Gravity (film): most accurate from a physics point of view?
The problem I have with many sci-fi movies in existence is their seemingly blatant disregard for the physics that exist in the universe. I could be a wrong on a few points but this film quite accurately represents space... or at least, much better than other films.
The biggest offender of space physics that comes to mind is Armageddon, where things are on fire outdoors and jumping a asteroid canyon involves being able to clear the ditch before you fall into it in a zero gravity environment (and the fact that a wheeled vehicle was involved at all.)
This movie does quite a good job replicating at least what I would imagine a zero gravity environment is like (I, like most people, have never been in one.) Apparently this movie took 4 years to complete and Sandra Bullock went through a lot of mental duress because of the stress involved with filming it.
The lack of any sort of noise existing in space, despite the fact that things are getting ripped apart at one point is a really nice touch, and the physics of an "object in motion staying in motion" is pretty cool in this movie. They easily made up for the tension that explosions would normally give us with a nice soundtrack and great visual effects.
As far as NASA protocol is concerned and whether or not the space movement suit that Clooney utilizes actually exists, I suppose we would have to ask NASA about that. The DVD i watched last night had a second one with bonus materials including the 'making of.' Myself and my family are really looking forward to that because well, this entire film almost certainly was filmed in a studio.
Overall, this film is just fantastic and you don't need to be a Sci-Fi guy to enjoy it because well, i would imagine that vast majority of what takes place in this film could technically happen. Therefore, while it is fiction, it all seems quite conceivable. This is what makes the film more fun, for me anyway.
The movie made many top 10 lists for 2013 and was nominated for 10 Academy awards and it made 600 million dollars, which i suppose would be considered a success.
Gravity was certainly one of the most accurate films about space as far as things go. Even Neil Degrasse Tyson liked it, but in his usual manner he had to tear it apart. haha.. I love that guy. Such a smart ass.
He always does that with movies.. "I loved it.... buuuut"
Not sure about physics but the movie has been spectacular. Watched in 3D.
Like being in the space literally. Not even a single boring moment
Paradox: the picture is removed indoors precisely in order for the endless space to come to life on the screen. However, for two astronauts, he acquires a specific meaning, because they are closed, as in a tight box, in their spacesuits, and then in the premises of broken, deserted and doomed to destruction spacecraft. There are three of them in the film: American, Russian and Chinese. The crew leaves each, each is not like a house, but like a coffin, each generates a feeling of terrible claustrophobia.
This turns the "production novel" about professionals working in space, or a disaster film into a philosophical essay about the modern world in which man has no place. The film could have been called otherwise - "Weightlessness". It is in this state that the heroes constantly reside, and it is difficult not to consider the metaphor here.
"2001: A Space Odyssey" the great predecessor of "Gravity" (some of the scenes here are candid quotes from there), told about the conquest of space. Man turned out to be more powerful and powerful than a powerful computer, and was able to challenge the extraterrestrial intelligence.
The validity of the humanism Stanley Kubrick has expired completely. Now people are completely dependent on faulty equipment and hopelessly read the instructions, wondering which button to press. They no longer seek space: their only dream is to escape from there.
The inhuman beauty of hopeless and silent space is not for them, and finally they realized it. A voiceover flashes the memory of what the Earth has become; is this the place to really go back? However, there is no other way out - and, by all appearances, there will also be nowhere to run from Earth.
For me, "Gravity" - a spectacular, fascinating, absolutely not highbrow spectacle, demonstrating the latest achievements of cinematic technology, but at the same time flawlessly accurate portrait of a modern man, isolated from their own kind and lost in space.
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Although I spent most of the film in a state of vertigo and lightness, I also appreciated it very much, especially the performance of Sandra Bullock, who steals the whole film with gestures, and the soundtrack. I remember feeling in the cinema the sound of space and the breathing of Bullock's character when he runs out of oxygen. This is a film that some physicists have used to explain some theories. Thank you for commenting on it here!
The most popular movie in india. really nice touch, and the physics of an object in motion staying in motion is awsome in this movie. i give oscar for this movie. i like your judgement gooddream.
I don't know if you already wrote something about it but I'll just ask here, I got no time to check everything, what's your take on Interstellar?
I have seen it but not written a review. I probably like it not as much as most other people do.
I didn't like it at all but my question was more about what do you think about the science in that movie?
Apparently they tried to go to pains to get as much right on Interstellar as they could. Here is a post that was written up about what they got right and wrong:
http://time.com/3572988/interstellar-science-fact-check/
I think that the problem with trying to write a movie about black holes is that there is awful lot of speculation involved since, well no one has actually been to one.
The situation in Gravity, on the other hand is a bit easier to emulate based on empirical knowledge. That is my opinion, anyway.
Thank you