"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one)
10/02/2013 at 16:17 • Filed to: SPACEMOVIELOPNIK
3
3|
"THEY MADE ME GRAY" (autovox-is-the-one)
10/02/2013 at 16:17 • Filed to: SPACEMOVIELOPNIK | 3
| 3 |
Plot Summary (spoilers):
[Note: the script was somewhat technical, so please forgive me if I don’t get everything correct.] It’s explained through placards that the setting is 600 km above Earth, with temperature fluctuations between 120 and -100 degrees celsius. There is no oxygen or air pressure, life cannot be sustained, and sound gets swallowed by a vacuum (nice hat tip to Alien: “In space, no one can hear you scream”). Orbiting around the earth 300 km above Earth, is China’s Tiangong 8 Space Station. At 500 km, is the International Space Station (ISS) revolving around the planet.
At 600 km, on his last mission, supervising astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), an old hand, controls his propulsion jetpack to maneuver himself around NASA’s Atlantis Space Shuttle while inspecting the shielding tiles on its surface and informs the command station back in Houston (voiced by Eric Michels) that the shuttle is ready for entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Meanwhile, astronauts Shariff Dasari and medical engineer Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), on their second and first missions respectively, only secured by safety tethers, tighten bolts to fasten the Hubble Telescope to Atlantis to establish a remote connection between Houston and the telescope and activate its solar panels. Stone has difficulty making a connection between a robotic arm and Houston. In order to fix the matter, she must replace a condensation plate, requiring more time. ISS (voiced by Basher Savage) assists by offering to start moving materials to save them the time Stone is going to need to fix the arm. Atlantis Captain Arlene Evans agrees to the suggestion. Stone ends up rescuing a loosened bolt Matt loses.
Disaster Strikes:
Suddenly, Houston informs ISS and Atlantis to abort their mission, and they order the astronauts to follow suit. Stone ignores the command, but finishes her task in the nick of time and the arm gradually retreats back to Atlantis. Arlene orders Matt to disengage the telescope and he enlists the help of Shariff. Houston reports that a Russian satellite was hit by a missile, likely by its own country to put it out of commission. As a consequence, debris begins flying everywhere, causing a chain reaction. Matt and Shariff detach the telescope from Atlantis and send it off into space. Atlantis and ISS lose connection with Houston. Foreign satellite material from various sources begin to fly closer to Atlantis, creating nearby explosions. Debris hits Atlantis, severing contact with the astronauts, as well as Shariff’s helmet, rendering him unconscious and eventually dead.
Another piece separates the robotic arm from Atlantis, sending it and Stone, unable to release her tether, spinning off into space. While trying to implement a drill attached to her, she causes a tear in her suit, compromising her oxygen and pressure levels. She finally breaks her harness and floats away from the arm in an opposing direction. She panics as Matt tries to establish a location and all she can see is blackness. She finally spots Earth, as well as Tiangong 8 and ISS, before they disappear. After she loses radio contact with Matt, she sees the moon. Wearing the propelling unit, he soon spots and saves her and she reports her levels to him. His advise to her about the rip in her suit: “Put your hand over it and press against it as hard as you can.” (!!!) With her other hand, she holds a tether attached to Matt.
Atlantis is useless to them, so they must make plans to travel to the ISS. But, before they do so, they retrieve Shariff’s body to place in Atlantis’ airlock. Inside the shuttle, Stone discovers that Arlene and her crewmember are dead and the cabin is destroyed. While Stone looks for duct tape (!!!), Matt radios ISS to prepare Soyuz escape pods for reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Once she gets her hands on it, she “can’t lift the edge with [her] gloves on (!!!),” but is able to do so with a ruler. With Stone tethered to him, Matt begins to make their way towards ISS with the propelling unit. They engage in small talk, and Stone replenishes her oxygen levels. Not realizing they’re approaching, one of the Soyuz deploys and leaves them behind. The other is damaged beyond being useable for reentry. As they approach ISS, the crash into its side from the trajectory and speed of the propulsion unit. Matt tries to untangle Stone from the deployed parachute of the Soyuz, but misses her and drifts off into space with only a few minutes of oxygen left. There is no way for Stone to save him.
On Her Own:
While he prepares for his fate, he instructs Stone to use the Soyuz to travel to Tiangong 8 to retrieve a similar vehicle called a Shenzhou to reenter Earth’s atmosphere. She enters the airlock of the ISS and depressurizes the cabin. She removes her helmet to take in the oxygen when it is as good of a time as any, and then removes her suit revealing “only underwear and a T-shirt” (shout out to Ripley circa Alien and Aliens, hey!). While exploring, she locates the Japanese module, which is on fire. She finds water to hydrate and then makes her way to the main console of the Zarya Module, where she tries to unsuccessfully establish contact with Houston. After she starts throwing objects out of anger and frustration, the alarm system informs her that the fire is expanding. She struggles to protect herself with an extinguisher and moves to the docking module, where she grabs a new space suit and prepares to exit with the Soyuz.
She manages to engage the craft and drift away from ISS, but the ropes of the parachute remain connected to the main station. They begin to float towards each other, and before it’s too late, she employs the propellers. However, they remain connected still. Tethered to the Soyuz, she uses a drill to loosen the bolts and disconnect the rope. All the while, she must dodge debris that has begun flying around again. ISS is hit which results in an impact producing a hole that sucks the fire right out of it.
As she reboards the Soyuz, the ISS splits in half after a crash. A tiny morsel hits her fuel tank creating a hole which reseals itself from the escaped liquid freezing. “I hate space,” Stone comments to herself. Losing fuel, she manipulates the thrust systems and sets her trajectory towards Tiangong 8, which is orbiting at a lower level than it should be. The engine module catches fire and she engages separation of the modules, leaving her in the cabin detached from the airlock, set in a direction where she will miss Tiangong 8. She makes radio contact with an elderly man speaking an unintelligible language. Though they can’t understand each other, Stone finds the man’s voice consoling. She loses contact with him and breaks down in tears. Thumbing through the operating manual of the Soyuz, she learns the craft has a breaking system, which she implements to improve her trajectory towards Tiangong 8. Once closer, armed with the fire extinguisher, she opens the hatch and is sucked out into space. Injuring herself and enduring a great struggle, she utilizes the extinguisher until it’s empty, and, eventually, manages to establish a hold on the station.
She enters Tiangong 8’s airlock and depressurizes the cabin. She takes off her helmet and navigates the station to the docking module of the Shenzhou. She has a limited amount of time, as the station is dropping elevation towards Earth’s atmosphere. On her way, she saves a live amphibian, “No frog stays behind.” She boards the escape pod and takes a series of guesses to get the craft up and running. Flying debris finishes off the station, as Stone makes her escape. She breaks through the atmosphere and deploys the parachute. She celebrates and the thrust system softens her fall, as she lands in a lake.
She releases internal smoke by launching off the hatch cover. However, the Shenzhou takes on water. She swims from the bottom of the lake, but her spacesuit drags her down. She watches the frog escape, as she is about to become ensnared in the parachute. She frees herself from her spacesuit and swims up to the surface and makes her way to shore. She is finally free.
Excerpt from: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney
> THEY MADE ME GRAY
10/02/2013 at 16:27 |
|
Perfect. This movie looked too dumb to see, but I was still moderately interested. I'll wait until it comes out on-demand and then I'll giggle at it.
Party-vi
> THEY MADE ME GRAY
10/02/2013 at 16:28 |
|
Sweet. Saved me $12.
*tips hat*
Makoyouidiot
> THEY MADE ME GRAY
10/02/2013 at 16:48 |
|
Moar underclothes pics, please.