Most of the real astronauts who have commented have liked it, but they generally want to see semi-realistic movies about spaceflight that will encourage more human missions. I think you are right that the more you know about space, the more you are apt to be bothered by some of the unrealistic aspects of the story. For one, it seems that the Hubble, the ISS and the Chinese station are all about in the same orbit and all about as close together as my local Walmart is to me. Personally, I often feel more bothered by various Hollywood stories depicting large corporations as wanting to take over the world. Generally, they only want to make money. If corporate executives had been megalomaniacs they would have gone into politics as most of that ilk do. I was all ready to give Bullock the Oscar until I got close to the end of the film, but I think the script may ultimately be to blame.lisette_marie said:I don t agree , i d love to meet a hobbit by the way lolI guess lord is 100% fiction and gravity not cause space and satilites and meteorsAnd astronautes really excist ...I wouldve appriciated it much more iff the story was believebleIts really over the top and that ennoyed me so much i guess it didnt ennoi you guysAm i really the only one that thinks about it this way ?
If I was going to bet, I'd put my money on a win for 12 Years A Slave but I do wonder if the movie's brutal subject matter will actually keep people from seeing it and thus not vote for it. Whenever I brought that movie up with friends or casual acquaintances who watch a lot of movies, they'd almost always say "Oh I heard that's good but I don't want to see something like that." While asking random people in suburban Pennsylvania hardly counts as a scientific poll, I do wonder if that could be prevalent and push the vote towards Gravity or American Hustle.Kevin EK said:Between the other two movies, 12 Years has appealed to a wider group of people and has the advantage of telling a story of social significance.
Like Mikael said, this is a work of fiction. Why have we gotten to this place where a movie has to be 100% believeable all the time? No movie is going to adhere slavishly to reality unless it's a documentary (and maybe not even then). Enjoy the movie for what it is and try not to have expectations before you go on. You're bound to be disappointed.lisette_marie said:I don t agree , i d love to meet a hobbit by the way lolI guess lord is 100% fiction and gravity not cause space and satilites and meteorsAnd astronautes really excist ...I wouldve appriciated it much more iff the story was believebleIts really over the top and that ennoyed me so much i guess it didnt ennoi you guysAm i really the only one that thinks about it this way ?
What was impossible? For the most part, Gravity was very realistic.lisette_marie said:Ok i understand but its about space and its not about aliens or starwars in space , its about thingsThat are above us and i havent studied astraunomy and i work on earth but i shure would like to know more about it And i thought this movie was going to show me something new but sadly it showed me something impossible Making me wonder and doubt about everything about the movie ...So not every movie has to be realistic ( i love dreaming ) but i expected this one to be more realistic with The effort off such beautifull frames and no aliens in it ... Lol
Jason_V said:If you haven't been in space and haven't studied astronomy, how do you know it's impossible?
The orbits and distances traveled are impossible. I think the timescales involved in the deorbits are impossible too. To be pedantic.(I don't care. But I work with people that know this stuff and get tripped up by it. This is my favorite movie from 2013, and the past few years.)Tino said:What was impossible? For the most part, Gravity was very realistic.