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It's been a long time since I've seen it. I don't remember loving the movie, but I thought it got kudos for getting the physics right. No?
They flew from the Hubble Space Telescope to the ISS using a Manned Maneuvering Unit, nothing about that is "getting the physics right".
The part that had me screaming at the TV was where George clooney's character and Sandra Bullock's character were tethered together. There are attached to the space station via straps. George Clooney releases the clip and immediately goes flying off into space. There's no spinning, nothing at all pulling him away. If he unclipped, he would just hang there.
I'm not trying to be a stickler here, but if you're making a movie about space following the basic details of how things move around in space is kind of important.
The media got paid for writing positive stuff about it. It was a really shitty movie and I will never understand it's high rating in my life...
George Clooney was actually super annoying in it too. It was like putting the Oceans 11 character in a space suit with no changes in personality.
Both of them had no real personality in the whole movie, it was carried by CGI all in all.
Maybe you're thinking of interstellar. They got a lot of kudos for the work they did imagining what a black hole would actually look like.
I might be conflating them? I saw both for sure. The more I'm thinking about Gravity, the more I'm remembering stuff that pissed me off. I'm also remembering a book where a woman astronaut gets stuck out in space and has to throw something to move the other way - maybe it was in Sevenes? I don't know, I read a lot of SF and sometimes it runs together.
Could the book have been Gravity? There was an unrelated book with that title about a woman in space
Hmmm, no, I don't think so, but good guess
For me it was just the sheer improbability of getting out alive. Missions to space are about precision and there's no room for error. I figure that anyone on the ISS will be on the escape module before such relatively large detectable debris even hits. The film was a bit of a dramatisation to say the least.