I convinced my wife to watch Gravity; I had to apologize

Rating: 1/10 (12 October 2013)

My review does not discuss the specific problems with this movie because I don't want to add a spoiler alert.
Based on the amazingly high IMDb rating and the glowing reviews in the press, IMDb and similar sites, I convinced my wife to watch a sci-fi movie that was sure to astound. Just a few minutes into the movie it became apparent that it had some problems, and they just got worse as 90 minutes of our lives slowly drained away. As the champion for this movie, I was embarrassed, and in particular by two scenes i.e. the pointless 'look at me, I'm a floating foetus', and 'I can howl like a dog'.
Perhaps the critics had had a lot of the free wine at the film festival, or perhaps they saw a different film. I simply cannot reconcile the rave rating and reviews with the movie we saw. To me it's like the story "The emperor's new clothes", and I'm one of a small group of people that can see that the emperor is really naked, or in the case of Gravity, it really IS NOT a good movie.
Some reviewers have said it's as close to space as you can get without actually going there. I strongly disagree. If you want to get close to seeing what it's really like in space, watch IMAX's "Space Station 3D" and "Hubble 3D". If you want to know how astronauts really act and react when things go wrong watch Apollo 13.