Joseph Gordon-Levitt's depiction of male nature is hilariously true, and that's even coming from my boyfriend. I was surprised how much of a date movie it turned out to be, although the movie can clearly point out if you're in a working relationship or not.