Worth 3 stars, not 8

Rating: 3/10 (17 April 2015)

I'd like to start out by saying that I am usually pretty good at tuning out plot holes, inconsistencies or inaccuracies while watching a movie, in order to enjoy the plot. I don't watch a mystery thinking about whodunnit, or a horror anticipating the scares. I find this way i don't spoil it for myself. As for gravity, this is impossible if you have even a shred of common sense and a high school understanding of physics.
The 3 stars it got were for its visuals, which were stunning. Probably landmark, though zero gravity is an easy way to make something look cool to be honest. Thats it for the positives.
Now for the negatives: it starts out with this patronisingly basic explanation about how space works, even though it proceeds to get the very basics of that wrong for the rest of the movie. As I said before, inaccuracies are fine if its just something that will sit on the goof page, but otherwise go unnoticed, but when you've got George Clooney - an accomplished actor playing an experienced, confident and intelligent astronaut, in a scene that is beautiful with fairly good music - telling you how he's a lost cause and is completely doomed, but everyone who's not asleep or an idiot is screaming in their head "Huh? NO YOU Aren't??? GEORGE BABY YOU DON'T NEED TO DIE!!!" It spoils it all. Its as simple as that. Plot hole after plot hole, and the already weak and cliché ridden storyline is shaped around complete inaccuracies and and impossibilities. Everything that isn't impossible is so unlikely it may as well be. It's simply amazing how many obvious details they got wrong.
So the plot is a joke, Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for her performance but to be honest it wasn't special at all (then again I've never liked a single performance from Bullock, so take it as you will), so thats a joke. Clooney portrayed a shallow and boring character as well as he could.
If I was making a movie, I'd hire the cinematographer, artistic director and CGI team. One star for each. I was considering adding a star for its mercifully short runtime, but then I decided it wasn't quite short enough it deserve it.