Alfonso Cuarón's "Gravity"

[mr. tegu]

Originally Posted by Silock

I found it to be pretty unrealistic, but it was still visually stunning and I loved the minimal cuts in the action.

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She lands 10 feet from shore? After she should have burned up on re-entry?

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Why should she have burned up upon re-entry? It seems she was in the pod designed for re-entry. As far as where she landed, I guess she just got lucky. There is nothing inherently unrealistic about that.

They could have had her land in the middle of the ocean and have to use her inflatable rafts and such but that wouldn't allow for the scenes of her setting foot on land.

I really liked the movie. I didn't find it to be boring at all and I enjoyed all the suspense.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by mr. tegu

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Why should she have burned up upon re-entry? It seems she was in the pod designed for re-entry. As far as where she landed, I guess she just got lucky. There is nothing inherently unrealistic about that.

They could have had her land in the middle of the ocean and have to use her inflatable rafts and such but that wouldn't allow for the scenes of her setting foot on land.

I really liked the movie. I didn't find it to be boring at all and I enjoyed all the suspense.

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Because the whole thing was on fire. Columbia shuttle disaster was a similar thing. Not to mention, she would have died from the fire on the way down to Earth. Landing that close to shore isn't impossible, just another in a series of incredibly improbable events in the movie.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Silock

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Because the whole thing was on fire. Columbia shuttle disaster was a similar thing. Not to mention, she would have died from the fire on the way down to Earth. Landing that close to shore isn't impossible, just another in a series of incredibly improbable events in the movie.

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To be fair, the Chinese station had a modular design. None of the modules besides the escape craft were designed for re-entry that's why they burned up while the capsule did not. Columbia was not a modular design, so a little chink in its armor caused it to burn up.

Overall, though, I agree... there were many things you could nitpick when it came to realism. Still, the movie was a fun ****ing ride, I don't care who you are.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by Pants

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To be fair, the Chinese station had a modular design. None of the modules besides the escape craft were designed for re-entry that's why they burned up while the capsule did not. Columbia was not a modular design, so a little chink in its armor caused it to burn up.

Overall, though, I agree... there were many things you could nitpick when it came to realism. Still, the movie was a fun ****ing ride, I don't care who you are.

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I'm just talking about the other parts of the craft that weren't protected by the heatshielding that were on fire as it was spinning around before righting itself.