At least there are no sharks up there like in the movie "Open Water".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374102/

For Sure!

It has a 1/2 happy ending but only two actors for the whole film??

Not on my have to see list ....

Chris, it really is a great movie. Sorry you feel that way.
To each his own.

@Julie, enjoy.
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At least there are no sharks up there like in the movie "Open Water".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374102/

+1!

Go get 'em, Neil deGrasse Tyson, or whateverurnameiz. :)

After setting an October opening weekend record, Gravity eased just 23 percent to $43.2 million. That's the best non-holiday hold ever for a movie that opened over $50 million.

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After setting an October opening weekend record, Gravity eased just 23 percent to $43.2 million. That's the best non-holiday hold ever for a movie that opened over $50 million.

That's an awful lot of qualifications.

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Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Brilliant movie.

I agree with Esmé and Lynn here. Certainly worth watching it in 3D. It gives a good indication of just how big the ISS is.

Rather like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the director has taken care both to include practical limitations in the screenplay as well as to "forget" them from time to time when that serves the story line and action. For example the climb across the outside of the ISS is done carefully and as far as I can tell realistically, the later rendezvous with the Chinese station is a bit more gymnastic and the character was relying on rather more luck than was plausible. Watch out for all the use made of the fire extinguisher.

The sound was excellent, with ambient sounds being what the astronaut might well have actually heard. Objects moved through space silently for once, apart from the rather impressive musical soundtrack.

Visuals are stunning, including several through-visor transitions and carefully-created zero-G effects.

The quibbles which most irritated me were:

• twice a character is thrown away by a fast-opening airlock and relies on a single handgrip on the opening door to stay in contact.
  
  
• you do not rendezvous with another object in orbit by aiming straight at it and firing a thruster (see Larry Niven's The Integral Trees for a good fictional treatment of the relevant movements). I guess the director faced the problem of trying to explain orbital mechanics to the people from Kansas in the middle of an action film.
  

All in all I thought this was one of the best films I have seen this year. Relax, suspend a bit of disbelief and enjoy.

It was an excellent movie. It was just as interesting to view comments by the scientific community on the technical inaccuracies, although that did not diminish anything regarding audience appeal.

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Welcome to the boards, Robert:)

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Welcome to the boards, Robert:)

+1

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To borrow a phrase from another movie, "that sounds heavy Doc"...

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Welcome to the boards, Robert:)

+3

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The big premiere of the movie is the 21st October here

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The big premiere of the movie is the 21st October here

That's great Julie.

George Clooney and Sandra Bullock's sci-fi flick continued to soar, taking the top spot for the third straight weekend and raking in $31 million. Gravity has grossed $170.6 million domestically since its release.


http://www.eonline.com/news/472205/box-office-gravity-continues-to-soar-carrie-debuts-at-no-3

Next weekend is my turn to go watch the movie:)

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