I watched Gravity and half of the behind the scenes footage (it's longer then the movie, will watch the rest later)
It looks amazing, awesome visuals and cinematography. Definitely worth watching again for that.
However as a movie I found it pretty weak. First of all for all the beautiful details a lot didn't make sense. The more he tries to make it look authentic, the more all the inaccuracies stand out. More damning is, he has this huge budget, the coolest film techniques and best cgi artists in the world and all he could come up with is: Here's an eva with Hubble and the space shuttle, now watch it get torn apart. Here is the ISS in glorious accurate detail, (from the outside not so accurate on the inside) now watch that get destroyed as well. Let's go to the Chinese space station as it gets torn apart in the upper atmosphere. Not much of a story at all, just an impossible combination of unlikely events.
I could list a whole bunch of things but the internet has already done it for me ofcourse: http://www.vulture.com/2013/10/astronaut-fact-checks-gravity.html
The inertia felt off to me as well, 600 pounds of character plus space suit being flopped around didn't feel like it had the right mass. Same with the Soyuz jerking at the ISS.
It did get me to check NASA HD channel after the movie, and happened on a tour of the real ISS by Sunita Williams. What are the odds, very big actually, repeated every half hour or so at night. Very cool to watch in HD. One more thing missing in the movie, digital camera sensor damage due to cosmic radiation. space film grain!
All the complaints aside, it was pure eye candy. Cinematography 9/10, story 3/10. At least there was no giant squid at the end. And props to the scene that pays homage to both Barbarella and 2001, from zero g undressing straight to the fetal position shot.
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