Gravity, t3h movie! Imax 3d.

[Hammerskjold]

I'm not an astonaut, but I've spoken in person to several, and it's a subject I have a passion for, so I'm more than just a passing knowledge.

I envy you sir, while I have read some articles\interviews, and watched many of Chris Hatfield's youtube vids from space. I have never had the pleasure of talking to one in the real. All of them seem to be fascinating characters.

As is Hubble but I'm fine if they brought it to a lower orbit for servicing, unlike how it was done in reality. It's all possible, so easy for me to suspend belief.

What's your take on the micrometeorites and space debris\junk danger?
From what I've read it might be amped up in the movie, but real life version it's quite real albeit might not be as dramatic as the hollywood version. But still very real and possible. Though I'm very interested in your informed opinion on this.

Oddly I was most bother by the fact that no ones hair was free floating, but that is a filming issue and replicating how that really works would be very very hard. But since so much else was so well done it stood out to me a bit.

Excellent catch, though maybe that's why the 2 main chars sported a relatively short haircuts. (IIRC Clooney's was a crewcut of some sort. Though my memory might not be correct on that one.)

I will say though there's a bit of a rule with CGI effects, it's getting better with each generation but IMO it still holds mostly true. With mechanical things, metallic\mirrored surfaces, CGI can handle it with relative ease. The really hard stuff is the organic. Flesh, fat, muscle, skin and skin tones, fur, and hair is considered a pretty difficult job to pull off convincingly with CGI.

Simulating\doing convincing CGI animation FX juggling on free floating hair in micro gravity might have been too much, considering the payoff vs just telling the actors to cut their hair short.

I liked Clooney in the Ocean's movies, but generally I agree. He was fine in this, in part because he played the role a it like Massimino really is. The two Bullock movies you mentioned are probably her worst. What she did in Gravity might have been some of her best but that is closer to her normal. Of course she did do several months of astronaut training too.

I liked Clooney in 'Brother Where Art Thou'. That role was either tailor made for him or he brought something extra. Either way I enjoyed it. Both 'Brother..' and in this film. Bullock's training definitely paid off IMO.