Gravity - feels like diving

[billt4sf]

If you have not yet seen Gravity, go see it in 3D IMAX if you can! It's the closest you're going to get to orbiting the Earth. The weightless scenes are very much like diving. With one exception --- I kept wanting to tell them "just fin over" to wherever they wanted to go !
I enjoyed the start of the movie best, when they were relaxed and orbiting the Earth.

When the action started, both my wife and I immediately reacted that it felt to a great extent like scuba-diving does when you're disoriented, things are happening, and you need to figure out what to do pretty quickly.


See it in 3D IMAX!


- Bill

 

[cudachaser]

The orbital mechanics in the movie needs some work, but it was entertaining.

A retired rocket scientist

 

[Nemrod]

The orbital mechanics in the movie needs some work, but it was entertaining.

A retired rocket scientist

Well, that and there are no more space shuttles and that Amuricans have to thumb a ride with the Russians to get into space. That because we gave all of our money away and our jobs and nobody here knows how to do anything but cook meth and tat themselves, oh, and text. And that the Russians are not always bad guys shooting down there own satellites and causing that cascading event breaking a treaty that they are signatory too if I recall, is that possible exactly?

But it was an entertaining story.

N

 

[drbill]

I have heard several mediocre reviews from family and friends so even though it is the only movie in town, I'll pass. Will go night diving instead!

 

[billt4sf]

I concur that there are "problems" with the movie in terms of physics, our space program, and the like. And the story is, in the end, Hollywood.

But the scenes of being far above the Earth are worth the price in money and time. You may never get another chance to experience what it is like! I found the 3D IMAX experience enthralling.

- Bill

 

[Carlos Danger]

I enjoyed the movie more than I expected, but it is a little "out there"...

 

[James R]

I have heard several mediocre reviews from family and friends so even though it is the only movie in town, I'll pass. Will go night diving instead!

I thought it was OK. I would much rather spend that two hours underwater, good choice.

 

[drbill]

But the scenes of being far above the Earth are worth the price in money and time. You may never get another chance to experience what it is like! I found the 3D IMAX experience enthralling.

Ha. some people already say I'm "spaced out." Actually I've had a long standing interest in astronomy and space exploration dating back to Sputnik and my first telescope in 1957.

 

[HJeffreyM]

If you really want to see a movie with great weightless scenes, see Apollo 13. Ron Howard built sets inside the "vomit comet," a jet that flies a parabolic arch so as to create brief moments of weightlessness. So when you see the actors in the film weightless, they actually are!

 

[billt4sf]

If you really want to see a movie with great weightless scenes, see Apollo 13. Ron Howard built sets inside the "vomit comet," a jet that flies a parabolic arch so as to create brief moments of weightlessness. So when you see the actors in the film weightless, they actually are!

"Weightless" in this context is a misnomer. Actually they are falling while accelerating at g (9.8 m/s^2), which can only be because they are influenced by gravity -- hence they have weight. Nearly the same falling acceleration as the orbiting astronauts.

But I take your point. Good movie.

- Bill