How did this movie ever get made???

Rating: 1/10 (31 March 2014)

Having grown up with and being a fan of the United States' space program, I was very much looking forward to watching the Academy Award-nominated 'Gravity' when we rented it this weekend.
We just watched it. Don't waste your time or money. I can't believe actors could read a script like this and agree to make such a piece of crap. Very disappointing.
I love science fiction, Futurism, science, fantasy and the possibilities of human capability. Well, 'Gravity' is pure science fiction. Very BAD science fiction.
This is Hollywood at its very worst. Yes, movies are storytelling and we allow some leeway due to the entertainment factor. I tried - I really did - to like this movie because I like space and science and adventure and the unknown. However, being a child of the 1960s growing up with Chris Kraft at the helm of Mission Control, hearing historic transmissions of John Glenn when he passed Perth and Neil Armstrong when he set foot on the moon, seeing Challenger blow up in real time and, more recently, numerous videos of shuttle missions that became so commonplace we stopped paying attention to them, you notice things that are routine, systematic, organized and orderly for such cutting edge exploration and discovery - real life source material for movie making.
The director obviously has never video transmissions from US shuttle missions, Mir, the ISS or any of the myriad combinations of the international space mission that have been available for at least the last decade, if not longer.
Simply put, the laws of physics were suspended in the making of this movie. The only setting of the stage is people doing something for some unknown reason with no one else around when an inexplicable event puts them in mortal danger.
Individuals of questionable abilities with unstable personalities that NASA would never recruit are faced with impossible odds and, of course, survive . . . what a load of crap.
Ron Howard did an excellent job on 'Apollo 13'. 'The Right Stuff' was totally captivating in every detail. 'Gravity' doesn't even come close . . .