I beg to differ.

Hope to see it this weekend, that's if they stop calling me in for OT every weekend.

Saw Gravity tonight and it is pretty good. Quite a predicament and plucky acting by Sandra Bullock. Worth seeing on the big screen.
The soundtrack reminded me of Tangerine Dream. The voice of Houston was Ed Harris who starred in his own space adventure years ago called The Right Stuff.

And Apollo 13.

Unbelievably brilliant.

Saw Captain Phillips later that same day. Also amazing.

Imagine plucky Captain Phillips up in space in Gravity. Pirates in space!

Couldn't help thinking at the end of Gravity which reminds one of Planet Of The Apes how the movie could have moved from a straight "science" tale to a real sci-fi tale.
The radio silence the astronauts deal with is actually Earth running amuck and the planet has been suddenly over run by .......
Zombies!!
Or Apes!!
Or Gigantic bugs!!

Whoa.

Even with all the hype..

Whoa.

No. Brachy is right. Without gravity or another force interacting with him, a tug would bring him back. It's probably the movie's biggest fault.

Haven't seen it yet, but if it's what I'm imagining, two people tethered together in space, if she tugged on the guy it would slow her down, maybe stop her, possibly even reverse her direction, depending on how hard she tugged on him. There's going to be conservation of linear momentum.

You Beaches think you're so smart, don't you?

Well, we do too.

It is like this: after a dangerous arrival to the ISS, both characters are looking for something to hold on and Bullock's character eventually gets tangled in parachute cables (from the Soyouz module). She manages to get a hold of Clooney (broken) tether and then he decides to detach the cable because she wouldn't let him go, sacrificing himself.

But as it has been pointed out, the sacrifice was unnecessary, as a simple tug would've been enough to bring him closer to her.

Yes it is really that good. I saw it yesterday and wouldn't mind seeing it again in 3-D.

But that lack of a tug which sends one astronaut spiraling out into space does set up one of the big scenes later in the movie. And what a grand vodka moment that is.

Like I said, I haven't seen it yet and I'm not getting a clear picture in my mind, but somebody said tugging on him would slow her down and she was already on the verge of dying due to suffocation, so I can understand the need for the sacrifice if that were the case. But if she was well attached to the station on one side (with parachute cords) and to Clooney on the other side (with his tether) and pulled on him, both he and the station would move more toward her (though the much more massive station moving less noticeably). Taking time to do this may or may not have cost her her life - it may have taken more than one simple tug to make the adjustments necessary to put Clooney on the right vector and bring him to the station since his velocity may still have had other tangential vector components that would make him miss the station, lest he move toward it but still eventually miss it, since he has no way to adjust his vector. Did she have the time to make multiple adjustments, or are you assuming there were no tangential components to Clooney's velocity? Could she tie his tether to the parachute cords so he could eventually drag himself in? Did Clooney have much more time (and air) than she did? Is there a Youtube clip of the offending scene?

Well, yeah. It's one of the movie's most pivotal moments and I'm not saying it ruins the movie; I just wanted to point out that Beachy is right.

It's still the best movie of the year by far.

At least George could have gotten a happy ending before he spiraled into space....a rub and tug.

As of now,I'd say that this will get a Best Picture Oscar.The scientific spoilsports can carp about its implausibilties,and the story may even be a bit corny at its core.Doesn't matter.You should see this in a theater,even if it's in 3-D.
Great picture show.

Saw it a second time today. I should've left it with the first viewing.

I'm surprised that Sandra was allowed to give George a tug on screen.

I saw it today on IMAX 3D. Very well done. About what I was expecting. Possibly suffered a little bit from the hype factor, but it was filmed and acted with heart.