What a complete waste of CG

Rating: 3/10 (14 October 2013)

I walked into the theatre not expecting much and I came out completely upset. And for the first time in my life I wanted to walk out of there while the movie was playing just out of pure, raging annoyance.
Aside from the breath taking CG (which makes me glad I watched in AVX 3D) and Sandra Bullock doing a good job with her acting (which I am not surprised by), there is nothing to this movie.
Gosh, where to I start. The script might as well have been written by a high school student with a beer in his hand. utterly juvenile and unsophisticated to the point that not only it distracts you from actually getting into the movie and believing the characters, you almost hate the director for for having wasted such good CG with this script. so much potential wasted. Throughout the movie, it literally spoon feeds you the message they are trying to convey: "no matter what, it'll be a good ride, so don't stop fighting". The characters just spell them out in their dialogue like you are 7 years old needing help getting the key message. We can think and interpret on our own, thank you. Plus, I think we all knew, going into the movie theatre, that there will be a crash, and they will survive. doesn't take a genius to figure out that's what it would be all about. They could've made the script so much more sophisticated.
Then the countless amount of completely unrealistic features. like Kowalski (Clooney) wasting his engine on joking around (I actually once watched a broadcast of people working on ISS to fix something outside. that kind of obscenity won't happen). like Ryan (Sandra bullock) being in space only after 6 months of training. Her panicking and panting nonstop like a complete idiot that leaves her with low O2 (I kept wanting to yell, didn't you learn NOT TO breathe like that?!?!?!?) the part where she is running out of O2 and trying to get to the airlock which was supposed to be done with so much urgency but she mumbles on and on (it is unbelievable how long she can stay alive and functioning with almost no O2) then at the last minute, she somehow gets the strength to travel from one end to the other of the space station. I kept on asking, why would NASA waste their money on sending someone this incompetent? also, wouldn't have they known she has lost half the reason to live with her child's death and is still depressed? plus, why on earth would anyone like that go through the immense trouble of going to space?? SO much question just attempting to believe the character. Then she enters the Chinese space station somehow and manages to mini-Mani-mo her way into operating the rescue pot. and what was that about, Chinese radio frequency getting caught (if that's possible anyway)? Chinese gov is not stupid to send astronauts who don't speak English. and the part where she pretends to be a wolf? so cringe worthy I turned my head away from the screen. and the part where Kowalski enters the pot in Ryan's hallucination? you just immediately know that's fake/dream given she isn't dying with her eyes popping out.
whoever did the CG will get the Oscar. whoever wrote the script (I don't care if it is a big name or not) should be ashamed he/she completely butchered a potentially amazing movie.