Because this movie was made for the theaters, and most of the haters torrented it for the laptop, and obviously thats only the fraction of the original experience. In the cinema, I grabbed the handrail as hard as I could, this film was so gripping. And coming with the idiotic "cgi overdrive shit, this film has no storyline at all" argument is quite a moronic thing do to, bc with this film its definitely not the case
Spascho Genchev I can respect the movie and this scene in particular is incredible - amazing viewing experience and insane creation. However I just can't say that I felt satisfied after watching the movie. Good but nothing special.
The sound work in this film is incredible. You only hear muffled sounds when a character interacts with an object or a surface just like it would be in space. Listening to this scene without watching the gorgeous cinematography and it still tells a terrifying story.
Well, I'm not sure but there should be a sound wave that travels through the space shuttle. So there would be a much quieter sound of impact, but it would be
This first scene of Gravity is one one the finests cinema shots ever made. The long quiet opening, the building of the characters through casual conversation, the sudden irruption of the crisis, the perfect music score rising and rising the momentum.. Everything is perfect. I still watch it from time to time just for enjoying.
@Hablemos de Natalie Portman was originally attached to this movie. I think maybe she dropped because she got pregnant. I think Sandra did fine, but Natalie would have been great.
@@hablemosde1950 are you kidding me? Listen I'm not angry but I want to correct you. Sandra's delivery here is pitch perfect. If you watch this scene from the very beginning of the movie and you can hear and feel how palpable her anxiety is. And you can hear her trying to keep it down. The little throat clears, she sounds like somebody who is trying to make herself be comfortable in a situation that she has absolutely no control over. And then when she becomes detached, she almost knows that it's hopeless. Imagine the worst dream that you've ever had coming true. It's a fine fine performance, it's not over-the-top and because it's not over-the-top it actually does feel very realistic.
It should be noted that this continuous shot is the FIRST SHOT of the movie. At the beginning of this particular clip, said continuous shot has already been going for TEN MINUTES. Arguably the most amazing continuous shot of any movie that lasts 13 minutes. This was worth the money in IMAX.
TIMEtoRIDE900 they actually shot a documentary about the Hubble telescope using IMAX cameras up there. It's called Hubble 3D. It helped a lot with the visuals of this movie.
Watch the german movie "Victoria". It's 140 minutes long and a complete fucking beautiful and intense one-shot about the carefreeness and the naiveness of youth and the terrifying dangers of a love of adventure. But yeah, this opening shot of Gravity was fucking breathtaking in cinemas :D The only movie where the 3D was a necessarity!
Except if you’re physically connected to the craft that’s been hit, the vibrations will pass through your body in to the ear and you’ll interpret it as sound
It's one of the most insane scenes of any disaster movie I've ever seen. A Kessler Syndrome debris storm is utterly terrifying - debris is moving at relative hypersonic speeds and basically turning into a giant railgun burst. The movie actually had to slow down the relative velocities so the debris was visible to the audience, but that made it *no less terrifying*.
The sound design is extraordinary. I have seen that scene dozes of times and its never ceases to terrify. I can remember just how terrifying it was watching it in the cinema for the first time!
As well as impacts that Ryan would be able to hear/feel, like the explorer taking a massive hit, having the shock travel to her, but also making it silent when the telescope gets hit or when the other guy gets killed by the debris.
the speaking was in their masks through speakers? You can hear sound in their helmets because it’s not in space like you can breathe in the helmets but not outside. This doesn’t mean that they can hear the outside it just means they can hear inside and the music is just to make it more intense?
It isn’t absolutely silent for the astronauts. They have to listen to the sound of the fan circulating oxygen in their spacesuit , plus the static of their radio.
The way you hear nothing except what Dr. Stone hears is pure genius. The way that shuttle is shredded without a sound was just so much more effective than if there were lots of sound effects added.
It's why the space scenes in Interstellar worked so well too, like the explosion when evil Matt Damon botches the docking attempt. No sci fi sound effects, just silence, a flash of light, and two horrified faces watching helplessly.... (then THE 'docking' scene, haha)
Yes. I was fully expecting that was the end for her - once you're off in a random direction in space without a powerpack, nothing will change it. She was rescued, but at a terrible price paid later.
Yeah, but you must remember that she is in orbit. Being accelerated away from the earth, at that speed, will only take you to a slower wider orbit around the planet. Not deep space. @@ArchTeryx00
@@monjkl12 Probably true; she wasn't at escape velocity from Earth's gravity. It doesn't reduce the power of that shot, or her eventual fate (dead of hypoxia), which she nearly suffered anyway. And Kowalski has a long, long, long time to think about the fact that had he used the MMU just five minutes less than he did, he would have been able to save his own life as well.
@@monjkl12 It's one of the most insanely tense movies I've seen in my life. And they got an amazing amount of the science right; the pretend-physics aspects are very rare and absolutely necessary for story progression. (The director had tried doing it totally accurately, but found half his script was his characters explaining nonlinear orbital mechanics to the audience, so he scrapped it and went with "intuitive").
I don’t care what deGrasse says about Gravity-this has got to be one of the most tension-building and beautifully choreographed scenes in all of cinema. The dialogue-terse and economically curt. Like one big space stress safari comin’ in hot.
@@the_jolly_bunny I believe he means Neil deGrasse Tyson. But, yeah, it's odd to refer to someone only by their middle name, and not include at least their surname. Though I guess "deGrasse" is the most unusual - thus memorable - part of his name, so maybe that's the only part of his name that David remembers (maybe I'm showing my age here, but I'd also think "Tyson" is memorable, because it's like Mike Tyson - and that name instantly conjures mental images of an aggressive monster of a man. I do wonder if that's why he chooses to go by "Neil deGrasse Tyson", including his middle name, rather than just "Neil Tyson" in public. To disambiguate - and disassociate, as the boxer Tyson got up to all sorts of dubious shenanigans - from the boxer. Although maybe it's just actors' rules and someone else out there was already called "Neil Tyson", so he uses his middle name. I know that's why it's "Samuel L. Jackson" - simply because there was already a "Sam Jackson" in the actors' union and to avoid people getting confused, they have rules about everyone having a unique "stage name" so people don't get confused with each other (and Samuel L. Jackson has explained this in an interview before). And though Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astronomer by trade, he's on TV and doing public communication often enough that he probably also is a member of the actor / presenter / entertainer union as well).
I wasn't aware Tyson disliked the film. His video on it seemed like he was alright save for a couple things he pointed out. Like the tears scene and the location of the ISS and the Chinese station and how they aren't even located in the same orbit.
@@PolymurExcel I'm not Neil deGrasse, but dialogs such as: "something traveling faster than a high-speed bullet" felt like it was made for children. We don't need to be physicists or math geeks to understand the concept of "1,422 meters per second or 4,665 feet per second" Leaving aside the multiple inaccuracies, just the entire dialogue of the movie was dumbed down way too much, so it was hard to take it seriously. The characters aren't supposed to be representing regular people but professionally trained astronauts, so it was also annoying to hear them scream or be overly agitated inside their helmets every 20 seconds. The visuals were really nice, though. I think they did a good job with that. The rest was ridiculous.
The off screen death of the other female astronaut inside the shuttle gets me. you can hear her trying to reach Houston at 2:30 until 2:36 when the shuttle is hit.
The sound design of this scene is some of the best in cinematography. The way the music fades in and out, as debris passes by, as the spinning occurs, it's all synced masterfully. Truly impressed by this.
Kessler Effect = Anyone still in orbit is screwed. A random character in Mass Effect 2 detailed the dangers of a kinetic kill vehicle in space. Gunnery Chief: Once you fire a husk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your **** targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a **** firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip.
There was an article on Engadget about Low Earth Orbit space debris just today, and it brought me back to this clip immediately. This is the exact scenario they were talking about in the article, yet didn't reference this movie at all. Such a shame, this is so realistic to how it could happen.
It ignores orbital physics (e.g. how tf they managed to change inclination to reach the ISS and from Hubble), but the rest of it being pretty realistic makes up for it imo
@@ENCHANTMEN_ Seeing the debris coming at you isn't realistic either. At the speeds you would encounter them, you have no chance of seeing it before it hits you.
Watched this for like 10 times now. So perfect scene. The tension builds up from Clooney talking humor, then the warnings, Clooney zipping around expertly trying to speed up the mission abort, and the movie takes its time to shoot the dark sky and the first debris fly past the shuttle, and Clooney finds Sandra Bullock still up there doing god knows what and he zip around to her and that is when the real shitstorm hits, shuttle rotating wildly and the music pounding. What a scene.
For real. He just instantly got murked. No ceremony or drama about it. Just an bullet of debris to the head and then dead. The first time I saw that it terrified me.
The moment the debris hits the shuttle and Dr. Stone is left spinning gives me chills and goosebumps no matter how many times I watch it. Every. Single. Time. The music, Sandra Bullock's phenomenal acting, and the situation just being the most terrifying thing I can imagine...
+Crozarius Yes, lets count the ways 1. no sound in space 2. legit depictions of zero-gravity 3. momentum and centrifugal force taken into account 4. no fiery explosions a-la Michael Bay and Armageddon 5. movement and operation is slow and lumbering, as true space ops generally is 6. the dangers of Kessler Syndrome - and that's just off the top of my head.
@@serhafiye7046 No way 😂 I think the only bad thing I found about it was the speed of the satellite debris, Chris Hadfield explained they’d be going 17 miles a second, and the debris portrayed was going quite slower. Other than that this is one of my favourite films ever! 😄
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.
every time i watch this scene, i get goose bumps all over my skin. the music on the other hand! that perfect influx of radio noise just does it for me. amazing scene
I thought this movie was awesome. This was a really intense scene. I really liked how they captured the soundlessness of space and what that’s like. It was a really nice touch
She probably saved their lives, inadvertently. There's no way to hide from debris flying that fast. The inside of the shuttle turned into a massive killbox, due to spalling chain reactions.
For all the idiots out there thinking Gravity is another typical astronauts in space movie, you're wrong. It's not only a survival story. It's an experience. A visually stunning experience. An intense journey. Imagine if you were stranded in space, what would you do?
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Fun fact: This scene was filmed in real life for accuracy, so give it up to the director and crew for flying these actors to space and recommissioning space shuttles for that purpose. Amazing indeed!
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 love the accuracy that you cannot hear these violent collisions because of course this is space. But then they go the extra mile in other parts of the movie and they can hear muffled sounds of things that hit their spacesuits. A+
I watched this film in the theatres after smoking a serious joint at the time, no idea how i didn't have a panic attack. What with the music and the just general immensity of it all. Wicked film
put debris in a retrograde orbit in ksp...seeing that passing by with 4400m/s is fucking scary...thats 16000km/h ...and thats with a scaled down planet - tripple the speeds for earth
+Nuran On I wonder though, how big was this satellite? How do they end up passing so much of it? Right along the edge of an expanding debris field? Have to be exactly on the edge of a slow moving debris field to encounter so much, versus passing through it at any angle which would make it go by in a blink and lower the amount of debris on an intersecting trajectory massively. Think about it, object explodes or is broken up in space, how do we get this scene? A seriously small number of scenarios would lead to passing by multiple objects from the same deris producing event in space in anything but orbital period repetition. Same exact inclination, lower orbit, objects coming off of a spinning satellite, maaaybe. Passing through the edge of an expanding sphere of debris would produce multiple objects flying by, but that depends on radius of the sphere and the larger it gets the more spread out the objects become. Anything man can launch would get pretty thinly spaced out very quickly. So much exactness to actually docking, versus 'oh there goes my ship over there' as I am sure you know. If everything started with DV from the same impact or explosion this scene is just BS, pretty much has to be a slowly disintegrating ship, that happens to loose a statistically bizarre amount of mass in only one exact direction. Which is some more statistical BS. Either way, I play way too much KSP :P Edit: my mistake, that disintegrating ship would have to be losing mass not in the exact same direction but in the same direction at a velocity that adjust to meet the shuttle, or at the same velocity and a continuously adjusted angle, to hit the shuttle from any distance.
I know it has been theorized, yet actual satellites have been 'taken out' by collisions and we have not seen the 'cascade' because it was theoretical calculation of worst case scenario for a television interview... I have also created orbital collisions of my own in simulation.
It was just a game, KSP, don't want to sound all knowing, I am so not. But it does seem like the collision in 2009 did not cause any further incidents and the debris are likely to deorbit before a 'Kessler syndrome' type situation (the name of the orbital collision theory) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome Seveneves has the Moon cascading, but I think the gravity of the mass of the Moon would require far more energy than low velocity collisions of even huge chunks of the Moon. Plate tectonics on earth shows deformation and heating of rock strata with significant amounts of energy absorbed by both process. Rebound of crustal material requires the pressure of the mantle or it would just stay bent after absorbing energy.
I remember seeing this movie in IMAX 3D in Amsterdam after spending an entire afternoon in a coffeeshop. Took the the concept of being high to a whole new level.
