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SPACED OUT: My thoughts after watching GRAVITY

You know that cold pit in your stomach that you end up having, no matter how hard headed you are, before stepping on to some amusement ride and all kinds of gross case scenarios start running through that beautiful head of yours, top most being the opening scene from Final destination III. Well congratulations because now we have a new and a more claustrophobic scenario to add up to that list. Zero-G. So our protagonists Lieutenant Matt Kowalski and Dr. Ryan Stone (yes, it’s a girl’s name) have been assigned to a space mission fixing things that I don’t know and don’t care about because in my knowledge, the astronaut lingo is way worse than solving a trigonometry question. Anyway, Dr. Stone is a serious lab researcher on a mission where she’s used to things falling on the floor instead of them floating around in space and out of her reach. Then we have our irresistible Kowalski whose “Houston, I have a bad feeling about this mission.” is like a calm before the storm or shou