Definitely worth seeing, but where is 'Canada' on the Canadarm?

Rating: 8/10 (16 October 2013)

I struggled with giving this an eight or nine out of ten. The acting was amazing! And the storytelling fantastic. This movie could have been called Suspense and Stress and it would have been more accurate than Gravity.lol. Of course that's a terrible title and I'm happy they went with Gravity.
Many have noted plenty of inconsistencies, for example the fact that nobody's hair floats in space in this movie. My big issue is the fact that the Canadarm, the long arm Sandra Bullock is attached to for the first part of the movie, doesn't have 'Canada' written on its side like it does in real life. Some may argue, this is fiction and maybe it isn't the Canadarm. However, both the Director and Sandra talked about the Canadarm at the TIFF film festival and how it had to be destroyed along with everything else (slight spoiler but that's pretty much in the trailer). So it is in fact the Canadarm.
I remember going to the Kennedy Space Center and watching an IMAX film years ago about how real Astronauts used 'The Arm' as they called it, to save a satellite. I wrote a complaint afterwards asking why it isn't called the Canadarm which is its actual name. The documentary confused the American viewers who were wondering why 'Canada' was written on the side. I thought that would be the last time I saw this lack of care put into Canada's contribution to the space program.
So that's my slight rant about that. Can you imagine the response if Canadian's did a space movie with American Astronauts and left out the American flag patch on their arms? I believe this movie deserves many Oscars and I'm recommending it to all my friends. I'm just a bit sad they left out giving the credit for one of the more important pieces of technology that has helped the space program. Although all technology is vital of course. This was just a big part of it all.