Gravity was the last movie I saw.
I liked it, but I swear to god as a space nut I nitpicked the hell out of the movie.
For instance, when Sandra Bullock takes off her spacesuit she's wearing tight biker shorts and a tanktop. Which, as far as I can tell, is not standard NASA equipment, and I figured the only reason she was wearing all of that was so they could show off her ass and boobs, and I was fairly disappointed. Astronauts wear a special cooling suit UNDER the outer space suit. But that's not sexy.
Also, some bit of spoilers after this.
- When Bullock started spinning out of control her spacesuit should have stabilized her, they all have built in stabilization/propulsion systems. She could have also used it to reach the shuttle again.
- When she reached the shuttle, even having only 5% oxygen left she didn't bother looking for oxygen in the dead space shuttle. Uh, wat?
- Getting to the ISS would require more than just pointing your spacesuit at the station and hitting your thrusters.
- George Clooney's death was pointless. The cables that snared Bullock's leg should have stopped BOTH their movements, he wouldn't have continued "pulling her". Basic space physics WAT?
- Where did Bollocks get her training, anyway? This girl acts like she didn't get a lick of training at NASA before going up.
- You deal with fires on space stations by sealing the area where the fire is and venting it to space, you moron!
- Chinese space station? The chinese have a space station?
- Once again, aiming the soyuz capsule at the chinese space station and hitting thrusters is not how you steer in space. If you're off by even a little you could shoot past the space station by several miles and be screwed.
- Once again, leaping out of a moving capsule and launching oneself at a space station requires more than just counting down from three. I'm shocked she even made it, technically odds were a million to one that she timed it wrong and completely missed the station and burned up in the atmosphere.
Did anyone in Hollywood understand basic physics or are they stupid?