"PS9" (PS9)
10/11/2013 at 20:01 • Filed to: Movielopnik
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"PS9" (PS9)
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Of course you don't.
That's why no one will give you millions of dollars to make a movie.
For Sweden
> PS9
10/11/2013 at 20:04 |
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As someone with orbital mechanics-fu, will I enjoy this movie?
Sun-Tzubaru - With Zoom-Zoom
> PS9
10/11/2013 at 20:16 |
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SPOILER:
It is equal to 9.81 m/s^2
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PS9
> For Sweden
10/11/2013 at 20:21 |
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The bad news is you've seen most of it if you seen all the trailers. The good news is that it's an excellently crafted movie with...wow, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but... good use of 3D. Did I just write that? I did just write that. Wow.
I went to see it in IMAX, and making that happen took 7 hours of bus rides. Soooooo glad I didn't pussy out and just duck into a normal not-city sized theater to see it. So glad. I say that as a person who motherfucking hates being on the bus with the boom boxers, the asshole drivers, the bitter old whiney complainers, the entitled little shits who think they control the bus just by getting on it, the amateur preachers who will-fucking-not STFU about their religion they want to pound into your face, like it's their dick and you brain is Olivia O Lovely's snatch, and their life is one long porno being filmed 24/7...
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...I've wandered from the original point of discussion. Yes. The answer to your question is yes.
GhostZ
> Sun-Tzubaru - With Zoom-Zoom
10/11/2013 at 20:27 |
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On earth, that is.
The Transporter
> For Sweden
10/11/2013 at 20:33 |
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There are some rather small physics errors. Neither the HST, ISS, or Chinese space station are orbiting at the same inclination, let alone altitude. Yet Clooney's MMU can get two stranded astronauts from the HST to the ISS with juuuuust enough fuel. Also, the braking motors on the Soyuz TMA's reentry module have enough delta-V to translate from a ~400km, 51.65 degree orbit, to a ~300km 42.4 degree orbit to rendezvous with the Chinese space station in about 7 minutes while having a closing speed slow enough that Sandra Bullock could jump from the closing Soyuz to the Chinese space station and grab hold without ending up as space pizza smeared all over the outside of the station.
That being said, the attention to detail with the interiors and exteriors of the various spacecraft is amazing (except for the Chinese space station because it doesn't exist yet) and the plot is compelling enough and the characters are well acted enough that even somebody such as myself could put that aside and simply enjoy the story for what it was.
TheOnelectronic
> For Sweden
10/11/2013 at 20:44 |
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NdGT listed a bunch of sciencey issues, but from what I've heard, it's fairly decent. I wouldn't get excited for Hohmann transfers or apoapsis retrograde burns, but hey.
Atomic Buffalo
> The Transporter
10/11/2013 at 20:48 |
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When I heard a few of the plot points, at first I thought "lame, the stuff we have in space is unreasonably far apart."
But then I realized — if you're slavishly realistic about it, you have no movie. Or you have an indie movie about waiting to die.
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The Transporter
> Atomic Buffalo
10/11/2013 at 21:11 |
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If you're slavishly realistic about it, you have Apollo 13 , but somebody already made that movie. It would be possible to write such a film, but it would require a writer that had a solid understanding of physics as well as the ability to write gripping dialogue, create convincing characters, and build a compelling narrative. An exceedingly rare commodity.
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> PS9
10/11/2013 at 22:16 |
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http://v.theonion.com/onionmedia/vid…