Angular Momentum (2D viewer)

Rating: 3/10 (17 April 2014)

I feel I am being generous when I give this movie 3/10; and, given the average rating, it seems most would disagree. Do allow me to explain:
I am perfectly fine with entertainment taking a creative license, however, you cannot tax my intelligence by giving us absurd realities while portraying our existing one. If it's the Matrix, and the rules can be bent, sure, go ahead and fly into an agent and destroy him Neo, and I'll go "ooohhh" ... but if you don't bring any new rules in, you better play by the ones in place (or release the movie as a comedy and I'll sit quietly)
Gravity is pure eye candy, and it only makes sense if you're watching it in 3D. There is no story to speak of... and if you are going to send a medical officer to work on the hubble space telescope, well, you're telling us not to take you seriously in the first place -- just buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Okay, let's go (I am pumped) -- but the ride isn't that exciting. In fact, the ride, in 2D, is much much less entertaining than almost any space documentary that explains the universe. There is so much awe and wonder out there, and given how the laws of gravity are responsible for everything that exists, here we have it misrepresented to have no meaning at all.... just that in zero gravity you will float around... that's it. Not your hair of course... or at least not sandra bullock's hair, but everything else.
Fine, let's continue... oh no, it's done. That's it. She has to find her way back, and she will just jump from space station to space station, figuring everything that's need out when she gets there. They try to imply how "big space is"... how important "gravity" is... yet, if you're watching in full HD on a fair sized 2D screen... well, it's a poor showing without much else.
Let me explain how big space is. Voyager 1, launched in 1977, and travelling faster than any human made object, is on the outskirts of our solar system (on the verge of entering interstellar space). It is travelling at 17km/s. If you can somehow manage to travel at the speed of light, starting right now, you will catch it in 17 hours and a few mins.
If you continue to travel at the speed of light, you will come across our closest neighbourhood galaxy, Andromeda, in 2 million years. That's 2 million years, at the speed of light. Andromeda is one of over 400 billion galaxies that we can observe today. That, is how big space is.
Because of gravity, Andromeda will merge with our galaxy, the Milky Way, in 5 billion years, and the super massive black holes at the center of the galaxies will merge. That, is how powerful gravity is.
The reality of our universe is more glorious than we can imagine, more wondrous than any poet can pen, and more complex than our collective knowledge today. Why dumb it down? We can appreciate these things on their own without an American *high 5* style story. You can do so much to enhance these wonders with 3D, and you give us this rubbish.
Or hey, maybe I should have just seen it in 3D.