Gravity

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 11:08 pm

Leisher wrote:It's not just the special effects, but the visuals.

This.

Post by **GORDON** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 11:51 pm

Leisher: where is an IMAX screen in this area?

Post by **Leisher** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 11:59 pm

Ypsilanti.

Google Ann Arbor iMax theater.

It's about 30 minutes, and I'm not truly convinced it's iMax, but it's a big ass screen, and worth the drive.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:23 am

More like 90 minutes for me, iirc. Maybe 60.

Post by **Leisher** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:28 am

Not as far as you think. We figured 45 minutes, but were surprised at how quickly we got there.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:39 am

GMaps tells me 1 hour, 1 minute, door to door.

A bit farther than I want to go for a movie. Would my kid like it?

Post by **Leisher** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:20 am

Gmaps is full of shit.

Does your kid like space? If so, absolutely. The story is filled with very heavy themes that he won't understand yet, but he'll love the visuals and rules of space.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Tue Oct 15, 2013 11:25 pm

1. Damn, Sandra Bullock's ass and legs...not bad for however old she is.
2. I call bullshit on the debris making return appearances.
2a. Ditto on how she flew the Soyuz.
3. I recognized Ed Harris's voice (did not read this thread ahead of time) so...hah!

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:17 am

2) Yes, there are several things you just have it ignore and get by. It's a movie.

Post by **GORDON** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 7:27 am

Can one even "fly" a Soyuz? I thought it was mainly the guidance computer hitting jets from time to time as the thing fell.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 10:35 am

Everything is possible in space

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 12:09 am

thibodeaux wrote:2. I call bullshit on the debris making return appearances.

Asimov had a short story like that (think it was Asimov). Russians and America had a little shooting war on the moon and the bullets that missed kept orbiting back to them every X minutes.

Good flick. Should have gotten the 3D bluray.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:33 pm

Just watched it again with wife and kid.

Spoilers follow:

The part where the guy sets himself loose because the ropes are not going to hold both of them... I didn't understand why once his momentum was arrested, why he kept pulling on her. Seems like once he stopped it should have just taken a slight nudge to get him moving back to the ISS. The movie was full of that kind of physics being shown properly... and all of a sudden it seems like he is being sucked into a gravity well and has to sacrifice himself to save her?

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 3:48 pm

GORDON wrote:The part where the guy sets himself loose because the ropes are not going to hold both of them...

I'm going to refer to you this

2) Yes, there are several things you just have it ignore and get by. It's a movie.

There were at least a few moments of "That's not right" I got when watching it. I can't remember the specifics any more, but just move on and let go...

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:10 pm

More spoiler. Yer warned.

Well, if they are going to change the rules just to have a tragic/romantic moment then they might as well just film a harlequin romance about a dashing space shuttle captain who has been burned in love too many times, and a pretty mission specialist who has given up on love due to a very personal tragedy.

Good movie, I just disagree with some choices. Fudging orbital paths is one thing, but that part was just fantasy so they could kill off that character in a noble way.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:27 pm

but that part was just fantasy so they could kill off that character in a noble way.

Yeah, only Kevin Costner gets to act that stupid, and only when there's a tornado and his super-powered son nearby.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:41 pm

I mean, literally like 7 minutes later they show what happens to the soyuz capsule when it reaches the end of those ropes... it bounces back. But when it was people on the end of the ropes, they go taut and there continues to be some force pulling him away.

I am just deciding that this is my least favorite physics error in the movie. I can live with the rest of them.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 8:21 pm

Someone somewhere else is saying that they are actually spinning around the station, which is supplying the outward force that is making Cloony fall away from the station. They say there is a long shot establishing this. I will check it out on my next viewing.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:25 pm

GORDON wrote:
thibodeaux wrote:2. I call bullshit on the debris making return appearances.
Asimov had a short story like that (think it was Asimov). Russians and America had a little shooting war on the moon and the bullets that missed kept orbiting back to them every X minutes.

Ben Bova - Men of Good Will

Post by **TPRJones** » Fri Mar 07, 2014 10:53 am

GORDON wrote:Someone somewhere else is saying that they are actually spinning around the station, which is supplying the outward force that is making Cloony fall away from the station. They say there is a long shot establishing this. I will check it out on my next viewing.

Nope. There is a long establishing shot, but it establishes that their angular momentum is pretty close to zero. For the sort of forces shown they wouldn't need a lot of spin, but it would be enough to be very clearly visible which it is not.