Holy shit that looks crazy *promote

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Maybe she will meetup with the Metal Lord.

I so want to see this in IMAX 3D but I think I'd better take some dramamine and go easy on the snacks.

Jesus, the trailer alone makes me dizzy -- the real movie is going to be a treat for people who get motion sick easily.

I'm looking forward to this one, but I'm reserving judgment to see how many times they wind up in these death defying moments. I have to believe the movie is going to have more substance than "Great! I'm free tumbling to my death...AGAIN!!"

At least I hope it will.

That looks fucking. incredible.

Reality-based science fiction is the best.

And I always have high regard for space-based cinema where the action lacks sound. That always makes the action so much more intense (and awesome) to me.

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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?

My gut is telling me this is going to be awful. We saw the best bit. The rest is going to be cloying flashbacks and weepy radio conversations with the family at ground control.

Clooney's character is going to sacrifice himself at the end so Bullock's character can get back to her kid (who probably has some disability or chronic illness).

No one show this to the guys on the ISS...

Wow, this might be a bit too intense for me.

Fuck, even if the movie is terrible, this trailer is the best thing I've seen in a long time. I was sweating through out and moaned when it showed her spinning against the black of space and distant stars.

I instantly have am anxiety attack. Literaly.

Of the many ways one might die I think death by hypoxia as you tumble into the black aint so bad. Your body would probably get a pretty nice cremation when your orbit takes you back towards earth.

ps. Kessler Syndrome is a bitch.

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 fucking annoying. Its the one thing that made this trailer somewhat disappointing.

If Bullock sacrifices herself to save Clooney, that could be a good twist ('bout time too that the lady gets to be the hero).

I know how it's going to happen too (either way). They're going to be floating together in a slightly lower orbit, with rescue a few hundred meters above. One of them is going to push the other one off toward rescue, but dooming themselves to sink lower and burn up in the atmosphere.

I'm sure it will infact be Clooney that saves Bullock, but I can hope. I too was annoyed by Bullock's panicky fumbling. That's not right.

Anyways, I'd love to be proven wrong. I at least hope to see this trailer before some other movie on the big screen. All the best parts for free.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I'd love to know what kind of film this is. The trailer is suggesting it's all set in space but it looks a bit one note. And it surely can't be.
Personally I don't think you get beat 2001: A Space Odyssey when Bowman is locked out of the ship and trapped in his little bubble ship. That scene was both scary and a significant point in the story.

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.

Predictable. But still might go see it *promote

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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.