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Offline AnimatorRob

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Looks like an interesting space movie is coming up in November. The writer/ director has an exellent track record, so fingers crossed.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gravity_2012/

Science Fiction Thriller. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth...and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

A little awkward having it center around a Space Shuttle mission.
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #1 on: 02/17/2012 07:49 pm »
Would love to see a movie trailer.
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #2 on: 02/17/2012 08:11 pm »
Is this set in the 1980s, '90s or 2000's? Or a parallel universe since Shuttle is now gone. And unless they are rescued by aliens, I don't see how they'd get home. Or maybe there's a 1-manned Soyuz out there somewhere in the same orbital inclination? Even then it would take longer to change course than the amount of air they had left.

These sorts of films generally have far more drama than technical accuracy. And I don't recall a Shuttle commander ever making an EVA on a mission. They might have been better off setting this film in the future, with Orions and/or Dragon spacecraft flying about. But perhaps the producers only think a general audience will accept a spacecraft if it has wings...
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #3 on: 02/17/2012 08:19 pm »
When it was written and started filming the Shuttle was still flying, so at that time it was what was around, The average person has no clue that the shuttle doesn't even fly anymore sadly enough
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #4 on: 02/17/2012 08:28 pm »
Oh! A shuttle movie with some A-listers!

"The shuttle is destroyed"

Oh for pity's sake! ;D
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #5 on: 02/17/2012 08:33 pm »
'Space Cowboys' would probably be much better than this. Even that film had some minor howlers in it, but on the whole it was a fairly sympathetic portrayal of the space program with few technical 'WTF?' moments for real Space fans.
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #6 on: 02/17/2012 08:43 pm »
There seems to be some confusion of what the movie is about:

On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(film) , it's surviving crew from a debris collision with ISS
On http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/ , it's surviving crew from a STS mission to Hubble
On http://gravity-trailer.blogspot.com/ ,  it's surviving crew from a debris collision with a remote space station

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #7 on: 02/17/2012 09:25 pm »
I like the idea of it happening on ISS better.

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #8 on: 02/18/2012 05:47 am »
     Sounds like yet more Hollywood brain-dead fluff for the trough-snufflers out there...

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #9 on: 02/19/2012 11:19 am »
You lost me at Sandra Bullock.

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #10 on: 02/19/2012 07:54 pm »
Why do I read this and keep thinking of 'Marooned' by Martin Caidin? They messed about with the film of this book too.
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #11 on: 02/19/2012 08:03 pm »
In the teaser from November 2011 on Youtube it's the ISS which blows up.

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #12 on: 02/19/2012 08:47 pm »
You lost me at Sandra Bullock.

I expect it to be as technically correct as The Net.
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #13 on: 02/19/2012 08:56 pm »
I don't know about this movie.  The teaser doesn't really show anything anyway.

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #14 on: 02/20/2012 02:28 pm »
I don't know about this movie.  The teaser doesn't really show anything anyway.

Agreed.

I will wait and see. The director did "Children of Men" which was a solid film, so I'll give it a shot if the trailers hold up. It's a good premise (even if it ends up based around a shuttle mission), and has the potential for a good psychological drama, but it just as easily has the potential to be messed up.

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #15 on: 02/20/2012 11:29 pm »
Yeah it's a teaser trailer that has nothing to do with the movie, just clips from actual missions spliced together.

I'm very picky when it comes to films using real life stuff. It has to be accurate, especially when it comes to the shuttle or other space vehicles of history or current.  Futuristic space films I don't mind as it's the future which is anyone's guess what technology will be like.

At first when I heard of this movie I thought it was a general scifi movie with big space ships and something happens. Like in Clooney's last scifi film Solaris.

According to this, the two are stranded on the space station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29




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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #16 on: 07/08/2013 06:08 pm »
The trailer for Gravity, in case you haven't seen it yet :)


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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #17 on: 07/08/2013 06:38 pm »
     Sounds like yet more Hollywood brain-dead fluff for the trough-snufflers out there...

Are you talking about millions of taxpayers who want to see a space movie,
facts and physics be damned?

Gee...your response is bitting the hand that feeds organizations like NASA
with tax dollars.

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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #18 on: 07/14/2013 07:14 am »
The trailer for Gravity, in case you haven't seen it yet :)


Looks like they're trying to compete with Armageddon when it comes to accuracy.
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Re: Movie: Gravity
« Reply #19 on: 07/14/2013 07:42 am »
Please let the film end like Dark Star, George surfing on a piece of ISS solar panel instead of some deus ex machina rescue.
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