Because this movie was made for the theaters, and most of the haters torrented it for the laptop, and obviously thats only the fraction of the original experience. In the cinema, I grabbed the handrail as hard as I could, this film was so gripping. And coming with the idiotic "cgi overdrive shit, this film has no storyline at all" argument is quite a moronic thing do to, bc with this film its definitely not the case
Spascho Genchev I can respect the movie and this scene in particular is incredible - amazing viewing experience and insane creation. However I just can't say that I felt satisfied after watching the movie. Good but nothing special.
This first scene of Gravity is one one the finests cinema shots ever made. The long quiet opening, the building of the characters through casual conversation, the sudden irruption of the crisis, the perfect music score rising and rising the momentum.. Everything is perfect. I still watch it from time to time just for enjoying.
@Hablemos de Natalie Portman was originally attached to this movie. I think maybe she dropped because she got pregnant. I think Sandra did fine, but Natalie would have been great.
@@hablemosde1950 are you kidding me? Listen I'm not angry but I want to correct you. Sandra's delivery here is pitch perfect. If you watch this scene from the very beginning of the movie and you can hear and feel how palpable her anxiety is. And you can hear her trying to keep it down. The little throat clears, she sounds like somebody who is trying to make herself be comfortable in a situation that she has absolutely no control over. And then when she becomes detached, she almost knows that it's hopeless. Imagine the worst dream that you've ever had coming true. It's a fine fine performance, it's not over-the-top and because it's not over-the-top it actually does feel very realistic.
The sound work in this film is incredible. You only hear muffled sounds when a character interacts with an object or a surface just like it would be in space. Listening to this scene without watching the gorgeous cinematography and it still tells a terrifying story.
Well, I'm not sure but there should be a sound wave that travels through the space shuttle. So there would be a much quieter sound of impact, but it would be
It should be noted that this continuous shot is the FIRST SHOT of the movie. At the beginning of this particular clip, said continuous shot has already been going for TEN MINUTES. Arguably the most amazing continuous shot of any movie that lasts 13 minutes. This was worth the money in IMAX.
TIMEtoRIDE900 they actually shot a documentary about the Hubble telescope using IMAX cameras up there. It's called Hubble 3D. It helped a lot with the visuals of this movie.
Watch the german movie "Victoria". It's 140 minutes long and a complete fucking beautiful and intense one-shot about the carefreeness and the naiveness of youth and the terrifying dangers of a love of adventure. But yeah, this opening shot of Gravity was fucking breathtaking in cinemas :D The only movie where the 3D was a necessarity!
As well as impacts that Ryan would be able to hear/feel, like the explorer taking a massive hit, having the shock travel to her, but also making it silent when the telescope gets hit or when the other guy gets killed by the debris.
the speaking was in their masks through speakers? You can hear sound in their helmets because it’s not in space like you can breathe in the helmets but not outside. This doesn’t mean that they can hear the outside it just means they can hear inside and the music is just to make it more intense?
It isn’t absolutely silent for the astronauts. They have to listen to the sound of the fan circulating oxygen in their spacesuit , plus the static of their radio.
Except if you’re physically connected to the craft that’s been hit, the vibrations will pass through your body in to the ear and you’ll interpret it as sound
The way you hear nothing except what Dr. Stone hears is pure genius. The way that shuttle is shredded without a sound was just so much more effective than if there were lots of sound effects added.
It's why the space scenes in Interstellar worked so well too, like the explosion when evil Matt Damon botches the docking attempt. No sci fi sound effects, just silence, a flash of light, and two horrified faces watching helplessly.... (then THE 'docking' scene, haha)
The sound design of this scene is some of the best in cinematography. The way the music fades in and out, as debris passes by, as the spinning occurs, it's all synced masterfully. Truly impressed by this.
I don’t care what deGrasse says about Gravity-this has got to be one of the most tension-building and beautifully choreographed scenes in all of cinema. The dialogue-terse and economically curt. Like one big space stress safari comin’ in hot.
@@the_jolly_bunny I believe he means Neil deGrasse Tyson. But, yeah, it's odd to refer to someone only by their middle name, and not include at least their surname. Though I guess "deGrasse" is the most unusual - thus memorable - part of his name, so maybe that's the only part of his name that David remembers (maybe I'm showing my age here, but I'd also think "Tyson" is memorable, because it's like Mike Tyson - and that name instantly conjures mental images of an aggressive monster of a man. I do wonder if that's why he chooses to go by "Neil deGrasse Tyson", including his middle name, rather than just "Neil Tyson" in public. To disambiguate - and disassociate, as the boxer Tyson got up to all sorts of dubious shenanigans - from the boxer. Although maybe it's just actors' rules and someone else out there was already called "Neil Tyson", so he uses his middle name. I know that's why it's "Samuel L. Jackson" - simply because there was already a "Sam Jackson" in the actors' union and to avoid people getting confused, they have rules about everyone having a unique "stage name" so people don't get confused with each other (and Samuel L. Jackson has explained this in an interview before). And though Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astronomer by trade, he's on TV and doing public communication often enough that he probably also is a member of the actor / presenter / entertainer union as well).
I wasn't aware Tyson disliked the film. His video on it seemed like he was alright save for a couple things he pointed out. Like the tears scene and the location of the ISS and the Chinese station and how they aren't even located in the same orbit.
@@PolymurExcel I'm not Neil deGrasse, but dialogs such as: "something traveling faster than a high-speed bullet" felt like it was made for children. We don't need to be physicists or math geeks to understand the concept of "1,422 meters per second or 4,665 feet per second" Leaving aside the multiple inaccuracies, just the entire dialogue of the movie was dumbed down way too much, so it was hard to take it seriously. The characters aren't supposed to be representing regular people but professionally trained astronauts, so it was also annoying to hear them scream or be overly agitated inside their helmets every 20 seconds. The visuals were really nice, though. I think they did a good job with that. The rest was ridiculous.
Yes. I was fully expecting that was the end for her - once you're off in a random direction in space without a powerpack, nothing will change it. She was rescued, but at a terrible price paid later.
Yeah, but you must remember that she is in orbit. Being accelerated away from the earth, at that speed, will only take you to a slower wider orbit around the planet. Not deep space. @@ArchTeryx00
@@monjkl12 Probably true; she wasn't at escape velocity from Earth's gravity. It doesn't reduce the power of that shot, or her eventual fate (dead of hypoxia), which she nearly suffered anyway. And Kowalski has a long, long, long time to think about the fact that had he used the MMU just five minutes less than he did, he would have been able to save his own life as well.
@@monjkl12 It's one of the most insanely tense movies I've seen in my life. And they got an amazing amount of the science right; the pretend-physics aspects are very rare and absolutely necessary for story progression. (The director had tried doing it totally accurately, but found half his script was his characters explaining nonlinear orbital mechanics to the audience, so he scrapped it and went with "intuitive").
It's one of the most insane scenes of any disaster movie I've ever seen. A Kessler Syndrome debris storm is utterly terrifying - debris is moving at relative hypersonic speeds and basically turning into a giant railgun burst. The movie actually had to slow down the relative velocities so the debris was visible to the audience, but that made it *no less terrifying*.
The sound design is extraordinary. I have seen that scene dozes of times and its never ceases to terrify. I can remember just how terrifying it was watching it in the cinema for the first time!
It ignores orbital physics (e.g. how tf they managed to change inclination to reach the ISS and from Hubble), but the rest of it being pretty realistic makes up for it imo
@@ENCHANTMEN_ Seeing the debris coming at you isn't realistic either. At the speeds you would encounter them, you have no chance of seeing it before it hits you.
Watched this for like 10 times now. So perfect scene. The tension builds up from Clooney talking humor, then the warnings, Clooney zipping around expertly trying to speed up the mission abort, and the movie takes its time to shoot the dark sky and the first debris fly past the shuttle, and Clooney finds Sandra Bullock still up there doing god knows what and he zip around to her and that is when the real shitstorm hits, shuttle rotating wildly and the music pounding. What a scene.
The moment the debris hits the shuttle and Dr. Stone is left spinning gives me chills and goosebumps no matter how many times I watch it. Every. Single. Time. The music, Sandra Bullock's phenomenal acting, and the situation just being the most terrifying thing I can imagine...
Kessler Effect = Anyone still in orbit is screwed. A random character in Mass Effect 2 detailed the dangers of a kinetic kill vehicle in space. Gunnery Chief: Once you fire a husk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years! If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your **** targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a **** firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip.
There was an article on Engadget about Low Earth Orbit space debris just today, and it brought me back to this clip immediately. This is the exact scenario they were talking about in the article, yet didn't reference this movie at all. Such a shame, this is so realistic to how it could happen.
She probably saved their lives, inadvertently. There's no way to hide from debris flying that fast. The inside of the shuttle turned into a massive killbox, due to spalling chain reactions.
every time i watch this scene, i get goose bumps all over my skin. the music on the other hand! that perfect influx of radio noise just does it for me. amazing scene
I thought this movie was awesome. This was a really intense scene. I really liked how they captured the soundlessness of space and what that’s like. It was a really nice touch
+Crozarius Yes, lets count the ways 1. no sound in space 2. legit depictions of zero-gravity 3. momentum and centrifugal force taken into account 4. no fiery explosions a-la Michael Bay and Armageddon 5. movement and operation is slow and lumbering, as true space ops generally is 6. the dangers of Kessler Syndrome - and that's just off the top of my head.
@@serhafiye7046 No way 😂 I think the only bad thing I found about it was the speed of the satellite debris, Chris Hadfield explained they’d be going 17 miles a second, and the debris portrayed was going quite slower. Other than that this is one of my favourite films ever! 😄
I watched this film in the theatres after smoking a serious joint at the time, no idea how i didn't have a panic attack. What with the music and the just general immensity of it all. Wicked film
I love the accuracy that you cannot hear these violent collisions because of course this is space. But then they go the extra mile in other parts of the movie and they can hear muffled sounds of things that hit their spacesuits. A+
Un. Fucking. Parallelled. Tension. This shit drags you in. It's intensely physical. In entertainment, I've only experienced such immersion when a video game does its job perfectly (very rare moment, but can happen and creep under your skin). I've yet to experience such a masterfully crafted movie as this one. Sure, it' has a very simple plot, yes. But it's a feeling and every shot and every second of audio is a treat. And Bullock is also perfect. The stars were really aligned perfectly with this movie.
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For all the idiots out there thinking Gravity is another typical astronauts in space movie, you're wrong. It's not only a survival story. It's an experience. A visually stunning experience. An intense journey. Imagine if you were stranded in space, what would you do?
@@GabrielSamurganov Yep, in 2021. The whole ISS Crew sheltered in the escape capsules, fully suited up, for a good chunk of time waiting for either permission to return to duty or instruction to abort and return to earth.
I had the pleasure of sitting in Warner Bros’ Dolby Atmos demo room and this was the scene. It immediately sold me on it and now I have a Dolby Atmos home Theater. One of the best opening scenes to a movie and one of the best Dolby Atmos scenes!
For real. He just instantly got murked. No ceremony or drama about it. Just an bullet of debris to the head and then dead. The first time I saw that it terrified me.
put debris in a retrograde orbit in ksp...seeing that passing by with 4400m/s is fucking scary...thats 16000km/h ...and thats with a scaled down planet - tripple the speeds for earth
+Nuran On I wonder though, how big was this satellite? How do they end up passing so much of it? Right along the edge of an expanding debris field? Have to be exactly on the edge of a slow moving debris field to encounter so much, versus passing through it at any angle which would make it go by in a blink and lower the amount of debris on an intersecting trajectory massively. Think about it, object explodes or is broken up in space, how do we get this scene? A seriously small number of scenarios would lead to passing by multiple objects from the same deris producing event in space in anything but orbital period repetition. Same exact inclination, lower orbit, objects coming off of a spinning satellite, maaaybe. Passing through the edge of an expanding sphere of debris would produce multiple objects flying by, but that depends on radius of the sphere and the larger it gets the more spread out the objects become. Anything man can launch would get pretty thinly spaced out very quickly. So much exactness to actually docking, versus 'oh there goes my ship over there' as I am sure you know. If everything started with DV from the same impact or explosion this scene is just BS, pretty much has to be a slowly disintegrating ship, that happens to loose a statistically bizarre amount of mass in only one exact direction. Which is some more statistical BS. Either way, I play way too much KSP :P Edit: my mistake, that disintegrating ship would have to be losing mass not in the exact same direction but in the same direction at a velocity that adjust to meet the shuttle, or at the same velocity and a continuously adjusted angle, to hit the shuttle from any distance.
I know it has been theorized, yet actual satellites have been 'taken out' by collisions and we have not seen the 'cascade' because it was theoretical calculation of worst case scenario for a television interview... I have also created orbital collisions of my own in simulation.
It was just a game, KSP, don't want to sound all knowing, I am so not. But it does seem like the collision in 2009 did not cause any further incidents and the debris are likely to deorbit before a 'Kessler syndrome' type situation (the name of the orbital collision theory) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome Seveneves has the Moon cascading, but I think the gravity of the mass of the Moon would require far more energy than low velocity collisions of even huge chunks of the Moon. Plate tectonics on earth shows deformation and heating of rock strata with significant amounts of energy absorbed by both process. Rebound of crustal material requires the pressure of the mantle or it would just stay bent after absorbing energy.
"You need to detach, otherwise that arm's gonna carry you far". Great! As if she'd stay right where she is after detaching. Also, he had better chances of keeping her in sight while she was attached to that arm.
The 3-amigos of Mexico(Cuaron, Inarritu, Del Toro) are taking movie making to the next level. The amount of research and effort they put in is incredible.
It's amazing that we got Gravity, a movie that absolutely destroyed all previous movies in terms of special effects in a way not done since Jurassic Park and 2001: A Space Odyssey before it. Then one year later Interstellar comes by and blows it out of the water. The visual effects arms race is on, and it is glorious.
I just came back from Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood yesterday and they played this clip in the Art of Sound show, it so cool how the sound effects and music they used made the scene so much more intense 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I don't get why a lot of people didn't like this movie. I remember being on the edge of my seat the entire time.
Because this movie was made for the theaters, and most of the haters torrented it for the laptop, and obviously thats only the fraction of the original experience. In the cinema, I grabbed the handrail as hard as I could, this film was so gripping. And coming with the idiotic "cgi overdrive shit, this film has no storyline at all" argument is quite a moronic thing do to, bc with this film its definitely not the case
Well I never watched it at a theater, I watched it a home at a small screen and I still loved it.
Spascho Genchev I can respect the movie and this scene in particular is incredible - amazing viewing experience and insane creation. However I just can't say that I felt satisfied after watching the movie. Good but nothing special.
It's a tense film, but it's just too unrealistic for me to suspend my disbelief.
NavidIsANoob Very accurate judgement.
The gradual building of the music is perfect for the gradually building tension in the scene. Perfect. The visuals were amazing. Loved this film.
+CalumG. I am so glad some one has the same thoughts as i had about the gradual build up of the music. Cheers Buddy.
Hard to find it now days
See, THIS is how you do a movie without the old sci-fi cheat of sound in space. The music itself can provide the action beats
I think it would have been much more realistic and intense without the music. The music made it just seem like all other Hollywood movies
@@NecroMancer84 nah
This first scene of Gravity is one one the finests cinema shots ever made. The long quiet opening, the building of the characters through casual conversation, the sudden irruption of the crisis, the perfect music score rising and rising the momentum.. Everything is perfect. I still watch it from time to time just for enjoying.
I dont know...Sandra Bullock's screams sound without fear/energy....
@@hablemosde1950 yeah.. so *%99 perfect
same here
@Hablemos de Natalie Portman was originally attached to this movie. I think maybe she dropped because she got pregnant. I think Sandra did fine, but Natalie would have been great.
@@hablemosde1950 are you kidding me? Listen I'm not angry but I want to correct you. Sandra's delivery here is pitch perfect. If you watch this scene from the very beginning of the movie and you can hear and feel how palpable her anxiety is. And you can hear her trying to keep it down. The little throat clears, she sounds like somebody who is trying to make herself be comfortable in a situation that she has absolutely no control over. And then when she becomes detached, she almost knows that it's hopeless. Imagine the worst dream that you've ever had coming true. It's a fine fine performance, it's not over-the-top and because it's not over-the-top it actually does feel very realistic.
I love how there's no sound when the debris tears apart the shuttle.
well, even in real life, there still would be no sound. the sound has no air molecules to travel through.
The sound work in this film is incredible. You only hear muffled sounds when a character interacts with an object or a surface just like it would be in space. Listening to this scene without watching the gorgeous cinematography and it still tells a terrifying story.
There is no sound in space, just music
Well, I'm not sure but there should be a sound wave that travels through the space shuttle. So there would be a much quieter sound of impact, but it would be
yup, just the panting and radio voices
It should be noted that this continuous shot is the FIRST SHOT of the movie. At the beginning of this particular clip, said continuous shot has already been going for TEN MINUTES. Arguably the most amazing continuous shot of any movie that lasts 13 minutes. This was worth the money in IMAX.
coolness06 I didn't know they had an IMAX camera that would work in a vacuum.
TIMEtoRIDE900 they actually shot a documentary about the Hubble telescope using IMAX cameras up there. It's called Hubble 3D. It helped a lot with the visuals of this movie.
Watch the german movie "Victoria". It's 140 minutes long and a complete fucking beautiful and intense one-shot about the carefreeness and the naiveness of youth and the terrifying dangers of a love of adventure.
But yeah, this opening shot of Gravity was fucking breathtaking in cinemas :D The only movie where the 3D was a necessarity!
ye this one blew my mind "Victoria"
I'd say Dr. Strange also needs to be seen in 3D...
This scene is scarier than any horror movie I’ve ever watched.
The opening scene from Cliffhanger was scary too,falling 4,000 feet to the ground/being 4,000 above ground.
@@CC927 Holy Jesus that scene was equally as terrifying...
Truth. More truth than anything ever
This scene arguably has the BEST sound/music of any movie I've ever watched. Talk about space horror.
This happening would mean we lose access to space forever. Who’s going to launch a rocket through that mess.
This scene absolutely terrified me in theaters. It made me feel like there was no oxygen around me, like I was stuck in the vacuum of space with them.
yeeaaa that scene with the melody,was intense
hithere327 right I was holding on so tight to the arm rest in the movie theatre lol..I saw it in 3d...made my stomach turn!!!
Joseph TheDreamer it was only made worse by the fact that the entire room was pitch black and so was the screen
hithere327 that's why I love movies like that. that it makes u feel as if your there like u said..totally worth the money
Ariel Conte yeah, this track from the score is incredible. It's an incredible score.
One of the best openings to any movie ever. The music by itself is just fucking GODLY.
I love how they were accurate in making everything silent except for the speaking and the music!
As well as impacts that Ryan would be able to hear/feel, like the explorer taking a massive hit, having the shock travel to her, but also making it silent when the telescope gets hit or when the other guy gets killed by the debris.
the speaking was in their masks through speakers? You can hear sound in their helmets because it’s not in space like you can breathe in the helmets but not outside. This doesn’t mean that they can hear the outside it just means they can hear inside and the music is just to make it more intense?
@@juxe411 thats exactly what he said
It isn’t absolutely silent for the astronauts. They have to listen to the sound of the fan circulating oxygen in their spacesuit , plus the static of their radio.
Extraordinary 10/10
The slow buildup of tension during that scene was phenomenal.
The complete lack of sound from the collision makes it all the more scary
You are in the space... No sounds! Sounds exist thanks to atmosphere
Except if you’re physically connected to the craft that’s been hit, the vibrations will pass through your body in to the ear and you’ll interpret it as sound
It's not completely lacking. It hits really deep so you can't really hear it if you don't have a subwoofer. The bass impact is there.
That fucking music is giving me a heart attack OMG
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I hated the music.
Watch Ryder But it was brilliant. It won the Oscar, by the way.
Gabriel Ureña
It didn't have much up against it, compared to Interstellar for example. :)
Watch Ryder How do you hate the music of Gravity but love the music of Interstellar? Both are very atmospheric.
I don't hate it, those words were hasty methinks, but dislike it compared to Inter.
The way you hear nothing except what Dr. Stone hears is pure genius. The way that shuttle is shredded without a sound was just so much more effective than if there were lots of sound effects added.
Why would there be sound in space though?
@@samspence6133 There wouldn't be. But most movies put sound effects in.
@@samspence6133 there isn't. That's the point.
It's why the space scenes in Interstellar worked so well too, like the explosion when evil Matt Damon botches the docking attempt. No sci fi sound effects, just silence, a flash of light, and two horrified faces watching helplessly.... (then THE 'docking' scene, haha)
The sound design of this scene is some of the best in cinematography. The way the music fades in and out, as debris passes by, as the spinning occurs, it's all synced masterfully. Truly impressed by this.
I don’t care what deGrasse says about Gravity-this has got to be one of the most tension-building and beautifully choreographed scenes in all of cinema. The dialogue-terse and economically curt. Like one big space stress safari comin’ in hot.
Who's deGrasse???
@@the_jolly_bunny I believe he means Neil deGrasse Tyson.
But, yeah, it's odd to refer to someone only by their middle name, and not include at least their surname. Though I guess "deGrasse" is the most unusual - thus memorable - part of his name, so maybe that's the only part of his name that David remembers (maybe I'm showing my age here, but I'd also think "Tyson" is memorable, because it's like Mike Tyson - and that name instantly conjures mental images of an aggressive monster of a man. I do wonder if that's why he chooses to go by "Neil deGrasse Tyson", including his middle name, rather than just "Neil Tyson" in public. To disambiguate - and disassociate, as the boxer Tyson got up to all sorts of dubious shenanigans - from the boxer.
Although maybe it's just actors' rules and someone else out there was already called "Neil Tyson", so he uses his middle name. I know that's why it's "Samuel L. Jackson" - simply because there was already a "Sam Jackson" in the actors' union and to avoid people getting confused, they have rules about everyone having a unique "stage name" so people don't get confused with each other (and Samuel L. Jackson has explained this in an interview before). And though Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astronomer by trade, he's on TV and doing public communication often enough that he probably also is a member of the actor / presenter / entertainer union as well).
I wasn't aware Tyson disliked the film. His video on it seemed like he was alright save for a couple things he pointed out. Like the tears scene and the location of the ISS and the Chinese station and how they aren't even located in the same orbit.
The earth doesn't move and the clouds are frozen. Can clearly tell it's on a green screen all the way through..shit film
@@PolymurExcel I'm not Neil deGrasse, but dialogs such as: "something traveling faster than a high-speed bullet" felt like it was made for children. We don't need to be physicists or math geeks to understand the concept of "1,422 meters per second or 4,665 feet per second"
Leaving aside the multiple inaccuracies, just the entire dialogue of the movie was dumbed down way too much, so it was hard to take it seriously. The characters aren't supposed to be representing regular people but professionally trained astronauts, so it was also annoying to hear them scream or be overly agitated inside their helmets every 20 seconds.
The visuals were really nice, though. I think they did a good job with that. The rest was ridiculous.
3:13 THAT is one of the most pants-shittingly, existentially terrifying movie FRAMES in the history of cinema. Holy Jesus this movie was intense.
Yes. I was fully expecting that was the end for her - once you're off in a random direction in space without a powerpack, nothing will change it. She was rescued, but at a terrible price paid later.
Yeah, but you must remember that she is in orbit. Being accelerated away from the earth, at that speed, will only take you to a slower wider orbit around the planet. Not deep space. @@ArchTeryx00
@@monjkl12 Probably true; she wasn't at escape velocity from Earth's gravity. It doesn't reduce the power of that shot, or her eventual fate (dead of hypoxia), which she nearly suffered anyway.
And Kowalski has a long, long, long time to think about the fact that had he used the MMU just five minutes less than he did, he would have been able to save his own life as well.
@@ArchTeryx00 Certainly, an amazing shot. I have never seen the movie, though I plan on doing so in the near future.
@@monjkl12 It's one of the most insanely tense movies I've seen in my life. And they got an amazing amount of the science right; the pretend-physics aspects are very rare and absolutely necessary for story progression. (The director had tried doing it totally accurately, but found half his script was his characters explaining nonlinear orbital mechanics to the audience, so he scrapped it and went with "intuitive").
This scene is so fucking intense.
+Agora2021 Yes. And the absence of sound makes it even more terrifying.
It's one of the most insane scenes of any disaster movie I've ever seen. A Kessler Syndrome debris storm is utterly terrifying - debris is moving at relative hypersonic speeds and basically turning into a giant railgun burst. The movie actually had to slow down the relative velocities so the debris was visible to the audience, but that made it *no less terrifying*.
The sound design is extraordinary. I have seen that scene dozes of times and its never ceases to terrify. I can remember just how terrifying it was watching it in the cinema for the first time!
especially w the music
Robert Shea I saw it on IMAX. It was the most incredible motion picture event of my life. The opening was epic.
Saw this in IMAX, absolutely epic. The first 15 minutes of this film is the most jaw dropping and intense minutes I ever enjoyed in cinema.
I watched it in 3D it was Amazing
The anxiety of this scene & situation can’t be expressed in words ....... my God the uncontrollable fear & panic.
Wow... this scene is so intense!
I haaate in movies when someone is like we have to go now,emergency go now... and someone is like ok give me a minute
+ogbkballa Especially if you're in ORBIT AROUND EARTH of all places, and the fucking NASA GROUND CONTROL tells you to get the fuck out.
+NavidIsANoob XD
But this might saved Dr.Stone's Life
90s space tech telescope and like 80s era shuttle... Nothing is fast.
Yeah don't involve females on dangerous works.
This movie is one of the greatest technological achievements in Hollywood history.
Gabriel Ureña And is just the beginning. Can't wait for the next Cuaron movie, is gonna win the Best Picture Oscar
with 100 mdd
This is why i dont live in space, i dont live in cities because of terrorists, i live under a rock, very safe.
rocks can kill people
OH NO
Jonathan Faulhaber Terrorists kill people with rocks, space rocks kill people. And you just handed them an extra rock.
Spiders....
You’re an idiot
Despite the few times this movie totally ignores physics... it has some damn cool scenes! The rising tension in this scene is epic.
It ignores orbital physics (e.g. how tf they managed to change inclination to reach the ISS and from Hubble), but the rest of it being pretty realistic makes up for it imo
@@ENCHANTMEN_ Seeing the debris coming at you isn't realistic either. At the speeds you would encounter them, you have no chance of seeing it before it hits you.
@TheAero1221 Is that you Mr. DeGrasse-Tyson?? 😄 I just KNEW you couldn't resist posting anonymously on this!!
Watched this for like 10 times now. So perfect scene. The tension builds up from Clooney talking humor, then the warnings, Clooney zipping around expertly trying to speed up the mission abort, and the movie takes its time to shoot the dark sky and the first debris fly past the shuttle, and Clooney finds Sandra Bullock still up there doing god knows what and he zip around to her and that is when the real shitstorm hits, shuttle rotating wildly and the music pounding. What a scene.
No doubt - this is one of the best intro scenes ever made! Phenomenal music, fantastic shot, OUTSTANDING animations! Just love it.
The moment the debris hits the shuttle and Dr. Stone is left spinning gives me chills and goosebumps no matter how many times I watch it. Every. Single. Time. The music, Sandra Bullock's phenomenal acting, and the situation just being the most terrifying thing I can imagine...
This scene was so intense when I saw it in theaters.
Seven years later, still pretty damned intense.
The Score, Realistic visuals, Cinematography, every DAMN THING is beyond imagination! 😍
God! I can see this whole day! 😍
The photography and the music are absolutely masterpieces.
Kessler Effect = Anyone still in orbit is screwed.
A random character in Mass Effect 2 detailed the dangers of a kinetic kill vehicle in space.
Gunnery Chief: Once you fire a husk of metal, it keeps going until it hits something. That can be a ship, or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years!
If you pull the trigger on this, you're ruining someone's day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your **** targets! That is why you wait for the computer to give you a **** firing solution! That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not "eyeball it!" This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip.
This is why Sir Isaac Newton is the baddest Mfer in space
After Children of Men, I saw this movie and was like:
"There is no way Lubezki is gonna lose this time"
The most terrifying part is that this can happen in real if we don't clean the space debris.
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There was an article on Engadget about Low Earth Orbit space debris just today, and it brought me back to this clip immediately. This is the exact scenario they were talking about in the article, yet didn't reference this movie at all. Such a shame, this is so realistic to how it could happen.
@@TheKonga88 what
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I think that's the only real horror you can experience
Fiction in 2013, reality in 2021. LMAO
What part of "immediate return to explorer" or "emergency evacuation" or "debris chain reaction" did she not understand?
+Tony K. fucking women, right?
+LoftCoop Fuck off
CelestialPlatypuses ayy lmao
She probably saved their lives, inadvertently. There's no way to hide from debris flying that fast. The inside of the shuttle turned into a massive killbox, due to spalling chain reactions.
If she yelled get to the choppa!, their odds of survival would've increase by 333 percent.
every time i watch this scene, i get goose bumps all over my skin. the music on the other hand! that perfect influx of radio noise just does it for me. amazing scene
Gotta love the 16 min continuous uninterrupted opening shot. Amazing, only Chivo .
Remember when you said u wanted to be an astronaut when u we’re young? Oh how the turntables
I thought this movie was awesome. This was a really intense scene. I really liked how they captured the soundlessness of space and what that’s like. It was a really nice touch
But nobody touched her. 🐸🐸🌍🚀🚀🚀🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🏃🐭🐭🙌🙌💀
Clooney: We have to go, we have to go,go,go now!
Cooper:All right, all right,all right.
now i’ve watched many horror movies but no scene in cinema history has ever made me this scared and shitless then this
One of the most realistic scenes I have ever watched. Terrifying!
+Charlie5thumbs Yeah. Realistic. Pfft.
+Crozarius Interstellar fan dectected
+Crozarius Yes, lets count the ways
1. no sound in space
2. legit depictions of zero-gravity
3. momentum and centrifugal force taken into account
4. no fiery explosions a-la Michael Bay and Armageddon
5. movement and operation is slow and lumbering, as true space ops generally is
6. the dangers of Kessler Syndrome
- and that's just off the top of my head.
@@Crozarius it hella realistic. even an interviewer asked to director "how did you shot the movie in space?" hahaha.
@@serhafiye7046 No way 😂
I think the only bad thing I found about it was the speed of the satellite debris, Chris Hadfield explained they’d be going 17 miles a second, and the debris portrayed was going quite slower. Other than that this is one of my favourite films ever! 😄
absolutely stunning. This music gives me chills every time
I watched this film in the theatres after smoking a serious joint at the time, no idea how i didn't have a panic attack. What with the music and the just general immensity of it all. Wicked film
I love the accuracy that you cannot hear these violent collisions because of course this is space. But then they go the extra mile in other parts of the movie and they can hear muffled sounds of things that hit their spacesuits. A+
Lubezki is a GOD!
greatest cinematographer ever
Lubezki is the Godfather of Cinematography
So is Cuaron.
He also did the cinematography for The Revenent.
yes and also for Children of men and Birdman. He's brilliant.
Un. Fucking. Parallelled. Tension. This shit drags you in. It's intensely physical. In entertainment, I've only experienced such immersion when a video game does its job perfectly (very rare moment, but can happen and creep under your skin). I've yet to experience such a masterfully crafted movie as this one. Sure, it' has a very simple plot, yes. But it's a feeling and every shot and every second of audio is a treat. And Bullock is also perfect. The stars were really aligned perfectly with this movie.
...
"ISS this is Houston."
Moshi Houston.
"Explorer this is Houston."
Go Houston.
*"Mission Abort"*
Fun note: Ed Harris was the voice of the Mission Control guy. He was also the head of Mission Control in the movie "Apollo 13."
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I love that actor
Fun fact: ice is cold.
@@TheKonga88 noooooooo
THIS LITERALLY JUST HAPOENED
I'm getting flashbacks to how intense this was in IMAX 3D, I near had a damn panic attack lol, 2:34 was scary af
Love the first bit being a reminder they're tethered on, with the potential to float away if the straps weren't there.
This scene and the crash scene from the movie Flight are two of the most intense scenes in the history of movies. CRAZY!
For all the idiots out there thinking Gravity is another typical astronauts in space movie, you're wrong. It's not only a survival story. It's an experience. A visually stunning experience. An intense journey. Imagine if you were stranded in space, what would you do?
Ask any astronuat about most realistic space movie. Gravity is number 1.
Ed Harris is a sure bet for that ground control voice. Ever since "The right stuff" hes been a regular NASA guy.
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They did such an amazing job with the soundtrack.
How many are here after the anti satellite test
Think Putin watched this movie and got inspired?
who else is here after Russia blew up their own satellite causing ISS astronauts to shelter from debris?
Everyone
No I’m here before that
Did that actually happen?
@@GabrielSamurganov Yep, in 2021. The whole ISS Crew sheltered in the escape capsules, fully suited up, for a good chunk of time waiting for either permission to return to duty or instruction to abort and return to earth.
Saw this movie in 3D and it was AMAZING. Heart pumping!!! 10/10!
The fact that this scene is as INTENSE as it is an IRL scenario makes it a hundred times more frightening.
Right from the start, every passing second, the music and the voice build up the tension, ...one amazing sequence to watch!
I had the pleasure of sitting in Warner Bros’ Dolby Atmos demo room and this was the scene. It immediately sold me on it and now I have a Dolby Atmos home Theater. One of the best opening scenes to a movie and one of the best Dolby Atmos scenes!
@2:24 - poor fella didn't even saw it coming.
For real. He just instantly got murked. No ceremony or drama about it. Just an bullet of debris to the head and then dead. The first time I saw that it terrified me.
Half of America just lost their Facebook...so apt right now
put debris in a retrograde orbit in ksp...seeing that passing by with 4400m/s is fucking scary...thats 16000km/h ...and thats with a scaled down planet - tripple the speeds for earth
+Nuran On I wonder though, how big was this satellite? How do they end up passing so much of it? Right along the edge of an expanding debris field? Have to be exactly on the edge of a slow moving debris field to encounter so much, versus passing through it at any angle which would make it go by in a blink and lower the amount of debris on an intersecting trajectory massively.
Think about it, object explodes or is broken up in space, how do we get this scene?
A seriously small number of scenarios would lead to passing by multiple objects from the same deris producing event in space in anything but orbital period repetition.
Same exact inclination, lower orbit, objects coming off of a spinning satellite, maaaybe. Passing through the edge of an expanding sphere of debris would produce multiple objects flying by, but that depends on radius of the sphere and the larger it gets the more spread out the objects become. Anything man can launch would get pretty thinly spaced out very quickly.
So much exactness to actually docking, versus 'oh there goes my ship over there' as I am sure you know.
If everything started with DV from the same impact or explosion this scene is just BS, pretty much has to be a slowly disintegrating ship, that happens to loose a statistically bizarre amount of mass in only one exact direction. Which is some more statistical BS. Either way, I play way too much KSP :P
Edit: my mistake, that disintegrating ship would have to be losing mass not in the exact same direction but in the same direction at a velocity that adjust to meet the shuttle, or at the same velocity and a continuously adjusted angle, to hit the shuttle from any distance.
+AlohaMilton You know that one satelite can take out 10s Of satelites!!
I know it has been theorized, yet actual satellites have been 'taken out' by collisions and we have not seen the 'cascade' because it was theoretical calculation of worst case scenario for a television interview... I have also created orbital collisions of my own in simulation.
ok nice!
It was just a game, KSP, don't want to sound all knowing, I am so not. But it does seem like the collision in 2009 did not cause any further incidents and the debris are likely to deorbit before a 'Kessler syndrome' type situation (the name of the orbital collision theory)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Seveneves has the Moon cascading, but I think the gravity of the mass of the Moon would require far more energy than low velocity collisions of even huge chunks of the Moon. Plate tectonics on earth shows deformation and heating of rock strata with significant amounts of energy absorbed by both process. Rebound of crustal material requires the pressure of the mantle or it would just stay bent after absorbing energy.
I loved seeing this in IMAX. There's no way it could have been better!
Saw this for the first time yesterday, love scary movies and this movie was definitely .... intense
Don't worry, it's just movie...november 2021...oh wait
For anyone wondering the crew had exactly 1:48 to evac starting from the initial "mission abort" command to the first satellite that flew by.
in reality could they have gotton the heck out of there quicker
nice.
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Deborah Lorentz aha cast away reference
Good this scene gives me anxiety
I love that detail that Mission Control is narrated by Edd Harris ♥️
Who's watching this after the Russians just shot down a sattelite?
Ayyyy, I just realized, Mission Control is voiced by Ed Harris, who also played Mission Control in Apollo 13. Cool!
I love how the background radio chatter increases after the order to return is given
+Jake Daniel yeah that is pretty cool imagine what they must've been saying something.
The special effects in this film still look amazing and this scene is so terrifying, I couldn't imagine being in Sandra Bullock's situation!
I remember watching this movie high AF!!!!! It was a nightmare come to life
I absolutely loved this movie. Very intense and unnerving scenes.
I remember when I was a kid and I thought they shot these movies in space lol.
"You need to detach, otherwise that arm's gonna carry you far". Great! As if she'd stay right where she is after detaching. Also, he had better chances of keeping her in sight while she was attached to that arm.
Good point
this movie is amazing! LOVED every second! truly shows you how unforgiving space is
Nothing hit me the way this scene did. The movies name resonates with this feeling.
*Gravity*
So heavy yo. 2 ton hype
The Music Tho.
Like at 2:45
It be all like OH ITS GONNA HAPPEN no.... NOW! no... AAHH wait not yet... EEEEE ehh.... MOOOOO nope...
This movie deserves an Oscar. Seriously tho. The chemistry between bullock and Clooney is real powerful
It received several Oscars for cinematography, director, score.
The 3-amigos of Mexico(Cuaron, Inarritu, Del Toro) are taking movie making to the next level. The amount of research and effort they put in is incredible.
It's amazing that we got Gravity, a movie that absolutely destroyed all previous movies in terms of special effects in a way not done since Jurassic Park and 2001: A Space Odyssey before it. Then one year later Interstellar comes by and blows it out of the water. The visual effects arms race is on, and it is glorious.
This is the type of CGI work that even our grandchildren would someday say "Damn, this still holds up pretty well"
I just came back from Warner Brothers Studios in Hollywood yesterday and they played this clip in the Art of Sound show, it so cool how the sound effects and music they used made the scene so much more intense 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
That entire scene made every hair on the back of my neck stand up.... WELL DONE!
Too unrealistic, Russia would never be so reckless as to create that much debris near people in orbit
Lmfao
the music gives me chills
Yes!
Well, I'm glad that it at least didn't turn out exactly this way in real life when Russia did exactly what they did in this film. Excellent scene!
what made this movie special, was the soundtrack. man steven price did a hell of a job to keep the tension.
0:27 to get your brain relaxing.
Dang, what a scene.
Who is Dang? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙌🙌👽👽💀🐸
This scene is even more amazing when you realize there's no sound except voices and the score
I especially liked the part where the plastic dolly was shouting at the police.. 🐸🐸🚀🚀🏃🏃🏃🏃👮👮🚔🚓🚓👮👮🚨🚨🚔👮👮🚓🚓🚓🐸🐸🐭
the music choice is just PERFECT : no orchestral euphoria, just calm but menacing and intimidating aggressive-toned dark ambient.
definitely a stunning scene !!
Can’t believe I just realised this is Ed Harris’ voice! Guess that guy still works at Mission Control.