Houston in the blind

Rating: 4/10 (6 May 2020)

Before I watched this movie I wondered how you could make an entertaining film about two people floating around in space. In the middle I wondered the same thing. By the end I figured it's probably impossible. Yes there are some amazing aspects to this production, mainly the superb quality of the expanded space environment which presumably is exactly what it is like 600km from earth and the awesome views of earth. But this film won 7 Oscars. For what? OK 2 for best film featuring what it would be like to be in space for a while and best views of planet earth as seen from a spaceship. But the other 5? Your guess is as good as mine. I know the back story of Dr Stone was supposed to make us all desperately hope she got back to earth safely but honestly every time she frantically grasped onto a piece of space station I found myself hoping that she'd miss and drift off into oblivion so the credits would roll and I could go and do something more productive than watch an ageing film star faff around in the great abyss.