Just saw Gravity and came here to rave about it. My heart was racing for much of it, and i kept feeling like my throat was too dry and i couldn't quite breath enough. I would give it a 9.8/10.
Just saw it, I'd give it a solid 8/10, but my girl was incredibly bored and gave it a 6/10. Personally though, I agree it was gripping and quite captivating. It's definitely worth watching. The 3D effects were also among the best I've seen. I'd say only Avatar and Dredd 3D (watch it) had more immersive 3D.
With the physics i think they did a really good job with them overall.
This really depends on what you mean by overall. As far as the plot points go, well, none of it makes sense from a physics point of view. But for certain individual scenes, you can tell they put some thought into them; but at other times, it's obvious that there was little to no care given to realism.
If you really want to nitpick there were a few things, like when one character is holding onto another, whose foot in entangled. Somehow that character was still exerting a large "pulling" force on the other, when there should have been none since he/she had come to a complete stop.
Actually, this part does make sense. Centrifugal force is what's pulling both Dr. Stone and Dr. Kowalski away from the station due to the synchronous rotation of the ISS. What pulls Dr. Stone back is the release of Dr. Kowalski as a working mass.
And the space debris would have probably been spread out a lot more, not traveling in a pack of sorts after a couple full orbits.
I think most of it did, but what we're seeing on the second go around is diffuse debris on a capture trajectory.
Otherwise it seemed to be pretty spot on IMO. They gave a lot more attention to inertia than any other space movie I've seen which was cool. When Clooney was towing her it was totally realistic with the jerking, it wouldn't be a smooth tow like on earth, though they would be accelerating faster and faster the whole time.
They shouldn't have constant acceleration outside of gravity itself. Unless the ISS is on a lower orbital plane, they should actually be moving away from it not toward it (making it impossible to reach).
But ZooCrewDude, your instincts were certainly correct, there was a lot wrong with the physics in this movie (but still, it's a good movie).
1) The MMU that Clooney uses is ridiculously too maneuverable - it's like he borrowed Spock's from Star Trek 1.
2) All shuttle astronauts have MMU-like devices that allow for some degree of travel if they ever become detached.
3) Hoping from the Hubble to the ISS is ridiculously impossible as they aren't remotely close, nor are they on the same orbital plane.
4) Going to the Chinese Space Station is also impossible for the exact same reason.
5) Dr. Stone uses a fire extinguisher to slow her velocity and not the actual Russian modules thrusters. Think about that for a second. She's moving at least 100kph (relative to the Chinese space station which is 100 km away), she throws herself out of the module with explosive decompression (note the angle relative to the station), and then she not only slows herself down, she stabilizes her orientation, and then accelerates toward the station. The entire scene is total bullshit.
6) Dr. Stone's reentry scene is impossible. She was tumbling (dead), and the entry was not controlled, meaning she was likely either too shallow or too steep (dead).
It's late but there were a few other issues. But overall, again, the movie was great - and they certainly paid some attention to realism.
