Gravity!

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~ahem~ Yes, I have to say mea culpa, I enjoyed Titanic and Braveheart, which are two of the most historically inaccurate movies ever made.

Watch Zowie Bowie's Moon if you haven't already. Lovely film, if you can handle melancholy. (Wonderful score by Clint Mansell too)



Even though I forgave the inaccuracies in Gravity, I have double standards. These double standards hampered my enjoyment of Whitehouse Down (which clearly didn't take itself seriously).



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Back on topic, inaccuracies aside, the director of Gravity accomplished something quite astonishing... by making the first movie featuring Bullock or Clooney that didn't make me want to headbutt either character.

Has a movie won a Nobel Peace Prize before?

If you think Gravity required suspension of disbelief then watch Armageddon, where you REALLY need it.

Saw this in 3D when it came out. I first set my eyes on it after seeing the seemingly "one-take" trailer at the IMAX, and reacted like this -

When seeing it in 3D, it didn't disappoint. Same face too.

Slowly slurping the drink as it was so bloody tense. One of the most visually outstanding and brilliantly tense films I've seen for a while.

So what if it's scientifically inaccurate? In all honesty, Alfred Hitchcock would've made a film like this given half the chance. I'm sure he'd have loved and given it a round of applause.

^ Exactly. I remember reading an Astronaut's only quibble being that Sandra Bullock wasn't wearing a nappy when she took off her suit. This Astronaut counteracted her own argument, by saying how it wouldn't of advertised the film very well seeing Sandra Bullock in Incontinence pants.

I did kinda think it was lucky that Sandra Bullock managed to get from wherever she was to the Chinese space station, but to be fair if she just died then the movie would be over like 20 minutes in.

There have been accounted stories of similar predicaments. Some live, some die. Some are never publicized.

I never knew of these at all. Fascinating, to say the least.

I remember seeing a Documentary about one documented catastrophe. I think it was a malfunction/fire rather than flying space debris.

Suspension of disbelief aside, it's about as accurate and plausible as a 90 minute story (within the three act structure of a film narrative) will allow.

Plus, a real game-changer in VFX. Christopher Nolan's upcoming Interstellar might top that, no doubt though he'd be snubbed "once again" at the Oscars.

"Story trumps science" so they say here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OIpAMt3M80

Most overrated movie ever. That is all.

so was gravity educational?

As to scientific and spaceflight, no.
As to storytelling, yes.

I don't think Hitchcock would have ever touched a script like this. It had suspense, but not the nerve wracking kind he was famous for. I'm sure Kubrick would have rejected it out of hand for the stretches in logic and accuracy (it is never explained why the ground based communication system didn't work after the satellite based system was knocked out.)

I don't know about educational but it kept me on the edge of my seat.