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Oh, wait. I forgot "Thin Red Line," but he was only in that for thee minutes.
Re-phrase: if George Clooney is in almost every frame, it cannot be a completely bad film.
Of course, I am not a reliable critic. I would pay $15 to watch him sit in a white room and do nothing for 90 minutes.
I believe this is very loosely based, or at least inspired by, Bradbury's beautiful and poignant short story "Kaleidoscope." From The Illustrated Man.
In that story a similar acident in space hurls several astronauts cruelly into orbit and tracks them as they slowly loose radio contact with each other and... SPOILER... re-enter the atmosphere or vanish into the black of space. Ending with a child looking up and making a wish on a falling star. Get's me every time I read it.
Also an inspiration for John Carpenter's "Dark Star."
Thanks for the reference! It has been a long while since I've read any Bradbury. I'm off to get a copy of The Illustrated Man.
That was the first thought that came to my mind as well.
Not bad, except of course doesn't everyone know by now that explosions don't make noise in a vacuum? And space explosions don't look anything like earth explosions. Finally, with all that sharp debris shooting around at high-velocity, I simply can't imagine any of those astronauts would have survived in such close proximity to the blast-point without suffering fatal suit punctures.
But, you know, other than that...
@4, Yes! Thank you for the quick reference.
Here's hopping it's better than this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2188867/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZecMu1…
That last shot with the astronaut flailing to reach the satellite was pretty great though.
@4s comment piqued my interest, since my 7th grade love for Bradbury is unending.
Re: astronauts being hurled away at same velocity as debris; normally that would make sense, but the trailer shows us several images of their momentum being altered in relation to the debris expansion: the astronaut attached to the Canada Arm, for example, or when they grab safety lines, or bounce off structural elements, any one of which would have slowed their relative velocities or changed their motion vectors enough to be overtaken by the debris field.
It's quibbling, I know, but someday I would like to see a movie that at least attempts to get the physics right - I think audiences would actually find it much scarier than bad physics that plays to their perceptual expectations.
Which is sort of my point!
But seriously, that would mean screenwriters would have to work a lot harder to come up with a plausible set of circumstances to account for stretching a scenario like this out for 120+ minutes. But again, I think that would just make the film more realistic, and thus a more intense experience for the audience.
No doubt, but upon review, it appears the astronaut on the arm is ejected as a result of what looks like either a meteor or debris impact on the shuttle, and appears to have been thrown into the debris field when the arm separates from the cargo bay - we see him cartwheel past a lot of large pieces of debris, which means there would be a massive amount of much smaller particles traveling past him as well, any one of which could have torn a sizable hole in his suit. In short, he should have been dead before Clooney or whomever it is had a chance to reach him a few seconds later in the clip.
Maybe its that "Nothing you ever can do will help and we are all doomed" kinda feel?
As for that "get the physics right" above... please realism is not a good start for a fantasy. In the same way we shouldn't base our research on scifi but be inspired by it, we shouldn't base our scifi on actual research and science, just be inspired by it.
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