2:40 That moment is a copy of almost identical scene from Harry Potter and Azkaban Prison (previous Cuaron movie) when Hermione was catched by Whomping Willow.
I’ve just come here after Sunitha William snd Barry Wilmore on their faulty Boeing Starliner..Hope they will be returning to earth on Feb 2025 by Space X.
The fact they kept only the communication voice without fancy explosion for the debris impact made everything so real and scarier. There is so much garbage in higher orbit and we can't even collect it because of the high speed these debris are moving.
This film is one of those that needed to be watched on the biggest possible screen, and in 3D if possible. This intro is one of the most mind blowing things I've ever seen.
I was in cinema five times watching it, 3D visuals, ambience … it was back then and it still is a wow-film, really nothing about the characters to dig deep, a metaphor described in the film was that debris were obstacles like in reality to overpass them, the earth was life itself, and she had to overpass it and return… perhaps it is not as breathtaking as interstellar that came out a year after with “interesting” plot, but it’s like different, moreover, in a good way.
Gravity and Interstellar are easily two of the best movies ever made..Not two of the best SPACE movies but two of the best movies EVER regardless of genre..
Usually people dont care about accuracy and try to explain away even the dumbest shit to justify their stupid movies. Here comes a movie relatively accurate and suddenly every idiot fuckhead believes themselves an expert with a goal to bitch on this movie because its not 100% accurate. Gravity is a wonderful movie and everyone who says otherwise should just eat glass.
The scariest thing to mankind is suffocating due to an outside cause; drowning, buried alive, or in this case... getting hurled into space. This was one of the most terrifying moments in cinema history i've seen in a long time, presenting a completely different form of terror, the idea that you're being flung from our own planet never to be seen again, doomed to inevitably suffocate to death. This. was. terrifying. and i loved it.
"You need to detach, otherwise that arm's gonna carry you far". Great! As if she'd stay right where she is after detaching. Also, he had better chances of keeping her in sight while she was attached to that arm.
I love how Control would need to explain, and in layman's terms "like a high peed bullet" , to astronauts why an orbital debris field is bad. Ya know, like a bullet but not a low spead one. One of those rare high speed bullets.
This scene gave me goosebumps - 10 years after the space shuttle Columbia disaster where the left wing was destroyed on re-entry leading to shuttle burning up and loss of all crew.
Completely unobstructed view with no atmospheric extinction in all directions. Even one kilometer away, a book-sized object would be like 25 microradians across, and visible to someone with normal eyesight. Larger pieces would be visible for longer and from further away. So you'd definitely be able to see debris coming and going in a couple of seconds.
