Pissed Off at Movie "Gravity"

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C1

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Too much spinning, puffing, shitting around (yak yak and bantering over comms) and non-focus while in a space suite outside a space capsule.

Flying thru space you must cancel rotation forces (that is something ALL astronauts must practice doing) and you need to manage metabolic process to conserve oxygen consumption.

As much as I adore Sandra, the movie annoys me because what it obviously tries to do is sacrifice any reality for the sake of trying to increase the viewer's own metabolic consumption.
 
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Truth is stranger than fiction, including a us president that ordered that a teacher be sent out in the space shuttle despite having no real training.
 
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Watch enough on-demand stuff if you are a comcast customer and it will default to its own preview channel after each episode. A preview for gravity is part of their "loop". I wanted to see that movie before, but after many cumulative hours watching Sandra Bullock spin around and yell about not being able to get a fix on anyting, I no longer want to. Seriously. See one preview enough times and the entire movie is soured for you.
 
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I liked it, was a good movie altogether.

But no she didn't deserve an Oscar out of it, was better than I expected it to be myself.
 
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C1 said:
Too much spinning, puffing, shitting around (yak yak and bantering over comms) and non-focus while in a space suite outside a space capsule.

Flying thru space you must cancel rotation forces (that is something ALL astronauts must practice doing) and you need to manage metabolic process to conserve oxygen consumption.

As much as I adore Sandra, the movie annoys me because what it obviously tries to do is sacrifice any reality for the sake of trying to increase the viewer's own metabolic consumption.
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Exactly how does a free flying untethered astronaut cancel out rotations?:colbert:

Do you think all astronauts can equally control their metabolic rates?
 
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MongGrel said:
I liked it, was a good movie altogether.

But no she didn't deserve and Oscar out of it, was better than I expected it to be myself.
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Sandra Bullock didn't get an Oscar from Gravity but I didn't think she was that great in the movie. It's a good movie but I'd rate to 8/10
 
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C1 said:
Too much spinning, puffing, shitting around (yak yak and bantering over comms) and non-focus while in a space suite outside a space capsule.

Flying thru space you must cancel rotation forces (that is something ALL astronauts must practice doing) and you need to manage metabolic process to conserve oxygen consumption.

As much as I adore Sandra, the movie annoys me because what it obviously tries to do is sacrifice any reality for the sake of trying to increase the viewer's own metabolic consumption.
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It's not a documentary, you know?
 
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Yeah, it's a movie and it's not based on a real event. I'm perfectly fine with them faking some stuff and getting physics wrong. I enjoyed Armageddon and they were walking around on inside MIR because they flipped a gravity switch. Let it go. It's the best movie made that gives you the feeling like you are in space. Apollo 13 was great but the many cuts didn't give you near the immersive feeling that the first, single 13 minute shot in Gravity, especially in a 3D theater.
 
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OP you lack appreciation for the artful expression that survives the stuypidly-dripping-to-excess-gay, ultra-communist leftist movie production greenlight process.

Maybe the sole reason this flick got the go-ahead was the Mexican surname of the jefe. Hey Feds....we got one we can report!!!!

I found it excellent, except I didn't like the bit where she hallucinated George Clooney (why on earth is that stuuupid idiot famous??? I can't stand that guy, and also don't see any reason why movie producers would give him a penny??? He's a total idiot. Apparently chicks think he looks good? Why? He's a stupid bozo 100% through & through, and ugly. I don't get it AT ALL) Also the chick is too old to be the main chick. No way! THat was then this is now

 
DrPizza

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At least you didn't complain about the satellite that blew up in slow motion. The pieces from the explosion moved apart from each other at a rate of about 2 inches per minute. Thus, an hour later, they were really close together.
 
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Brian Stirling

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I heard that an actual US astronaut was thrown out of the movie house while watching Gravity because he was yelling at the screen that that was wrong or impossible and such. So, apparently, one guy stable enough to be selected for the astronaut core was so upset by the lack of reality that he lost it.

Just sayin...


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Brian Stirling said:
I heard that an actual US astronaut was thrown out of the movie house while watching Gravity because he was yelling at the screen that that was wrong or impossible and such.
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If a guy in a public theater was really "yelling at the screen", then he's an asshole.

Just sayin...
 
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Brian Stirling

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Wingznut said:
If a guy in a public theater was really "yelling at the screen", then he's an asshole.

Just sayin...
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True enough ... there was that NASA gal a few years ago that drove non-stop from TX to FL wearing a diaper/Depends to stalk the former wife or her lover so they're not all as stable as we'd like.

Still, it seems the NASA guy in the theatre couldn't handle the creative adjustments to reality to make this movie...


Brian
 
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Wingznut said:
Well... Then he's a moron, in addition to being an asshole.
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This sounds more like an urban legend than a real story. Although one of the ISS crew mentioned on the natural geographic show last week that he watched it on board the ISS.

He liked it, but didn't think it was overly realistic.
 
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