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[kal]

It just got shipped 2 days from Amazon.... can't wait!

Link to purchase and support the forum:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H83EUL2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00H83EUL2&linkCode=as2&tag=curtpalmecrtp-20

Kal

[kal]

It just got shipped 2 days from Amazon.... can't wait!

Link to purchase and support the forum:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H83EUL2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00H83EUL2&linkCode=as2&tag=curtpalmecrtp-20

Kal

[CIR Engineering]

[Ron W]

[draganm]

[nettwerkjohn]

i still want those 2 hours back.

i stand by my original assertation - it is a stinking turd.

sure, a glossy, polished, great looking and sounding, turd.

[ecrabb]

[ecrabb]

Gravity just won the Oscar for Visual Effects. Beat Star Trek Into Darkness, Lone Ranger, The Hobbit, and Iron Man 3.

Haven't seen a couple of the others, but Gravity was certainly beautifully done with respect to visual effects.

SC

[ecrabb]

Also won the Oscar for Sound Editing.

SC

[ecrabb]

Best Cinematography.

Wow. Gravit is cleaning up!

SC

[ecrabb]

Judas Priest, now they won Best Score!!!

SC

[draganm]

[ecrabb]

[draganm]

[kal]

SPOILERS AHEAD

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While I really enjoyed the movie, like Steve, that one break in the laws of physics in the most important scene of the movie kind of left me scratching my head too long too and pulled me out of the movie a bit.... Up until that point there were a lot of other things that they didn't get quite right but were close enough that I could put them aside as "ok - remember this is Hollywood - what they're doing works for the story". Other things they got "reasonably" right enough that I could suspend my disbelief a bit, but Clooney being pulled as if he was hanging on rope and the weight was too much just didn't make any sense at all.

There were a few others that kept popping in my head throughout (more minor ones that I was able to push aside) such as:

- Sandra mentioned having motion sickness (SAS) early on. She would not have been doing an EVA if there was any sign of this as barfing in our helmet is really dangerous (flashbacks to Rusty Schweickart of Apollo 9 fame - it almost killed the whole mission when he couldn't initially do the EVA).

- Clooney jetpacking around early on like some cowboy, coming really close to a lot of the equipment/ship/gold foil heat shielding. Not only do you not hot dog around like this as even a slight nudge or collision can do massive damage, but the jets off the thing can damage the foil.

- The space stations being so close together. In reality they're no where near each other, not just in distance & altitude, but in orbit (their trajectories are completely different). No different than how the planets circle the sun really - they're not fixed distances from each other - they're travelling is completely different arcs. The ISS is at 370km altitude and Hubble at 559km (for example). Sort of like if earth was the sun, then the various places they visited would be like the planets. You can't just push off from one and float to the next.

- Sandra knowing how to do any of the things she did with only 6 months of training (very short). The short training helps explain how she's not overly calm during the whole thing, and Clooney knowing nothing much about here re-affirms that she's some sort of payload specialist (an expert brought along who knows nothing about space really -just to do one specific task). But then she talks about training for landings and she's up there doing EVAs too which never would have happened. Works for the movie though.

It may sound like I'm down on the movie, but I wasn't at all. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just as a bit of a space nut, some of the things bugged me since I think they do try to give the premise that it's a "realistic" space movie to some degree so I was more nit-picky in terms of realism. A movie like Armageddon actually bothers me much less because you *really* have to put your brain aside and believe anything as it's so far from realistic it's not even funny.

A great read here from former U.S. astronaut Scott Parazynski if you want to get nitpicky with stuff like this:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html

Steve mention being bothered by the soundtrack playing at the same time as the country music and that stuck out for me too as a really odd thing to do. It sounded messed up.

All in all, I look forward to watching it again!

Kal

[kal]

SPOILERS AHEAD

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.
.
.
.

While I really enjoyed the movie, like Steve, that one break in the laws of physics in the most important scene of the movie kind of left me scratching my head too long too and pulled me out of the movie a bit.... Up until that point there were a lot of other things that they didn't get quite right but were close enough that I could put them aside as "ok - remember this is Hollywood - what they're doing works for the story". Other things they got "reasonably" right enough that I could suspend my disbelief a bit, but Clooney being pulled as if he was hanging on rope and the weight was too much just didn't make any sense at all.

There were a few others that kept popping in my head throughout (more minor ones that I was able to push aside) such as:

- Sandra mentioned having motion sickness (SAS) early on. She would not have been doing an EVA if there was any sign of this as barfing in our helmet is really dangerous (flashbacks to Rusty Schweickart of Apollo 9 fame - it almost killed the whole mission when he couldn't initially do the EVA).

- Clooney jetpacking around early on like some cowboy, coming really close to a lot of the equipment/ship/gold foil heat shielding. Not only do you not hot dog around like this as even a slight nudge or collision can do massive damage, but the jets off the thing can damage the foil.

- The space stations being so close together. In reality they're no where near each other, not just in distance & altitude, but in orbit (their trajectories are completely different). No different than how the planets circle the sun really - they're not fixed distances from each other - they're travelling is completely different arcs. The ISS is at 370km altitude and Hubble at 559km (for example). Sort of like if earth was the sun, then the various places they visited would be like the planets. You can't just push off from one and float to the next.

- Sandra knowing how to do any of the things she did with only 6 months of training (very short). The short training helps explain how she's not overly calm during the whole thing, and Clooney knowing nothing much about here re-affirms that she's some sort of payload specialist (an expert brought along who knows nothing about space really -just to do one specific task). But then she talks about training for landings and she's up there doing EVAs too which never would have happened. Works for the movie though.

It may sound like I'm down on the movie, but I wasn't at all. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Just as a bit of a space nut, some of the things bugged me since I think they do try to give the premise that it's a "realistic" space movie to some degree so I was more nit-picky in terms of realism. A movie like Armageddon actually bothers me much less because you *really* have to put your brain aside and believe anything as it's so far from realistic it's not even funny.

A great read here from former U.S. astronaut Scott Parazynski if you want to get nitpicky with stuff like this:

http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html

Steve mention being bothered by the soundtrack playing at the same time as the country music and that stuck out for me too as a really odd thing to do. It sounded messed up.

All in all, I look forward to watching it again!

Kal

[draganm]

[nettwerkjohn]

i still think it stinks.

[kal]

I found a lot of parallels to Cast Away (another movie I liked). A survival / will to live / rediscovery of oneself movie.

Kal

[kal]

I found a lot of parallels to Cast Away (another movie I liked). A survival / will to live / rediscovery of oneself movie.

Kal

[draganm]

[garyfritz]

Didn't realize there was an alternate ending for Gravity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw79smKZB9E