Line #8 YMMV/Gravity


1	!!The film:
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3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
4	** The use of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtFPdBUl7XQ "Spiegel im Spiegel"]] by Arvo Pärt in the trailer.
5	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP_y0JIsEfE "Shenzhou"]], which plays at the film's climax.
6	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3-YGVb6Tbw The title track.]]
7	** The reoccurring [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu52LGUvixc Debris]] {{Leitmotif}}, for whenever the debris shows up, which sounds eerily like the ''{{Film/Jaws}}'' leitmotif.
8	* EsotericHappyEnding: Despite the fact that Ryan Stone managed to make it back to Earth safely, the space program for the entire world has been set back due to Russia's screw-up, and in all likelihood prevent further space travel for decades, if not entire ''centuries''.
9	* HarsherInHindsight: The disaster depicted in the film came a step closer to reality in March 2019, when [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Indian_anti-satellite_missile_test India destroyed one of its satellites with a missile]] and produced hundreds, if not ''thousands'', of new pieces of debris in low-Earth-orbit and beyond. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_1408 Russia itself did the same in November 2021]], scattering thousands of pieces of debris in an orbit that ''intersects that of the ISS'' -- the crew actually had to board their return capsules in case the station took a hit and had to be abandoned.
10	* HePannedItNowHeSucks: An odd one with Neil Degrasse Tyson, who actually did like the movie but still felt compelled to point out its numerous scientific errors, which many fans couldn't see past.
11	* InferredHolocaust: As pointed out in [[http://www.cracked.com/article_23474_5-likely-world-ending-scenarios-no-one-talking-about.html this]] ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' article, the [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] portrayed in the film would disrupt or destroy much of our modern-day technological infrastructure, thus potentially causing the ''collapse'' of civilization itself. Even if that doesn't happen, the fact remains that Russia has inadvertently destroyed every single satellite and space station in orbit, killing at least four people, which will have all kinds of nasty political fallout...
12	* NarmCharm: Stone [[ItMakesSenseInContext howling like a dog]] could have gone horribly wrong, but instead it's a very emotional quasi-{{Sanity Slippage}} moment.
13	* NauseaFuel: All the spinning camera shots can make a person dizzy.
14	* ParanoiaFuel: The disaster depicted in the film is entirely possible in real life: it's called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome Kessler syndrome]], and all it takes is two satellites colliding (or one getting blown up by a missile, as is the case is ''Gravity'') to start the chain reaction. It could happen at any time, and many astronomers believe [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision it's already begun]]. While a Kessler disaster wouldn't directly hurt us on Earth, and would take a while longer than seen in the film, anything in low-Earth-orbit is going to end up getting shredded, including the thousands of satellites needed for our technological civilization to '''exist''', and launching new ones won't be possible for decades due to the AsteroidThicket now hanging in orbit.
15	* SciFiGhetto: [[DefiedTrope Defied]]. The film earned high scoring reviews from critics, became a box office smash and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 7 of which it won (including Best Director for Cuarón). It still played straight (albeit in less degree) in Mexico, Cuaron's homeland. It also showed how pervasive this trope is - many outlets called it a science fiction film, only for others to point out that it's ''not''. It's a DisasterMovie set in space, and aside from some ArtisticLicence with the physics (glossed-over orbital mechanics, the ISS and Tiangong being virtual neighbours, etc), it's set entirely in our mundane reality.
16	* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: As odd as it sounds to say about an actress with a long career before the film that included an Oscar win, many had this reaction to Sandra Bullock, as she was mostly regarded as a lightweight romantic comedy star (with said Oscar being for ''Film/TheBlindSide'', prime OscarBait of the maudlin kind).
17	* SpiritualSequel:
18	** To 1995's ''Film/Apollo13'', as it is a "serious" space disaster film based on current technology and starring astronauts rather than a straight sci-fi. Ed Harris [[ShoutOut even resumes]] [[CastingGag his role]] as MissionControl.
19	** It could also be viewed as one to ''Film/{{Marooned}}'', a 1969 film involving the crew of a then-present day spacecraft getting trapped in orbit following a technical malfunction and the subsequent race to save them. Cuarón himself has cited ''Marooned'' as a major influence on his film.
20	* TaintedByThePreview: A number of detractors and reviewers have decried the movie's "lack of scientific accuracy" based merely on the presence of ''sound'' in the trailers, and on using those same, pre-release trailers to make snap judgments about the nature of the emergency, the fact that the ISS, the Hubble, and the Tiangong are in the same orbit, or that ''an astronaut being flung into outer space could possibly be panicked.''
21	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: This movie justifies both IMAX and 3D movie-making. It has been advised to see this movie in both formats.
22	%%* TheWoobie: Dr. Ryan Stone. Aningaaq isn't having a great day either.

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