marsha ivans who wroed this, she questioned many things from the space capsule to the training of bullock s character. she sums it up by saying, quote, for me, it s just too hard to watch. the scene in which debris is falling through the atmosphere u breaking up into streaking balls of white, finality brought back, slamming back, to say, to mind the real life image burned there forever of the last moments of the columbia shuttle. she said i had to look away. i wanted to ask, who is going to like this movie? i have to say, a lot of people did like this movie. nischelle turner talked to a coupleeshperts who fact checked the film for us. a thriller, nerve-shredding phenomenon. that s critics describing gravity. what do i do? when it comes to space movies, it s no secret hollywood can be light on facts and heavy on fiction. when i was in grad school, we wasn t to see the core and there were 20 or so
a lot of that for me was to see how a camera would react there. do you copy? to portray an astronaut stranded 400 miles above earth, bullock trained can katie komen. the thing i needed to know from her was physically what her body was doing, what it did iin space. margo, who saw the film in l.a., notes there are a few moments of movie magic. in particular one scene where you see the space shuttle spinning wildly out of control because it s hit by a piece of debris. we did that calculation. it would have to be about 1,000 kilograms, about a ton of material. space trash that big would have been tracked by nasa. every piece larger than about the size of my fist is being tracked. as for the film s suggestion the heroine almost had six months of training that would be implausible, but it makes it more enjoyable. and for the most part, realistic. nischelle turner, cnn, hollywood. everybody is talking about this movie, but it s not the