Awesome / Gravity

• The opening. Everything from the title to Stone spinning off into space was all one long continuous shot. Granted, due to the immense amount of CGI used in the scene, it was unlikely all one take (unlike, say, the opening of Touch of Evil), but it is still remarkable how the finished scene appears as a single shot. A truly awesome moment for cinematography and visual effects.
  • On that note, The Oner is roughly 16 minutes long. Most films struggle with doing just 2 minutes of that at a time.
• Stone with a fire extinguisher inside a space station? Knocks herself out. Stone with a fire extinguisher outside a space station? Magnificence.
  • And when the extinguisher runs out, she throws it in the opposite direction, giving her just enough push to grab the station.
• Pretty much the entire final half-hour of the movie from the hallucination scene to the credits. Once Stone decides she isn't going to die, she means it.
• The movie's final shot of Stone taking shaky steps back on Earth.
• A fellow astronaut is killed, the shuttle is destroyed, and Ryan Stone is sent tumbling off into the cold depths of space never to be found again...until...over the radio "........(static) Dr. Stone, do you read?" And shortly thereafter Matt Kowalski comes flying in with his jetpack, not unlike a superhero.
  • His Heroic Sacrifice to give Stone a chance to survive. The man is a Crowning Moment of Awesome by himself.

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