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The script makes it seem potentially better (sort of), but the bits about Bullock's character seem as though they may ruin it. Basically, in a film like the one described, I want to see a professional, someone with a lot of balls (male or female) and brains, making an impossible situation work. Just having a bumbling, panicky, under trained astronaut surviving by dumb luck luck and a "will to survive," will short change us. Trying to squeeze an "everyman" (or "everywoman") character to elicit sympathy from the audience is doing a disservice. An extremely competent woman, put in a situation where the odds are way stacked against her, yet she perseveres through cunning, grit and level-headed intelligence to survive would be much, MUCH more gratifying.

The overbearing sense of Hollywood-style American patriotism ("evil Russians blow up satellite") and selling it like she's just pulling herself up by her bootstraps to get things and survive against the odds.. bleh.

Anyways, I kind of see the Hollywood executive patting themselves on the back saying "our lead is a woman... we are so progressive," but then still making her effetively a damsel-in-distress (saved by the man), even if she does ultimately save herself.

Perhaps too many spoilers for a lot of people's liking, but since the odds of me watching this in a theater (considering geographical and language limitations) , let alone IMAX 3D, are slim to none, I'm not that bothered: http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/09/gravity.html

As it states at the beginning of the piece, all this analysis is based off of a draft version of the script. But the part that annoyed several people about the female astronaut is explained, as is the sacrifice that we all see coming.

Hmm... I can see a few ways in which this can fail.

Either it turns into a very long sequence of death defying 3D camera work like we see in the trailer, ending with a hard Soyud landing.

Or what we see here is actually padded out with dramatic all-American family values and a sappy sacrifice for the greater good (= the guy dies to save the girl).

The best way in which this plays out already seems out. Realistically, they are both dead as soon as they are 'off structure', and they would know that. Their last moments would be best spent talking, and shutting of the oxygen supply.

And another little thing in this trailer that really bugs me is Sandra Bullock screaming "What do I do!?". Why is is the female astronaut shouting that? It just seems odd that even in a movie portraying astronauts (who are extraordinarly professional and cool headed), it's still the woman being the helpless screamer. Even, apparently, to such an extent that it ends up in a trailer.

But yeah, it looks very cool.

So is this going to be two astronauts, stranded on EVA after a disaster, having a profound conversation while they wait to die or what?

Justice, astronaut style! Fancy calling a Korean air combat pilot (66 missions 2 frags) a coward. What a putz!

Considering that he is the first real astronaut YouTube star, he should have played the Nyan Cat song.

This is cool and all, but what did this have to do with Beer? I thought this was going be some hearty beer drinking Canadian guy-buddy-friend wearing a red plaid shirt (that happened to be an astronaut) actually spilling a Molson on the space station....because that's how Canadians roll, eh hoser?

Off camera, Astronaut Taylor bounces around in a tallow tree before reorienting his trajectory towards the pond....should have been holding the camera...Those are 2 Estes D engines on his back

I'm an astronaut - I'm so hard even my tears have balls!

Wassup bro, you driving a car. Pfff. Here I am flying into space.

What twaddle! Not only did the Apollo astronauts go to the moon, they discovered the presence of the established lunar base on the dark side of the moon.
Google 'Alternative 3' or look for the YouTube video. The truth is out there...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-day-william-shatner-tweeted-at-an-astronaut-and-the-astronaut-replied/266824/#.UPEio3qM7-A.f
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Perhaps a smile for you, on a sad morning?

Speaking of Ceres, the film 'The American Astronaut' is set in a tavern located on the dwarf planet. It's a pretty weird movie.